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Edward Snowden To Keynote This Weekend's Free State Project Liberty Forum (reason.com)
cold fjord writes: Nick Gillespie at Reason is heading to The Free State Project's annual Liberty Forum being held this weekend in Manchester, New Hampshire. One of the highlights and a big draw this year is the keynote address by Edward Snowden via the Internet. Nick Gillespie will be interviewing Edward Snowden. Snowden is also scheduled to answer questions from participants submitted ahead of time. There are already reported to be 2,000 Free State Project members in the state, and reports from Brian Doherty indicate they are already effecting change: "Over 1,900 Free Staters already are there and we've reported here at Reason on some of what they're already accomplished, from getting 15 of their brethren in the state House, challenging anti-ridehail laws, fighting in court for outre religious liberty, winning legal battles over taping cops, being mocked by Colbert for heroically paying off people's parking meters, hosting cool anything goes festivals for libertarians, nullifying pot juries, and inducing occasional pants-wetting absurd paranoia in local statists."
As a NH resident I wish they would all stay home. NH is a nice place, and these idiots are trying to change it to their Libertarian Utopia. Take a look at stopfreekeene.com for how us locals feel about them.
Why don't you name some of the people that went directly to Congress? Off the top of my head I can think of maybe one, and it is acknowledged in his case he was mistreated, but that isn't enough to make a rule, is it? It is also not so simple in that case as I recall the media was involved at points.
You're probably thinking of people that went to the media, and yes, that will end badly in many cases.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Congress can protect whom it wants.
Handing everything over to Wikileaks directly would have been an unmitigated disaster. Doing that would have aided freedom-haters even more than this debacle already has.
Do you make suggestions like this about your new homeland?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell