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Libertarians Look for a State to Call Their Own. (Free State Project)
The Everett Herald (WA) | 2/23/2003 | reprint from the Baltimore Sun

Posted on 02/23/2003 7:55:12 AM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig

Edited on 02/23/2003 7:57:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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."


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To: Kevin Curry
Well put, Kevin.

What they need is a cold shower ( deluge, rather ) of historical fact ! They imagine that people were " more free " 200 years ago. That wasn't the case at all. Not only were there much more severe FEDERAL laws against behaviors, there were state, local, and community laws, which were stridently against everything they claim to want LEGALIZED now, because it once was. LOL

381 posted on 02/25/2003 1:25:33 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Kevin Curry
Well put, Kevin.

What they need is a cold shower ( deluge, rather ) of historical fact ! They imagine that people were " more free " 200 years ago. That wasn't the case at all. Not only were there much more severe FEDERAL laws against behaviors, there were state, local, and community laws, which were stridently against everything they claim to want LEGALIZED now, because it once was. LOL

382 posted on 02/25/2003 1:25:34 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Protagoras
Oh, so you've had other nics ? Been banned a lot, dear ? Too ashamed of your previous , early postings ? A known disruptor / malcontent, who had to leave ? You'd better check my sign-up date, then , you should know that I lurked from the begining of FR. Talk about " delusions " ... YOU are a master of them !

I'm a " lightweight "? ME ? In what universe ? ROTFLMAO ! No one, except those who can't debate me and win, thinks that I am a " lightweight ", an " useful idiot ", a " joke ", or " childish ", pumpkin. As for the village idiot ... you'd better go back home, your village needs its IDIOT and misses your cretinous rants !

You can't debate me, dear ; you aren't well enough equiped. I enjoy a " good " duel of wits ; however, you have none. You threw down the gauntlet, so the topic would be MY choice. Wanna start a thread and try it out ? The rules are that neither you, nor I can use Google, CCP anything, would only be able to write what one knows, must state sources ( from memory ! ), and use NO ad hominems/insults/others to help. You couldn't last 15 minutes, with these rules.

BTW, just WHAT are you doing posting in the daytime ? Didn't you claim that you have a job and that others, here, are here all of the time, because they either work for the government, or don't work ? Goofing off, are you ? ; ^ )

Tsk, tsk, tsk ... the people giving you appoplexy here, are going to wind up in jail ? Talk about TALIBANISIC mentality ! You are worse than the Taliban / mullahs ! How dare anyone disagree with you ? They must be criminals, dangerous, and worse. Hey, big boy, you are an hillarious font of laughter. Thanks for the laughs; you're quite the hoot ! LOL

383 posted on 02/25/2003 1:43:13 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Cultural Jihad
LOL!
384 posted on 02/25/2003 3:27:18 PM PST by apackof2 (You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you Free.. John 8:32)
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To: big ern
join civic groups, get elected

BAAHAAWAAAA since when has a libertarian got elected??!!!

385 posted on 02/25/2003 3:28:59 PM PST by apackof2 (You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you Free.. John 8:32)
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To: Chancellor Palpatine
In the end, the lone independent will leave, grumbling that all the rest aren't visionary

And in an effort to cheer himself up will immediately light up a joint and forget there was a meeting

386 posted on 02/25/2003 3:31:12 PM PST by apackof2 (You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you Free.. John 8:32)
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To: Kevin Curry
LOL! I love it
387 posted on 02/25/2003 3:32:29 PM PST by apackof2 (You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you Free.. John 8:32)
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To: nopardons
Been banned a lot, dear ?

Never been banned.

I'm a " lightweight "? ME ?

Probably not in the poundage catagory. I'm guessing a fat old bag. LOL

I am a " lightweight ", an " useful idiot ", a " joke ", or " childish ", pumpkin. As for the village idiot

And that's just what your friends here think of you.

And please stop calling me dear, I have enough old bags calling me that.

As to posting during the day, I operate a company, I own it. I have organised it so well I have delegated the mundane tasks to other competent people and have semi retired into merely managing the money. It bores me so I amuse myself by dispatching the intellectually challenged like you on the internet. Sometimes I stop long enough to make a few thousand bucks for laughs but return to this when I can't think of any way to spend it. LOL

I need to earn enough to support the government employees here who post on the taxpayers dime all day.

