Hell Yeaaa! I hope this gets off the ground. Way better than the Paul worshipping Paulville, we worship liberty not a person. I am there once I get through college, I’ll bring guns, lots of them.
I’m guessing Somalia. But Zimbabwe may be effectively without a government any time now (though more likely it’ll be “meet the new boss”). Hell, a relatively wealthy individual could probably just buy Zimbabwe at this point.
Maybe Max bought Sealand, wasn’t it up for sale recently, and refused to sell to Pirate Bay? Though I don’t think that Sealand has 500 to 1000 acres on it - same for any other seastead/oil platform. Though that 5-10 acre stipend combined with the 100-200 colonist goal might indicate that they have exactly 1000 acres somewhere to be divided equally among however many colonists they have. That could be a clue.
Chase,
Thanks for the encouragement. Feel free to email me at info@libertycolony.com .
Also, there are other ways to help:
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Spread the word about the site.
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Help recruit colonists.
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Help sponsor a specific Colonist or contibute to the general fund to pay for the Colonists. Every bit helps.
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Volunteer to be a mod in the forums and post in the forums.
When do you get out of college?
I start in the fall so not until 2012 :(,
edit: now that I think of it I will leave after my 2 year degree if this thing really gets off the ground.So 2010.
When can we invest in SDK?
Where are the forums located?
I want that job training the PDA folks.
I know a little Spanish and have been to Jungle School down in Panama when I was in the 82nd.
You’re not expecting any full out shoot em ups with drug lords or anything though?
Yeah, I missed the ‘freedom forum’ link on the site.
I don’t think the pacifists will go for that one…
One problem I thought of is gender balance. If 95% of the first colonists are males this could lead to a lot of anger of rejected advances, disputes over “taken” females, problems with natives, and fights amongst us guys. I dunno, just throwing it out there. It may sound silly but it is something rather serious. I know this was a problem to some degree in the early American colonies and there is reason to suspect that the initial colonists will be disproportionately male.
Guys, please let’s get rid of the browser validation. The forums (http://freedomforum.libertycolony.com/) don’t work on Firefox here (I guess the Linux distro uses a different identification string), and I’m sure it won’t work for Opera, Safari and other browsers:
Well there will be other people around besides the Colonists and also we create this Colony in the spirit of the early Pilgrims but we have enormous advantages. The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock had a little over 100 people, they had no pictures or real information about where they were going and realistically no way back. We on the other hand will be able to travel and within 1-2 days be back visiting family or loved ones so there isn’t nearly the sense of isolation that our forefathers faced.
Although the location of the Colony is a secret for operational security, but once established there will be enormous information available about the area and incredible opportunities for business and economic activity.
Anonymous Coward,
Thanks for the post. Please feel free to sign up as one of the first 100 Colonists and send me a summary of your qualifications. Something I will add to the site regarding the location of the Colony is that I do not expect and have no reason to believe that we will be treated with hostility upon our arrival or be in any immediate danger. In general the area is dysfunctional and anything could happen but I have no reason to anticipate conflict.
I read your post and visited your web site and its all crap. Why would anyone turn their life over to some group of people with no assurances of their right to defend themselves in a tribunal or address issues that may not be what they think freedom really is. No idea about how they would live or care for themselves or others, and no defense against an armed forced large enough to take what ever the group did manage to produce.
Thanks for the response and visiting the site. It is certainly the case that early Colonists will have to be self-reliant. As for turning your life over to some group…nothing could be further from the truth, as a Colonist you will enter the Colony voluntarily and can leave whenever you choose. Simply having some organization is not a limitation on freedom. The Colonists who go will have agreed in advance to this very minimal arrangement. The whole point of having some structure to start the Colony is to reduce conflict amongst the early Colonists. I have no doubt that the first 100 Colonists will not feel in any way that they have turned their life over to some group and in fact they will feel for the first time in their lives truly free and living by their own voluntary consent.
It will certainly take self-confidence to be one of the early Colonists. You have to believe in freedom, believe that it is possible, and believe in yourself.
I will see what I can do about the browser issue on the forum.
what is the reason for having to forfiet their property? You also failed to answer the defense question and the individual rights question
More power to anybody who is willing to jump on a boat destination unknown, grant authority to some external security force to trample over their “property” to look out for any hostile forces and have a tribunal of three people appointed by the SDK corporation decide over their fate. Sound like a bunch of b/s and money making to me.
How does a “potential” colonist know that the land they are going to inhabit isn’t going to be taken back from them
If it is indeed some place like Somalia or some other African country…good luck!
Let’s hyperthetically say that I as a single woman decide to move to this “destination unknown”, assuming the hired security force (that I don’t know anything about) are native people. Hyperthetically two of them, as they are walking/driving across my 5 acres looking out for possible hostile forces end up raping me. I get pregnant and now what? I can’t even get an abortion? Doesn’t sound very free to me.
As a woman, that choice should be left up to me. Not some corporation, religious cult or government.
he’s not talking about that king of freedom, I beleive he is talking about a person giving their consent to be free by their standards or something like that. Sounds like some kind of socialism with a dab of commie.
I would imagine that if you disagree with any of the rules or reguations that will govern this “colony”, you are free to, ya know, not go. If you want the right to have an abortion, perhaps this project is not for you.
Just a thought.
Also, the abortion rule may be a PDA-by-PDA issue. After the first year, other PDAs that allowed abortion may be formed. Sort of a Freidmanite thing. Correct me if I’m wrong.