"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Free State Project: A Libertarian Testing Ground For Bitcoin, 3D Printers, and Drones
Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed a far more down-to-earth experiment for those who wanted to live the limited government lifestyle: that a critical mass of “freedom-loving people… establish residence in a small state and take over the state government.” The “Free State Project” call to action was in 2001. By 2003, five thousand people agreed to take part and they held a vote to decide which low-population state would be the staging ground for the libertarianvasion, which would be triggered when 20,000 people signed on.
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That link doesn't work for me. The page keeps reloading, over and over.
"Free State" is oxymoronish.
I am a sovereign state. As such, I am 100% responsible. For the protection of my borders. For the demeanor of its inhabitant (me).
If it's going to be, it's up to me. Today. Here. Where I am.
Sam