Why will nobody move to Pitcairn, the Pacific island with free land? | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 61722791 Canada 03/21/2015 12:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Land is free and plentiful, the weather is good and there would be little chance of confrontation with the neighbours. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68333468 Yet almost nobody wants to wants to move to Pitcairn, the tiny Pacific island that was settled by mutineers from HMS Bounty. The population on Britain’s smallest colony has been dwindling for years, and there are now fewer than 50 islanders left. But locals are struggling to find new settlers to follow in the footsteps of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny. Only one application has been received to move to the island, even though the government provides all immigrants with a plot to build their own house and temperatures stay above 62F (17C) all year round. [link to www.telegraph.co.uk] Just need a few Years and we could install the Government we want! |
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Lord_Kayle User ID: 68037780 United States 03/21/2015 12:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | "The island, one of 14 remaining British overseas territories, was tarnished by a child abuse scandal in 2004, when six men were imprisoned for sexual offences, including Steve Christian, the mayor and a descendant of Fletcher." KC_Goldshine "Know guns, no crime. No guns, know crime." - Ralph Lauretano "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms" - Thomas Jefferson "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled." - Mark Twain "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." - Thomas Jefferson "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." - Benjamin Franklin "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Said to be Voltaire, but really - Unknown |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68659105 United States 03/21/2015 12:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tropical sun ensures only melanin-rich populations will be viable there in the long term. Hybrids, such as those who live there now, won't find many desirables in the populations that would be ok to live there. Lily white off-worldlers won't last long. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68644737 United States 03/21/2015 12:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tropical sun ensures only melanin-rich populations will be viable there in the long term. Hybrids, such as those who live there now, won't find many desirables in the populations that would be ok to live there. Lily white off-worldlers won't last long. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68659105 It worked out okay for Fletcher Christian and his team. It's not like a Caribbean beachy island. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 12778753 Czechia 03/21/2015 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here are some panoramio-server photos of the island. "Impressive amounts of trash on the beach" [link to www.panoramio.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 68644737 United States 03/21/2015 01:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It sounded good at first, then I checked the net speed: Supposedly, for the entire population: 10mbps. That means about 0.8 per person using it. Nothing modern will work. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 65981586 Suck it up. At least they have a bit of it. Are ye in are are ye out? The need fresh blood there. |
Base12 User ID: 2217240 United States 03/21/2015 01:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here are some panoramio-server photos of the island. "Impressive amounts of trash on the beach" Quoting: Anonymous Coward 12778753 [link to www.panoramio.com] Christmas 24/7. Visit my website... [link to www.mostholyplace.com] |
Mr Cloudy User ID: 68424186 Portugal 03/21/2015 01:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Something happened there between 2000 and 2004 A bunch of guys tried to take over the island, and got the Assange treatment > false sexual blabla good read, excerpt from [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] The trial was punctuated by legal challenges from island residents, who denied the island's colonial status, and with it the United Kingdom's judicial authority. Defence lawyers for the seven accused men claimed that British sovereignty over the islands was unconstitutional: HMS Bounty mutineers, from whom almost all of the current island population is descended (together with Polynesians), had effectively renounced their British citizenship by committing a capital offence in the burning of the Bounty in 1790, they said. In a symbolic rejection of British rule, islanders still celebrated this act annually by burning an effigy of the Bounty, according to Paul Dacre, the Pitcairn public defender. The defence maintained that the UK never made a formal claim to Pitcairn, and never officially informed the islanders that British legislation, such as the Sexual Offences Act, 1956, was applicable to them. In a judgment delivered on 18 April 2004, the Pitcairn Islands Supreme Court (specially established for the purpose of the trial, consisting of New Zealand judges authorised by the British government) rejected the claim that Pitcairn was not British territory. This decision was upheld in August 2004 by the Pitcairn Court of Appeal,[4] endorsing the claim of Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes that Pitcairn was British territory. A delay of the trial until the United Kingdom's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) decided on an additional appeal was rejected. The trial started on 30 September 2004. On 12 October 2004, the Privy Council agreed to hear the case against British sovereignty on Pitcairn, but refused to suspend the trials pending the outcome of the hearing. It was announced on 18 October that upon being sentenced, the defendants would be freed on bail until the Privy Council ruled on the constitutionality of the trial. If the Privy Council had ruled in favour of the islanders (which constitutional experts considered unlikely), the trial and its conclusions would have been deemed null and void. The hearings before the Privy Council were expected to last two weeks and to be the longest in more than 100 years.[5] Verdicts were delivered on 24 October 2004, with all but one of the defendants convicted on at least some of the charges they were facing. Those found guilty were sentenced on 29 October 2004. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34760435 United States 03/21/2015 01:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If they could get rid of the pedos then I would love to live on the island. It is beautiful there. Pacific Islanders are a weird lot but many are nice once you get to know them. I would like it better if more white people were there but I love island life. |