Maureen O’Reilly beams with pride as she shows a visitor around Grafton, N.H., a town so small it doesn’t even have a traffic light.
“Have a look at this,” O’Reilly says, pointing to a postcard view of hilly rural New England. “How beautiful is this? It’s really pretty in the fall, really, really pretty.”
But behind the beautiful view, locals are dividing into opposing camps. About 50 Libertarians have moved into Grafton from around the country, splitting the town over their push to shrink its government. (more…)
Just days after someone left hitpiece fliers attacking Robin Hood of Keene on cars in downtown Keene, now Robin Hood’s Merry Men have found several meters that have been vandalized with stickers. The sticker shows a cartoon drawing of butt-cheeks with the words “Insert for Ian Freeman’s Ego Here”, roughly placed over the coin slot of the machine, and also the words “Robin Hooders are Villians”. Garret Ean captured this video evidence which also shows parking enforcement agent Jane removing the stickers.
Unlike Robin Hooding, which makes the parking enforcers’ jobs easier by preventing them from writing tickets, this anonymous hater has made the enforcers’ job harder by forcing them to spend time removing these stickers. If the hater was trying to show support for the parking enforcers, the hater has failed miserably.
The Free State Project is getting national press from NPR over several participants moving and getting active in the small town of Grafton, NH. Of the entire libertarian movement worldwide, the FSP is making the largest impact. Here’s the story from NPR.
