Independent Long Island

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Cesidio Tallini of Floral Park, N.Y., says Long Island should secede from the United States.

FLORAL PARK, N.Y., Sept. 13 — Last month, a 45-year-old bachelor living in his parents’ house here with plenty of online dreams (and no steady offline employment), posted a news release on his Web site announcing, “A New Country Is Born.”

The bottom of the release listed the source of the information as the “governor of Independent Long Island.”

That would-be governor would be the bachelor himself, Cesidio Tallini, who proposes that geographic Long Island — comprising Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau and Suffolk Counties — should secede from the United States and form the sovereign nation of Independent Long Island.

“Long Island’s ridiculously high home prices and property taxes are driving away all our young people, which is a shame because we have the population and the wealth to be a self-sustaining sovereignty, which would streamline government and lower taxes,” he said.

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Mr. Tallini says high-level national intelligence officials oppose his plans and are closely monitoring him. What else, he asks, could explain the recent unexplained periodic cutoffs in his telephone service and broadband connections?

To avoid being sabotaged online, he says, he has has set up an Internet server in Germany, as well as three in Italy, two in Pennsylvania and two in Florida.

In a familiar revolutionary refrain, Mr. Tallini laments that Long Island, with one of the nation’s highest median incomes, pays far more in taxes than it receives in state services.

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For now, he has flirted with naming the new country Paumanok, which was the Native American name for Long Island, meaning “the island that pays tribute.”

“The original Long Island tribes were peaceful, but the outside warlike tribes demanded tributes and payments or else they would attack,” he said. “And to this day, we remain the taxpaying tribe.

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With a combined population of about 7.5 million, the new nation would have more people than 39 states.

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As he put it: “Long Island is the most populated island in the contiguous United States. We’re the 17th most populous island in the world, ahead of Ireland, Sicily and Jamaica. We have all the trappings of a new country.”

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“If we stood up to Uncle Sam, we’d become icons of freedom for the whole planet,” he declared on Thursday, working himself into a patriotic lather at the kitchen table in his parents’ house.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/nyregion/22secede.html

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:rofl:

[pedroh 21]

heeey Tony, twalk to me

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If he secedes from US,....I'd love to see what happens to his sites in PA and FL servers.

[almaty 19]

geeks with dreams..sad