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Free State Project Reaches Membership Milestone
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Posted on 09/09/2002 1:43:18 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jason Sorens, President
Free State Project, Inc.
Phone: 828-273-8863
Email: info@freestateproject.org
Web site: www.freestateproject.org Free State Project Reaches Membership Milestone September 3, 2002 – The Free State Project, a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty-oriented people will move to a single state of the U.S. to secure there a free society, this week reached an exciting milestone of 1000 members. Since the FSP's founding in September of 2001, over one thousand people have decided that this route represents the most viable strategy toward the creation of a free state. According to Jason Sorens, the project’s founder, "This exciting milestone is a confirmation that we have a feasible solution that resonates with the politically disaffected." The membership numbers over the past year indicate that the project will meet its self-imposed deadline of September 2006 for the beginning of the move. The Free State Project has grown on average 25% each month; at this rate, the ultimate goal of 20,000 will be reached by the middle of 2003. As long as the membership continues to grow by at least 10% each month, the Project will reach its goal by early 2005 at the latest. The Free State Project, recently endorsed by respected economist Walter E. Williams in a widely syndicated column, is a new strategy for freedom. Founded by Jason Sorens, a Yale doctoral student in Political science, the Free State Project aims at liberty in a single state. The FSP membership favors cuts in state taxes and elimination of wasteful state government programs, an end to collaboration between state and federal law enforcement officials in enforcing federal drug and gun laws, the privatization of utilities, and the abolition of inefficient regulations and monopolies. For more information, please go to http://www.freestateproject.org.
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To: tpaine; OWK; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Mercuria; MadameAxe; redrock; Free Vulcan; ...
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To: rb22982; Texaggie79
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To: Sir Gawain; BrooklynGOP
I'm in, as long as they pick the state I'm already in...
To: Texaggie79
Hohoho!
To: Sir Gawain
Do you remember, or have heard about, the 'Minerva Project' of the 1970s?
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posted on
09/09/2002 2:14:26 PM PDT
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RJCogburn
To: Sir Gawain
Sounds like a libertarian cult. Don't drink the cool aid! :)
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posted on
09/09/2002 2:15:00 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: Texaggie79
I'm in, as long as they pick the state I'm already in... This is the big flaw in the plan: how do we convince 20,000 conservatives to agree on one state? People already gravitate to states which suit them politically.
To: BlazingArizona
Well, if I could be shown, for a fact that there would be enough people to actually bring an a Liberty oriented government, I would seriously consider it.
It won't work.
The original intent of the Constitution would have allowed for such a thing. In fact, the states were supposed to determine what kinds of laws they had, and the central government's role was to be small and defined. You know, "laboratories of democracy".
But that's not what we have now. The federal government doesn't care what powers are enumerated and which powers are prohibited to it and reserved to the states. It doesn't care what the 9th and ESPECIALLY the 10th Amendment has to say. 600,000 dead in the 1800's can tell you all about that.
The fed isn't going to allow any state to start doing its own thing either, lest its ever growing power be diminished or other states decide to follow suit. And it won't hesitate to use violence, or even resort to full scale war to get its way.
Being a state in the United States of America is a lot like being in the mob: No one outside your family can ever mess with you and you're stinking rich. But once you're in it's for life. If you try to quit, they'll kill you. And while it's one big "family", all power flows from the top down and disrespecting the boss will get you dead. Puerto Rico, please take note of this before becoming a state.
If there ever is to be a free state, it isn't going to be here. Try looking for land somewhere else where there isn't such a powerful and powerhungry government already in place, then give me a call, and maybe I'll stop by.
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posted on
09/09/2002 2:34:26 PM PDT
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freeeee
To: RJCogburn; Sir Gawain
To: MadameAxe
Wow! Great link. Thanks.
a rowboat populated by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and a brass band, to Minerva.
That is the story I recall reading at the time, though the boat was described as a "war canoe".
To: Sir Gawain
Pick a place with broadband access and I am halfway there.
To: Sir Gawain; Texaggie79
As long as I can play MMORPGs on a fast internet connection I'm in lol.
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posted on
09/09/2002 7:40:34 PM PDT
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rb22982
To: rb22982
So what are your latest addictions?
To: Texaggie79
just started AC:2 beta
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posted on
09/09/2002 9:44:55 PM PDT
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rb22982
To: Texaggie79
...and playing Warcraft III (not MMORPG) also
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posted on
09/09/2002 9:50:15 PM PDT
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rb22982
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