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Re:Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Uto... by cobrausn on Friday September 07, 2012 @06:06PM (#4491426)
If these people can bring wealth and prosperity to a place and succeed where their governments have failed them, why would you not support them?

They might fail miserably, but (as pointed out by others) this kind of thing has succeeded in the past.

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Re:Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Uto... by Apocryphon on Saturday September 08, 2012 @04:07AM (#4492559)
Foreign enterprises and Central American states don't exactly have the healthiest history together: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Exemplar_republ...

Even if this experiment succeeded, it would be under different circumstances from previous stories. Even though Hong Kong and Singapore were British colonies, it seems like that rule had greater legitimacy than the current Honduran government, which arose through coup.

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