[Nix 2]

If dreams could only come true. If only we had the courage of our forefathers. What do you think?

[MissAmericanPie]

I hope Texas is one of the states they are considering. I believe in a Republic, in the power of the individual states to determine what goes on inside their borders, control their own resources and land.

Texas has it's own port cities, oil, gas, airforce, farming, manufacturing, it is almost a country in itself. I would love to see my state take it's power back from the Fed, and the Fed put in it's proper place in the scheme of things.

[ReaganIsRight]

I don't know about the Georgetown University reference, but WW is a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.

Bill Clinton is a Georgetown product -- BIG difference.

[Plutarch]

This is a libertarian project, isn't it?

Hey, cool man, does that mean I can get all the dope I want?

[Mo1]

Is this for real???

It will never work

[Hostage]

I must admit, this post grabbed me. I don't have much hope though, because its success could be contagious. Hence, those on the losing end would fight it most vociferously, aka the liberal elite.

[Vidalia]

75% of all court actions will be brought by PLAINTIFF'S, or better known as TRIAL ATTORNEYS, suing for anything and everything by the year 2005.

The Titty Enhancement Trials, the Tobacco Trials, the Burger Trials, the Tire Trials, the Air Trials, the Water Trials, the Earth Trials, the Fire Trials, the Thought Process Trials, the Toilet Paper Trials, the Toenail Clipper Trials, and last but not least, the Existance of the Constitution Trials.

Until the attorneys are taken out of congress (small "c" for a reason), by vote or by force ejected and honest businessmen are legally (or whatever it takes) put into those seats, this litigious attitude of "free money" will consume the capitalist notion of "laissez faire" (the hidden hand of the interactive free markets, NOT the government) and relegate this once great country to pure Socialism.

But obviously no one cares, so the wealthy who are not listed in the Forbes or Fortune lists will merely take their billions out of the U.S. markets, create their own, and continue on, regardless of the meaningless myriad crap of "government restrictions or regulations about import...blah, blah, blah, for in the end, all the regs will be worthless jokes in a Socialist Country.

Let's make public the stolen 400 FBI files for all to see, huh?

Is a Tabula Rasa so much to ask for with our (McCain defined) corrupt system?

Let the voter clean house, beginning with the admitted liars and prostituted corrupt bastards like McCain who have repeatedly admitted to being corrupted.

Screw McCain's parsing of the verbiage, he admits to being an accomplice to "dirty deeds", so kick his and all the others' dirty and stinkfestered asses out...

[Consort]

Guyana, USA, the 51st State.

[bankwalker]

Count me in. My home-based business is growing rapidly and will support me wherever I happen to be.

Let freedom ring!

[CPT Clay]

This would be our last resort. Especially if Hillary! wins in '08!!!

[NorseWood]

bump

[Tuor]

If dreams could only come true. If only we had the courage of our forefathers. What do you think?

I think any serious attempt to do this would be crushed a thousand times faster than the Southern Succession and far more brutally as well.

Tuor

[ASDFGHJK]

Yeah, let's do it. Even it makes it easier for them to know where to point the warheads.

[Dagny&Hank]

Unless there really are 20,000 "Free State or "Free Republic" activists who are willing to vote with their feet instead of their mouths and keyboards, this project has the same chance as a Libertarian running for Governor (1% maybe).

I'm afraid this project is just a self-serving attempt by its founder, Jason Sorens, to get other people to do his dissertation research for him. Instead of 20,000 he'll be lucky to find 200 activists to help him with the project. But then 200 or even 20 are enough to do the legwork or keyboard research to help him get his PhD.

At least my comments reflect reality.
TexasForever and Cultural Jihad are merely trolls or worse.

[Nephi]

Free State Project is a great idea, but it will be crippled by its Libertarian leanings.

Libertarians always harken back to the good ol' days of the constitution, but selectively. The Constitution was written by men, inspired by God, to preserve the agency of man for religious and personal expression. The rights of man are a gift from God; the people then loan that power to government.

For Libertarians to cheer in support of the divinely inspired constitution on the one hand and then, argue that society has no right to define "marriage" is an unsettling dichotomy. If one admires the constitution as Libertarians say they do, how can they disregard the example of "family" that God has given them? While the armies of Satan will chant "seperation of church and state" incessantly, a student of the constitution knows that the first ammendment sought not to remove God from government, but government from corrupting the worship of God. Therefore, for them to argue that defining marriage in such narrow heterosexual terms is an example of an over-reaching government overlooks the true nature of our divinely inspired constitution.

Libertarianism doesn't just ignore the original relevence of the constitution, it ignores more recent and relevent history as well. Who can argue that the decline of our nation can't be traced to the Woodrow Wilson presidency? Interestingly, to everyone but free traitors is how our government was funded through tariffs. Wilson gave the government another source of funding to replace the tariffs; control the people through social engineering and to wean the government from its independence born of protectionism - the income tax that Libertarians loathe. Protectionism used to be a hallmark of the Republican party. Protectionism is what made America the world's superpower in a short 150 years. That is why communists have been prosletizing the virtues of "free trade" since before the days of Col. Edward M. House and his puppet president, Wilson.

Ironically, it would be protectionism that would preserve their rebel colony. They will be unable to tax trade from other states for revenue, so the only way they will be able to preserve their independence will be to tax imports. Does the FSP naively believe the federal government won't try to strangle their trade with other states? In order for Libertarianism to gain widespread acceptance they must resolve these contradictions in their professed admiration for the constitution with the communist movement of their lips.

[navigator]

This idea has already been tried.

The state is Idaho and it's not working out as planned.