Nah, we who are committed to the NAP cannot accept starting a rebellion except in the face of actual oppression and dictatorship. The system we have in the US may be flawed, even fatally so, but as long as there remains the possibility of voting back in change, there won’t be a moral need to take up arms. The fact that the current US populace doesn’t care to vote for change doesn’t affect the moral standing of such an action.
No, rather I’ve set about my task by first of all creating a new political right which is actually an extension of an existing one. This is the right of political separation (drawn from the right of free association).
We tend to look at society as ill because the producers are fed upon by society’s parasites. The dominant political parties achieve popularity by using political power to vote largesse from the producers to themselves and those whom are not high producers, since the less productive will always out-vote the highly productive it has become the de facto modern political reality.
The right of political separation would give anyone a right to leave a jurisdiction and accept or create a new one at any time and possibly without moving physically.
In practice, it would look something like applying for asylum looks now. You appeal to a different political order from the one you’re currently in or just cast off the existing one. No one can have jurisdiction over you except you give them that jurisdiction, assuming you are not aggressing (if you are aggressing, anyone who wishes to stop you have moral sanction).
I plan to start a floating state, on the oceans. I’m inventing a new way of living, full-time on the water, in floating island communities (not simply in groups of boats, but floating actual houses and buildings). Think of it as New Venice. I’ll start off the coast of California, in the Pacific and build from there.
Along with this new way of living comes new political structures, and I will be able to create a libertarian legal system from the outset, using it to put into practice many of the political and economic theories that we austro-libertarians have advocated for decades now.
Chief among these will be the separation of economy and state.
Immigration will be free, because the state provides nothing out of government coffers and thus immigrants cost society nothing, quite the oposite. In fact, I read an article about a similar scheme to create a floating platform to get around H-1b visa restrictions (to allow skilled foreign workers to keep working in the US).
Ideally, in such a society with no statist controls, no income or business tax, etc., would expand rapidly once established and draw the most ambitious and brightest, and cause brain drain from the US as well as operate as a young-population draw. I can tell you one thing, there’s a loooot of room in the pacific ocean (it’s about 65 times larger than the US).
So no, this would not be a direct assault on the US–rather it’s an indirect assault. By bleeding off the most productive members of society and giving them a place where they can keep the fruits of their labor, we can cause the US system to collapse much more rapidly, because it is built to depend on those people’s income! The US system requires it to leech from the productive, and for them to have nowhere else to go. Give them a place to go and they will not only flock there, but the place they left will collapse from its own decaying weight, much as Chicago now has.
And what sort of system would be left behind? After the unproductive realize they need to start working again and that they can no longer trap the productive in their system, my hope would be that they would adopt a system that by then has proven to work. In other words, every nation must compete with the freest nation in the world. For a long time that’s been the US, but if we create a place with better living terms than the US, then we force them to finally contend with the austro-libertarian ideas which the powerful will not allow to catch hold in the US, and, importantly, we do so peacefully and without firing a shot.
I think the former freeest country in the world would be big enough, won’t you agree