Posted on 04/24/2015 8:00:23 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Accessible only by car via miles of winding, dusty Croatian roads, Gornja Siga current population zero is an unlikely testing ground for a plan to shape the worlds political future. It is a secluded area where verdant forest meets white sand on a western bank of the river Danube. The only signs of life are a single dilapidated building with a curious flag flying outside, pheasants, deer, the occasional wild boar, and eagles and falcons overhead.
Yet last Monday the Eurosceptic Czech politician Vit Jedlicka and two other libertarians declared this 7 sq km of Serbo-Croat no-mans-land the worlds newest sovereign state, naming it Liberland. Despite abstaining in Liberlands first presidential election, Jedlicka emerged victorious, thanks to votes from his fellow founding father and Liberlands founding mother (also his girlfriend). Then things began to get weird.
In the week since Liberland announced its creation and invited prospective residents to join the project, they have received about 200,000 citizenship applications one every three seconds from almost every country in the world.
Prospective citizens are also offering Liberland their expertise in areas from solar power and telecoms to town planning and coin minting. There is a spontaneous ordering taking place, Jedlicka says. People have planned the whole city in three days and others really want to move in and invest what seemed like a dream now really looks possible.
Liberlands only stipulations are that applicants respect individual rights, opinions and private property, and have no criminal record or Nazi or Communist party background.
Jedlicka says: The model citizen of Liberland would be [American founding father] Thomas Jefferson, which is why we established the country on his birthday. Citizens will be able to pursue happiness and this is the place where we can make this happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“I thought it was going to be a place to send all the libs.”
I thought too just by the name alone. Good to know Jefferson is going to be their template. I still have to hear about guns, defense of the border specifically to make a solid judgement..
[[Liberland: hundreds of thousands apply to live in world’s newest ‘country’]]
100’s of 1000’s of idiots hwo know NOTHING about the owner of liberland, or where he stand politically. The ‘only stipulations are that people respect the rights, opinions, and personal property of others’? How vague can you be? Suppose it’s someone’s Opinion that it’s a-ok to take you wife and have sex with her? does their ‘individual right’ and ‘opinion’ outweigh yours? Suppose their opinion is that you are not entitled to have as much property as you do?
Is there a constitution (and a hard fast rule/law that it can’t be changed or subjectively interpreted into oblivion) that clearly defines what rights are?
I give the country 6 months before it devolves into a cesspool of everyone demanding that THEIR opinions be considered more important than their neighbor’s
Yep. So many people in our society would not be willing to follow this simple law. So many people in our own government want to take your rights away, steal your property, and tell you what opinions you must hold. And that's just the Republicans :-)
Also, our own country started out that way, pal.
You mean, as opposed to a country that has a drinking song as its national anthem?
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whatever pal.
It looks beautiful to me. No government or politician in sight.
and by the way pal- it is a much much different country today than it was back then- practically EVERYONE is out for themselves these days- hardly anyone gives a crap about others-
I stand by what I said
I’m of Irish descent, I kinda’ like ‘em myself.
;^)
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