About
Welcome to nostate.com. I’m Mike Gogulski, stateless person.
I live in Bratislava, Slovakia, where I work as a translator, editor and proofreader. My professional activities are detailed on my main website, www.gogulski.com.
I renounced my American citizenship in protest of what has become an American Empire, a nation that I see riding an express train to police state dictatorship with flags flying, anthems blaring and deluded, complicit masses cheering it along the track. Hopefully, others will be motivated to do the same by my example, though I recognize inertia as the most powerful force in human affairs.
My political philosophy — which could be variously termed anarchism, anarcho-capitalism or individualist anarchism — informs this decision, but it is my disgust over what America has become — in bloody, murderous, thieving contrast to what it professes — which motivates it.
I had long imagined myself (as early as 1997) renouncing my citizenshipbondage, but in mid-May 2008 decided to no longer make it conditional on the US government opening its next atrocious act on the world stage. I had told myself as early as 2006 that I would renounce when the US attacked Iran, detonated a nuclear weapon, deployed a bio-weapon, declared martial law, annexed another territory or canceled an election. I became very involved for that reason in watching the news closely for signs that any of those eventualities might be approaching. In doing so, however, I came to the realization that I needed no further justification. America’s record as a domestic and international governmental entity is beyond appalling, and no further reason to denounce it and renounce my association with it was needed. Perhaps I was late in making that impulse a reality.
This website is my sounding board, the chronicle of my journey, my release for the disillusionment and rage that I feel and, perhaps, my support group. Stay tuned.
You can find full contact information for me on my professional site. Instant messaging from people I don’t know will be largely ignored. Flames will be responded to in kind. Donations to the site and to my cause are accepted graciously via my “Support nostate.com” page, my commercial data page, or via the various advertising and affiliate stuff you’ll find around the site. Click for joy; click for love.
Older versions of this page:
- 26 May 2008, About Mike Gogulski, future stateless person
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