Comment: Now you do what we told you. (Score 1) 99
This is likely what they were told to say.
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Comment: Re:Too bad they chose NH.... (Score 1) 701
NH unemployment is the lowest in the New England, if not the East coast, and has been for the last decade.
Comment: Re:If all else fails... (Score 1) 701
This was part of the debate as to which state to move to. As was having a seaport. Free-er trade than the rest of the country could mean big bucks down the road.
Comment: Re:The Free Staters chose my town as the test bed (Score 1) 701
It is true that amongst the small set of early movers, a smaller still subset of this small set of individuals have chosen to further concentrate their subset of ideas of how to best minimize the effects of force on their lives.
Meaning - yeah, if you live in Grafton then you will live in interesting times.
Comment: Re:Good luck... (Score 1) 701
There are a whole lot of anarchists here in NH. They decide to engage in the political system, or not, as they wish. It is great to have anarchists as part of the greater discussion. When talking about politics, one is talking about force - at least here in NH that is not disputed and is part of the framework of debate.
Comment: The last time the FSP was front page on /. (Score 5, Interesting) 701
The first time the FSP was on
Now I've lived here for five years. This is the real deal, NH has the perfect state and local government for this experiment. Politics is the unofficial state sport of NH with 400 state reps for only 1.3 million constituents that are about equally divided between the two major parties. Republican and democratic parties engage our ideas, sometimes in battle, other times in courtship. You don't have to explain first principles over and over again, everyone here knows government like fire can be a dangerous master, you get to have debate and make an impact on people and policy with all that stuff as accepted framework of the discussion.
Comment: Re:Secession? (Score 1) 164
Some Free-Staters (again, not all) actually have been working hard on the notion of State Sovereignty; see the FSP page on this topic.
Also, a new bill has been introduced this session:
HCR19 - Affirming States' powers based on the Constitution for the United States and the Constitution of New Hampshire.
There are also a few bills in play this session asserting the NH manufacturing shall not be regulated by the federal government. Longshots? Well, with over a dozen Free-Staters elected to the NH House of Representatives, maybe less long-shot than in other states....
Or even http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2011/HB324 which is having a hearing today.
AN ACT relative to lawful commerce in goods and services sold, made, and retained in the state of New Hampshire.
Comment: Re:Small government? (Score 1) 164
The states nullified the Real ID act which shows that it works if the people are politically active enough in their states
In point of fact - Free State Project early movers were largely behind NH nullifying Real ID. The other states followed NH's lead.
Nullifying RealID is a point of pride in the NH legislator and you hear them refer to it over and over again in committee hearings.
Now pardon me, I've got to get back to work writing Drupal Feeds plugins to parse that nerd friendly data dump so citizens can get cell phone alerts for every move their Representatives make. With their reps email and cell phone number, of course.
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Plugh (27537) writes "The Free State Project was created to move 20,000 small-government activists to New Hampshire (here's the Slashdot story from 2002).
IT people, with our ability to work anywhere, were some of the first to move. Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy."
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IT people, with our ability to work anywhere, were some of the first to move. Now, with over a dozen Free Staters elected to the NH legislature, these geeks are starting to affect government data-sharing policy."
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Comment: Re:Timetravel rules (Score 1) 290
No, this is proof of time traveling will arrive in the near future!
