Four months ago, we launched Paraguayan permanent residencies at Liberation Travel. We have already been contacted by hundreds of people who are considering canceling their permanent residency from Slovakia/Czech Republic and other countries. Many also consider this service immoral or urge us to change things for the better “in Slovakia” and not to “kidnap” citizens to Paraguay or Panama.

In the following article, I will explain the Liberation Travel mission and why we do it out of conviction and because we want to help people liberate themselves in a real way.

The origins of oppression

Oppression arises when one is in a unilaterally involuntary relationship and is unable to leave it for various reasons (such as financial).

It does not matter if it is an abused wife who, because of her financial or existential dependence on her husband, is unable to leave him. It’s a businessman who, because he can’t afford it, can’t go into business in another free country and therefore has to endure the local tyranny of bureaucrats in the form of nonsensical regulations and high taxes from his overlord.

The tyrant’s husband or local ruler can only afford tyranny in the long run because they are aware that leaving is difficult, expensive, or otherwise complicated.

Businessmen in Slovakia literally allow themselves to be jumped on and accept without grumbling any official hallucination in the form of yet another meaningless obligation or new tax because most of them find it expensive and difficult to do business abroad.
The fact that permanent residents accept mandatory military service, mandatory health, and social security contributions, or the obligation to participate in enforced collectivist actions such as a census or mandatory COVID-19 testing, is because the cost of canceling permanent residency and obtaining new permanent residency in a free country is an expensive, bureaucratic, and complicated process. Most people don’t have the nerve to do it.

The only reason a tyrant can afford tyranny is because of the high cost of leaving (“exit costs”).

The mission of Liberation.Travel

Liberation.Travel’s mission is to reduce exit costs so that the most significant number of people for whom economic and personal freedom is essential can afford to leave.

This does not mean getting rid of the monarch completely – unfortunately, this is no longer possible in today’s world, which is divided into authoritarian states. But you can switch to one that will treat you better. This can be done for any aspect of your life. If you don’t like something, vote with your feet and go to those who treat you better.

Leaving as the ultimate solution.

In my article “A Voter’s Remorse: The Power of the Vote and the Power of Leaving,” I discuss the importance of “walking away” when you’re unhappy with something in more detail.
To argue that it is immoral to use all global legal options to minimize state oppression is absurd. Indeed, morality does not exist in the case of a state that criminalizes people for new victimless crimes with its monopoly on violence.
For the state, there is only legality, i.e., the law.

And you, as a human being, can (and should) use all legal mechanisms to reduce your oppression.

Just as customers’ departure should be seen as a warning signal to a company that something is wrong, the state should see the departure of residents from the country as a signal that it does not see its residents (especially tax residents) as good clients and is not providing adequate service for the given money. On the contrary, it overwhelms them with extra obligations that do not exist with competitors.

At Liberation Travel, we believe in the power of “opt-out” as a solution to minimize oppression. We are happy to guide you to those who will treat you better.