How to own your private country.
I started off life as a nobody. Born of ordinary parents, worked my way through school, wasn’t a jock, or popular, didn’t make waves. Upon graduation, joined the military, made some contacts, learnt some skills, decided I didn’t want to be a soldier and and got out as soon as I could. Went to college, took business classes, learnt more skills, started a business, made money, more than I thought possible. Became rich. Hired skilled people to run my business, enlarge it, made them rich in the process, and became even richer myself without doing any of the work. And in the process, no one knew who I was. I kept a low key image, didn’t become a celebrity. My business wasn’t sexy or glamorous, it was boring, but captured a lot of money which I invested wisely and discreetly. I achieved multi billionaire status. So that was amazing. But I was bored. I wanted to achieve something bigger, be someone greater, albeit discretely and behind the scenes. A mover and shaker, that rich and famous people knew and looked up to. But didn’t brag about publicly. That is my style. It’s worked for me up til now, and I wanted to continue in that, but do something bigger. Like own my own country. Like Cecil John Rhodes. Who? You never heard of him? That’s o.k. He grew up in Britain, was sickly, and came to Africa for his health. Became rich and explored regions of unclaimed land (unclaimed by Europeans) which he settled for himself with his workers and investors and in the process had the area he claimed named after himself - Rhodesia. Now that is what I’m talking about! I wanted to do something big like that. “But that was then, the 1800’s, in the scramble for Africa, you can‘t do that now”. I can hear people saying that. Of course you can. If you have the money, and the balls. And the right people to implement your ideas.
