As the submitter of the story, I just want to make 3 points:
1. Seth Cohn is a prime sponsor of the bill, and a fairly hardcore slashdotter. J'raxis is, like myself, an emeritus Director of Research for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance... and a fairly hardcore slashdotter. Q: What happens when the geeks rule? A: New Hampshire, baby!
2. I learned about the Free State Project right here on slashdot, back in 2003. How cool is that?
3. This is for real. This is not just web slacktivism. This is people taking back control of the government. AND IT'S HAPPENING. If you have a vaguely libertarian bone in your body, you really do owe it to yourself to see what's going on in New Hampshire. I'd strongly recommend coming to the NH Liberty Forum. People come every year, and after the experience, go back to their home states. Just long enough... to pack!
Quoth AC:
Government is bad, blah blah blah. Nevermind that governments are responsible for much of this fundamental research. Through public schools, public institutions and grants. Blah blah blah, shut up
For everyone who fundamentally disagrees with this person, don't bother debating him on the internet. Join the rest of us in Real Life. We're here, waiting to welcome you HOME
Getting myself elected seems contradictory to trying to "overthrow" it, don't you think? Long-term, I'd like it to whither on the vine and die. Nullification, followed by secession, OTOH, I'm pushing for rather strongly. Are either of those "overthrow"? 'cause we're making a lot of progress with the former, so how far off can the latter be...?
As an anarchist, elected official, and member of a vaguely anti-government group, I've often wondered how big the dossier is on me. Either it's large, in which case it documents a whole lot of perfectly legal stuff I'm doing and is just a waste of bureaucrats' time, or it's small or nonexistent, in which case the bureaucrats are fail for missing a guy who you'd think would be on the list.
Somebody mod the parent up. Schiff's predictions have been pretty much dead-on. "Economists" don't always make bad predictions; economists whose theories are based on the flawed "Keynsian" and "Chicago-school" models generally make bad predictions.
Disclaimer; I've invested based on Schiff's projections and made a hell of a great return over the past 3 years.
Many NH residents are welcoming us with open arms -- here is a radio program featuring 2 Free-Staters and a NH native. I personally was elected Selectman of my town; another free-stater had previously held that position. Both of us were well-known as Free-Staters before being elected. Over a dozen Free-Staters have been elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
The FSP is not a secessionist movement -- it is a "big tent" for anyone interested in a government whose maximum role is the protection of life, liberty, and property. What that means in practice is up to each participant to pursue. The idea is simply to pursue all such strategies in a concentrated geographical location, where such efforts may actually bear fruit.
Of course, entrepreneurs and self-starters are always welcome. The Project seems to have self-selected to create a skew towards IT folks who can pretty much work from anywhere.
This is not a fixable problem. Governments are simply not properly incentivized to be able to cope efficiently with large, complex projects. This is part of David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom, essentially an argument for stateless anarco-capitalism. The full text of the book is available as a link off the wikipedia article. Worth a read.
This story reminded my wife of some Soviet propaganda she heard when she was growing up in (what was then) Czechoslovakia, and always stuck with her: "In United States, the spent millions of dollars to design ball-point pen usable in zero gravity. In Soviet Union, we simply used pencil."
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As the submitter of the story, I just want to make 3 points:
1. Seth Cohn is a prime sponsor of the bill, and a fairly hardcore slashdotter. J'raxis is, like myself, an emeritus Director of Research for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance... and a fairly hardcore slashdotter.
Q: What happens when the geeks rule? A: New Hampshire, baby!
2. I learned about the Free State Project right here on slashdot, back in 2003. How cool is that?
3. This is for real. This is not just web slacktivism. This is people taking back control of the government. AND IT'S HAPPENING. If you have a vaguely libertarian bone in your body, you really do owe it to yourself to see what's going on in New Hampshire.
I'd strongly recommend coming to the NH Liberty Forum. People come every year, and after the experience, go back to their home states. Just long enough... to pack!
New Hampshire will be the first to secede.
Mark my words.
Quoth AC:
Government is bad, blah blah blah. Nevermind that governments are responsible for much of this fundamental research. Through public schools, public institutions and grants. Blah blah blah, shut up
For everyone who fundamentally disagrees with this person, don't bother debating him on the internet.
Join the rest of us in Real Life.
We're here, waiting to welcome you HOME
...or, you could fight against the tyranny. Thousands of are are... and we're winning
Take it back!
Getting myself elected seems contradictory to trying to "overthrow" it, don't you think? Long-term, I'd like it to whither on the vine and die. Nullification, followed by secession, OTOH, I'm pushing for rather strongly. Are either of those "overthrow"? 'cause we're making a lot of progress with the former, so how far off can the latter be...?
As an anarchist, elected official, and member of a vaguely anti-government group, I've often wondered how big the dossier is on me. Either it's large, in which case it documents a whole lot of perfectly legal stuff I'm doing and is just a waste of bureaucrats' time, or it's small or nonexistent, in which case the bureaucrats are fail for missing a guy who you'd think would be on the list.
Somebody mod the parent up. Schiff's predictions have been pretty much dead-on. "Economists" don't always make bad predictions; economists whose theories are based on the flawed "Keynsian" and "Chicago-school" models generally make bad predictions. Disclaimer; I've invested based on Schiff's projections and made a hell of a great return over the past 3 years.
Thanks for the DungeonCrawl tip. As if NetCrack weren't bad enough an addiction... ;)
Nethack or GTFO!
... because without government, people would poison the water and kill each other.
Actually, libertarians are actively engaged in creating a State with as little government as possible. ... and it's working
Many NH residents are welcoming us with open arms -- here is a radio program featuring 2 Free-Staters and a NH native. I personally was elected Selectman of my town; another free-stater had previously held that position. Both of us were well-known as Free-Staters before being elected. Over a dozen Free-Staters have been elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
The FSP is not a secessionist movement -- it is a "big tent" for anyone interested in a government whose maximum role is the protection of life, liberty, and property. What that means in practice is up to each participant to pursue. The idea is simply to pursue all such strategies in a concentrated geographical location, where such efforts may actually bear fruit.
However, if secession is your thing:
http://freestateproject.org/intro/states_rights
All I can say to your post... is that you should check my .sig
Care to share the GPS coordinates of that land?
42 56 01N
72 16 41W
We provide what helpful info we can: http://www.freestateproject.org/jobs
Of course, entrepreneurs and self-starters are always welcome. The Project seems to have self-selected to create a skew towards IT folks who can pretty much work from anywhere.
I'd say if you're in Missouri, you should get the hell out while you still can.
End the wars? Privatize social programs? Divest the US of its holdings? Looks to me like you should consider a move to New Hampshire
Accuseth locopuyo:
Oracle is an evil corporation bent on world domination.
Well, I work there, and speaking strictly for myself: No on 1, Yes on 2
20, 50, and 100 years ago, Scientific American would have been the obvious choice. Now, unfortunately, SciAm is the "no-brainer" choice :P
Wars on poverty, social diseases, immigration, and hunger, however....
This is not a fixable problem. Governments are simply not properly incentivized to be able to cope efficiently with large, complex projects. This is part of David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom, essentially an argument for stateless anarco-capitalism. The full text of the book is available as a link off the wikipedia article. Worth a read.
This story reminded my wife of some Soviet propaganda she heard when she was growing up in (what was then) Czechoslovakia, and always stuck with her:
"In United States, the spent millions of dollars to design ball-point pen usable in zero gravity. In Soviet Union, we simply used pencil."