Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

[devilgrrl]

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

Who wouldn't want to live there? Loose building codes on a man made island!!! Sounds just as safe as British Petroleum's Gulf of Mexico oil platforms.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

[Orrex]

1. Sounds like a Teabagger paradise.

I suggest sending all of them there ASAP.

[SoCalDem]

2. Don't worry

Only a few rich folks would ever be able to inhabit them, anyway..:)

Swiss Family Robinson meets Dynasty

[Ohio Joe]

3. Great!

When can we start sending them there? They will renounce citizenship right away... Won't they?

I say Ron Paul goes on the first boat out, thats one racist douchebag we do not need any more.

[MineralMan]

4. Sounds like a great way to piss away a billion or two.

I predict Thiel will be dead long before anything like this is a reality. More blue sky.

[neverforget]

5. And when they get in trouble, who are they going to call? Galt will save them

[JHB]

6. Earlier thread on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1750026

[MannyGoldstein]

7. This already exists - why reinvent the wheel?

REGULATION VACATION CELEBRATION!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0

[katusha]

8. How does one go about obtaining a letter of Marque? n/t

[nc4bo]

14. Good googly moogly....I've died and gone to heaven!

Your siggie is positively sinful.

I can smell them from here and I don't have smell-o-vision!!!

How are you going to walk around with that sig pic and not share the recipe! :rofl:

:spank:

Edit to add that I missed the link because of that darned picture!

[LynneSin]

9. WHere do I donate. Make it big enough for all the Teabagging nutjobs

:D

BTW when they get wiped out by a Hurricane/Typhoon/Tsunami - they don't get one red cent from any other nation.

The one thing I do see - these assholes would probably just dump all their garbage and sewage right back into the water. Which I wouldn't care if we could keep it isolated to just around their fake island but unfortunately it would spread outside their area.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Just don't call on the U.S. Navy if pirates try to take you over

If you want to get around U.S. taxes and regulations, don't expect the working class that makes up the U.S. military to shed their blood for you. Don't expect the U.S. taxpayer to spend some of its billions that fund the U.S. Navy's worldwide peacekeeper efforts on the high seas to help you out. Libertarians, you're on your own.

[LynneSin]

12. Don't expect one dime if a Hurricane/Typhoon/Tsunami wrecks havoc on your island

nuff said.

[gratuitous]

13. Except for one minor detail

Pirates wouldn't be interested in some Lord of the Flies society where value is determined by who takes the biggest dump. There is no percentage to be taken from the King Shit of Turd Island.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. "I have come to see your utopia." Stephen Hawking on an appropriate Simpsons episode.