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[LMNO]

Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

A community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...

EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

A community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...

EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

That somehow makes it even more delicious. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

A community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...

EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

I believe we had a thread about this, gambling on whether or not it was a scam.

[PopeTom]

Isn't that part of the Libertarian paradise though. 

People can do whatever the damn hell I want because there are no regulations.  If there is a disagreement parties solve it via litigation and everyone is happy. 

Unless of course the disagreement is along the lines of 'your product/service killed someone' since you can't litigate someone no longer dead.  Or in a case where the defense has way more money than the prosecution and can just red tape them into bankruptcy/submission.

[Trivial]

http://iiicitadel.com/index.html

Is this real?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://iiicitadel.com/index.html

Is this real?

IIRC, yes.  It is also a scam.

The Central American one was awesomer, though, because their way of keeping creeping liberalism out of their freedom was that you wouldn't be permitted to speak about liberal things.