The Free State Project

Psychic Burrito writes "From their website: The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S. to secure there a free society. We will accomplish this by first reforming state law, opting out of federal mandates, and finally negotiating directly with the federal government for appropriate political autonomy." Perhaps they should also read Everything: Kansas. I think Don Marti was also the one who thought the geeks should do this by moving en masse to North Dakota.

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Hasn't this been done before?

[El Camino SS]

Now I don't want to jog anyone's memory here, but the last time we had people that wanted to "drop out of the system" was around the 1860s was it not?

Someone please jog my memory about how that plan worked out... I can't remember.

Also, if you want to turn a portion of the US into a "federal free zone" then you will become the new federal crimes enterprise zone and also the federal fugitives haven zone as well, leaving you with a federal crime problem that no one (especially the ones that don't want to *gasp* PAY for a non-regulated police force) to mop up all of the immoral acts that no one is enforcing.

Honestly, just move to the country people. If you mind your own business, most people will leave you alone. But honestly, if this is about the fact that you want to smoke weed, have an issue with pre-ban magazines on assault rifles, or generally just don't want to pay taxes, then I would suggest moving to Afghanistan. You can pretty much do what you want to there. Y'know.

Keep in mind that lawlessness is a great idea.
But only if you're paranoid, self-sufficient, unfriendly, armed to the teeth, healthy enough and disciplined enough to not need high technology, and and don't mind losing a child or two to the occasional resource raid.

Hmmm. WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!?