[dragonwriter]

> As a US citizen, its bullshit that a country can revoke your right to travel outside of itself.

Countries don't provide (or revoke) your right to travel outside of their sovereign jurisdiction (which would be contrary to the entire idea of sovereign jurisdiction); they can, however, revoke their willingness to represent to other countries that they have some kind of relationship with you. (They can also stop you from exiting their jurisdiction while you are still inside it, and though the US would have liked to have done that in Snowden's case, it didn't have the opportunity.)

Its the country you are currently in and the one you are attempting to enter that control whether or not you have the "right" to travel.

[toomuchtodo]

You, as a citizen of country, have the right to renounce your citizenship of that country at any time. Your country of citizenship should never have the right to revoke your own citizenship.

I understand stopping someone from leaving the borders due to legal reasons. But being able to stop your travel once you're outside the country? No.

[dragonwriter]

> Your country of citizenship should never have the right to revoke your own citizenship.

Revoking a passport isn't revoking citizenship (governments, right or wrong, can do both, but they are separate and distinct acts.)

> But being able to stop your travel once you're outside the country?

Revoking your passport is basically your country no longer vouching for you. Other countries choose whether or not this should impact your ability to travel.