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Originally posted by admriker444
6. No restrictions on gun ownership
8. No Walmart - small businesses are everywhere and not being crushed by some mass corporate entity.
Firearms arrest in Mexico
Many U.S. citizens may be planning to take a trip to Mexico during this busy summer travel season. The Department of State wishes to alert gun owners to leave their guns at home when they go to Mexico. Mexico has severe penalties for taking in any type of firearm, weapon, or ammunition without first obtaining written authorization from Mexican authorities. It does not matter whether U.S. citizens are licensed to carry the firearm in the United States, or if they unintentionally transport it while driving in their vehicle, or have it in their luggage while traveling by commercial or private plane or boat. It also does not matter if visitors to Mexico are U.S. law enforcement or military officials. Mexican authorities strictly enforce laws restricting the entry of firearms and ammunition along their borders and at air or seaports.
Each year dozens of Americans are arrested or fined in Mexico in connection with weapons violations. About 35 U.S. citizens are currently incarcerated in Mexican prisons on weapons-related charges. Many of them inadvertently transported a firearm that they were licensed to carry in the United States without realizing they were violating Mexican laws. Some were driving across the border for a day visit, to shop or to eat in a restaurant. Remember that if caught bringing in a firearm, ammunition, or other weapon, Mexican authorities may confiscate a visitor''s vehicle or other personal property and place the individual under arrest. Detained Americans may spend months in pre-trial detention while their case is being investigated. If convicted, they may face several years in a Mexican prison. While the U.S. consul can visit U.S. citizens in jail, make sure that they are being treated humanely, and provide a list of attorneys to assist with the Mexican judicial process, the U.S. consul cannot get U.S. citizens released from jail.
Private Islands
There are widely varying politics regarding private islands, for instance islands outside the coast of China cannot be purchased, but only leased from the government with a maximum leasing period of 50 years. Virtually all islands in the world are claimed by the various governments in the world, so the laws of the claiming country would apply and gaining sovereignty would be virtually impossible, but some people still try to set up their own micronations on islands.
Sealand
The Principality of Sealand is a self-proclaimed, unrecognised state (i.e., a micronation[2]) located on HM Fort Roughs, a former Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea 10 km (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England, United Kingdom. Since 1967, the World War II installation has been occupied by former radio broadcaster and former British Army Major Paddy Roy Bates, his associates and his family. Sealand itself claims that it is a sovereign and independent state[3]; but is not recognised as such by any United Nations member country. Critics, as well as court rulings in the United States and in Germany, have claimed that Roughs Tower has always remained in the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom.
Originally posted by admriker444
3. not a member of the UN. Not a member of WTO or any other NWO inspired trade group.
4. independent media with restrictions on ownership (no rupert murdochs please)
6. No restrictions on gun ownership
7. private property rights are guaranteed. None of this domain garbage where the govt snatches your land so a corporation can build a mall
9. english language - not totally necessary for us but my wife and i are too old to go and learn another language honestly.
Originally posted by defcon5
I, personally don’t want to get a national ID, so I have looked into this myself, minus all the other criteria that you listed. Much of what is posted on this thread so far sound like good ideas, but many people don’t realize that there are details that muck up most of them. I’ll give you a few examples here:
I recall hearing a while ago about a country (i believe it was an island nation near Europe somewhere unsure though) that had no private central bank and other things I listed. The article mentioned the place because it had no debt. This was years ago
Originally posted by dAlen
I don’t really get it.
Whats wrong with a national I.D.
That is what your drivers license is.
Originally posted by dAlen
But again, let a cop stop you walking and ask for I.D. they will tell you that you must have some form of identification.