10,000 pledge "liberty migration" to NH

[ilaughatrightwingers]

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10,000 people have pledged to move to New Hampshire in order to "downsize the government". Is this a real quest for liberty or just another right-wing astroturf?

[dgibby]

1. Then what?

NH secedes?:shrug:

[ilaughatrightwingers]

2. Perhaps

The official statement of their organization is they aren't thinking about secession. At least not yet anyway.

http://freestateproject.org/org/faq

[grasswire]

3. I know of a woman who left her home and children behind...

...and did this migration, to be part of this movement. It's very real.

[ilaughatrightwingers]

7. Of course..

A lot of these people moving to NH for a dubious promise of "more liberty" are very frustrated with how things are going. There has to be a reason why someone would so willingly leave their family to move to a state they know little about.

[ET Awful]

4. Or maybe they build their own little colony under the leadership of a charismatic

father figure who teaches them that the government is out to destroy the society they've build for themselves there in the woods. . . .

You know, kind of a fascist Jim Jones.

[dgibby]

5. I'll take up a collection for the Kool-aide. n/t

[fasttense]

6. This is funded by the Koch (pronounced like it looks) brothers.

All these supposed Free Staters are using money from corporations.

"We have a right wing “grassroots” group of our own here in New Hampshire with ties to Koch money. Called the Free State Project, it was the creation of Jason Sorens. (While the group advocates for the elimination of tax-funded public education, Dr. Sorens teaches political science at the taxpayer funded State University of New York at Buffalo.)"

A bunch of hypocrites and corporatist. Destroying democracy one state at a time.

"Dr. Sorens was funded by two Koch funded organizations: the Mercatus Center and the Institute for Humane Studies. When he was ready to launch his audacious plan to convert New Hampshire into a free markets stronghold, he was assisted on the morning of February 27, 2004 with a big-wig press conference at the Washington D.C. headquarters of the wealthy and well connected American Enterprise Institute, also funded with Koch money as well as the rest of the A-list of conservative foundations. According to its most recent 990 tax filing, available to the public at www.guidestar.org, the American Enterprise Institute had assets of $104 million in 2008 and received grants and contributions of $59 million that year."

http://www.counterpunch.org/martens10192010.html

Just think of the successes Progressive groups could have if we were funded like this.

[ilaughatrightwingers]

8. Thanks

I'll ask the free staters I encounter about their funding. I don't hate them, I just think they're misinformed about what "liberty" and "authority" are.