Now go back to watching your soap operas and the Oprah show while your hen pecked husband is out making enough to keep you in chocolate turtles.

LOL, great fun indeed! LOL

388 posted on 02/25/2003 3:57:35 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: Protagoras
Still here?

You are beyond pathetic.

389 posted on 02/25/2003 7:39:04 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
We won't be holding our breaths (turning blue) waiting for the Salon Bolsheviki to live up to their own self-declared principles. They can't go anywhere nationally since the electorate sees their shabby political product sitting on the shelf and rightfully walks away from it. They can't get their target of 5,000 to take over a small state, but with 2,000 they could take over a small town, say, in Oregon...


"Party On, dude! We breatharians are breathing free air!"

390 posted on 02/25/2003 7:51:29 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Who is that? Harry Krishna Browne?
391 posted on 02/25/2003 7:52:54 PM PST by Kevin Curry
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To: Kevin Curry
In spite of selling lawn signs for $85.00 apiece, Bhagwan Browne is still a bankrupt financial advisor and has no fleet of Mercedes Benz to drive around in. That doesn't stop him from pontificating about international policy, though.
392 posted on 02/25/2003 8:01:14 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Protagoras
Oh goody, more personal attacks from a mordant cretin, who hasn't the brains of a slug, and is uglier and more slimey than one. LOL

By banned, I meant have a short time out; which, BTW, you acknowledged having been given. Please have your keeper explaian the written word to you, more carefully.

Fat ? no, I'm not. An old bag ? Nope, wrong again.

Unlike YOU, I have friends; both here and in the REAL world. Pity, dear, that you don't. LOL

You are a mind reader ? Isn't that interesting ...since you haven't gotten anything correct, about me, my friends, or Jim Robinson. You're really too, too, TOO funny, to take seriously and your whitless, juvenile " barbs ", aren't even on the level of a clever second grader.

Your pathetic delusions of granduer, as well as your projecting, are indeed symptomatic of deep and serious psychological problems. You're probably too far gone, for anything other than confinement to do you any good. Add to that, your mysogeny, and you're a real " winner ", dear. How long have you hated your mother ? Bed wetting problems, the source of your other abject inaddequecies ?

Oh, so YOU watch soap opers and Ophrah ? Tell me, dear, since I don't , do they fulfill you and satify ?:-)You would be so much better off, if only you spent your time in other, less benighted endeavers.

Gracious, sweetums, you have a bunch of " old bags " running after your less than chaarming self ? Why is that ; do you show them your purloined supermarket cart full of picked up bottles & cans and tell them that you'll pay them, once you get the refund money ? ROTFLOL

Oh yes, you are SUCH a major player / BIG earner. Right and you are richer than Bill Gates and Donald Trump put together. Of course we believe you ..........

Since you have decided ( incorrectly ) that family members are also " fair play " , shall I denigrate your mother & wife ( IF you even have one, which is difficult to imagine ! ), too ?

I see that you have ignored my picking up the gauntlet, you threw down. CHICKEN ! You've been thoroughly exposed ... all hat and no beef; that's you. Quick with the dare and no follow through; the way you are in "the lists of love. " How's is it that even Viagra doesn't work on you ?

393 posted on 02/25/2003 8:51:57 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Cultural Jihad; Kevin Curry; Texasforever
Did you see what the pathetic wonder wrote to me ? Too, too funny for words ! giggle
394 posted on 02/25/2003 8:53:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
LOL, great stuff granny! Thanks for the light moment!
395 posted on 02/25/2003 9:44:54 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: Protagoras
Yes, I've a far better mind than you have, write better, and I'm glad that you appreciate it; sonny boy. :-)

Now be a dear and go play in traffic and let the grown ups discuss the important matters of the day. LOL

396 posted on 02/25/2003 9:47:03 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Kevin Curry
You are beyond pathetic. Go take your prozak, it wil calm you down for the nice men in the white coats.
397 posted on 02/25/2003 9:47:12 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: nopardons
LOL, great stuff from Eleanor Clift of the Jihad set. :^}
398 posted on 02/25/2003 9:50:27 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: nopardons
Nighty nite, try not to wet the bed.
399 posted on 02/25/2003 9:51:37 PM PST by Protagoras
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To: Protagoras
That's YOUR problem, dear. Don't forget to put on your extra strength, adult diaper. :-)
400 posted on 02/25/2003 9:53:27 PM PST by nopardons
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