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Dave Ridley

#322
March 15, 2010, 04:34 PM NHFT Last Edit: March 16, 2010, 08:40 AM NHFT by DadaOrwell
10,000 pledge "liberty migration" to New Hampshire

Free State Project hits 10k activists pledged-to-move

NH: Free State Project hits 10,000 pledged "liberty migrants"

Diggable at:
http://digg.com/politics/10_000_pledge_liberty_migration_to_New_Hampshire

Text of the news release:

March 15, 2010

America's most promising experiment in liberty, the Free State Project, officially signed its ten thousandth participant today. The organization is dedicated to migrating 20,000 pro-liberty activists who agree to downsize government to New Hampshire. The announcement comes in advance of the Free State Project's annual winter convention, the New Hampshire Liberty Forum.

Jason Sorens, founder of the Project, said, "This is a great milestone for us. It feels good to be half-way there. There's still much to do, but the project is continuing to grow and I am confident we'll reach our goal of 20,000 participants."

Participants come from many backgrounds but all agree 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 agreement avoids political labels and allows individual participants to set their own course to reach their goal.

"The Free State Project has no political platform or membership dues", Sorens stated. "We have participants who identify as conservative, classical liberal, libertarian, anarchist, voluntaryist, you name it. The things we care about are: Do you want more liberty and less government? Are you willing to work toward it? Are you going to be a good, neighborly person in your community? If so, the Free State Project may be just what you're looking for."

While no one is obligated to move until 20,000 people have joined, 800 participants are already in New Hampshire. Four have been elected to the state house and dozens more to local offices. Members have founded or supported organizations around issues such as lowering taxes, gun rights, drug law reform, spending caps, homeschooling, marriage freedom, privacy protection, and state sovereignty. They have also started media outlets such as nationally syndicated radio show Free Talk Live, YouTube sensations like The Ridley Report, and print publications like the New Hampshire Free Press.

FSP president Varrin Swearingen noted that "the FSP is more than just being politically active, it's also about community. Several cities have regular social meetings with dozens in attendance. Members have met their spouse through the Project. There is a full social calendar of parties, hikes, game nights, you name it. Come for the liberty, stay for the community."

Early mover Margot Keyes of Epsom commented, "Many people move for jobs or family, but rarely get a chance to move for their ideals. Why not move to where you can find jobs, a lovely environment in which to live a freer life, as well as a community where your ideas are not only welcomed but shared?! Join the FSP community--live what you believe!"

When Swearingen was asked what the project is doing to reach the next 10,000 participants, he replied, "We are increasing our advertising, starting direct telephone outreach, and increasing our presence at pro-liberty events across the country. Now that members have moved to New Hampshire we have hundreds of natural ambassadors that can speak to how great it is here. One thing that sometimes holds people back is their practical need for a job. We now have extensive online resources available to help with that at http://freestateproject.org/jobs. Thankfully New Hampshire has the best economy in the northeast, which we hope to improve further."

Judge Andrew Napolitano recently said that "The Project is fascinating..." We certainly agree, and look forward to the Judge extending his remarks on this milestone at the Liberty Forum, where he will be the keynote speaker.

Updated info, action photo: http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=20097.msg238895#msg238895


sent it to these thus far, more may follow


http://thementalmilitia.com/forums/index.php?topic=25672.0
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=33033.0
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2596049#post2596049
http://glocktalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14945974#post14945974
http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/showthread.php/95259-10-000-pledge-quot-liberty-migration-quot-to-New-Hampshire?p=1353105#post1353105
http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8376
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/128981
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/view_topic.php?id=40345&forum_id=65
http://community.livejournal.com/libertarianism/2730622.html
http://forum.nashuatelegraph.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3163
http://www.bearpit.net/index.php?showtopic=9977
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/state-local-politics/59695-10-000-pledge-liberty-migration-new-hampshire.html#post1655458
http://www.libertynewsforum.com/cgi-bin/news/YaBB.pl?num=1268690083/0#0
http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?p=888847#post888847

Dave Ridley

#323
March 24, 2010, 05:12 PM NHFT
Sent this to a Boston paper

Dear editors at the Phoenix:

With regard to your March 10, 2010 article "Pot bill progresses in Augusta," all one can say is "what a bunch of busybodies."  Towns around New England could alleviate their budget crunches by reducing marijuana crackdowns.  Instead they waste taxpayer money on new ordinances aimed at *preventing* any commerce which takes the form of pot dispensaries.  The majority, however, is fed-up with drug warriors, as evidenced by recent events in southern New Hampshire.   

On March 20, dramatic scenes unfold in downtown Nashua.  A hundred marijuana rights activists gather to defy the pot laws, one openly lighting a two-foot bong.  Two undercover police move in, realize they are surrounded by a screaming crowd, and suddenly the entire town looks up to the sound of sirens.   

From every corner of the vibrant, rebellious city they come...K9's with barking arm-chewers, vans, cruisers...a dozen machines in all.  The original attempt to arrest a 17-year-old smoker named Lewis...does not go according to plan.  Virtually the only black man in the crowd, his seizure triggers furious allegations of racial profiling.   Police wind up having to arrest one of his new acquaintances for blocking their cruiser, as well as an indie reporter from Missouri.   

