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The World's Smallest Nation Is For Sale - Sealand
You'll be glad to hear that such attempts actually happened with other micronations, and multiple times.
My favourite was the tiny Pacific island of Minerva (my only grief: they didn't call it 'Aynrandia'), which libertarians with too much money built up by pouring a few boatful of sand on top of the underlying reefs.
But being libertarians, the had no taxes. Having no taxes, they had no security forces. And having no security forces, a patrol boat from Tonga arrived, reclaimed the place, and told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off. The end.
There were other attempts, none as comical, but all of them equally doomed.
Teabagger wannabe ex-patriots take note, here's your chance to create your libertarian free market utopia.
North Korea's Military Parade in Slow Motion
>> ^criticalthud:
Did you see how many medals the band leader had?
he got most of them for sinking that South Korean patrol boat.
US Navy shoots down Iranian passenger jet
The following is from a Newsweek article read by Sen. Byrd (D, WV) during a congressional hearing on September 20, 2002:
From the beginning of Sen. Byrd's statement:
The full transcript of the Congressional Record can be read here: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html