Posted on 08/15/2003 7:53:21 PM PDT by Dada Orwell
This just went up on the FSP website.
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CONTACT: Elizabeth McKinstry, Vice President Free State Project, Inc. Phone: (734) 904-5712 Email: emckinstry@freestateproject.org Website: www.freestateproject.org
Free State Project hits crucial 5,000 member mark
August 13, 2003
Celebrity writer Boston T. Party becomes 5000th "Free Stater" Group aims to migrate, free one state from "Big Gov." 5000th sign-up considered key milestone Event triggers crucial vote: Which state will become the Free State? One year ahead of schedule, America's fastest-growing liberty movement has just crossed a rubicon. This week Colorado author and privacy activist Boston T. Party became the 5,000th person to join the Free State Project, an organization working to concentrate 20,000 liberty-minded voters in one state. Their aim is to help reduce the size and scope of government there, making it a beachhead for individual liberty: The "Free State."
"It is my pleasure to formally join," says Party, author of "Boston's Gun Bible" and "You and the Police."
"Start packing your bags...We're all gonna be neighbors!"
Boston isn't the first public figure to become involved. Other notables in the movement include New Hampshire Governor Craig Benson (R) and syndicated columnist Vin Suprynowicz. But Boston's decision to join triggers both crucial events and warm responses.
"Boston T. Party was a favorite author of mine long before the Free State Project, " says FSP Vice Pres. Elizabeth McKinstry, "and it's thrilling to see the synergy between Boston and the FSP blossom in this way."
Having reached the 5,000 mark, the Project is now required by charter to select a state. Over the next month, members will vote by mail to choose between ten candidates: VT, NH, ME, MT, ND, SD, WY, ID, AK and DE. The winner will likely become their eventual home, though members are officially pledged to move only if their numbers reach 20,000.
Individuals wishing to participate in the state vote have until August 15 to join the FSP. Ballots are due Sept. 22, and (drumroll) the winning state will be announced on October 1, 2003.
In the meantime, Party says he's nearing completion on a novel he started in 1997: "Molon Labe!" The topic? Thousands of liberty lovers try to establish a Free State! Excerpts are now available on the FSP website, www.freestateproject.org.
Despite the regimentation, discipline and endless waste and often inefficiency, the military at least offered an evenhandedness and virtues [including honour] that were at least generally followed, if sometimes left in the breech for expediency's sake.
But the current system not only disregards such things but considers them as an anathema to their continuation, and rightfully so. You've read Heinlein's Starship Troopers I bet. *Those people* never had a History& Moral Philosophy course, much less fulfilled the first duty of a citizen....
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Yep, as per the FSP report of the Governor's interest *here*. Indeed, his endorsement is one factor that caused me to remove New Hampshire from my *Opt-Out* list of states I wouldn't be considering for relocation to, both for the acceptance of our migration as well as the liklihood that despite certain political and philosophical differences, we could work with statre leaders like Governor Benson.
Besides, I like the idea of having someone like Benson in the Governor's mansion.
Isn't it a shame what they did to that book? So now, the people who saw the flick but never read the book will never understand your comments....
Maybe. And maybe not. I understand a sequel to the first film is in the works....
I always get the shakes before a drop....
I'm not trying to insult the free staters, I'm just pointing out the frailty of human nature. You can speak for yourself, but I doubt you have 5,000 saints signed up. Not all will go along with undying devotion when a state is chosen and a date is set. Then of those truly devoted to the cause, how many would have spouses and family members who were only lukewarm who then were able to nag/persuade someone to reconsider?
Yeah, I'm hoping to meet some folks as well. It'll probably be a year to a year and a half by the time I can make it out there. That would make me 24 or 25, still a few years away from owning my own business or home. Hopefully I can find work and housing!!!
I hope not.....
Now lissen up, ya ape: no griping about previous movies, see? There's another outpost with a little bug problem, and they've got just the bunch of Roughnecks to take care of it. Awlright, so maybe it's not the Roughnecks, and maybe Captain Dax is no Lieutenant Rasczak. No matter, whether it's the Roughnecks, the Assassins, Hangmen, Bravo Six or any of the other Mobile Infantry outfits. Yeah, the bugs are tough to take on with nothing more than a Morita, but Dax's bunch has got some railguns, too, and other goodies. And maybe, just maybe, what they do on that dark God-forsaken bug-infested asteroid will buy enough time for the power suits to show up in the third movie. And with the suits, a man will have a fighting chance against the bugs. And seasoned troopers like Lt Rico, who looks a lot like Casper Vvan Dien might even be around to man them...but somebody will.
You got that? Now let's get out there and kill bugs, troop!
Richard Burger as *Bravo Six* Captain Dax; Collen Porch as Pvt. Lei Sahara; Brenda Strong as Sergeant Dake; Lawrence Monoson as Psi talent Lt. Dill; Ed Quinn as medic Joe griff; Kelly Carlson as Pvt Charlie Soda, Cy Carter as Pvt. Billy Otter [Otter? Hey, wasn't he in Animal House?] and Billy Brown as Pvt Brick.
Director: Phil Tipett
Exec Producer: Glenn Gainor [who's got a cameo in the movie as a recruiting center guard named *Gainor*]
and SFX supervisor Mike Lantieri, who had to have been impressed and proud when SFX legend Ray Harryhausen showed up on the set.
Just to the general film info, and a few related links. But not Kelly Carlson's nude scene. Yet.
Yeah, I'm hoping to meet some folks as well. It'll probably be a year to a year and a half by the time I can make it out there. That would make me 24 or 25, still a few years away from owning my own business or home. Hopefully I can find work and housing!!!
I should beat you out there, then, depending of course on which state gets the nod. I'd hope you know that it goes without saying that if there's any way I can help you out or any info I can spot for you from on the scene, all you have to do is let me know.
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