New Hampshire Democratic Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan:
Posted on 09/24/2003 8:31:24 PM PDT by archy
Yea sure, Archy.
But there was an awful lot of misery between 1919 & 1990, too.
Even so, I can appreciate your point.
"If it comes to that here, they can have a choice: go out quietly, like Gorbachav and the Communists replaced by Yeltsen, then Putin in turn, or go out like Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu of Roumania in December 1989."
Yes, an excellent attitude.
I pray to God I live long enough to see such a scenario come to fruition.
"Kingdoms fall."
No argument there; &, who could argue this one's had "a fall" coming for some time, too.
Even if such a fall were only to purge the past 150 years or so of misguidance responsible for taking the nation so far from the framer's original intent.
"One of the contingencies we really haven't planned well for is the possibility that we'll attract numbers WAY out of proportion to what we've expected: What happens if instead of 20,000, we get 200,000, or a half-million?"
IF your organization were to attract a half mil numer; or, for that matter 20 times that?
I'd bet anything they'd be the kind of people one could expect order, cooperation & a spirit not seen on this continent for a very, long time.
Your "problems" would be the kind one might find extremely satisfying, I dare say.
"That may be bluesky,..."
Maybe not.
There'll be a lot of people watching y'all like hawks, &, I'll be one of 'em.
The possibility of this dream becoming a reality is exciting enough, but, if it were to become a smashing success?
It'd provide this citizen a golden opportunity to actually *see* which of my friends & neighbors are genuinely serious about the direction this nation's going, as opposed to what they've said.
Maybe even a chance to settle a few other things once & for all, too.
...like whose side God's really on.
Yea sure, Archy.
But there was an awful lot of misery between 1919 & 1990, too.
Even so, I can appreciate your point.
Worse, the Communists exported their misery to a number of locales that really wanted no part of a fight, just to be left alone. For their trouble they wore the yoke of Communist slavery and chains. For YEARS.
But not in Russia's neighboring Finland. When Finland's Communists tried to pull off their own coup there in 1918, it led to a 4-month Civil War, that left many of Finland's Reds dead, others jailed, and the rest running elsewhere for asylum. Only now, 80 years later, have the Communists and Communist appeasers achieved partyicular respectability and positions of power again. If it comes down to it, I expect the Finns will sort their problem out again without excessive difficulty. And there are lessons from them for Americans as well, Porcupines in particular.
-archy-/-
...like whose side God's really on.
*** You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.***
--Psalm 91
The only anarchists I ran into have been at the counter-freeps I've attended and they all lined up with the leftists.
The only anarchists I ran into have been at the counter-freeps I've attended and they all lined up with the leftists.
It's easy to spot the anarchists, there' the ones with the 666 mark on their foreheads. No wait; that's AntiChrists, nevermind. Though, come to think of it....
New Hampshire Democratic Chairwoman Kathy Sullivan:
NH was indeed chosen; you're in luck!
You might want to check this out.
-archy-/-
If these 5,000 people were to go to NH -- or any other state for that matter -- & build the place into all the good & decent things as set forth in their goals? How long before the riff raff would transcend upon 'em to sieze what's these people have earned & built for themselves?
That kind of coming would be inevitable, don'tcha think? Isn't that, essentially, what's happened in California?
Well, it is indeed NH that's been chosen, and I've been giving your concerns some serious thought.
At Halloween a year ago, we had roughly a thousand pledged supporters, a year after signups began. Now, not quite a year later, we have 5500. In two years.
Given the present rate of growth- which has not remained constant- it's predicted that we'll reach the goal of 20,000 members in We will reach 20,000 members in approximately 113.7 weeks, at which point the migration begins [though something like 150 Porcupines are already NH residents, and several from nearby states are making the move now, without hesitation, just as I would have had Wyoming been picked]
But the movements are to take place within a 5-year timeframe after the goal of 20,000 has been reached, perhaps as late now as 7 years into the future...and recruiting and pledges will NOT be halted. What happens if they continue to more than double the numbers of pledged porcupines annually for 7 years. Or quadruple, or otherwise increase exponentially? Oct 2002: 1000 FSP member porcupines/ gain 1000
Oct 2003: 5,454 FSP members [as of September 10, 2003]/gain 3500
Oct 2004?
Oct 2005?
Oct 2007?
Oct 2008? [Election year!]
Oct 2009? [5 years from the 01 Oct 2003 announcement of NH as the Goal State]
If the numbers *just* double each year from what they are now:
2004: 10,908
2005: 21,816 [porcupation migration to continue until completion in 2010]
2006: 43,632
2007: 87,264
2008: 174,528
[2009] [349,056]
[2010] [698,112]
NH State voter registration, September ’02 2001 [after list purge]And the projection that the numbers will *only* double is a VERY conservative one, based on the last 24 months. I'm now not as worried as I was, but the Democrats had better be doing some fast dancing. It looks as if they could be in fourth place, not very good for a *major* party.REPUBLICANS 245,791/ 37.3%
UNDECLARED 242,028/ 36.8%
DEMOCRATS 170,405/ 25.9%
-archy-/-
Here's another Real estate link:
Not that it would, should or could have any impact on this effort, hardly.
Just that forewarned *is* forearmed; so, the inevitability of this happening, eventually, must be a high priority of the FSP planners.
...of which I'm sure you're aware.
Not that it would, should or could have any impact on this effort, hardly.
Just that forewarned *is* forearmed; so, the inevitability of this happening, eventually, must be a high priority of the FSP planners.
...of which I'm sure you're aware.
'preciate it! And it's answered with a link to our original discussion of the matter, with a few other thoughts thrown in.
It's not the problem that I see as our greatest worry or threat, but you're right, it's one we should indeed be giving some attention to. And we will.
-archy-/-
They do indeed; I believe the NH Libertarian Party chairman John Barbiaz is a FSP Porcupine, or possibly, like NH Governor Benson, signed on as a *Friend of the Porcupines*.
I don't know what their numbers are, but I bet you can find out from the link. NH listed 242,028 registered voters as undeclared, 36.8% of their total, in the 2000 election, second only to the Republicans and well ahead of the Democrats in a distant third place. And soon, perhaps fourth....
Not all of those *undeclared* are Libertarians, of course, but I'd expect that most Libertarians are so registered. And it'd certainly be a good number for the Libbies to shoot for.
But I'd expect most Porcupines to register, if not necessarily vote, as Republicans.
-archy-/-
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