Fiji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji) or the Solomon's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands) for geographical purposes.
That's like 8,500 miles from New Hampshire in a straight line, not counting 2-4 plane transfers - probably more than 24 hours each way. And the difference in sailing time / cost / risk is even greater!
What does South Pacific have that Caribbean doesn't?
I'll take the niggers in Jamacia. The Rasafarians want to repatriate to Africa/Ethiopia anyway.
Anywhere that isn't hot is fine with me. Any islands in New Hampshire?
| Dep | Name | To NH | Population | Area | P.D. | GDP | GDP/Cap | GDP D. |
| UK | Bermuda | 798 | 65,000 | 21 | 3,095 | $4,543.500 | $69,900 | $216.357 |
| France | Saint Martin | 1,791 | 85,000 | 14 | 6,071 | $1,751.000 | $20,600 | $125.071 |
| France | Saint Barthélemy | 1,803 | 8,450 | 8 | 1,056 | $312.650 | $37,000 | $39.081 |
| Nation | Barbados | 2,160 | 279,000 | 167 | 1,671 | $5,496.300 | $19,700 | $32.912 |
| Neth. | Aruba | 2,116 | 104,000 | 75 | 1,387 | $2,267.200 | $21,800 | $30.229 |
| France | Martinique | 2,032 | 401,000 | 436 | 920 | $9,596.331 | $23,931 | $22.010 |
| UK | Cayman Islands | 1,735 | 47,000 | 100 | 470 | $2,058.600 | $43,800 | $20.586 |
| Nation | Trinidad and Tobago | 2,290 | 1,333,000 | 1,980 | 673 | $28,926.100 | $21,700 | $14.609 |
| UK | Virgin Islands (UK) | 1,735 | 22,016 | 59 | 373 | $847.616 | $38,500 | $14.366 |
| France | Guadeloupe | 1,930 | 408,000 | 629 | 649 | $8,886.240 | $21,780 | $14.128 |
| Port. | Madeira | 2,982 | 245,806 | 320 | 768 | $4,424.508 | $18,000 | $13.827 |
| USA | Virgin Islands (US) | 1,737 | 108,448 | 133 | 815 | $1,572.496 | $14,500 | $11.823 |
| Neth. | Antilles | 2,147 | 192,000 | 309 | 621 | $3,072.000 | $16,000 | $9.942 |
| Nation | Antigua and Barbuda | 1,870 | 85,000 | 171 | 497 | $926.500 | $10,900 | $5.418 |
| Nation | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 1,844 | 42,696 | 101 | 423 | $350.107 | $8,200 | $3.466 |
| Nation | Saint Lucia | 2,075 | 165,000 | 238 | 693 | $792.000 | $4,800 | $3.328 |
| Port. | Azores | 2,262 | 243,018 | 911 | 267 | $2,995.440 | $12,326 | $3.288 |
| Nation | Grenada | 2,190 | 106,000 | 133 | 797 | $413.400 | $3,900 | $3.108 |
| UK | Anguilla | 1,777 | 13,477 | 39 | 342 | $118.598 | $8,800 | $3.010 |
| Nation | Saint Vincent & Grenadines | 2,125 | 120,000 | 150 | 800 | $432.000 | $3,600 | $2.880 |
| Nation | Cape Verde | 3,403 | 499,796 | 1,557 | 321 | $3,498.572 | $7,000 | $2.247 |
| UK | Turks and Caicos Islands | 1,489 | 21,746 | 161 | 135 | $250.079 | $11,500 | $1.553 |
| Nation | Bahamas | 1,350 | 331,000 | 5,382 | 62 | $7,513.700 | $22,700 | $1.396 |
| Nation | Dominica | 1,999 | 67,000 | 291 | 230 | $254.600 | $3,800 | $0.875 |
| UK | Montserrat | 1,894 | 5,900 | 39 | 151 | $20.060 | $3,400 | $0.514 |
| USA | Navassa Island | 1,715 | 0 | 2 | 0 | $0.000 | $0 | $0.000 |
| France | Clipperton | 3,216 | 0 | 9 | 0 | $0.000 | $0 | $0.000 |
it is impossible to achieve freedom within the European Union.I think you can achieve freedom just about anywhere.
it is impossible to achieve freedom within the European Union.I think you can achieve freedom just about anywhere.
You left out Britain's Pitcairn island.
