The President of Liberland received a standing ovation from dozens of US state legislators and senators at the American Legislative Exchange Council meeting in Denver, Colorado
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It is great to be among such distinguished speakers
when i was young i read a book by Frederic Bastiat
i'm wondering if there's anyone in the room who is familiar with ''Law''?
(applause)
for those of you who don't have it I kindly recommend it to you
and the book starts with the words "The Law perverted''.
The law I say, not only perverted from its purpose, but made entirely to contrary purpose.
The law becomes a weapon of every kind of greed. Instead of checking crime
The law itself is guilty of evils it is supposed to punish.
If this is true, it is serious fact and moral duty requires me
to call the attention of my fellow citizens to it.
and when i read those lines when i was 13
i was thinking, now this is something.
This is actually calling me to duty
So i actually invested my life into calling other citizens
to this mission. These first words have radically changed my life
i began my journey to reduce government influence in people's lives
i studied economy, i studied political science, i founded political party
which is now in European parliament, i started publishing.
and i really had hard time understanding why people don't understand
how important is it to have low amount of regulation
and low amount of taxation. If you look into how much does it actually
influences economic growth and prosperity of the people
i actually call this amount of regulation and taxation ''invisible weapons of mass economic destruction''
George Mason University, which is presented here
published a report which calculated how much regulation distorted investment
over the last 30 years, in America. They have come up with
that over the last 30 years, 3 trilion dollars were wasted of the US economy.
just to give it a perspective, that's roughly the size of German economy
This is just the regulation that were enacted after 1980.
It is similar of dropping an atomic bomb to California
and Texas at the same time. Economy in Europe is stagnating
Last year it finally reached 2008 levels, congratulation!
The reason is simple- it's overtaxed and overregulated
EU has enacted 2000 pages of regulations. That's 17
km of paper if you put them in line.
European commission reports that its regulation hampers growth by 3.5 % of GDP
a year. That means that it's actually shrinking by half of its potential
every 20 years. This is how much the exponential works.
It's just 3.5 % a year, and you're destroying half the continent every 20 years
I truly believe if we don't have these economically disastrous policies
we will be already colonizing Mars, visiting Moon.
on a daily basis, running fusion thorium reactors by now.
After so many years advocating this so fiercely, people
started to tell me to start my own country. So i did.
*laugther
Liberland is the freest and youngest country in the world.
between Serbia and Croatia, it was founded on Thomas Jefferson's bday
I did it purposefully
Liberland is hart shaped piece of land.
It is exactly 7 square km.
It was unclaimed by both Serbia and Croatia for more than 25 years.
We are 3rd smallest sovereign country in the world, after Vatican and Monaco.
After 2 years of existence it's got almost half a million people interested in
citizenship of Liberland. It's running 80 representative offices
across some 75 countries.
I'm happy that mr. Holson is representative in Bahamas and Bermuda for us.
I'm glad to have mr. Wozniak and mr. Walls, foreign minister and VP with us
Please give them a hand, it takes courage.
Some media refer Liberland as most ideologically empowered nation
on the Earth. Because we believe in limited government and maximum personal liberty
Our government is allowed to take care of justice, security and diplomacy.
and nothing else. We took those ideas from the founding fathers
of the United states. We want to be good example for others, and tax
paradise on the planet. We believe in voluntary tax system
which is a radical idea, but not new. Let me remind you that was one
of the topics during the foundation of the US. Citizens contribute as
much as they want, and in return they receive a part of the country.
I think that's a much healthy system than what we have today
No matter how many people you kill, how many banks you rob
you still have the same amount of vote as somebody who is
working hard for their country all life.
We have taken the best parts of American and Swiss constitution
and we added a little bit of corporate governance. we believe it is
the best possible governance model in 21st century.
but we're still open minded and we are in process of formation
and if you have an opinion on how a new libertarian country should
be formed, please feel free to approach me.
We have upgraded traditional democratic model, which
inevitably leads to more socialism. Our system is called
double democracy. Corporate structure makes the decision
which can be vetoed by majority of its citizens. Liberland foreign policy
is based on Jefferson's quote- peace, commerce, and honest friendship
with all nations, no entangling alliances.
We do not seek NATO or EU membership. We are not ready yet
to make decision on UN. We plan to build an neutral and sovereign
country opened to anybody. We were surprised by
direct support by Serbia, only 11 days
when small country was established. They essentially said they
don't protest creation of Liberland, which was
again, a surprisingly supportive statement.
We're lucky that Serbia silently supports creation of Liberland
for the last 2 years.
We are also building our friendship with Croatia.
We are working on selling them the idea that this country
can bring them enormous economic prosperity.
as of today we have 60.000 businesses signed up
to be working outside of Liberland. I think that can bring
as much as 1 % of GDP growth to Croatia.
So, why Liberland? I really believe we need a fresh start.
Fighting for the cause in our countries is important. I'still play
an active role in the libertarian part i founded in Czech republic
but i also believe that at some point
it will become to start a new country rather than to change
the existing one. You probably know the systems that we have put
together in our societies, that are difficult to dismantle
you probably know a quote from Ronald Reagan
''nothing is infinitive as government bureau''.
I believe that progress comes through competition
it comes through open markets, but these markets should be
also be opened for new states. Future is
decentralised and stateless. That might be
coming to you as surprising statement, but i'd like to ask you
how many of you have heard about bitcoin?
We've got couple people, it's interesting
This is the future of the finance, we have tasted it a little bit
But i can tell you, that in 15-20 years you will think about
bank buyer as the same way as you think of telegram.
How many of you are sending telegrams?
It is not just about crypto currencies and new financial systems
It's also about decentralized ways we are running our societies
today and it's completely brand new thing, half a year old.
it is possible to run your company on completely decentralized
method, without any jurisdiction. And we are happy that these types
of organizations are already choosing Liberland.
Ethereum today is endorsed by Mastercard, which is a great
breakthrough, again, this is something you could look into.
But Liberland is not just a small piece of land between Serbia
and Croatia. It is about bringing people together in serious support of Liberty.
Liberland is about finding the best social and technological solutions
to allow radically free and prosperous society. It is about
a model that can be copied anywhere on this planet.
We have a long journey to go, but it's the journey that is exciting.
Let me again conclude with the word of Bastiat
''Let's try liberty. Liberty which is an act of faith in God and his work''
Thank you very much.
*applause