One man is trying to create a utopia on what he says is unclaimed land between Serbia and Croatia. He's banned from setting foot in his would-be territory, but he has not given up.
The president stared across the water at his country, from which he is exiled.
We were in a boat on the Danube, only a few yards from the territory of Liberland - what he calls the "beloved country".
But we knew that if we tried to disembark, the Croatian river police would arrest us. Patriotism struggled with prudence, and lost.
Liberland is only 7 sq km (2.5 sq miles) of uninhabited marshland. But in the mind of Vit Jedlicka, its first president, it's the fulfilment of the libertarian dream - a land with no compulsory taxes, no gun control, with Bitcoins as currency.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 15 2016, @12:22AM
I'd love to see you try to reasonably explain your claim that "freedom and liberty includes the freedom to hurt people". Such a claim seems like rank propaganda, in addition to a bald-faced lie.
A free person is one which has sole claim of ownership to their body and other property. Any "hurting" done to a free person by anyone else is a trespass against said free peron, though the crime usually goes by other names depending upon the severity of the trespass: battery, fraud, murder, etc.