Posted on 01/07/2007 11:55:54 PM PST by HAL9000
Hey Hal, let's get together another Freepathon after this one is done and raise enough money to buy our own country! We could call it the Island of FreeRepublic. It would be cool to have a seat in the UN. We could declare war on the US and lose and get tons of foreign aid!
We just have to find the right currency to make our offer... something that has a very large inflation factor.
What else could we do... besides elect Jim Robinson President?
At first I thought that was awesome. Then I saw the pics and it looks more like a poor man's villian "lair".
I thought the smallest was the People's Republic Of San Francisco.
Reminds me of "Waterworld". Maybe Kevin Costner will buy it.
One great thing about Sealand is the high-speed Internet connectivity, so the Free Republic servers could operate freely there. No more excerpting, we could post with impunity. In fact, the Principality of Sealand itself could be renamed Free Republic.
For my part, I'd like to be the Ambassador to the U.S. My house will become the embassy, I'd drive around with the national flags on my car, and with my diplomatic immunity, I'd never have to pay another parking ticket.
Here is the reigning royal family -
Prince Roy and Princess Joan shortly after taking possession of Sealand in the late-1960s
And how cool is this? Prince Roy minted coinage and printed postage stamps with his wife's portrait -
Then they could declare war and lob "shells" back and forth.
This is actually a country?
Since the open ocean beyond 200 miles is non-sovereign territory, if I built an island out of buoyant bubble glass, and defended it against all comers, would you want to move there? Let's say its anchored somewhere east of maui...
That would be the Nation of Boypokia.
ping,,,, Could you spare few dollars?
We buy it... have a quick, quiet, painless revolution, write a constitution and become a republic and make it FREE! Whee.
ROFL!
I'll see ya and raise ya.
$100.000000 .
The usual. Golf, Skiiing, Hiking, Foosball.
Well, mainly Foosball.
You mention the really cool move.
Bribe some country to recognize you formally. Buy a substantial chunk of land in that country, declare it your embassy, and operate out of it on dry land as your sovereign territory.
Maybe you could do a deal with the King of Tonga, for instance.
Anyway, let private enterprises set up at will on your various embassy grounds, charging them handsome rents. Let this fund your purchase of additional property, particularly in additional countries, thus eventually making your operations worldwide.
Just think of the fun you could have with a seat on the UN.
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That's where a tiny country declares "War" on the U.S., and then reaps millions in foreign aid to rebuild, I think. Used to be a regular in the class plys in High Schools across the country, along with "Arsenic and Old Lace".
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