founder of the FSP, Jason Sorens, joins the Advisory Board of the SVR

[FrankChodorov]

http://www.vermontrepublic.org/about/advisory_board

Advisory Board

   1. Professor Marco Bassani ? Professor of History and Political Thought, University of Milan.
   2. Professor Frank Bryan ? Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont, and author of Real Democracy.
   3. Carolyn Chute ? Award-winning Maine novelist, political activist, and author of the best-seller The Beans of Egypt, Maine.
   4. Dan Dewalt ? a South Newfane musician, antique restorer, and teacher who launched the Vermont town meeting movement to impeach President George W. Bush.
   5. Professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo ? Professor of Economics, Loyola College, and author of The Real Lincoln.
   6. Professor Peter Jones ? Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
   7. Professor Donald W. Livingston ? Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, and author of several books on David Hume.
   8. Professor Thomas H. Naylor ? Professor Emeritus of Economics, Duke University, and a founder of the Second Vermont Republic.
   9. Kirkpatrick Sale ? author of Human Scale and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, and founder of the Middlebury Institute.
  10. Professor Jason Sorens ? Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, and founder of the New Hampshire Free State Project.

[Rocketman]

Sorens the traitor!   

[Fluff and Stuff]

Just what VT needs least, another liberal educator from NY.  I am not sure Jason will like VT though, it is not known for being friendly to his type, a christian 

[d_goddard]

This is just an excuse for Jason to go stark naked from time to time.

[Rocketman]

He should find himself a nice house in NH near the Vermont border, and soon!

[Fluff and Stuff]

Maybe at one of the colleges towns, Keene perhaps.

[CNHT]

This is just an excuse for Jason to go stark naked from time to time.

He's keeping his eye on the democrat-fake-libertarian infiltrators who stand to ruin the movement.   

Other'n that, don't mean a thing.

[CNHT]

http://www.vermontrepublic.org/about/advisory_board

Advisory Board

   1. Professor Marco Bassani ? Professor of History and Political Thought, University of Milan.
   2. Professor Frank Bryan ? Professor of Political Science, University of Vermont, and author of Real Democracy.
   3. Carolyn Chute ? Award-winning Maine novelist, political activist, and author of the best-seller The Beans of Egypt, Maine.
   4. Dan Dewalt ? a South Newfane musician, antique restorer, and teacher who launched the Vermont town meeting movement to impeach President George W. Bush.
   5. Professor Thomas J. DiLorenzo ? Professor of Economics, Loyola College, and author of The Real Lincoln.
   6. Professor Peter Jones ? Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
   7. Professor Donald W. Livingston ? Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, and author of several books on David Hume.
   8. Professor Thomas H. Naylor ? Professor Emeritus of Economics, Duke University, and a founder of the Second Vermont Republic.
   9. Kirkpatrick Sale ? author of Human Scale and After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination, and founder of the Middlebury Institute.
  10. Professor Jason Sorens ? Assistant Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, and founder of the New Hampshire Free State Project.

What a joke. Looks like Karl Marx's party list.... heh.

[Fluff and Stuff]

Or maybe he is one of them.  After all, he used to live in Ashville, NC, for Gods sake!  Did anyone hear his speech at porfest, anyway?  I hear he called for a larger and more powerful government that put everyone on welfare.  How knows, he also might be a fair tax supporter.

[FrankChodorov]

he also might be a fair tax supporter

no, maybe a land value taxation supporter...

[CNHT]

Or maybe he is one of them.  After all, he used to live in Ashville, NC, for Gods sake!  Did anyone hear his speech at porfest, anyway?  I hear he called for a larger and more powerful government that put everyone on welfare.  How knows, he also might be a fair tax supporter.

I heard something about that. NHerites want no part of that.
Anyway, this group is in Vt where they've always been wacky, (the home of Ben and Jerry!) and we should disassociate ourselves as much as possible.

[FrankChodorov]

I hear he called for a larger and more powerful government that put everyone on welfare.

actually the government would be much, much smaller as a result...

what would you need any other social services for?

excerpt:
I would also note that we could spend more than $10,000 per year on the poorest individuals if we means-tested benefits slightly. This is a variant of the plan proposed by Charles Murray in his new book "In Our Hands". He advocates doing it on the federal level, but I think that having the states decide on it as they choose makes more sense.

It should be obvious how the left might support such a plan, sometimes called a basic minimum income. Welfare recipients benefit because they are no longer restricted in what they can spend: housing, food, and so on. But the program doesn?t damage work incentives because every individual gets it, no matter his or her income. It isn?t a ?pure? libertarian solution by any means, but it does cut bureaucracy very significantly.

to read all of his speech:
http://freestateproject.org/about/essay_archive/cannae_tactic

[DC]

what would you need any other social services for?

To show all the fools that like this idea where Vermont is.

[Spencer]

we should disassociate ourselves as much as possible.

Why shouldn't we encourage the SVR?  Their goal appears to be to distance themselves from the federal government and revert to local government.  If the SVR is successful, then everyone wins because it shows that a peaceful secession can occur (which may cause the fedgov to pause in its relentless march toward total domination).

[FTL_Ian]

I encourage virtually all secession movements.