To get to Pitcairn it is necessary to fly to Tahiti, then Mangareva, then embark on a further 30-hour boat ride. There is one boat every several months. Alternately, passage can be obtained aboard a few freighters out of New Zealand - it is a seven-day trip via freighter. Leaving the island is hit-and-miss; one leaves when transportation happens by, not necessarily when one wishes to go.
... I got more realistic and thought about how the UK's empire is receding and that it would be more realistic to attain secession from the British than from the USA.
To ensure freedom and independence, one has to be willing to fight for one's rights.
To ensure freedom and independence, one has to be willing to fight for one's rights.
Which pretty much means posessing a nuclear weapon.
To ensure freedom and independence, one has to be willing to fight for one's rights.
Which pretty much means posessing a nuclear weapon.
Not at all. Many small countries survive just fine without nukes. What it DOES mean is making the effort too great for anyone to bother with. No doubt the Brits could defeat Sealand if they really wanted to do so. But, the cost would be too great.
Many small islands belong to small nations with little in the way of military force. Minerva could easily have defeated Tonga IF the residents had possessed a small gunboat, or 5-inch gun.
Someplace without island niggers. I'm completely fucking serious.
Someplace without island niggers. I'm completely fucking serious.
Any place without this guy. :-\
Someplace without island niggers. I'm completely fucking serious.
Any place without this guy. :-\
Having seriously considered and summarily rejected the FSP, I think its completely logical to extend this opinion to a fucking island.
Having seriously considered and summarily rejected the FSP, I think its completely logical to extend this opinion to a fucking island.
I've become skeptical of FSP because of New Hampshire's 1+ million non-libertarians, with more moving from Mass at a rate Free Staters could never match.
An island wouldn't have this problem, and it might even be a sovereign country to begin with.
Having seriously considered and summarily rejected the FSP, I think its completely logical to extend this opinion to a fucking island.
I've become skeptical of FSP because of New Hampshire's 1+ million non-libertarians, with more moving from Mass at a rate Free Staters could never match.
I figured this out back in 2003.QuoteAn island wouldn't have this problem, and it might even be a sovereign country to begin with.
Water, trading, and dealing with the natives will be a huge problem.
Problems can be solved, given people and money.
National sovereignty?
Warm sandy beaches year-round?
Solarpanel-powered seawater filtering machines piped into your backyard swimming pool and irrigation system for cannabis and fruit trees?
National sovereignty?
Warm sandy beaches year-round?
Solarpanel-powered seawater filtering machines piped into your backyard swimming pool and irrigation system for cannabis and fruit trees?
Go raise $10 billion dollars then we'll talk about it.
Go raise $10 billion dollars then we'll talk about it.
Go raise $10 billion dollars then we'll talk about it.
Good thing Forbes already made me a list of people to call, but $10 billion is 6-7 times the GDP of U.S. Virgin Islands, for example (see table above (http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=20756.msg383278#msg383278)), and we are talking about a grouping of ~60 different islands, and one small island would be enough to get this started. New Hampshire's GSP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_%28nominal%29): $56 billion.
(I know GDP is a measure of total yearly production, not the cost of buying and developing an island, but I'm just using it to provide scale. My whole point is: it's still a heck of a lot more realistic than the Free State Project. And warmer. And when you invite Puerto Rican girls on a speedboat ride to New Hampshire, as opposed to your own private island, they don't get as excited.)
On the other hand, it's cold!
Pff, at least in AK, you don't get teased by a little glimmer of summer. Its cold, its gonna stay cold, and tomorrow it'll be cold as it was yesterday.
As a reprieve, it is tolerable for a two month stretch, so you can bury your dead.
Alaska would have been a good choice. It's already virtually a separate country, has a strong libertarian party and a strong independence movement, and has a clause in its constitution saying it can opt out of the American union at will. On the other hand, it's cold!
In the Pegasus galaxy?
"Liberty through obscurity" is a self-contradiction.
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If it exists under the law of Australia, you don't want it. They're destroying the 'net there at a furious pace.
If it exists under the law of Australia, you don't want it. They're destroying the 'net there at a furious pace.
Yeah, it's a shame. It's like England and Texas had an enormous love child.
If it's a matter of buying or leasing (under the condition of total autonomy for X years) an island from an existing government, there should be plenty of more willing governments here in the Western Hemisphere. Australia is a rich nanny state, while many countries in the Caribbean could use the money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Island
Anyone, anyone?