Kingdom of Bahoudii
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| Kingdom of Bahoudii | |
 Flag |  Insignia |
| Motto: Everything for defense, nothing in tribute Musical Anthem: Eternal Father, Strong to Save, by Claude T Smith | |
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| Location: | Lake Charles, Louisiana and Bledsoe, Texas |
| Co-ordinates: | 33°33'44.7300"N 102°53'50.1468"W |
| Area: | 0.08 km2 |
| Capital: | Fort Nassau |
| Membership: | 26 (2010) |
| Date of foundation: | 1999 |
| Leadership: | David Mevis (King David I) |
| Organisational structure: | Absolute monarchy |
| Language: | English |
| Currency: | Monetary Unit (Mu) |
The Kingdom of Bahoudii is a micronation located in the United States.
It was created by David Eugene Mevis (who also uses the pseudonym David Eugene) (born 29 April 1959), an online media politics commentator[1] who stood as an independent candidate in the 2004 US presidential election.[2] Bahoudii consists of Mevis' personal residence in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a 0.08 km2 rural acreage located near the town of Bledsoe, Texas.
According to Mevis, Bahoudii was founded on his birthday in 1976, however this cannot be substantiated. The earliest publicly-accessible evidence of Bahoudii's existence is a website that was first archived in January 1999.[3]
A version of the website that was archived in 2003 asserts that in 1999 Bahoudii decided to purchase and establish a physical presence on an un-named Caribbean island, only to have its plans thwarted when the island "slipped beneath the waves" during Hurricane Floyd.[4]
The same version of the website goes on to detail similar, then-current designs on Bonds Cay, an island in the north-central Bahamas.[5] The interest in Bonds Cay seemingly lapsed in the late 2000s when Mevis purchased the Texas acreage which - as of May 2010 - constitutes the greater part of Bahoudii's putative territory.
A version of Bahoudii's website dating to 2008 stated "The Kingdom of Bahoudii was officially declared on April 29, 1976. The governmental, cultural, and corporate sturcture [sic] is being refined and before the end on [sic] 2007, Bahoudii will rise as the preeminent Putative State in North America, if not the world."[6]
In a personal blog entry dated 24 March 2010, Mevis stated "We want to establish ourselves as a corporate entity, we want to form our own credit union (bank) to control our own financial destinies, we want to provide our own healthcare solutions, we want to provide our own local food solutions, we want to provide our own sustainable fuel needs... And we have 30 years of serious, real-world plans to bring this about." [7] He went on to note that Bahoudii lacked sufficient human and financial capital to realise its ambitions.
References
- ↑ http://blackflagparty.com/home/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,26/ Access date: 06-03-2010
- ↑ http://www.politics1.com/ind04.htm Access date: 05-03-2010
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/bahoudii.hypermart.net/ Access date: 26-04-2010
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030823134848/www.bahoudii.com/kingdom/nationcall.shtmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030823134848/www.bahoudii.com/kingdom/nationcall.shtml Access date: 05-03-2010
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030823134848/www.bahoudii.com/kingdom/nationcall.shtmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030823134848/www.bahoudii.com/kingdom/nationcall.shtml Access date: 05-03-2010
- ↑ http://micronations.eu/forum/index.php?topic=1916.msg7410#msg7410 Access date: 06-03-2010
- ↑ http://www.homelessbob.com/opinion/davidmevis/85--the-road-less-traveled- Access date: 16-05-2010
External links
- Kingdom of Bahoudii website.
- Kingdom of Bahoudii portal.
- Kingdom of Bahoudii blog.
- Bahoudii promotional video from David Mevis' Black Flag Party website.
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