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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 22  see thiel (had a minion in charge of this?)</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> libtard ayn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see me vs we</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see sociopath</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/libertarianism-failed-us/">https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/libertarianism-failed-us/</a></font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Libertarians have a dream. It is to create a floating colony, either using ships or artificial islands, located in international waters. Residents of these communities would be out of reach of sovereign countries, so they would not be bound by government rules and best of all, they would pay no taxes. It is called seasteading, which is being promoted by the<b> Seasteading Institute.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You have to go back to the 1970s for the first serious attempt at seasteading, which was based on the idea that unclaimed island in the Pacific Ocean could be colonized by libertarians.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Nevada-based real estate developer and coin dealer, Michael Oliver, had a dream. A libertarian, he wanted to escape the overbearing clutches of governments. The only way to do so, he decided, was to create his own country, where there would be few or no rules. In 1968, he published <em>A New Constitution for a New Country</em>,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a practical guide on how to construct a new nation in which “people will be </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">free to do as they damn well please. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nothing will be illegal so long it does not infringe on the rights of others. If a citizen wishes to open a tavern, set up gambling or make pornographic films, the government will not interfere.”</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Income would be generated from fees from grateful banks wishing to establish offshore services—no questions asked—and offer </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">transnational corporations a place to establish their headquarters without bothersome rules or taxation. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would even issue its own currency.</span></b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pulling together around 2,000 investors, Oliver established the</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Ocean Life Research Foundation.</b> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">With funds raised, Oliver’s first idea was to find a country that would be willing to sell his foundation one of its islands, over which the Foundation would declare sovereignty. When he couldn’t find any takers, Oliver looked around for an unclaimed island that could become his libertarian paradise.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The best Oliver could do was Minerva Reef, in the middle of the Pacific, 500 km (260 miles) southeast of Tonga. It had never been claimed, despite being discovered as far back as 1854. There were, however, serious problems establishing a settlement on the reef, not the least being that the reef lies some three feet above water at low tide and about four feet under water at high tide.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Undaunted, in January 1971, Oliver and a small party went to Fiji, where they chartered a 54-foot motor sailer and purchased the materials to create artificial islands on the reef. On their arrival at Minerva, the party unloaded <b>large hunks of coral wrapped in chicken wire,</b> concrete blocks, sand and other rubble, which allowed them to build two micro-islands on the reef. On one of these islands, they built a small stone tower and hoisted its flag: a yellow torch of freedom on a solid blue background. The founding fathers of Minerva hoped to expand the reclaimed land until it would eventually support a city of 30,000 citizens.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In February 1972, Oliver appointed Bud Davis the Provisional President of Minerva. A former project engineer with North American Rockwell, he ran the new republic from the living room of his one-story house in Gustine, California. From there,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> he mailed out a<b style=""> Declaration of Sovereignty </b>to around one hundred nations, requesting recognition for the world’s newest principality. The only head of state willing to strike up diplomatic relations was the Sultan of Occussi-Ambeno. This coup lost its sheen when it was discovered that the Sultanate was a figment of the fertile imagination of Bruce Grenville, a New Zealand anarchist.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the founding fathers of Minerva were romantics, they were pleased to find that they had counterparts in the business community who were thinking along similar lines. For example,<b> Carl Gerstacker, the chairman of Dow Chemical Company, startled his audience in 1972</b> when he mused:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); background: rgb(245, 245, 245); width: 602.542px; line-height: 32px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">“I have long dreamed of buying an island owned by no nation and of establishing the World Headquarters of the Dow Company on the truly neutral ground of such an island, b<b>eholden to no nation or society</b>. If we were located on such truly neutral ground we could then really operate in the United States as US citizens, in Japan as Japanese citizens and in Brazil as Brazilians rather than being governed in prime by the laws of the United States … We could even pay any natives handsomely to move elsewhere.”
