Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle

Re:Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Uto... by philwelch on Friday September 07, 2012 @07:29PM (#4491694)

> The Free State Project never got the 20,000 signatories that the idea needed, and so it dissolved

There wasn't a deadline or anything; the FSP is still active.

Sealand doesn't count since it wasn't a libertarian, just an eccentric who wanted to call himself a prince. And he succeeded in persistently squatting on an abandoned fortification in the English Channel, not creating a new society.

I didn't know about Minerva--I was talking about the Seasteading Institute, actually.

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Re:Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Uto... by nirvana on Saturday September 08, 2012 @02:05AM (#4492398)

>There wasn't a deadline or anything; the FSP is still active.

No, there was a deadline, and a contract. That deadline passed, and the contract became null. The FSP is dead, according to its own bylaws. What continues to this day is a fraud. Of course, since that deadline was almost a decade ago, and the people running the FSP took down all the info from the website, and have been pretending otherwise, most people have never heard any of this.

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Re:Former “Seasteaders” Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Uto... by philwelch on Saturday September 08, 2012 @03:50AM (#4492543)

In any case I still count it as an attempt.

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