Seattle removes offensive words 'citizen,' 'brown bag' from vocabulary

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Also, as far as I'm concerned, anyone who lives anywhere is a citizen of that city/state/country, regardless of what the Government says.

That...seems like an overbroad definition. Was John McCain a citizen of North Vietnam for 6 years?

1. I'm talking about permanent, living residency, not POW residency.

Surely being in one building for six years constitutes living there? And what about (less hostile example) diplomats or peace workers? Are they citizens of the country where they work? What if someone renounces their citizenship of a political entity but continues to live within its geographical boundaries?

Again, I'm a Utopianist, but in my perfect world, there would be no violence or war. Everyone could live wherever they want. There would be no established nations or states.

The McCain example is a bad one. I'm talking about voluntary permanent, living residency.

What our perfect world resembles is largely irrelevant to whether someone falls under the designation of "citizen" or not.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Lots of brown bags running their mouths in this thread. Why don't you shut up and let the citizens discuss this issue with some maturity?

"Maturity" is an over-rated concept in government, typically used by the landed elite that wish to straddle issues to win re-election rather than discuss the actual philosophical and political implications of their governing style. (See: Nelson Rockefeller, John McCain, Henry M. Jackson, etc.)