Libertarians Look for a State to Call Their Own. (Free State Project)

The Everett Herald (WA) | 2/23/2003 | reprint from the Baltimore Sun

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Plans are under way for an invasion of New Hampshire. Or Wyoming. Or maybe Delaware, Montana or Alaska. Sparsely populated and independent in spirit, they're all attractive targets for a certain bloodless coup in the making.

Within the next several years, according to the plan, 20,000 Libertarians would move to a single state and begin infiltrating. They'd get jobs, join civic groups, get elected and take a hatchet to taxes and laws. In this utopia called the Free State Project, schools would be severed from the state, gun-control laws abolished, drugs legalized, health and social services privatized, and most federal aid rejected. Government's only job would be to protect against "force and fraud."

[Roscoe]

They just mounted the most successful ballot inititive in state history.

It lost.

[Protagoras]

Isn't that David Duke the Republican?

[Protagoras]

It lost.

Barely, much to the delight of the Republicans, who are pro high taxes. Republicans oppose real tax cuts.

[Catspaw]

Candidate turned himself blue

'I tell them I'm practicing for Halloween'

Wednesday, October 2, 2002 Posted: 11:48 PM EDT (0348 GMT)

	Jones' skin condition is permanent, but generally is not serious.

GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) -- Montana's Libertarian candidate for Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he believed would protect him from disease.

Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics.

He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple of silver wires in a glass of water.

His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago.

"People ask me if it's permanent and if I'm dead," he said. "I tell them I'm practicing for Halloween."

He does not take the supplement any longer, but the skin condition, called argyria, is permanent. The condition is generally not serious.

Colloidal silver dietary supplements are marketed widely as an anti-bacterial agent or immune-system booster, but some consider it quackery.

Jones is one of three candidates seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Max Baucus in November. The others are Republican state Sen. Mike Taylor and Green Party candidate Bob Kelleher.

[Protagoras]

Oh, I thought he was the noted REPUBLICAN, David Duke.

[Catspaw]

No, he's a noted LIBERTARIAN, Stan Jones. He lost, of course.

[Hacksaw]

The LP's have been getting a lot of grief about this, but I think they have finally hit on a good strategy.

As someone else mentioned, they should pick a small, sparsly populated state like Vermont. Getting rid of Leaky Leahy (a truly evil man) would be icing on the cake.

They should also bring some cultural conservatives with them to make sure things don't get too out of hand :)

But if the LP can make it work, I say more power to them.

And as someone else mentioned, NASA has been wrecked by the politicians. The fact that we put men on the moon 30 years ago shows that it is a shadow of its former self. When I was a little kid, I thought that since we were sending people to the moon, by the time I was an adult we would be sending people to Mars. I am 35 now and all we have done is sent a few robots there.

We should definitely have a moon colony by now (a US moon colony, not some PC international colony - international means the US pays for it and other countries get to use the resources for free). The Russians have the technology to do this as well, but they do not have the cash. Perhaps a joint effort with Russia would work (and forget everyone else).

[Moby Grape]

Let's see, we have the canidate arrested for running an illegal "law school". We have the one who dyed himself blue. We have the one with the campaign photos of himself holding his pet ferrett.....if you boys can't get a state for yourselves, maybe the Loney Tunes corner at Warner Brothers would make a perfect place to set up your dope smoking Utopia.

[Roscoe]

David Duke To Speak Against Iraq War In Virginia This Saturday: Richmond Meeting Will Denounce Jewish Influence Over U.S. Foreign Policy

By Overthrow.com Overthrow.com | February 17, 2003

Richmond, Virginia -- David Duke to speak against Iraqi war in Richmond, Virginia, this Saturday.

Says Israel, not Iraq, is a threat to world peace and American security.

Richmond, Virginia, February 17, 2003 . European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) National President David Duke will speak in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, February 22, 2003 against the war with Iraq and the need to end support to Israel.

Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/848796/posts

How Libertarian of him.

[Roscoe]

Let's see, we have the canidate arrested for running an illegal "law school". We have the one who dyed himself blue. We have the one with the campaign photos of himself holding his pet ferrett.....

Don't forget about the one who spits on people who disagree with him.

[Roscoe]

The "before" picture. Seems like voter fraud.

[Protagoras]

He is a Republican. You must be proud of him. But hey, he skin isn't blue.

[Roscoe]

That's how he registered, but he's spouting the Libertarian Socialist position.

[Protagoras]

Statist utopia in Jonestown is the place for you boys.

[laredo44]

And I repeat: go take over a state and set up your "constitutional" republic according to your lame-brained understanding of the Constitution. Celebrate pot, porn, and prostitution. Make these and other vices the foundation of your culture and economy. Be free, tpaine. Be free. Show the rest of us how healthy a society can be that espouses no morals or behavior controls beyond "if it feels good, do it."

Or, ask Kevin Curry what he believes should be permitted, ban all else, and proclaim you live in a condition of liberty. It worked for Animal Farm.

[Protagoras]

There is no such thing except in the bizzarro world of backward nonthinkers.

[Protagoras]

Yes I know David Duke is a Republican. He was even elected as one by his fellow Republicans.

[tpaine]

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[Roscoe]

There is no such thing except in the bizzarro world of backward nonthinkers.

Libertarianism?

[Roscoe]

False. It was the Libertarian Socialist News.