[jaaron]

That depends on our definition of property rights and sovereignty. You may "own" the land, but you are not sovereign on that land. The larger society, which claimed and defended the land prior to your ownership claims, has sovereignty over it and thus you while within those borders. If you do not wish to abide by the laws of the society, then you cannot claim land within that society's borders without emancipating the land. For better or worse, such rebellions are difficult to pull off.

[wissler]

Your conception is, to pick a metaphor, straight out of "The Matrix." Check your assumptions, you'll find that one of them is wrong, or arbitrary (which is really the same thing).