Her name is Catherine Bleish.  The event she was planning on attending that night goes on with her in a cell...and on the minds of her many compatriots.   It is an award ceremony at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum.  There, the long-dead liberty philosopher Étienne de la Boétie receives Freedom Book Club's "Book of the Year" award.   His 400-year-old quote reads as though it were written for this weekend's jailed - but peaceable - protesters.

"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

Dave Ridley

#324
March 24, 2010, 05:13 PM NHFT Last Edit: August 30, 2010, 08:55 PM NHFT by DadaOrwell
Sent this to the links below on behalf of FreedomBookClub.com

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Near 500 Years later, La Boétie still fuels revolt

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed."

With those words, and a brief, brilliant legal career, Étienne de la Boétie set the stage for centuries of resistance to tyranny. That resistance played out just down the street in Nashua, New Hampshire, even as freedom lovers were announcing an award for the long-dead "freedom philosopher."

"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over," he wrote, "but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

These legendary phrases have repeatedly reached out from the 16th century and inspired revolts of nearly every kind. Today, they inspired another milestone for the French writer.

"The Politics of Obedience is certainly worthy of the honor it receives," says Jeremy Furbish of FreedomBookClub.com

Furbish, or more accurately the folks who use his website, just awarded La Boétie's classic "Book of the Year" for 2009. The prize goes to books which rank the highest on surveys conducted throughout the year at FreedomBookClub.com.

As talk show host Gardner Goldsmith announced this award at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum...he reminded his audience that two of their number were missing, having just been arrested a few miles away. They were protesting the seizure of a pot smoker, using La Boétie's formula of peaceful non-cooperation. Both were released that night.

"The Politics of Obedience: the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude," was written while La Boétie was a law student at the University of Orleans. It was a free-thinking hot spot of its time. His teacher was branded a heretic and died at the stake during a Huguenot rebellion in 1559.

"The Politics of Obedience, in its very timelessness, made the work ever available to be applied," continues Furbish. La Boétie was heavily influential in the Huguenot uprisings in later 16th century
France and the enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries. Furbish believes he had a profound impact on Gandhi as well.

Other books vanquished but honored in this contest:

Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon, by Michael E. Veal
What Has Government Done to Our Money, and the Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar, by Murray N. Rothbard
I Must Speak Out: The Best of the Voluntaryist, by Carl Watner
The Market for Liberty, by Linda and Morris Tannehill
Live Free of Die: Essays on Liberty by New Hampshire Libertarians by Gardner Goldsmith and Paul Goldsmith
Alongside Night, by J. Neil Schulman
Against Intellectual Monopoly, by David K. Levine and Michele Boldrin
Drop Dead Gorgeous, by Wayne Simmons
Songs of Freedom: Tales from the Revolution, by Darryl W. Perry, Jim
Davidson, Tom Woods, Voltairine de Cleyre (and more)
End the Fed, by Ron Paul
Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock

Ultimately La Boétie's , seemingly ancient efforts outshone all these prodigies in the contest. He was a mighty butterfly, whose wing-flapping half-a-millennium in the past...continues to trigger hurricanes of noncooperation.

For more information:
http://FreedomBookClub.com

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/129525
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=236623
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=33080.0
http://ronpaulforum.com/showthread.php?p=337366#post337366
http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showforum=3
http://thementalmilitia.com/forums/index.php?board=17.0
http://community.livejournal.com/libertarianism/2734199.html
http://forum.nashuatelegraph.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3170&p=42347#p42347
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=20371.0
http://nhinsider.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=4645613&pid=39509561#post39509561
http://forum.nhliberty.org/index.php?topic=2918.0
http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3678596#3678596
http://www.bearpit.net/index.php?showtopic=9981
http://www.uspoliticsonline.com/historical-discourse/59982-400-years-dead-la-bo-tie-still-fuels-revolt.html#post1664094
http://www.libertynewsforum.com/cgi-bin/news/YaBB.pl?num=1269571840/0#0
http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?p=891103#post891103
http://forum.freekeene.com/index.php?topic=2846.0
http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=20400.0

Dave Ridley

#326
March 26, 2010, 09:39 AM NHFT
Sent to Nashua Telegraph:

Here's a letter-to-editor for you, which you are welcome to publish if you wish.   

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16h-century giant inspired Nashua pot protest

Dear folks at the Telegraph:

Regarding your March 23 article "Pot, handgun part of protest," here's a thought.   

This event didn't occur in isolation. It is part of a long Western history of civil disobedience.  One of the arrestees was slated just hours later to attend an award ceremony for the long-dead French philosopher who helped inspire her actions.  Étienne de la Boétie died in the 16th century but not before saying something Nashua PD should hear:

"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

Dave Ridley

#327
March 26, 2010, 09:42 AM NHFT
New Hamsphire Free Press has asked to publish the La Boétie release and will presumably be doing so in next issue.

Dave Ridley

#328
April 01, 2010, 03:36 PM NHFT
Nashua Telegraph called today to verify that they can publish my LTE to them.

Boston Phoenix called about a week ago also to verify that they can use the version I sent them.  They also want to do a story on us but weren't specific as to exactly what they wanted.

I've told them to keep an eye on

http://nhunderground.com/forum/index.php?topic=20407.msg320242#msg320242

Dave Ridley

#329
April 14, 2010, 04:54 PM NHFT
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