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MONDOBRUTALE said:
the principality of sealand
maybe you should launch a coup d'etat - they've had one already so i'm sure they won't mind

The first step in gaining international recognition came in 1968 when Roy’s son, the Prince Regent Michael, was ordered to a British court for firing his rifle at a Royal Navy vessel that had come too close to the platform (he claimed they were planning an invasion). However, the court decreed that since the incident occurred outside British territorial waters, it had no jurisdiction in the matter. The second step came in 1978 when Alexander G. Achenbach, a German Professor whom Prince Roy had named as prime minister of Sealand, staged a coup d’etat and invaded the platform with the help of some Dutch heavies. A furious Prince Roy hired a helicopter and retook the platform within a day, holding his invaders captive. Although he released the Dutch miscreants, he claimed Achenbach was guilty of high treason and imprisoned him indefinitely on the island.

Hearing of this strange event, the German authorities petitioned the British government for Achenbach’s release. But the British government, citing the court decision of 1968, disavowed all responsibility for Prince Roy. Eventually Germany was forced to send a diplomat to Sealand to negotiate with the Sealand monarch, allowing a delighted Prince Roy to claim that this official visit amounted to de facto recognition by the German government (the German government strongly denied this). Sealand’s status remains uncertain but it still exists to this day. Its latest guise has it acting as an offshore data haven, hosting secure web servers that are free from all international registration requirements.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/newfoundlands.php
 
La La said:
i could snowboard all the time ... i would not, however, be involved in the wearing of fur/killing of seals etc even if my survival and well-being depended on it.
When you're living out on the Arctic icecap it's pretty hard to find any mountains ... but that wouldn't matter really because your cavalier attitude to your own survival means you'd die from exposure real fast (unless you came equipped with modern artificial thermal clothing, and then you'd hardly be an Eskimo would you?)
 
tom. said:

Perhaps the most persistent character to stem from this era of ephemeral states is Michael J. Oliver. A concentration camp survivor, coin dealer, and land developer, Oliver wrote the treatise A New Constitution for a New Country (1968) in which he created a model constitution for a nation whose extremely limited government could be financed voluntarily. Along with his sinister-sounding group, the Phoenix Foundation—whose members included John Hospers, the Libertarian Party’s first presidential candidate—Oliver would spend the next decade in an emphatic quest for his tax-free independent state.
McGyver?
 
egg_ said:
When you're living out on the Arctic icecap it's pretty hard to find any mountains ... but that wouldn't matter really because your cavalier attitude to your own survival means you'd die from exposure real fast (unless you came equipped with modern artificial thermal clothing, and then you'd hardly be an Eskimo would you?)

hey man, stop fucking with The Dream, mmmkay?
anyway, some of the best snowboarding in the universe can be done in Alaska, trillions of First Descents all over the place. and i believe they have an innuit community too :):heart: .|..|
 

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