Since people would individually and voluntarily agree to such rules, they would not be giving up their rights but simply agreeing to the rules of a community that they would be free to leave.
Somalia has truly become a libertarian paradise of a minimal state where "Libertarianism is the view that each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others." The Cato institute describes it as such:
A libertarian society is only a framework for utopia. In such a society, government would respect people’s right to make their own choices in accord with the knowledge available to them. As long as each person respected the rights of others, he would be free to live as he chose. His choice might well involve voluntarily agreeing with others to live in a particular kind of community. Individuals could come together to form communities in which they would agree to abide by certain rules, which might forbid or require particular actions. Since people would individually and voluntarily agree to such rules, they would not be giving up their rights but simply agreeing to the rules of a community that they would be free to leave.
We already have such a framework, of course. In the market process, we can choose from many different goods and services, and many people already choose to live in a particular kind of community. A libertarian society would offer more scope for such choices by leaving most decisions about living arrangements to the individual and the chosen community, rather than government’s imposing everything from an exorbitant tax rate to rules about religious expression and health care. http://www.cato.org/...
Just another day in the Somali libertarian polity freeing itself of government impositions in a free market of competing interests where violent conflict resolution while fraught with collateral damage maintains the decentralized system of warlords it could be labeled anarchy but as an anarchism retains a resemblance to a libertarian state. As so often is the case, the minimal state is a GOP goal and Somalia is often the go-to punch-line when GOP libertarianism is invoked.
Government officials were meeting at the Central Hotel in Somalia's capital when an Islamic extremist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the hotel gate, and another went in and blew himself up, killing at least 10 people on Friday, officials said.
Mogadishu's deputy mayor and a legislator were killed in the attack, a lawmaker said, and the country's deputy prime minister was among the wounded, said a police official.
The attack is the latest blow to the Somali government's efforts to contain the deadly insurgency by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab that, despite the loss of key strongholds in Somalia, continue to stage attacks in the capital and elsewhere. The Islamic insurgent group claimed the responsibility for the twin suicide bombings, according to the group's radio station, Andulus.
"We can confirm that more than 10 persons, including politicians and soldiers were killed in that horrific attack," said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior Somali police officer.
So for example in 2002 the prinicple of decentralization was adopted although the existing warlord system, has endured, and Leeson (2007) argues that Somalia is better off being "stateless" which is of course problematic if one calls it anarchism or libertarianism.
Could anarchy be good for Somalia’s development? If state predation goes unchecked government may not only fail to add to social welfare, but can actually reduce welfare below its level under statelessness. Such was the case with Somalia’s government, which did more harm to its citizens than good. The government’s collapse and subsequent emergence of statelessness opened the opportunity for Somali progress. This paper investigates the impact of anarchy on Somali development. The data suggest that while the state of this development remains low, on nearly all of 18 key indicators that allow pre- and post-stateless welfare comparisons, Somalis are better off under anarchy than they were under government. Renewed vibrancy in critical sectors of Somalia’s economy and public goods in the absence of a predatory state are responsible for this improvement.
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) 2002 -- Somali peace and reconciliation talks Monday entered their third week in Eldoret, western Kenya, hours after the country's 22 faction leaders signed a declaration ending hostilities in the fractured horn of Africa country.
About 800 Somali delegates reportedly burst into song late Sunday after their leaders signed the Declaration of Cessation of Hostilities, which took immediate effect.
A release from Kenya's representatives at the talks and Chair of the six-nation Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) team, Elijah Mwangale, said the declaration was immediately conveyed to all militia groups in Somalia.
In that release, the Chair of the Somali Leaders Committee, Mowlid Mohamed, is quoted as saying the document's signing was a historical event that will bring new hope to Somalis.
Children who were ten years old in 1991 when the Somali civil war broke out, pondered Mohamed, are now 22-year-olds and have hardly known peace in their motherland.
Leaders of Somali factions solemnly undertook to create federal governance structures for Somalia embodied in a charter or constitution.
They endorsed the principle of decentralisation as an integral part of Somalia governance structures.