Anyone Want to Start Their Own Country? (Freeper Island Is Real)

Private Islands Online ^ | 3/22/02 | me

[Brett66]

The Island of Long Island is for sale for $1.25 million.

Long Island - 8700 acres - US $1,250,000
This private island is immense, so big, in fact, that there are actually 4 countries in the world with a
smaller surface area! Situated off the coast of central Queensland between the towns of Mackay and Rockhampton, 20 nautical miles (37 km) from the Great Barrier Reef, Long Island is one of Queensland's largest coastal islands. Open grasslands, forests, and a beautiful coastline characterize the island. There are 4 sandy beaches, one of which is 4 km (2.5
miles) long, and the water temperature remains at 20-22 °C (68-72 °F) all year long. Much of the island
is suitable for agriculture, with over 4000 acres (1620 ha) of fertile soil. A 4-bedroom house is
present on the island, along with a private airstrip.

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[lowbridge]

I don't think Austrailia would allow you to declare independance like that!

Who needs their permission? :-)

Did Britain allow us to declare independence?

[A CA Guy]

It's true about more things killing you there in nature than elsewhere.

You'd need medications for every bite you could think of and if you get an organism from a reef there is no cure. From what I understand you are dead.

You might find a safer spot in the middle of Afghanistan! LOL

[GnL]

You certainly wouldn't have to worry about their citizen militia.

[shekkian]

Freeper Island Constitution:

1: All distribution of information shall remain within the hands of private citizens.

2: All households shall be equiped with arms for defense, and all peaceful citizens shall carry a weapon at all times.

3: All unborn children shall receive the same protections as all other persons.

4: A family shall be defined as a household consisting of a mother and a father.

5: All elected government officials shall serve no more than two consecutive terms in office.

6: The rule of law shall adhere to eye-for-eye doctrine.

7: The nation of Freeper Island shall remain sovereign and shall not fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations.

8: The rate of taxation shall not rise above the level where all basic essential services are fulfilled.

9: All persons who seek immigration to Freeper Island shall account for the nation from whence they came.

10: Any person who seeks to change or reverse these amendments shall be banished to Antarctica.

[Cultural Jihad]

Apparently, the libertarians have their eyes set on Lake Titicaca, partly because of the intriguing name, and partly because the life expectancy of Anglos in the nearby Bolivian towns, where the nose candy is so cheap, is two and a half years.

[lowbridge]

In the jungles of your Republic hides a little known revolutionary known as Fidel Lowbridge. Riling up the poor and downtrodden masses against his Excellency Hammach.

"Free bread! Freedom! Milk for the babies!" cried Fidel.

The uneducated, illiterate farmhands, knowing nothing about international geo-politics, screamed their approval.

Fidel then picks up a gun and proceeds to carry on a civil war. At first his Excellency his quite sure that his troops will put down this rebellion within a matter of days, even hours. But within months, there is no sign of the letup. His troops are close to exhaustion, underfed, underequipped, morale is at an all time low.

Fidel Lowbridge, in the meantime, has gotten stronger. He has found support amongst the peasants who are tired of hard work for little money and not being educated by their government. The peasants in greater numbers, join this funny looking revolutionary.

Three years later his Excellency flees the Republic before he could be captured and shot. Fidel takes over and rules the former Republic of Hammach (now renamed the People's Republic of Lowbridge),

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a397c5acf1e58.htm

[shekkian]

I don't see why you need me to be the target of your revolution. Just get on a boat and sail a few miles west. You'll be just as happy and without the trouble.

[billybudd]

8: The rate of taxation shall not rise above the level where all basic essential services are fulfilled.

That's what they said at the beginning of the USA. What are "all basic essential services"? That depends on your opinion doesn't it? Let's say instead "The rate of taxation shall not rise above 5%" or better yet, "There shall be no taxation whatsoever." The government can beg the people for money instead of the other way around.

[Darheel]

I could call it... Freeper Island.

Sure sure, sounds great. But then, the biting, the screaming, the running...lol

I love the idea. I'm due for a 'land-mass' increase, it's one of them 'manifest destiny'-things I figure.

[Brett66]

I like that. We could write limitations on government spending into the constitution. They could collect the revenues from the previous year and that would be all they could spend -no budget projections from idiot politicians. Maybe a national retail sales tax to generate cash for government. The lowest tax in the world of course and it couldn't be raised.

[Brett66]

Nah, we'll all be rich on this island. The low wage workers can go back to Australia after they're done with their minimum wage jobs for the day.(someone has to make the beds in the luxurious hotels)

[shekkian]

Lets make this easy. We all have guns. Let the best man win.

[socal_parrot]

OK...I'll ask. Are there moose on any of the islands and what's the cheese industry like?

[Dumb_Ox]

It's only 1.75 acres,not too bad, especially if Ginger and Mary Ann are part of the deal. :)

Sicko. They're both in their '70s. Will Ritual necrophilia soon be the national religion?

[Centurion2000]

an island in Tennessee is just 1.3 million, LOL

True but I doubt the Australians would send the equal of General Sherman to your island to try and keep the peace.

[Cultural Jihad]

The low wage workers can go back to Australia after they're done with their minimum wage jobs for the day.(someone has to make the beds in the luxurious hotels)

Until they adopt the direct action theories of 'headsonpikes,' end wage-slavery, expropriate the means of production, and start to eat the rich! The libertarians have a plan to thwart this horror, though: Ban the free association of unions, and make it a crime for the lowly hired hands to not make beds, cook, and wash dishes. Freedom is slavery!

[Robert_Paulson2]

YOu guys....

simply unbelievable.

Have you ever found a thread that you could not somehow turn into a "hate the libertarians" thread, somehow or someway?

How DO you do it?

</ snickers >

[Robert_Paulson2]

nice heads on pikes motif there dude...

[SAJ]

Heh heh! Nice shot.

Was it D. H. Lawrence who wrote the classic short story "The Man Who Loved Islands"?

[socal_parrot]

Yes it was, 1927-

The islander wanted "an island all of his own: not necessarily to be alone on it, but to make it a world of his own." Maybe at some point, seeing his life stretching out before him, and seeking a happiness he thought would elude the rest, the islander missed seeing the fact that a world of his own meant a world with nothing that was not his own. Trapped in a body, in a reality, to continue to exist meant accepting things not of himself, with things that were not his own, with people that were not his own. Maybe he didn't see that a world of his own was a world alone, and a very lonely world.