I am still young yet and already working on things. And it doesnt take that long to make money.

Agreed, but I'm thinking more about smaller, local, practical matters that would directly affect the usurpers.

A few here have already broached the subject of money. A bunch of counter-culturalists (for lack of a better term) arean't likely to have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal to throw into such a project. Well, then...how do they even go about establishing residency on the relative cheap?

Well, they could pool their money to buy land for an IC in the county of choice, and members joining the group subsequently would have a guaranteed place to go, and stay, in order to establish legal residency. Do they remain at the initial IC after establishing voter eligibility, or are they compelled to move out and establish another IC within the county?

What about property taxes? Unless everyone agrees to move to one of the municipalities in Alaska that doesn't levy property taxes, they are a definite reality. A group could overcome that if they agree to form some sort of non-profit or a church, and receive tax-exempt status from the IRS but that in itself would require establishing a bona fide purpose or something that actually resembles a religion and that, in turn, means putting by-laws down in writing.

Again, on the matter fo property taxes, they will be necessary for the day-to-day function of the county. You pretty much have to have a Sheriff's Department, and that means a budget for salaries, equipment, vehicles, an office, training, certifications... The state government isn't going to allow just anybody to pin on a badge and strap on a gun and play Gunsmoke--there are legalities to consider and minimum standards to meet to The Man off our backs. Minimum wage is established by law; personally, I'd be more than happy to step into the role of Sheriff or Chief Deputy for minimum wage in a small, rural, well-behaved community just because of the perks, like being able to able to go visit Cali, or Mass., or NYC strapped CCW with a Para-14 and hi-cap mags, or buying a full set of Crye body armour, or attending certain tactical schools that are closed-door to civilians, or a bunch of other cool shit, but how many others in the group will do the same?

Then, there's the rest of the county infrastructure to consider: roads, schools, hospitals, fire department, utilities... Do we gradually eliminate them via the voting process? Do we keep some and not the others? Which ones? Do our decisions conflict with state law to such a degree that we would receive unwanted attention from larger and more powerful authorities than ourselves who will surely insert themselves into our lives? What do we do about the people who already live in that county who may want or need some or all of that infrastructure? Run them out using eminent domain seizures? Constantly piss them off at the ballot box just because we have the numbers? Network with them and try to show them what we're all about and what we're hoping to accomplish, hoping they'll be amenable? Do we just silently rule them from the shadows, taxing them to subsidise our lifestyle and secrecy?

What form of government will we have at the county level? I don't much like rules, myself, but it's simply a reality that some form of regulation would be necessary. If we're anarchists within our own little county then fellow counter-culturalists arriving with little or nothing may feel inclined to simply "appropriate" the personal property of CCs who have more; or they may "appropriate" some piece of communal property and use it illicitly or to the detriment of the group. Are we one big, happy IC within the county; or are we a network of smaller ICs in the same county; or do we try to make the whole county our IC?

Are we survivalists like the kind from the early '80s, building underground blast shelters and stocking up on machineguns and M.R.E.s, waiting for the big one; or are we pacifistic, tree-hugging, vegans? No offense to you pacifistic, tree-hugging, vegans. Are we something in the middle, or something entirely different?

What do we do about money for the entire group? For individuals? Criminal backgrounds? Chemical dependencies? Mental illnesses? Jobs and industry? Are we working outside as individuals and bringing that income back to shave with the group? A percentage of it? ...Because, then were into the area of an additional income tax. Do we all take a vow of poverty? Do we foster small cottage industries within our enclave, or do we create one larger industry like the Hetterites do with communal agriculture? What do we do with a person who embezzles group funds? What do we do with people who want to live in our world but are too lazy to contribute? What do we do with egocentrists who may become pissed of if a group decision doesn't go their way and they decide to go to The Man with evidence about illegal activities that are sanctioned or conducted by the group?

If we're all living off the land with no real source of income, what do we do when someone has an accident and needs to have a hand reattached surgically, or suffers a permanently debilitating injury? Do we forbid SUVs? Is vehicle selection a personal matter, or a group decision? What do we do if two or more members have a personal disagreement that can't be resolved peacefully? Put them in the Thunderdome? Rapiers under the Code Duello? Is there capital punishment? Corporal punishment? No punishment at all for anything no matter what? What do if a bunch of skinheads and a bunch of anybody the skinheads will hate both want to move in? What do we do if the skinhead group happens to possess valuable skill-sets and the (insert your favourite minority group here) have nothing to offer? What do we do about other, less overt racial bias?

What do we do about arriving at a decision through concensus when a minority who have considerable experience in a given matter are out-voted by a majority who really shouldn't have been allowed to participate in the concensus-making at all because they have no knowledge or experience in said matter? What do we do about members of the community who are just plain stupid and should really never be allowed to have a say in any policy-making decision at all...ever?

What about polygamy? Polygyny? Polyandry? Or both? Age of consent for marriage? Age of consent for sex? Arranged marriages? Indentured servitude? Are we Constitutionally-based or not? If so, to what extent? Original Constitution with just the first ten amendments? Others? Which ones? Are we a red-blooded, flag-waving patriot group hangin' out with the Minutemen, or are we helping Mexicans and Guatemalans sneak across the border? Or do we not participate either way? What do we do if someone from our group does participate, one way or the other, and it causes problems for the rest of us? What about all the miscellaneous sexualities out there today? What do we do if we have fundamentalist Christian members and homosexual members who agree to get along and stay out of each others' business as far as sexuality goes, but then the homosexuals throw their own little gay pride parade to celebrate Stonewall, complete with assless leather pants and public screwing? What do we do about STDs considering that, in the long term, we'll probably be inter-marrying or, at least, several of us will be screwing several other of us? Are we all taking full panels, including Western blot tests, before we join or are allowed to join? Is it a non-issue? If it is an issue, what do we do if someone goes outside of the community, contracts HIV or herpes, and brings it back to the group? What kind of sexual morality, if any, will we establish and maintain to prevent something like this from happening? What do we do if it happens anyway? What do we do with a group member who is infected through no fault of their own by another who violated whatever rules agreed upon by the group? Adultery? Rape? Blood transfusions?

Are children the children of their own parents, or are they now wards of the group as a whole? What if someone maintains their own traditional or fundamentalist religious beliefs, but those beliefs somehow violate the laws or spirit of the group? What if we all agree to a communal property standard, and a member who still legally owns an important piece of machinery decides he or she isn't happy here and wants to leave, and take his or her toy with him or her? What do we do if we are using the services of someone outside the group, like a the Amish do with renting refrigerator space for blocks for their ice boxes, and that outsider stiffs us? What if we didn't have a contract and have no legal standing? Which holidays do we celebrate? Which ones do we not? What if someone openly celebrates a holiday that really pisses someone else off? What about public nudity? Sure, Kaya is hot...but I'm sure that there will be some people in the IC that no one wants to see naked.

Do we have a militia for common defence? An emergency response team for...well...emergencies? Who is in charge? How are they organised? Are they even organised? How technological are we as a group? Are we like the Amish? The Hetterites? Cave men? Something else? To each his own? What if someone who is completely low-tech wants to use the personal property of someone who's more technology-based but the hi-techie doesn't want to share? What if the lo-techie barters some labour for tech use and decides not to fulfil his contract? Will we have contracts? Will we use any official currency among ourselves? Which nation's? Who is allowed to move into the county? Who do we keep out? To what lengths will we go to keep them out?