Comments on: Tynan Island

By: will powers

will powers — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:12:00 +0000

you are basically talking about building Galts Gulch. did you ever finish reading atlas shrugged? you could totally do it, but if it was successful you would need a badass army and at least 1 gunship. but if you are rich, this shouldnt be a problem. i have dreamed of this ever since reading atlas shrugged, so if you ever do this i am going to sell everything i have and come join ya’ll – fair warning, i want in, bad!

by the way i love your recent post “persistence alone”, its a great quote. everyone i know tells me i am genius and i have always wondered why i am freakin broke. anyway your post inspired to me start writing again, i’ll send you a copy of my book when i am done. enjoy japan!

By: Chris Spring

Chris Spring — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:42:44 +0000

It appears that someone has already thought of your plan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tynan

By: Patrick Shields

Patrick Shields — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:25:50 +0000

Awesome idea. I have been thinking about something like this, but 200-300 acres with no room for expansion seems too small for the kind of country I’m thinking of.

My idea was to buy several hundred acres in the middle of America and declare independence (and stop paying taxes)… As long as you’re totally peaceful, how can the government initiate force against us? I would have a major online presence so that our sympathizers could protest against the initiation of force by the government.

By: Tynan

Tynan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:25:16 +0000

Elai: The hard part would be separating from the government. Luckily, Panama’s government would be compatible enough with mine that it wouldn’t be a big problem.

There are no income taxes on foreign (internet) earned income, no property taxes in 20 years (after which we might be able to go independent, especially since Panama has no army), property rights are so good that you can shoot people who trespass.

So really, it would be more like a neighborhood with neighborhood covenants, but it could be run like a country. Some rules would be technically against theirs (drugs being legal, no speed limit on the road), but these would go unenforced.

I wouldn’t worry about those invasions. They don’t happen now on private islands. Why would they happen on mine?

Tynan

By: elai

elai — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:43:58 +0000

Also who owns the ocean around the island? How about dumping/runoff in that case?

By: elai

elai — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:40:32 +0000

The big problem I find with this is that your 99.99% likely going to be under an other governments jurisdiction. How are you going to deal w/ that other than “hope” they’ll leave you alone (which they wont once they realize rich gringos are there). And I know they wont easily just “give up” rights to the island to you, although that would be totally awesome if you negotiated a contract to do so.

Also how are you going to deal with invasions by drug lord armies, pirates & mercenary armies? Guys with automatic machine guns, artillery and really bad attitudes. Wouldn’t you think they would like their own autonomous drug lord island?

By: Tynan

Tynan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:59:25 +0000

Sig: Of course!

Tynan

By: Tynan

Tynan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:59:00 +0000

Chris,

That hypothetical person would commit the same crime anywhere. He’s obviously not concerned with legality, so he’d just buy a black market gun.

However, Tynan Island would be best protected because MANY residents would have guns, so he would be placing himself in great danger.

Tynan

By: chris spring

chris spring — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:05:26 +0000

so you could kill someone with your legal gun and just get removed from the island, hmmm. what if that person wont leave the island and just goes on a killing rampage?

By: Cheyenne Morrison

Cheyenne Morrison — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:23:52 +0000

Hi great idea, for more stories about private islands see The Private Islands Blog …

http://private-islands.blogspot.com