Great posts. KN please stay engaged I’m a long time N.H. resident. I moved here from taxachusetts for a reduction in tyranny (and taxes). I am so pleased with the FSP for the renewed focus on liberty. I have been reinvigorated by the activism they are bringing. As a taxpayer you may want to get that all the FSPers are interested in lowering that tax bill for you and your family. They are just trying to call attention to the many ways government people are not only wasting your money but actually harming peaceful people with those resources.

Ian,

The only omission I noticed in the printed letter was the mention of Kat and Russel as the publishers of KFP and the mention of 9/11 truth. Certainly not a ton of text. What other reasons could that be the only omission?

Instead join the Free Lunch Project. Check us out at Freelunchproject.com.

At the FLP we think about everyone unlike those free staters who choose themselves over everyone else! You will never have to think about liberty or liberty activists again.

The spouting of statist group-speak by ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ is enough to…

And news channels, I had to quit those….

So no, KN, I do not always ‘respect an opinion, counter it, not fight it.’ If the opinion presented is tyrannical or simply incorrect, I respect my fellow man by explaining it to him. If he doesn’t like it then so be it. He still heard it.

I appreciate your opinion as well as the respectful way you have delivered it. Few outsiders who visit this site are as calm and reasoned as you have been.

And yes, we can disagree on the issues so long as your choices don’t violate my natural rights and vice versa. This is still one of the freest countries in the world but that freedom is disappearing at an ever quickening pace.

When you’ve accepted the logic and reasoning of the Non-Aggression Principle and the natural rights of the Sovereign Individual and rejected the concepts of collectivism, socialism, communism and nationalism, it is exceptionally difficult to remain calm in the face of tyranny. Many of the Free Staters I know do not “pussyfoot” (as LPViper calls it) because they no longer remember what it was like to see things before the veil was lifted; before they paid attention to (let alone saw) the daily injustices that are rapidly decreasing our freedoms and destroying the concepts that founded this country.

I myself can no longer enjoy a simple episode of COPS because, for the most part, the majority of them are indeed “bad boys” who make you wonder “what ya gonna do when they come for you?”. Instead, I settle for RENO 911 because they’re safe, peaceful and amusing without the negative connotations associated with unthinking, badge-heavy stormtroopers.

Unlike many of our detractors, particularly the older ones, most of us are heavy computer users who access information daily. I post many mainstream stories revealing the excesses and abuses of the state on a daily basis at another site. For many of us, it’s like seeing the Wizard of Oz revealed for what he is. Once you know the truth about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny it’s impossible to ever go back to pretending you don’t know what you know.

In the wider world, many people try to delude themselves otherwise. They know that X is wrong but they make excuses for it. It’s Party Y’s fault or “it’s just a few bad eggs ruining it for everyone”. But when you see stories about police beating unconscious suspects, ramming the wrong suspect into wall and putting him in a coma, shooting a 92-yr old woman or arresting an 81-yr old man for fixing a pothole, etc., these are just the least of what’s happening to this country each and every day and it’s frustrating that the average person doesn’t have this information. What they have instead is FOX News which is anything but “fair and balanced”. What they have is mainstream media outlets that buy into the system lock, stock and barrel despite knowing how broken it is.

So yes, many Free Staters don’t have the patience or the time to transmit everything they’ve seen or know to those who haven’t a clue as to what’s happening. I get hot under the collar myself from time to time but I still remember what it’s like to not know what I know now, despite having had a nagging issue with perceived “authority” my entire life. I have always questioned authority and sought the answer to “Why?”. That’s what critical thinking is all about.

Those who want to enslave always start small. The proverbial frog in the pot of water. When we allow one abuse to go unfettered, we open the door to more and more.

And, of course, I don’t expect you to agree with everything we espouse. I’d rather you listen, as you have been, and explore the ideas we speak of for yourself. Look at the evidence we present and choose for yourself what’s right or not right for you. Put on what fits, leave what doesn’t in the closet. When our individual paths reach a crossroads, there is room for mutual understanding.

People have basic rights to self defense. This includes the ‘right to keep and bear arms’. If I am seen in public with a weapon and asked why I possess it, this is the answer I will give. The weak stomachs or nervousness of others is not my concern. I should not be expected to attenuate my rights or my self protection in order to ‘protect’ the ignorant. And if you don’t think walking around in public with a sidearm is a good idea, then you are ignorant. Ignorant of the concepts that this country was founded on, and ignorant of your own obligations to yourself and your loved ones.

I don’t know what else to say to you KN, reality IS.

Also, please don’t take this as an admonishment against those who choose not to arm themselves. I understand that those people have the right not to be armed. But I also understand that those people have no right to criticize my choice, simply because they have made a different one for themselves.

LPViper – Your comments are a big problem, you should learn from Zeus, respect an opinion, counter it, not fight it. I do not need to “strap on my gun” as you ask me to do, if FS are peaceful, they will not shoot me anyways, will they? How would the every day citizen take your remarks, compared to Zeus.

For example, take an athletic team (or any team, debate, chess) and the team is always losing, then the coach decides to make changes, and they start to win, same players but now positive results. From what I read (again my opinion) all your publicity is based on negative actions (being arrested),not positive.

I see what you’re saying, Native, but again this is a decentralized movement. There is no coach and no actual team, just ever-changing groups of people (united primarily by their mutual desire for more freedom) engaging in different activist events on a project-by-project basis.

As far as I am aware, most of the publicity comes from various Free Staters attempting to exercise the rights most Americans have either forgotten they have or fear to use in light of possible repercussions.

is it true that some FS’s carry guns (pistols on their waist) during these protests? (FYI, I am 100% for the Second Amendment, I hunt and belong to the NRA) If so what kind of message does this send to the people that want to stop by or ask what FS is all about? This will generate negative publicity, they will ask “why the hell do you need to carry guns for a peaceful protest?”

Many Free Staters wear guns to exercise their 2nd Amendment right and/or to get people used to seeing them again. Firearms were a much more common sight even in the early 20th century before the vast increase in government oppression and indoctrination. Back then, people didn’t run around wildly and scream bloody murder at the very sight of a firearm. These days, people seem to think that anyone who possesses a firearm will suddenly go insane and start shooting up the joint (with the exception of police officers whose badges somehow make them immune to this sudden bloodthirsty madness). Reality bears out that this is a ludicrous and irrational fear.

Free Staters are some of the most honorable, tried and true, peaceful people you will ever meet. Their principles of justice and morality are purposely ingrained in every fiber of their being (a fresh breath of air in this day and age). Instead of fearing them, one should embrace them as a deterrent to real crime. There are few safer places than a crowd of armed Free Staters.

Unfortunately, various political factions from the right and the left have created this modern meme that peaceful civilization requires everyone to be unarmed except for a handful of men and women allegedly charged with defending us all and paid by our stolen tax dollars. In reality, they can’t be there for everyone, don’t have a legal obligation to defend you and, more often than not, end up abusing their power.

It’s never a good idea to place your safety in the hands of someone else, especially when you have no say on what rules they enforce.

And I understand where you’re coming from. Most of the criticism I’ve heard often comes from a handful of older folks who’ve been indoctrinated for so long it’s too late to get them to think critically anymore. Certainly by the time you’re in your 60′s, 70′s or 80′s, you’re more likely to be totally addicted to the state and believe everything they tell you even though you look around at the mess they’ve caused and become wistful for the golden age of your youth “when things were better”.

People have a right to self defense, expressed by our Founders as the ‘right to keep and bear arms’. If freedom activists carrying guns is disturbing you, go home and strap on your own gun.