by Ian | Jun 2, 2009 |
Submitted to the Keene Sentinel:
There is so much misinformation in Michael Schuman’s recent opinion piece, “Will the Free Staters please sit down?”, I felt the record should be set straight. First, let’s actually define what a “Free Stater” is:
The Free State Project (FSP) is an organization that promotes the idea that liberty-minded people move to New Hampshire and get active. A “Free Stater” is nothing more than a liberty activist, and could even be from NH. Schuman, incidentally, is from Connecticut.
Schuman claims the NH Free Press is a “media outlet” of the FSP. The NH Free Press is a newspaper run by two liberty activists, but the FSP has no control over what activists do when they get here. No one ordered me to respond to Schuman’s ill-informed piece; I didn’t ask permission from, and nor do I speak for the FSP. Russell and Kat Kanning, the publishers of the NH Free Press, may consider themselves “9/11 truthers” but I don’t know many liberty activists in the Keene area who feel the same way. We are individuals with divergent beliefs but with the common thread of loving freedom so much that we’re willing to take action for it.
As for his suggestion that liberty activists are akin to the rude person who stood in front of him at a concert once, I certainly haven’t met them all, but those I know are friendly, respectful, and are good neighbors. They also range from small government minarchists to those who are voluntaryists and absolutely oppose the initiation of force against peaceful people. (more…)
by Sam Dodson | Jun 1, 2009 |
Thursday, May 28:
Hello everyone! I’ve taken a few days off from the blog posts to do some internal spiritual development. I’ve also been working out 1-2 hours a day and eating lots of food to replenish my body’s natural reserves and begin building back the ~15 pounds of muscle I lost. The workouts wipe me out, so I’ve also been sleeping an hour or two during the day.
I’m writing primarily to say “Thank you!” to everyone who contributed to getting me on Freedom Watch. I feel like the interview went very well. On my end it seemed like it was over in 2 minutes! Time flies when having fun. I heard about an email Shelly Roche sent out to 20,000 Break The Matrix viewers, that was titled “The Camera Is the New Gun.” That’s such a true statement. Cameras combined with new technology and the power of the internet is reshaping society in the same way the printing press reshaped society in ways few peasants could even imagine.
Again, thank you all for working so hard to bring my situation to the attention of Freedom Watch. I think it’s going to bring a lot more national attention to what’s happening in the Free State.
I have several more stores, and I’ll get back to them soon. The self development and insights about myself are incredibly valuable and need to take priority. I’m also getting indications that my time here is coming to a close in the next week or two. I don’t know how exactly, all I can say is it feels like I have learned what I came here to learn. It may be another month, maybe three, I’m content to wait if that’s the case. I could be misinterpreting all the little signals the universe has been sending me, but if I’m correct, I’ll be seeing everyone soon without the glass partition in something other than orange.
SamIAm
