Sunday, October 05, 2003

The Free State Project has chosen New Hampshire. Unnoticed by the wider public, a group comprising some 5000-ish libertarians has voted New Hampshire as their "Free State". Now they plan to recruit another 15,000 members, and relocate there en masse. Once there, they'll use democratic and cultural means to turn NH into a haven of free markets and individual liberty. So, why care? Libertarians are alway proposing "pirate utopias", and then seeing them collapse from lack of support. Libertarians tend to be both self-interested, and dogmatic on their principles. Each previous scheme has foundered because folks considered it impractical, implausible, too dangerous, too self-sacrificing, too collectivist, or too half-hearted. This time, it's different. [kuro5hin.org] 7:10:39 PM    comment []

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