New Hampshire's State House is harboring a festering variant — one for which we desperately need a vaccine. I'm not talking about Omicron, nor its sub-variant BA-2. Our state government has been infiltrated by an alien cancer known as the Free State Project.
For 20 years, Free Staters have been moving to New Hampshire "from away" with every intention of altering the cultural and political landscape to suit some warped idea of libertarianism to which they profess to subscribe. I've said it before: The Free Staters are the folks giving libertarians a bad name.
Excellent responses by LiveFreeOrDie and LegalRefugee. Couldn't have said it any better myself. I hope the Daily Sun's columnist takes the time to get to know some Free Staters and libertarians, and taps into her own desire and love for freedom. It's in all of us, however buried in some.
This was clearly what we call in the business a "hit piece" and frankly not a very good one. Any intelligent reader will realize that this author did not address in substance ANY positions held by Free Staters that run contrary to general libertarian ideals. People should be thanking Free Staters for getting involved and for trying to make positive change for the quality of life in NH. The only issue this childish author seems to focus on is the issue of secession. I suggest anyone reading this to actually look up the surveys across the whole country on this issue. You will be shocked to see just how high the percent of people is that support a national divorce. This isn't a Free State Project matter. This isn't even a right-leaning R matter. It crosses party affiliation. And the issue isn't going away, never. Once it became clear that governmental powers can and will on their whim shut your business down, close your schools, delete your finances and bank account, delete you from social media and convert every right enshrined in our constitution to a "maybe" privilage you can ask for - if you behave of course - a new movement was set in motion and is now in high gear. This is happening whether this childish author wants to face it or not and not just in NH.
Free Staters tend to be louder and more committed exactly because they understand the problems we are facing and they are no longer willing to play stupid games. Haven't we all had enough of stupid prizes?
Have you ever met a Free Stater? Had a conversation with one? Because you seem to be completely clueless about us.
For one thing, few if any of us were fond of Trump. I proudly voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and for Jo Jorgensen in 2020. I am no more attracted to the tyrants on the right than I am to the tyrants on the left.
What I want is freedom, which is why I moved to the Live Free Or Die [ fighting ] state over 10 years ago.
Do I want to escape from the US government? ABSOLUTELY! The US government has done nothing but bleed the people dry to pay for endless, pointless wars and corporate welfare. They have propped up their endless attacks on freedom with lie after lie after lie ... spending most of their time, when they are not making war on foreign nations, making war on their own people, with their insane and racist war on drugs, their nasty habit of shooting innocent people in the street for no apparent reason, and their constant encroachments on our right to speak freely, to make our own decisions, an to control our own bodies.
I am pro-choice, but unlike "pro-choice" leftists, I REALLY BELIEVE in "MY BODY MY CHOICE". Of course the right to abortion is important ... too many women -- and men -- throughout history have been trapped in poverty and hopelessness by their inability to control their own reproduction ... but that is not the only right that we have over our own bodies ... we also have the right to make our own medical decisions, whether that means choosing for ourselves to treat our PTSD with MDMA, or our alcoholism /drug addiction with Mushrooms ... both of which have been done with great success at John's Hopkins.
And we also have the right to make our own economic decisions. The government could end homelessness overnight, simply by ceasing to cause it. They could get up off the millions of acres of land that they hold for no purpose, and allow people to homestead. That's all it would take. Once people had a piece of land on which to pitch a tent, the next step would be to start a massive "habitat for humanity" program, not just building houses for people, but teaching them what they need to know to help their neighbors, and to earn money once the immediate crisis is past.
But the government always works to enrich the rich, while further impoverishing the poor. Sure, they sent us $1200 at the start of the pandemic ( which they may well have caused ), but at the same time they did so, they sent 3 trillion dollars in corporate welfare to their cronies. Do the math:
Three Trillion dollars divided by Three Hundred Million Americans is 10,000 dollars per person that they handed out to make the rich richer, while returning to the people only a small fraction of that.
I hope that you will take the time to get to know a Free Stater. I would be delighted to buy you a cup of coffee any time you are in Keene, or perhaps when I visit my girl in the north country. I think that if you approached us with an open mind, you would quickly learn that we are not at all what you think we are.
