Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Free Staters Not Welcome in New Hampshire

Tom Woods writes:

The great Free State Project (FSP) involves having pro-freedom individuals and families move to the Granite State in order to create an environment for the realization of "liberty in our lifetime," as the FSP puts it. Democratic State Rep. Cynthia Chase calls them "the single biggest threat the state is facing today."Whatever can be done about these people who favor nonviolence in interpersonal relations?

Her answer: "There is, legally, nothing we can do to prevent them from moving here to take over the state, which is their openly stated goal. In this country you can move anywhere you choose and they have that same right. What we can do is to make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave. One way is to pass measures that will restrict the 'freedoms' that they think they will find here.... Cheshire County is a welcoming community but not to those whose stated goal is to move in enough ideologues to steal our state, and our way of life."

Let's translate this from Politico into English: "Unfortunately, people have the right to move anywhere they like in this country. There's nothing we can do about that. But if we make New Hampshire a less desirable place to live, with fewer freedoms, maybe people seeking freedom will be less likely to settle here. We have a way of life here, you see. Our way of life consists of sticking a gun in people's ribs and taking their things, in order that those things may be distributed to powerful constituencies from whom we public servants expect to win votes. This is one of our sacred traditions. If you are philosophically opposed to the use of violence in the service of political ends, you are an ideologue. Ideologues are not welcome here. We are welcoming to everyone who delights in having a gun shoved in his ribs."


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13 comments:

  1. I moved to NH as part of the Free State Project over 5yrs ago and, personally, I don't understand what Ms. Chase's problem is. If she really loves big government, aka 'restricting freedom' as she puts it, all she has to do is move somewhere that already has what she's looking for. If she's in the Keene area that means she already lives within 20 miles of Massachusetts. If she REALLY cares about what she's saying, she'd simply pack up and move South. Voila, problem solved, she's in a socialist's utopia. Why ruin NH for the rest of us?

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    1. Because she's an insane control freak just like the rest of the gov

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    2. The point is not for HER to find a place where she can control people.
      The point for people like her is to make sure that there is no place to escape it. Lord knows people may get funny ideas if the FSP is actually succesful in taking over New Hampshire.
      She's a collectivist. NOBODY must escape the state.

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  2. This is truly sickening. Pure evil, these statists are.

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  3. Statists gonna state

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  4. If you're catching flak, you must be over the target.
    I'd like to personally thank Rep. Chase for promoting the FSP and showing the absurdity of the liberals all in one fell swoop.

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  5. I never know what to make of the recent need to dress up "having a society with an actual safety net so our least fortunate don't die" as some terrible tyranny, especially when it comes from people who are perfectly fine with us having a military budget about three times larger than our nearest rival. I would also be a bit miffed if people were coming into my area with the aim of dismantling our accomplishments in helping people less fortunate than myself, but by all means, keep pretending that government is unique in human affairs for being the exact opposite of freedom, and keep pretending that other large organizations aren't at least as inefficient, corrupt, and dangerous.

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    1. When did people become incapable of taking care of themselves? Seriously, I would like to know? Every time I hear someone advocate for more government programs to solve some problem, they always make it sound as if people are completely inept at caring for themselves or making decisions in their own best interest.

      Do you know what happened before we had big central government to take care of the "least fortunate"? We had communities looking out for those people. Yes, people, not government, cared for others that were down on their luck.

      Have you not figured out the game yet? Corporations use bribes and payoffs to public officials to pass laws to benefit them and stifle competition. Without government's monopoly on force, the corporations would be forced to compete with leaner, more adaptive, and more consumer friendly small businesses. While they are at it, the politicians make favorable investments before the legislation they pass become law (or at the very least secure a nice cushy job at one of the corporations after they serve in office)

      Yes, government is the definition of anti-freedom. Not only do we currently have examples around the world, but the founding fathers wrote extensively on it. Government is a monopoly on force. It is nothing new in history. It is the same broken record over and over; however, statists, for some reason, fail to see it. They want to "help the poor and unfortunate", but they will vote for more government, which steals from the masses at gunpoint, instead of getting more involved in their community or joining with others to start a more efficient organization to aid the unfortunate.

      I can see how kings, dictators, monarchs and even democratically "elected" government etc. have all come to, or remained in, power. It is the statists that feel that the only way to structure a society, is if an individual or a small group of central planners force and coerce the population in the hopes of prosperity.

      It has not, and never will, work.

      The people in the Free State Project just want to be left alone, in peace.

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    2. "when it comes from people who are perfectly fine with us having a military budget"

      You don't have a clue so as to what kind of political philosophy this blog promotes, do you? I'm afraid you've confused us with the neocons or something. They occasionally borrow our ideas to use in their rhetoric, but only to fool people into supporting them.

      As for why "having a society with an actual safety net so our least fortunate don't die" is evil you only need to think of the massive violence (or at least threatened violence) being perpetrated against decent people in order to support your "safety net". Somehow, I don't think stealing nearly half of income of productive people under the threat of jails and police guns is very charitable or moral. What causes your selective blindness to this robbery on unprecedented scale? If you think beating people up for the crime of being unwilling to "help" can be justified, you're in serious need of acquiring some moral compass.

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    3. "especially when it comes from people who are perfectly fine with us having a military budget about three times larger than our nearest rival"

      You probably meant to post this on a conservative website. Your statement doesn't make much sense here.

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    4. Just wondering, can you name a single Free Stater who supports anything like the current military budget? No? So you're a clueless automaton who still thinks the country is locked in a titanic struggle between Democrats and Republicans? Hey, better stop reading this post. The NBC Nightly News is on.

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  6. Thanks for moving to New Hampshire to make it more statist. Of course, if you wanted statism, you could have just stayed in RI. Instead of trying to ruin NH, you are welcome to go back to RI. I'll even pay for the bus ticket.

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  7. Particularly funny since Chase only moved to NH in 2006: http://freekeene.com/2012/12/27/youre-not-welcome-here-says-the-nh-state-rep-from-rhode-island/

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