[Katya]

Searched and didn't see this posted....Good article summarizing the objectives of the Free State Project.

[Drango]

Libertarians are worse than the French.

[AppyPappy]

Fat chance. The feds will hunt them down like dogs and butcher them politically. You can't have people with that much freedom. They need Welfare to be happy.

[RJCogburn]

Interesting idea that won't work, IMO, at least here in NH.

Do you remember the "Minvera" project of the 70's....an unclaimed atoll in the Pacific that would be a libertarian society?

[BlueLancer]

Sounds good to me. 20,000 Libertarians means that there would be approximately 35,000 different sub-parties, quorums, grass-root organizations, and committees within the Party. The various political permutations between and among that many Libertarians could be considered an almost infinite number, leading to generalized chaos and anarchy .. the most endearing traits of the Libertarian Party.

20,000 Libertarians all in one place sounds like an invasion of head-lice.

This side-show brought to you by the One-Percent Party, the Libertarians.

[camle]

Why not Maine? if ever a state needs an awakening, its' Maine.

[fporretto]

Variations on this idea have been floated for decades. I don't think it could work.

First off, getting the majority of a state's population to agree on anything, including the name of the state, is a lot harder than you'd think. Second, there's this little matter of the federal government. Third, the governments of surrounding states would feel quite threatened by such a development as well, and would surely do what they could to frustrate it.

Take differences in taxation between two neighboring states as an example. When the differences are large, they cause the more heavily taxed state to lose business and population to the less heavily taxed one, over time. That's one of the original features of federalism -- but in this day and age, it gives rise to vicious fights over cross-border commerce and employment in which everyone loses. Take New York and New Jersey as an example. Washington would surely use its influence if the contest became ugly enough -- and Washington would probably side, de facto if not de jure, with the more heavily-taxed state.

Ultimately, the persons involved in such a project would have to be willing to close themselves off from the surrounding Union. Washington hasn't looked favorably on that idea, either.

The most reliable route toward improvements in freedom is the steady pursuit of citizen education -- the penetration of the idea that freedom works best into the minds of the electorate. We seek the solid longevity of the oak tree, not the evanescence of the mushroom.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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http://palaceofreason.com

[Physicist]

To paraphrase Rollye James, New Hampshire's motto of "Live Free or Die" should be made a requirement.

[WhiteGuy]

New Hampshire, Vermont or Delaware would be do-able.

I couldn't see myself in Wyoming or Alaska

[Cultural Jihad]

Searched and didn't see this posted.....

That is because you are searching in the wrong place. These sorts of smelly ideologue fringe nutcase discussions are found in the Smoking Lemmings' Backroom where they belong, not in News/Activism.

[Cultural Jihad]

Duplicate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/849912/posts

Edited (Other) on 02/23/2003 7:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Reason: Baltimore Sun properties must be excerpted.

[kidd]

[Marie]

I think this is a great idea. Can't move there until 2011, though. I'll support any party that wants more freedom. (Can you imagine homeschooling in such a state?!)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

``The Libertarian movement has existed for decades and produced leading intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners, but despite all that, it hasn't had much influence on a national level,'' Free State Project founder Jason Sorens says.

About all they have produced is a lot of hot air.

Its kind of funny, really - they'll break into umpteen factions, each of them looking at the others with paranoia and jealousy, all screaming "STATIST!" at each other.