The Free State Project is

an agreement among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property. The success of the Project would likely entail reductions in taxation and regulation, reforms at all levels of government to expand individual rights and free markets, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.

This is not a Republican project. It is not an anti-Democrat project. It's not even a Libertarian project. It's about freedom, plain and simple. And it's working.

A number of people associated with this project have already move to NH. Some have run for and won seats in elected offices. Others are chairs of Democrat and Republican caucuses. Over 100 people have already moved, and they're already having an effect. Imagine what would happen if 1,000 moved.

The current drive is to get 1,000 people to commit to moving in the next 2 years. It's called The First 1000. I think it's a great idea. Go read about the project and make the decision.

The biggest argument I've heard against it is that New Hampshire is cold. That's where the title of this post came from. How much do you really want freedom?

The truth is, I was not sure I would be able to make it to NH by 2008. However, after learning about all of the great stuff that is going on in NH, I am not sure if I can make it if I am not in NH by 2008

-- Keith

Posted by: Ogre at 03:05 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 That leads to the obvious question: Why are you still in Charlotte?

Posted by: Justin Thibault at January 16, 2006 04:55 PM (FWvKf)

2 I've signed up to move. I've got a realtor and am working on land. The job is the tricky part, but I've had a couple interviews in the state already.

Posted by: Ogre at January 16, 2006 05:13 PM (/k+l4)

3 The plan may have one fatal flaw - New Hampshire is a place someone else may want. God help the free man sitting on land someone else wants. Someone else with guns.

Posted by: The Small Town Hick at January 16, 2006 11:49 PM (ZINSp)

4 What? Who else? The socialists in the US? Don't worry, everyone there is armed.

Posted by: Ogre at January 17, 2006 12:38 AM (+Gl1m)

5 I do hope everyone has read--memorized, in fact--Sir Thomas More's Utopia.

Posted by: Harrison at January 17, 2006 01:17 AM (EjqGT)

6 Don't laugh too hard at those socialists, Ogre. Two of the biggest socialist movements of the last century - Russia's Soviet socialists and Germany's National Socialists - were noted for their use of weapons against their neighbors. Keep your powder dry, man.

Posted by: The Small Town Hick at January 17, 2006 03:58 AM (ZINSp)

7 Oh yes, that's understood. But don't forget New Hampshire's state motto: Live Free or Die.

Posted by: Ogre at January 17, 2006 10:58 AM (+Gl1m)

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