Sealand?

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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sealand

Does Sealand have the right to exist?

Since these ding-a-lings occupy an otherwise desired spit a land, they are doing no harm to any one. They should be let alone in peace.

Sealand is too small to be nation and just big enough to be an insane asylum.

ruveyn

I thought of Waterworld when I saw this thread, the answer to that would of been an emphatic no.

as i understand it its being used as an ultra secure serverpark at the moment.

only the 5 or so residentys and technicians are allowed out there.

other than that i think anyone has a right to start a country if no one else has laid claim to that particular plot of land (originally sealand was bhought from the british government as far as i know)

It's an old RAF tower built in the sea. It's not a proper nation - it has no land - and no country recognises it.

I'm sure the local armed boat police could easily put a stop to their existence if they wanted to.

I remember, several years ago, The Pirate Bay was interested in purchasing it.

That could get spooky though when the RIAA buys its own country and decides to declare war. I'm sure the movie, music, and app industries have enough cash to blow them back to the Jurassic period.

Waterworld... oh jeez, I'm sorry my thread made that invade your mind even if temporarily



Yeah its an interesting concept, the "micro-nation". There are others in the world as well. Concepts such as "Sea-Steading" https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Seasteading could lead to further growth in this little part of the Human race. As server parks or data centers offshore they can be used to circumvent certain laws of censorship and observation. Unfortunately that can aid some of the wrong people too...



There is no de jure recognition but there has been limited contact which leads some to say it is de facto. But is a nation just real estate or is it people?

reminds me of the movie Utopia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042210/

That could get spooky though when the RIAA buys its own country and decides to declare war. I'm sure the movie, music, and app industries have enough cash to blow them back to the Jurassic period. -Techstep

Very well put. I wish the rest of the world would declare war on the RIAA. Its the Nazi empire at its best.

That and I suppose we could declare it a terrorist organization and freeze its assets worldwide.

Sounds like a plan. Where do we start?

Pirate Bay didn't buy the island, so our objections are fried unless they change their minds.

Someday I plan on purchasing a de-commed deep sea oil rig and declaring independence myself, so of course I recognize Sealand and it's colorful royal family.

I can only imagine Dox having a colorful array of dancing sailors in peculiar colors singing songs in his under water fortress while he smokes a pipe.

That's to bad. Would have been amusing watching the RIAA trying to make a declaration of war on them considering the RIAA acts like its own country already. I can see it now. A bidding war on ebay for the sovereignty of Sealand.

Last edited by Scythe on 10 Oct 2011, 12:49 am, edited 1 time in total.

When I first started to read this thread I thought we where talking about something else