From: "Rich Gauszka" 

We'll know an attack is imminent when Bush declares Sealand a member of the
'Axis of Evil' 


http://www.thelocal.se/6076/20070112/

Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay is planning to buy its own
nation in an attempt to circumvent international copyright laws.

The group has set up a campaign to raise money to buy Sealand, a former
British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a
'micronation', and claims to be outside the jurisdiction of the UK or any
other country.

According to a website set up to secure the purchase of Sealand, The Pirate
Bay plans to give citizenship of the micronation to anyone willing to put
money towards the purchase.

"It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internet
access, no copyright laws and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay," the
organisation claims on its website www.buysealand.com.

The "island" of Sealand, seven miles off the coast of southern
England, was settled in 1967 by an English major, Paddy Roy Bates. Bates
proclaimed Sealand a state, issuing passports and gold and silver Sealand
dollars and declaring himself Prince Roy.

When the British Royal Navy tried to evict Prince Roy in 1968, a judge
ruled that the platform was outside British territorial waters and
therefore beyond government control.

The British government subsequently extended its territorial waters from
three to twelve nautical miles from the coast, which would include Sealand,
but Prince Roy simultaneously extended Sealand's waters, claimed that this
guaranteed Sealand's sovereignty.

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