Help Shire Sharing Feed 500 Families on Thanksgiving

by | Oct 13, 2014 | 1 comment

Shire Sharing Fundraiser 2014

Shire Sharing Fundraiser 2014

Shire Sharing was founded in 2011 by Free State Project early mover Amanda Bouldin. She and other activists come together to feed hundreds of families on Thanksgiving each year. First they raise thousands of dollars, then put together bags full of food that are customized to the dietary needs or the receiving family, and finally deliver them in time for Thanksgiving!

Every year, as the graphic to the right shows, Shire Sharing has delivered more meals than the previous year! Fundraising for 2014 has begun – click here to help them meet their goal of raising $8,500.

They can also use help assembling and delivering the meals – you can pitch in by joining the Shire Sharing facebook group.

Awesome Front Page Feature on the Free State Project from the Union Leader

by | Oct 12, 2014 | 17 comments

Union LeaderThanks to reporter Meghan Pierce for this well-researched feature article that focuses on several Free State Project early movers in Sunday’s Union Leader. The front page, above-the-fold article is very detailed and lengthy. It shows the various viewpoints of the participants and how we’re united by the cause of human freedom. No haters are quoted in the piece, but of course there are plenty in the comments. The haters better get ready, cause more FSP movers are coming to NH every week!

If your libertarian movement isn’t getting this kind of press where you live and if you feel nearly alone, as I once did in Florida, then the Free State Project is the solution!  Go check out the 101 Reasons to Move to NH, sign up for the FSP, then start planning your move.  You won’t regret it.  NH is where freedom has a chance and libertarian-types can actually have an impact.  This article is more proof of our relevance here.  Libertarians just aren’t relevant elsewhere.  See you in NH!

Here’s the full text: (more…)

More Proof That Free Staters Would Be Hated Without Keene Activism

by | Oct 10, 2014 | 42 comments

Haters Gonna Hate

Haters Gonna Hate

In a letter to the editor of the Seacoast Online, the chairman of the Hampton Democratic Committee, Dick Desrosiers, goes on the attack against the Free State Project, claiming we are “destroying our government”. I’ll post the full text below.

The important thing to takeaway from this, is that Dick at no point cites the varied, supposedly offensive activism done in Keene over the years. All of his objections to the FSP are purely political. This goes to the point that I’ve been making to the critics within the libertarian community for years:

Any activism that jeopardizes the status quo will result in hatred of those activists, by those who support the status quo. (Usually the government agents, their family, friends, and sycophants.)

For many years, libertarian critics in and outside of New Hampshire have wrung their hands about “Keene activism”, claiming we’re ruining the movement, poisoning the well, and other blame-placing. We’ve been told we’re doing it wrong and that we should do more political action, because that’s somehow not going to be as upsetting to people. (Of course, this ignores that many in Keene have done and continue to do political action.)

The reality is that political action takes longer to foment change and it’s not as visible or newsworthy as say, civil disobedience. However, this hate letter and the constant attacks on political activist and FSPer Aaron Day are just two more recent examples that those on the political scene will also find themselves under fire from the haters. In fact, as Free State Project participants win more seats and begin repealing bad laws, you can expect the attacks to increase in frequency and vitriol. Already the Aaron Day opponents have spent untold thousands on their full-color hitpiece mailers.

The people in power know that the Free State Project is a threat (peaceful) to their control over others, and they hate us for it. While much of Keene activism is a threat to the ideas that back the status quo, the political activism by FSP participants is an actual threat to the structure of power. It’s therefore arguable that eventually the political activists will bear the majority of the brunt of the haters’ anger.

Despite keyboard libertarian warriors’ beliefs, there is no way to foment change to a more free society without creating enemies. Most people outside NH in the larger libertarian movement don’t understand this, because the libertarian movement has virtually never been a threat to the status quo anywhere outside of New Hampshire, with the exception of Ron Paul. If you care about liberty, move to New Hampshire if you want to win. But prepare yourself for the anger and derision that will come with the success.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi

Here’s the letter to Seacoast Online by hater Dick Desrosiers: (more…)