Comments on: Press release

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:25:15 +0000

Hello, Shagy,

Well, I might get a citizenship (probably Slovakia) at some point, for convenience.

How did you become stateless?

By: shagy

shagy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:14:48 +0000

Hi Mike! So could u get ur citizenship.
I am a stateless too. I never had a citizenship and I suffered alot coz of this. Finaly I could come to EU and hope here I will get citizenship after 5 years. Trying to get a legal residence at least.
Good Luck
Shagy

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:19:35 +0000

@Outlaw: Delightful! thanks both for doing that, and for stopping by

By: outlaw

outlaw — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:02:07 +0000

Mike, I blasted your reading of the new libertarian manifesto all over the airwaves…go to my site to hear it…be well

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:21:45 +0000

@Haas: Don’t let the bastards get you down. Thought about starting your own business?

Norwalk, eh? I nearly bought a condo there once. Glad I didn’t; I really had no love for the town.

There’s a book that I keep on my LibraryThing list in the sidebar here called “Shattered Lives”, which details a number of personal stories of tragedy from America’s War on (Some) Drugs. Back in 1999, with the help of the author, I and a friend put together an exhibition at New Haven’s public library that put faces and personal stories to people like you, caught up in the nanny state’s net and having their lives ruined by the drug warriors. It was quite a thing to survey the photographs of 100 families blown apart by these needless arrests and prosecutions, and something altogether more horrible to realize that number could be multiplied by any you’d care to think of, and there’d still be more. The even deeper tragedy, of course, is that few really care.

Good luck.

By: Haas

Haas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:47:39 +0000

Mike,

You have done something I can only dream of…

I despise the United States of America like no other.

Without boring detail, I am a convicted felon (drug poss.; no sales – arrested once in my life).

Since my conviction 16 years ago I have been perpetually unemployed and discriminated against in every possible manner one can think of.

It is human scum such as FBI Special Agent Ivan Crespo, The Norwalk Connecticut Police Department, etc, etc. that ensure I remain relegated to forever suffer a “punishment not commensurate to the crime”.

Unfortunately Mike, I have grown very tired of the “fight” and made a firm decision to leave this life by my own hand.

I only wish I could have acomplished what you have.

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:52:56 +0000

Rado: The suggestion you quote from Casey is a part of PT praxis, without question. Also, I see that he has many articles up at escapeartist.com, a site that at least used to promote the idea (and which influenced me as far back as 10 years ago).

The personal disadvantages issue to being stateless is certainly something I have grappled with in coming to this point, and likely something that I will battle a great deal more in the future. As issues arise, I’ll write about them here. For now, I’m not attempting any travel beyond the Bratislava area, at least until I get my stateless person’s Travel Document.

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By: Rado

Rado — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:10:07 +0000

I don’t think that what Doug Casey recommends is really PT. You don’t have to travel every 6 or so months to avoid taxes. Just spread your assets around the world and be flexible. Stay whereever you like and game the system.

If you just renounce your citizenship, it sends out a message, but you still have to obey the laws of the country where you are located and it will limit your mobility greatly.

The personal disadvantages are too big. The state screws you as a citizen and it screws you even more if you are a non-citizen.

Btw, could you write something about your international mobility as a stateless person?