</font></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Dow later brushed this quote off as a joke, but when questioned at the time, Gerstacker said he was “deadly serious.”</b></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After reading a report about this speech, Oliver approached Dow to ask whether it would like to establish its world headquarters on Minerva. Gerstacker did not respond, and the principality remained no more than a flag fluttering in the wind over a few square yards of debris that threatened to wash away in the next storm.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Unfortunately for Oliver, Australia did not take kindly to a privately owned principality being created in its neighborhood and pressured Tonga, being the closest country to Minerva, to act.</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Taking up the challenge was King Tupou IV, the heaviest monarch in the world, weighing in at over 440 pounds. On June 21, 1972, he led an expeditionary force to invade the Principality of Minerva. Without an army or navy to call on, the king recruited a five-man convict work detail to undertake the invasion and, to add gravitas to the expedition, a four-piece brass band played the Tongan national anthem from on-board the royal yacht Olovaba to inspire the troops. Taking courage, when he saw that Minerva was unoccupied, the king decided to personally lead his force. Once the tide was out, the king went ashore. After tearing down Minervan flag, he read aloud a proclamation of sovereignty. The reef now belonged to Kingdom of Tonga.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When the king was safely back on board the royal yacht, his ragtag troops were left to dismantle the stone tower, which had been erected by Oliver. What up until now had been a bloodless war turned nasty, as a fight broke out between two of the convicts, and one was killed. So, while the Principality of Minerva never had a live population, it was left with a single gravesite, which was all that remained of the shortest and smallest war in the history of the world, and even that grave soon disappeared, as did the Principality of Minerva when successive storms washed away its artificial islands.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>Draper told HuffPost that he initially dreamed up the proposal because California is so large that it has become "ungovernable." </b>He said that his plan would help poor parts of the state because their unique needs would be better heard by smaller, local governments. He has until mid-July to collect the 807,615 signatures needed to get his proposal on the state's 2014 ballot. He hasn't started gathering signatures yet.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Perhaps nowhere in the U.S. is income inequality as extreme as in California. One in four of its citizens live in poverty. Yet the state has the highest number of ultra-rich people in the country. The state deeply needs the tax revenue from the wealthy to support those who are less well-off. Under Draper's plan, this critical tax revenue redistribution would be lost.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Splitting up the state would "widen the chasms in education, incarceration and wealth that are already greater than they were 25 years ago," said <b>Larry Gerston, professor of political science at San Jose State University.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Draper isn't alone in wanting to segregate rich and poor. Airlines are increasingly offering their wealthy clients more physical distance from the masses in coach. United and Delta now have private airport suites for first-class travelers, and will drive high-end passengers from one gate to another in luxury cars.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">And then there are school districts. In the past two years, wealthy neighborhoods in several states have launched campaigns to break away from school districts that include poor communities. This has taken place in Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, California and Tennessee, and some of the efforts have been successful.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Elsewhere, many affluent Americans prefer to live in exclusive neighborhoods. It's common for wealthy residents of Southern California and Silicon Valley to live in gated communities, which often employ private security rather than relying on public police officers. And the security may be for a good reason. In the non-gated Lindenwood neighborhood, near Silicon Valley, average home prices exceed $7 million. Vandals recently spray-painted black graffiti on the 1 percent's walls, garages and white picket fences.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">In the last decade, several cities in Georgia have broken off from the state and become largely autonomous, with many locals citing a poorly run state government. The first city to do so was the affluent Sandy Springs, where almost all public services have since been privatized. Without needing to provide to poverty-stricken surrounding communities, Sandy Springs, where the average family income is $169,815, can now reportedly keep taxes lower and stay out of debt.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The tech world is particularly keen on leaving government behind to create its own utopia.<b> Investor Peter Thiel has raised over $25,000 to build the world's first floating tech island, free from government constraints. Google CEO Larry Page wants to "set aside a part of the world" for regulation-free tech experiments</b>. And Balaji Srinivasan, the co-founder of genetics company Counsyl, calls <b>"Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit" from civil society inevitable,</b> and advocates for a techno-utopian island in the ocean. Meanwhile, the "campuses" of Google, Facebook, Apple and other Silicon Valley tech giants are essentially autonomous urban centers where an employee can see a dentist and take private buses to and from work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">While Draper's plan is more democratic than building an island free of the world's problems, critics say it reflects the same mentality of "figure it out yourself" instead of "we're in this together." "It’s a way for some folks to get rid of the riffraff," Gerston said. "Let's do some surgery and cut out this part and that part so that now we only have this nice part that we like."</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">
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