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Re:About Liberland by Oletros on Saturday April 18, 2015 @03:14PM (#9400662)
> Hi there friends . Our country is a new establishment . Many people are asking me for citizenship. Our country is so small only 3.000-4.000 people accepted. We are expanding to fill the Danube. Please; Syrian, Kurds, Arabs, Russians and Chinese are not write me. Because we will not accept them.

A good start for a country called Liberland, I expect that it is just a trollish post

Re:About Liberland by denysonique on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:30PM (#9400896)
Indeed this is a trollish post, actually one of the many on the forum (which is a disclaimer about official statements)

From their website: Liberland will accept anyone of any background as long they are not Communists, Nazis or other types of extremists.

Re:About Liberland by elmar on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:42PM (#9400938)
What is the problem with accepting Communists and Nazis, a libertarian country should accept and respect any ideology.
Re:About Liberland by devcpp on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:42PM (#9401175)
If you take people who feel so strongly against libertarianism, the country won't remain libertarian for long. Of course, it means the person is charge is shaping his society, which is non-libertarian, but it's a sort of trade off.
Re:About Liberland by funkyy on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:58PM (#9401003)
This is why Liberian country is an utopia. Same with Communist or Capitalist country.

Those countries tend to forget one thing - human factor. That humans are not the same and they might not be a "perfect" citizen.

Re:About Liberland by douche on Saturday April 18, 2015 @09:39PM (#9401739)
I know its a typo, but I can't resist...

Liberia did start out as something of a utopia[1]...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society

Re:About Liberland by PhasmaFelis on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:49PM (#9401201)
A tolerant ideology does not require one to tolerate people who are actively trying to destroy that ideology.
Re:About Liberland by Frondo on Saturday April 18, 2015 @07:05PM (#9401431)
There's nothing to say that a communist or a nazi is going to do anything to take down Liberland. Isn't excluding someone for their beliefs a thought-crime kind of situation?
Re:About Liberland by mikerichards on Saturday April 18, 2015 @10:31PM (#9401832)
They wouldn't be a communist or nazi if they were trying to join. The only reason would be to destroy it.

There's already too much tolerance of people that would enslave and destroy.

Re:About Liberland by Frondo on Sunday April 19, 2015 @12:12PM (#9403663)
I see no possible way kicking people out for thinking stuff is compatible with libertarian freedom-based ideas. Do they break libertarian law? Exile them. Do they talk about breaking libertarian law, or changing the laws there to reflect what they want? On what basis can you exclude someone for talking?
Re:About Liberland by icebraining on Sunday April 19, 2015 @05:29AM (#9402538)
Nonsense. A pure voluntaryist country would be a great place to start a commune. You'd just need some seed capital to buy the land, and then you could live in a moneyless society free from wage-labor and other capitalist practices.
Re:About Liberland by borisreitman on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:20PM (#9421945)
It will not last, as kibbutzes (examples of such communes) did not last in Israel. Ayn Rand has illustrated why in her book "Atlas Shrugged" with the example of Starnesville.

The reason is that people who are doing better than others (and who are forced by the communist _ideology_ to share so that everyone is equal), would leave the commune.

That is why North Korea and USSR kept their citizens inside the Iron Wall border. It "worked" only by forcing the able to their knees.

Re:About Liberland by PhasmaFelis on Monday April 20, 2015 @04:00AM (#9406699)
I see what you're trying to say, but at this point in history there is not a lot of intersection between "advocate for commune living" and "communist." Politics is an odd thing.
Re:About Liberland by elmar on Saturday April 18, 2015 @03:20PM (#9400678)
It doesn't make sense, a libertarian country should accept any race.
Re:About Liberland by vezzy-fnord on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:14PM (#9400850)
Well, if you take the maxim of propertarianism to its limit, then you should be able to exclude anyone for any reason. This is what people like, e.g. Hans Hermann-Hoppe advocate, with proposals of anarcho-capitalist societies that end up sounding like isolationist dystopias. His views on democracy are interesting, however.

Either that or I suppose not even libertarianism can trump Balkan relations.

Re:About Liberland by ende on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:33PM (#9401145)
That latter is a force to be reckoned with.
Re:About Liberland by dataker on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:31PM (#9400901)
In theory, but for an early country it's a long shot. With many races, you'd have to handle many different cultures and give out some of that freedom in exchange for equality.
Re:About Liberland by psykovsky on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:25PM (#9401325)
They also don't accept nobody with a criminal record. Like everybody who was convicted of a crime is a danger to society.
Re:About Liberland by g1236627 on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:34PM (#9400909)
They are liberals not libertarians.
Re:About Liberland by ende on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:40PM (#9401171)
The word 'liberal' in a European context ranges in meaning, and often encompasses many aspects of what those in the US would recognize as 'libertarian'. It just really depends on the context though. Depending on the country, 'liberalism' may be associated with center-left, center-right, or both (see UK LibDems as an example). In general, though, it is typically used in contrast to both right wing conservative parties and left wing social-democratic parties.
Re:About Liberland by lumberjack on Saturday April 18, 2015 @08:57PM (#9401660)
They are not liberals. Not even the most hardcore European liberals would say these things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADt_Jedli%C4%8Dka#Quotes

Re:About Liberland by elmar on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:56PM (#9400991)
You are probably right, two very completely different ideologies.
Re:About Liberland by saraid216 on Saturday April 18, 2015 @06:16PM (#9401290)
There are a lot more than two ideologies in those terms.
Re:About Liberland by digi_owl on Saturday April 18, 2015 @03:45PM (#9400754)
What, you expect consistency from libertarians? ;)
Re:About Liberland by zokier on Saturday April 18, 2015 @04:30PM (#9400895)
Where did you find that snippet?
Re:About Liberland by briandh on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:55PM (#9401221)
I did a site search on Google and it has been pasted on their forums a few times now. The following thread quotes what appears to be the first mention: http://liberland.org/en/forum/?threadID=2120825992553118a8c4... (CTRL-F roman94)

I surmise from the other posts in the thread that a troll signed up with the username "admin" and posted that; the post no longer appears to be extant. Note, of course, the disclaimer on top of the board:

> Purpose of this forum is to allow communication between registered users on Liberland.org. Liberland officials don't make statements in this forum. Entries pretending to be official statements are all fake.