Free Keene

From the NH Free Press’ Kat Kanning, a more detailed story covering the Free State Project reaching 10,000 signers, complete with several reasons liberty activists made the move NH:

Ten thousand people have now signed up with the Free State Project to move to New Hampshire – halfway to the group’s goal of 20,000. I am one of the approximately 1000 people who have already made the move. It’s been over 5 years since I packed up one daughter, one cat and a truckload of stuff to drive from Texas to New Hampshire. Since then my life’s been turned upside down. I now run a newspaper, I’ve been arrested three times, and I don’t think twice about waving a sign on a street corner.

There are a few main areas where people have chosen to move, but there are freestaters scattered all over the New Hampshire. Concentrations are in Manchester, Concord, Keene, the seacoast and Grafton. Keene has become the focus of Voluntaryist action, from civil disobedience to filming bureaucrats in their misdeeds. Manchester houses more of the political activists who work toward getting freedom-minded candidates into office and enacting pro-liberty legislation. Grafton was the site of the Free Town Project and now has the highest concentration of freestaters in any one town. (Read on …)

The FSP reached an important milestone yesterday – the halfway mark of 10,000 participants! Here’s the press release from the FSP:

America’s boldest experiment in liberty, the Free State Project, officially signed its 10,000th 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.” (Read on …)

Your thoughts about the benefits of drug use, Texas man sentenced to 35 years in prison for possession of 4.6 oz of marijuana, PA goes after bars that sell unregistered beer, kindergartner suspended for making his finger into a gun, and new terrorism bill gives the president the power to imprison US citizens indefinitely without a trial.
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The ATF confiscates a shipment of Airsoft plastic BB guns, Miami considers putting a ban on feeding the homeless, the Downsizer Dispatch, a UK woman in trouble with the law for failing to report buried treasure (yes she found an old coin), and the US government is killing indigenous fish and replacing them with rainbow trout.

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Nick and Toby discuss the War on Drugs and the right of Americans to keep and bear arms.

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The TSA forces 4-year-old to take off leg braces and drag himself through a metal detector, laziness grouchiness are being considered as psychological disorders, police in the UK are attempting to break into residents’ houses to keep them safe, and being a vegetarian may not be as good for the environment as previously thought.
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China to censor text messages, Australian police stage fake robbery of pharmacy that was under police surveillance, the Downsizer Dispatch, studies show banning talking on cell phones does not prevent accidents, and a 12-year-old girl arrested for doodling on her desk.

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The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund is entering a new era with a website redesign (more changes coming) and the HUGE announcement that former LEAP speaker and veteran law enforcement officer Brad Jardis will be heading up the organization as Executive Director!

Here’s the release from CDEF Chairman Brian Travis as posted at CDEvolution.org (please go and become a contributing member!):

It is my great pleasure to announce that Brad Jardis has joined the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund as Executive Director.

Brad is a well-known figure in the liberty movement in New Hampshire. He spent 11 years as a law enforcement officer. His outspoken criticism of the illegal drug war has made him a pariah to the established law enforcement cabal. For the same reason, Brad has become a hero to many people in the liberty community.

Because of his public stance on the drug war, as well as criticism of other crimes that imprison non-violent people, Brad was recently forced out of his job.

We are fortunate to have Brad as the public face of the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund and look forward to the impact he will have on the liberty movement in New Hampshire.

Court upholds a DWI for a man who was sleeping in his broken down car which was parked in his own driveway with no keys in the ignition, Bill Gates commentary on the economy mirrors what Free Minds TV has been saying for years, Health Care exemptions for the Amish, and the war on drugs may be coming to an end

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UK job placement agency rejects advertisement because looking for “reliable workers” discriminates against lazy people, US ethanol subsidies are leaving millions hungry, the Downsizer Dispatch, federal subsidies are at an all time high, and an upset parent has dictionaries which define “oral sex” banned from certain classrooms.

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