THE FREE STATE PROJECT

<a href="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/">Walter Williams, Georgetown University</a> ^ | updated August 21, 2002 | Professor Walter Williams, Contributer

[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.

[Texasforever]

Texas has it's own port cities, oil, gas, airforce, farming, manufacturing

I hope you won’t mind if some of us in Texas take exception to being "liberated". It could be quite a dust up.

[MissAmericanPie]

Liberated? No one would dare liberate you Texasforever, I doubt anyone has the fortitude to chip you out of the concete you're set in, or come between you and a good steaming bowl of prunes. This article is not about secession, it's about State's rights and taking back State's power from D.C..

[Nix 2]

Texas is a long, lonely drive to cross without good FM, but I think they are considering almost any state where liberty could actually be returned to the people, legally and forever. It would be one heck of an experiment, wouldn't it?

[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.

[MissAmericanPie]

States rights is the only answer to this mess. D.C. is barking mad and there is no healing it. Each state should take back it's power and resources from the Fed and we should get back to being the Republic we were intended to be.

The reason we are in the mess we are in is because of the Supreme Court, that sucker needs to be defanged along with every other politically activist federal court. We need some Constitutional Amendment to put this beast in chains.

[Texasforever]

No it’s about 20,000 folks moving to Texas or some other state with the express intent of taking over that state's government. They couldn’t do that in Texas with 200,000 much less 20 but this "plan" stinks like week old headcheese.

[Nix 2]

Right you are. My bad and it's right in the url besides. I guess I've just been hearing too much about Klintoon today trying to scam the clinton bull sh*t network for 50mil. Thanks for the correction, but if you hit the url, it is his homepage.

[Plutarch]

This is a libertarian project, isn't it?

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

[Nix 2]

"plan" stinks like week old headcheese.

That gives us a rather pointed indication of what has gone wrong with your senses. Ewwwww.....

[Texasforever]

Did I mischaracterize the plan in anyway? Was I wrong asserting that 20,000 self proclaimed "liberators" were going to invade a state with the express purpose of imposing their form of "liberty" on the existing population? Or will the existing population be dealt with?

[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.

[dcwusmc]

bump to read tomorrow

[Plutarch]

All he offered me was steenking week old headcheese, man.

[Texasforever]

So you are all for invading states to impose "liberty"?

[MissAmericanPie]

I'm sure you prefer a half a million or more illegal aliens taking over the state. God forbid like minded Americans having the freedom to assemble and vote.