the goal of the project is to gain individual sovereignty. To find a place where we can be free from institutionalized coercion.
Alright. Let's start with this. I'll try not to be so cynical this time, but consider that what you are asking has never been done before by anyone other than those in bloody revolts from within existing nations, or nations expanding &/or trading with other nations.
Sealand is no exception to that rule... And it was the most successful physical micronation by far.
And yes i would call sealand a success, idk if the king and prince have both been paying taxes in the uk the whole time than i would call it less successful than i initially imagined. By what criteria do you judge that it is not successful? because its small run down looking?
No, because it didn't make anyone truly free nor sovereign. Since they still got their tax money, this pitiful platform simply was not of interest to England. All these decades later, and there is still no nation on earth that recognizes this "nation."
I can't find out much about the existing king, but Roy paid taxes to England his whole life, and didn't live on the platform very long... Mainly back in his radio days, when the platform had purpose.
If you can find info on how Michael (the son) lives and pays taxes, I'd be happy to read it.
Roy Bates has had the sovereignty of sealand up held in court twice.
And did either of those courts name Sealand as a Sovereign state?
Of course not. The best they ever got was "It's outside of our jurisdiction."
Roy bates was a free-man, a real free-man.
Source?
the point is to say that one person has staked a claim and declared his sovereignty with out being killed, so you say that if too many people do it than they would come after us but how many is that. They obviously dont come after 1 guy, what about 5 what about 10, we could already make a pretty awesome company with 10 people. If we could make it too 100 people with out being murdered we could really have a decent sized firm. We could just import materials and work to gather to make our product and sell it again on the international market.
Well the Republic of Rose Island WAS just 1 guy, and Italy came after him with armed forces and shut him down on Tax Evasion.
So the fact is, "1 guy" was too many for Italy, but not enough for England, at least when that 1 guy in England still payed his taxes.
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