The Crown Dependency of Forvik

 
Battened Down

Thursday, 02 October 2008 | Stuart

During the one calm day this week I was able to get a short visit to the island at the high tide. I had about two hours to batten down for the winter storms and try to ensure everything is as safe as possible. I anticipate it will not be possible to visit more than a few times during the winter. As...
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Boat retrieved

Monday, 29 September 2008 | Stuart

I was unable to get out to Papa Stour to inspect the boat for another five days. When I did, I found her buried almost to the gunwhales in the sand and broadside to the waves. I spent the day digging out the sand and digging a pond around her so that when the tide came in I could turn her and pull...
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Gratitude

Sunday, 31 August 2008 | Administrator

A Heart Felt Thank You To the rescue services for finding and rescuing me on the night of 14th September and to those involved with the recovery of the boat. The crews of the Aith lifeboat, helicopter Oscar Charly, the Walls coastguard, coastguard co-ordinators and emergency services all...
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The First Gale

Wednesday, 10 September 2008 | Stuart

Posted on the old site on August 25, 2008 The First Gale and House Under WayA good period of fine weather finally broke with a storm from the South West. For most of the time I had been working on the island, winds were from a Northerly quarter, or quite light. I had not seen the South harbour in a...
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The First Building

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 | Stuart

Posted on the old site on August 4, 2008  The First Building Things are progressing well with the house. The floor is laid and protected with polythene sheeting. I leveled the base using small shingle from the beach (taken up with a yoke and two buckets!). I then laid polystyrene foam boards 50mm....
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Building Work Starts

Tuesday, 02 September 2008 | Stuart

Posted on the old site on July 16, 2008 Building Work Starts. Back on the Shetland mainland for a few days holiday, swapping the outdoor life for the computer desk again. The fine weather spell seems to have come to an end and I'm reminded by a local correspondent that some of Shetland's worst...
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Life After The Declaration

Monday, 01 September 2008 | Stuart

Posted on the old site on July 11, 2008 Life after the declaration. Things have settled down a bit after the initial surge of interest, so time to get back to work on the island and start building. On citizenships there are some exciting developments that have delayed...
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Press Releases

Sunday, 31 August 2008 | Administrator

18 March 2008 Press Release: Court Appearance A challenge to the Crown.On 25th March Stuart Hill is set to challenge the authority of the Crown in Shetland by taking the matter to court. Mr. Hill said “The personal...
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    • The Simple Question: When did Shetland become part of Scotland?

     The whole of the UK government's authority in Shetland rests on the assumption that Shetland is part of Scotland. My research over the past 6 years or so into Shetland's unique history leads me to the inescapable conclusion that it never happened - and that it could never have happened.

    If I am right, the implications are simply huge.

    • It means that the government never had the right to appropriate Shetland's seabed and license oil companies to extract the oil.
    • It means they never had the authority to use Shetland's fisheries as a bargaining chip to enter the EEC.
    • It means that Shetland has been subject to a massive fraud perpetrated at the highest level for hundreds of years.
    • It means that Shetland could not have been incorporated into the UK, let alone the EU.
    • It means that Shetland's true status is that of a Crown Dependency with the right to make its own laws, raise its own taxes (if necessary) and do all the things that any offshore island can do.

    This website gives the evidence to prove all these statements.

    To test my ideas, a well-wisher gave me a small island (Forvik). I declared it a Crown Dependency and then spent every penny I had - first to design and build a boat to get access, then to build a house. Forvik is now like Shetland in microcosm. Once the lightbulb went off in my head that Forvik represents the true status of Shetland and that the existing authority is actually an illegal regime, it made it easy to answer questions like 'Is it legal?' - ''Don't you need permission?' and so on.

    Another important aspect of this project is to introduce a new kind of democracy - a system where the people have the power over their elected representatives - to get rid of the liars, thieves and tyrants in government. Forvik's system of democracy will be based on Roger Rothenberger's Beyond Plutocracy and will be the first working example of it in the world. 

    The announcement of the Declaration on June 21st 2008 released a torrent of responses - over 50,000 unique visitors to the website in the first four days and just under 1,000 emails, amongst which there was only one dissenting voice. I obviously touched a nerve. If you would like to be apart of this project, become a citizen, make a donation. What happens in Forvik will ripple out and have world-wide significance that could well affect you.

     


     
     
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