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| Free Staters missed goal, but movement endures |
| 2007-01-28 |
| By now, 20,000 liberty-minded Americans should have started packing their wagons to head east – to the new frontier of libertarianism in New Hampshire. But more than three years after the Free State Project announced it had chosen the Granite State as its home base for furthering bare-bones government, the movement has fallen way short on membership goals. The group had hoped that by 2006 it would have 20,000 like-minded people pledged to move here. Once that target was reached, the committed masses would have then hauled their families and furniture to New Hampshire, ultimately integrating into state culture and politics. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 :> I've never seen Bloody Kansas and OFS mentioned together. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-28 15:49 |
| #2 #1 Agreed, Boesoeker. There were more than a few Abolitionist families from Upstate New York that went west to "Bloody Kansas" to keep it a Free State. I wish the new Granite Staters the very best of luck and I hope they succeed. |
| Posted by: JDB 2007-01-28 14:56 |
| #1 “For many folks, this is a novel and interesting idea Interesting yes, novel...? Hardly. GEDULD EN MOED (Patience and Courage) Motto of the Oranje Virj Staat (OFS). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-01-28 12:08 |