Free Republic

By now, 20,000 liberty-minded Americans should have started packing their wagons to head east – to the new frontier of libertarianism in New Hampshire. But more than three years after the Free State Project announced it had chosen the Granite State as its home base for furthering bare-bones government, the movement has fallen way short on membership goals. The group had hoped that by 2006 it would have 20,000 like-minded people pledged to move here. Once that target was reached, the committed masses would have then hauled their families and furniture to New Hampshire, ultimately integrating into state culture and...

From NHfree.com Keene, New Hampshire 6/6/05 FBI questions Keene I.D. refusenik Two FBI agents from the Boston division paid a visit to Russell Kanning's house in Keene today, about two weeks after he announced he would seek to board a Manchester airline flight with no I.D. The 35-year-old libertarian activist wasn't home but rather cheerfully agreed to meet up with the agents at his workplace. Special Agents Phil Christiana and Mark Alford spent about an hour interviewing him around 2PM on Monday, June 6. "They were really friendly," he says, "they obviously weren't there to arrest me...The thing they were...