MSU graduate living in ocean has desperate plea: Thai government 'wants us killed'

[TexasTowelie]

A few days ago, Chad Elwartowski made a desperate social media plea.

In all caps, the Michigan native wrote on Facebook: “PLEASE SHARE THIS POST OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT,” followed by a complex narrative about how he and his Thai girlfriend came to face high drama on the high seas.

Elwartowski — who grew up in Tecumseh, attended Michigan State University and became involved with Bitcoin cryptocurrency — said he is on the run from the Thai government, which, he wrote Tuesday on Facebook, “wants us killed.”

The reason, he said, is because he and his girlfriend — Supranee Thepdet — have been living on a seastead, a house in the ocean near Thailand, and the Thai government considers them a threat to national security.

Read more: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/04/19/seastead-chad-elwartowski-thailand-bitcoin/3518043002/


A floating dwelling, 12 nautical miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand, is part of a controversy involving a Michigan native and his girlfriend. (Photo: Royal Thai Navy)

[pnwmom]

1. Since we claim 200 nautical miles off our own coasts for our economic zones,

I don't know how we could support this couple's setting up this permanent home only 12 miles off the coast of Thailand.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Alternate headline: Libertarian Bitcoin entrepreneur wants society's help.

As a libertarian, I need nobody. Until I do.

Maybe he should call his congressman.

[rampartc]

4. you got in as i was writing my reply

but this libertarian dream extends to space as well. if something goes wrong on some privatized asteroid mine or mars colony who will they expect to rescue them?

[rampartc]

3. welllll

adam and eve seem to have found a taxless paradise for his bitcoin billions, but i wonder .....

1. they obviously require regular supply boats for the champaigne.
2. there are pirates on those waters. who will protect them?
3. they have no boat? there are typhoons and tsunamis.
4. there is not a lot of room in there. when this honeymoon is over ...........
5. how are we supposed to protect him from the thais? maybe he should have cleared that first before his whining little non taxpaying libertarian ass moved into their neighborhood.

etc etc etc