17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, William Knowles wrote:
Isn't there a microstate off the coast of England called 'Sealand' run from a former oil rig/gun battery for the last 20 years?
Sealand, about which I wrote about on this list before, was an example that should be studied by the offshore advocates. Based in an old oilrig housing platform, some unlucky investors attempted to establish their own country. They began issuing stamps and passports for their "country". As any reasonable person should have expected, nobody would move their mail and nobody recognized their passports. They went bankrupt. -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred