Freestate project - Island for sale

[tangent4ronpaul]

The US Gvmt is getting ready to sell a 840 acre island located 1.5 miles offshore. It comes complete with buildings, a lighthouse and a ferry docking facility.

What a GREAT OPPORTUNITY!

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/piadc/k8821-11i.jpg

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/images/plum_is_01a.gif

http://cryptome.org/0001/gsa031810.htm

:D

-t

[dr. hfn]

the Free Staters should pull their money and buy this.

[jkr]

dangerous animal diseases?




ITS MONSTER ISLAND!

[FrankRep]

the Free Staters should pull their money and buy this.

There ya go. A Libertarian Paradise.

[tangent4ronpaul]

the Free Staters should pull their money and buy this.

It's an april fools joke - yes, the Island is really going to be for sale, but do a Google to find out what that island is....

:D

-t

[moostraks]

It's an april fools joke - yes, the Island is really going to be for sale, but do a Google to find out what that island is....

:D

-t

lol...figured as much when I saw plum island. Talk about not just NO!:D:p

[tpreitzel]

Hummm... Moving operations to Manhattan, KS, right in the middle of the US.

BTW, I didn't realize that a Bio-Level 4 facility was being planned for Hamilton, MT.

[Erazmus]

dangerous animal diseases?




ITS MONSTER ISLAND!

http://ongoingworlds.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/jurassic-park.jpg

[moostraks]

Hummm... Moving operations to Manhattan, KS, right in the middle of the US.

Ugh...I had to check you as I did not believe that could do that!!! Looks like it was blocked several times by GAO.

http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639

And they just don't care.

"In late July 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a unit of the U.S. Congress, declared as unsafe the relocation of Plum Island Animal Disease Center located off the northern tip of Long Island, New York, to anywhere on the mainland United States. (1-2) The GAO’s first similar declaration on the matter was May 22, 2008. (3)"

http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS

"The Kansas facility would be located near Kansas State University's Manhattan campus. Construction would take about five years, and it would take about three years to close the Plum Island lab and transfer the operations, according to the Homeland Security Department Web site."

[Anti Federalist]

This where they were going to send Hannibal Lecter.

"How nice, Anthrax Island"

Been past it many times.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Ugh...I had to check you as I did not believe that could do that!!! Looks like it was blocked several times by GAO.

http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639

And they just don't care.

"In late July 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a unit of the U.S. Congress, declared as unsafe the relocation of Plum Island Animal Disease Center located off the northern tip of Long Island, New York, to anywhere on the mainland United States. (1-2) The GAO’s first similar declaration on the matter was May 22, 2008. (3)"

http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS

"The Kansas facility would be located near Kansas State University's Manhattan campus. Construction would take about five years, and it would take about three years to close the Plum Island lab and transfer the operations, according to the Homeland Security Department Web site."

These are the same brainchilds that thought building a level 4 BioWarfare lab below sea level in New Orleans was a good idea...

Doesn't surprise me at all. We are talking about the US Gvmt here...

-t

[tangent4ronpaul]

This where they were going to send Hannibal Lecter.

"How nice, Anthrax Island"

Been past it many times.

Wrong Island - but that would have been a better location for what Plum Island does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/magazine/anthrax-island.html?pagewanted=1

Anthrax Island
By Christopher Pala
Published: January 12, 2003

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In one of the most remote spots on earth, a desiccated island in the Aral Sea, lie the remains of the world's largest biological-warfare testing ground. Since Russia abandoned Vozrozhdeniye Island in 1992 to its new owners, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it has remained uninhabited, its laboratory complex deserted by all but the Kazakh scavengers who pilfer its parts.

The island was briefly used as a bioweapons testing range in the 1930's and then abandoned until 1954. Stalin, having caught up with the United States in nuclear weapons, had decided he was ready to return to biological ones. The Soviets planned to load their germs onto missiles and bombs; on Vozrozhdeniye Island, they concentrated on making them ever more deadly.

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[Anti Federalist]

Figures the Russians would have one too.

Plum Island is colloquially referred to by mariners and locals in the area as "Anthrax Island" as well.


Wrong Island - but that would have been a better location for what Plum Island does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/magazine/anthrax-island.html?pagewanted=1

Anthrax Island
By Christopher Pala
Published: January 12, 2003

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In one of the most remote spots on earth, a desiccated island in the Aral Sea, lie the remains of the world's largest biological-warfare testing ground. Since Russia abandoned Vozrozhdeniye Island in 1992 to its new owners, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it has remained uninhabited, its laboratory complex deserted by all but the Kazakh scavengers who pilfer its parts.

The island was briefly used as a bioweapons testing range in the 1930's and then abandoned until 1954. Stalin, having caught up with the United States in nuclear weapons, had decided he was ready to return to biological ones. The Soviets planned to load their germs onto missiles and bombs; on Vozrozhdeniye Island, they concentrated on making them ever more deadly.

[...]

-t

[Matt Collins]

http://www.privateislandsonline.com
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/06/36749
http://www.sealandgov.org/
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/01/the_pirate_bay_/

[Matt Collins]

Wired Article: Libertarian oasis feat. Milton Friedman's grandson (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=176931&highlight=island)

[tpreitzel]

Ugh...I had to check you as I did not believe that could do that!!! Looks like it was blocked several times by GAO.

[/URL]http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639 (http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639)

And they just don't care.

"In late July 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a unit of the U.S. Congress, declared as unsafe the relocation of Plum Island Animal Disease Center located off the northern tip of Long Island, New York, to anywhere on the mainland United States. (1-2) The GAO’s first similar declaration on the matter was May 22, 2008. (3)"

[URL]http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS (http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS)

"The Kansas facility would be located near Kansas State University's Manhattan campus. Construction would take about five years, and it would take about three years to close the Plum Island lab and transfer the operations, according to the Homeland Security Department Web site."

Apparently, the joke's on us. The Majestic 12 must be running our country, the 12 Monkeys that is.

An analysis of the geographical placement of these Biological Warfare Laboratories might be instructive.

[Vessol]

Islands are overrated. Much more sensitive biomes. For all the farming, building, and such we would need, it wouldn't suit our needs. :P

[Old Ducker]

Plum Island is one of the suspected locations of Captain Kidd's treasure. The sale of the island, if it happens, will probably spur some explorations.

[fisharmor]

Well, ok, but how much do they want for it?

[RCA]

YouTube - Very Nice, How Much? - Borat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT7bhJTkAs)

[Tenbatsu]

I do not think they have listed a price yet. I'm sure the price will be steep and well out of our range collectively.

Arable land will be hard to come by and natural energy sources like tidal and wind are incredibly expensive. Still the thought of a liberty oriented island has always intrigued me.

[tangent4ronpaul]

blimp

[tangent4ronpaul]

Dang, active today....

-t

[Promontorium]

Free Staters wouldn't be the target market. They want all of New Hampshire, one little island is small potatoes.

Besides, the Montauk Monster came from there. Who wants that threatening their liberty?

[tangent4ronpaul]

Ugh...I had to check you as I did not believe that could do that!!! Looks like it was blocked several times by GAO.

http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=639

And they just don't care.

"In late July 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a unit of the U.S. Congress, declared as unsafe the relocation of Plum Island Animal Disease Center located off the northern tip of Long Island, New York, to anywhere on the mainland United States. (1-2) The GAO’s first similar declaration on the matter was May 22, 2008. (3)"

http://www.theday.com/article/20100319/NWS01/303199856/-1/NWS

"The Kansas facility would be located near Kansas State University's Manhattan campus. Construction would take about five years, and it would take about three years to close the Plum Island lab and transfer the operations, according to the Homeland Security Department Web site."

This thread was an April fools joke, but turned serious at post #9 (quoted above), I wrote Dr Paul about this issue asking him to try stoping the relocation of this lab. I would encourage all forum members to contact their congress critters to ask the same. This is something we can probably stop.

thanks,

-t

[Icymudpuppy]

I'd buy it. Fire cures disease. I would torch the whole island to Purify it. Then replant.

[RM918]

Off the coast of long island? No thanks, man. If I move to an island, it's going to be somewhere nice and warm in the Caribbean or the Pacific. Hate the climate around here.

[Jeremy]

I remember Plum island. They tested bio-weapons there or something.

[dr. hfn]

how much?!!???!

[Matt Collins]

Off the coast of long island? No thanks, man. If I move to an island, it's going to be somewhere nice and warm in the Caribbean or the Pacific. Hate the climate around here.I agree. Why would you want to be near a disease infested scum ridden filthy cesspool of a place such as Long Island? ;):p


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[tangent4ronpaul]

I agree. Why would you want to be near a disease infested scum ridden filthy cesspool of a place such as Long Island? ;):p


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ROTFLMAO!

-t