And if, after that, you choose to remain enslaved by the government, I will quote Thomas Paine by way of farewell .... may your chains sit lightly upon you, and may history forget that ye were our countrymen.
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Excellent responses by LiveFreeOrDie and LegalRefugee. Couldn't have said it any better myself. I hope the Daily Sun's columnist takes the time to get to know some Free Staters and libertarians, and taps into her own desire and love for freedom. It's in all of us, however buried in some.
This was clearly what we call in the business a "hit piece" and frankly not a very good one. Any intelligent reader will realize that this author did not address in substance ANY positions held by Free Staters that run contrary to general libertarian ideals. People should be thanking Free Staters for getting involved and for trying to make positive change for the quality of life in NH. The only issue this childish author seems to focus on is the issue of secession. I suggest anyone reading this to actually look up the surveys across the whole country on this issue. You will be shocked to see just how high the percent of people is that support a national divorce. This isn't a Free State Project matter. This isn't even a right-leaning R matter. It crosses party affiliation. And the issue isn't going away, never. Once it became clear that governmental powers can and will on their whim shut your business down, close your schools, delete your finances and bank account, delete you from social media and convert every right enshrined in our constitution to a "maybe" privilage you can ask for - if you behave of course - a new movement was set in motion and is now in high gear. This is happening whether this childish author wants to face it or not and not just in NH.
Free Staters tend to be louder and more committed exactly because they understand the problems we are facing and they are no longer willing to play stupid games. Haven't we all had enough of stupid prizes?
Have you ever met a Free Stater? Had a conversation with one? Because you seem to be completely clueless about us.
For one thing, few if any of us were fond of Trump. I proudly voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and for Jo Jorgensen in 2020. I am no more attracted to the tyrants on the right than I am to the tyrants on the left.
What I want is freedom, which is why I moved to the Live Free Or Die [ fighting ] state over 10 years ago.
Do I want to escape from the US government? ABSOLUTELY! The US government has done nothing but bleed the people dry to pay for endless, pointless wars and corporate welfare. They have propped up their endless attacks on freedom with lie after lie after lie ... spending most of their time, when they are not making war on foreign nations, making war on their own people, with their insane and racist war on drugs, their nasty habit of shooting innocent people in the street for no apparent reason, and their constant encroachments on our right to speak freely, to make our own decisions, an to control our own bodies.
I am pro-choice, but unlike "pro-choice" leftists, I REALLY BELIEVE in "MY BODY MY CHOICE". Of course the right to abortion is important ... too many women -- and men -- throughout history have been trapped in poverty and hopelessness by their inability to control their own reproduction ... but that is not the only right that we have over our own bodies ... we also have the right to make our own medical decisions, whether that means choosing for ourselves to treat our PTSD with MDMA, or our alcoholism /drug addiction with Mushrooms ... both of which have been done with great success at John's Hopkins.
And we also have the right to make our own economic decisions. The government could end homelessness overnight, simply by ceasing to cause it. They could get up off the millions of acres of land that they hold for no purpose, and allow people to homestead. That's all it would take. Once people had a piece of land on which to pitch a tent, the next step would be to start a massive "habitat for humanity" program, not just building houses for people, but teaching them what they need to know to help their neighbors, and to earn money once the immediate crisis is past.
But the government always works to enrich the rich, while further impoverishing the poor. Sure, they sent us $1200 at the start of the pandemic ( which they may well have caused ), but at the same time they did so, they sent 3 trillion dollars in corporate welfare to their cronies. Do the math:
Three Trillion dollars divided by Three Hundred Million Americans is 10,000 dollars per person that they handed out to make the rich richer, while returning to the people only a small fraction of that.
I hope that you will take the time to get to know a Free Stater. I would be delighted to buy you a cup of coffee any time you are in Keene, or perhaps when I visit my girl in the north country. I think that if you approached us with an open mind, you would quickly learn that we are not at all what you think we are.
And if, after that, you choose to remain enslaved by the government, I will quote Thomas Paine by way of farewell .... may your chains sit lightly upon you, and may history forget that ye were our countrymen.
Every voter in New Hampshire should read this.
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