June 23, 2004

Town Doesn't Welcome Libertarians - Members of the Free Town Project, an off-shoot of the Free State Project, received a chilly reception when they tried to pitch their ideas to the people of Grafton, New Hampshire (the luckiest state).

Apparently, a lot of the anxiety is from the people of Grafton reading the Free State message boards, and the more fringe members of the project. Got to love the terminology the Free Towners are using. "Little Hitlers", "liberation", "Oppression". Sounds like they need a military, not libertarians.

posted by shawnj 20 years ago
  • Didn't they learn anything from Iraq? Learn what?
  • Didn't they learn anything from Iraq? Learn what? How to pump water upwards, maybe.
  • Learn what? The title was mostly a joke. Learning that forcing "liberation" on a populace that is indifferent or hostile to "liberation" will not be met with candy and flowers.
  • Question (that I may have been able to answer on my own had I looked longer/harder): why would someone have a "moral objection" to voting? For voting per se or for particular votees? also - Zack Bass has been offering Filipina wives via World Class for a twelfth of a century? Who says something like that? Well, him obviously, but really...
  • Why don't they just go off and start thier own town? As i understand, it's not terribly difficult to do. dng, BADASS link! I just wasted a bunch of time there. Thanks!
  • why don't they just populate the new town with mail-order Filipinas?
  • only if they are free
  • Oh. mah. GAWD. All you she-monkeys have got to see this monkey love call by the fringiest member cited above. Ladies, you know that this one's a keeper. Woo-woo! /a lower-case, lipstick libertarian myself
  • They should have just done what that cult in Oregon did back in the 80s and just register to vote, put up a slate of candidate and win the seats. I was thinking of secretly organizing enough ultra liberals to move to Tom DeLay's district and vote that mother out. But if I told them we were coming, it wouldn't work.
  • guh. invasion of the clod people.
  • Tom DeLay's district Texas would just redraw the district lines. But you'd get your own Rep, though. it works both ways.
  • Damned hippy communes.
  • Weezel: Because that would be hard work, and this mob are not unlike the Golgafrinchans; long on self importance and rhetoric, and short on actual value to anyone. Setting up new town would require paying to build it. Then you'd need the "little Hitlers" to organise building roads, and arbitrate over how expensive the road building ought to be, and all those things that we have. Far easier to move into a town where people have done all the hard work and take it.
  • birdherder, you mean the Rajneeshees right? Such a silly plan. "Let's poison all the non-cultists. Nobody'll notice. Then our guys will be county officials. MWAHAHAHA"
  • Something the article I linked to gets wrong. The Bhagwan had actually taken what amounted to a vow of silence. Didn't speak with anyone, except supposedly, the two people who actually masterminded the plot. So that's why he got deported rather than charged. Could be hearsay. (Google says hearsay. I guess it's correct. Stupid English language.) Friend of my father was in it, but he got out a couple of years before the poisonings and he's who I heard the story from.