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Re: Interesting idea...?!
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Fri, 30 May 2003 16:37:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote:
> "Free State Project"
> http://www.freestateproject.org/
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> The Free State Project is a plan in which 20,000 or more liberty- oriented
> people will move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within
> the political system to reduce the size and scope of government. The success
> of the Free State Project would likely entail reductions in burdensome
> taxation and regulation, reforms in state and local law, an end to federal
> mandates, and a restoration of constitutional federalism, demonstrating the
> benefits of liberty to the rest of the nation and the world.
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> [edit: has Lar never mentioned this before, or did I miss it?]
I've never seen it discussed here, but the excellent radio program This
American Life ran a story on it recently:
http://www.thislife.org/ra/237.ram
If that link doesn't work, go to http://www.thislife.org/ and look for the
episode titled "Regime Change" from 4/18/03.
Critics sometimes look down on NPR and its children as "too liberal," but this
report showed a more positive handling of the I'll-Take-Vermont project than I
would have. One good thing--most of the Libertarians interviewed generally
didn't sound like the far-out nuts who often make the news, such as
Stan Jones
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html
Gary Copeland
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,63120,00.html
Julian Heicklen
http://www.lugnet.com/jump.cgi?http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2001/09/09-11-01tdc/09-11-01dops-letter-4.asp
and of course Harry Browne
http://www.realchange.org/browne.htm
Instead, the ones who were interviewed seemed like genuinely concerned folks who
see this plan as a legitimate and feasible means of putting Libertarianism
principals on the political map.
In the end, I found the expressed views to depend too much on anecdotal
experience and selective reasoning, but YMMV.
It's a neat idea, in principle, and it's almost exactly what I've previously
recommended re: "make your own nation/State and make it Libertarian." It would
be an interesting experiment.
Dave!
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