Unofficial History of Drama in the Free State

[sandm000]

Seems the local Newhampshiremen don't like the Free Staters.

More accurate to say the Keene-area people don't like the FSPers, for a lot of the same reasons the Grafton people (like our own M$/president/blackie) didn't like FSPers.

Even more accurate to say that some of the people of Keene don't like the Keeniac subset of FSPers.

[sillyperson]

Some Iraqis are pissed at some of the Americans that occupy their country.

[ForumTroll]

Some Iraqis are pissed at some of the Americans that occupy their country.

Some FSP'ers have nothing better to do than blame the wrong people for the failure of the project.

[sillyperson]

The Project hasn't failed, but some FSP participants;
1) are failing to win hearts and minds
2) are failing to have any actual change in society
3) are failures

[Osborne]

Hopefully, some FSP'ers like to drink beer and mind their own business.

[sillyperson]

Hopefully, some FSP'ers like to drink beer and mind their own business.

Yes on one, no on two

[TimeLady Victorious]

So why the hell is Jason Sorens NOT in New Hampshire?

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

So why the hell is Jason Sorens NOT in New Hampshire?

Mind your own business.

[sillyperson]

So why the hell is Jason Sorens NOT in New Hampshire?

AFAIK it's because he needs a J-O-B
College professor jobs in Poli Sci (I assume) are presumably relatively scarce.. you have to wait for somebody with tenure to croak and then muscle in on he action for the open spot.
He's out here for a few months at a stretch when it's possible

[TimeLady Victorious]

So why the hell is Jason Sorens NOT in New Hampshire?

Mind your own business.

It's pretty much everybody's business, since he's supposed to be the head of the Free State Project, a public organization, and the FSP chose New Hampshire to be its home.

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

It's pretty much everybody's business, since he's supposed to be the head of the Free State Project, a public organization, and the FSP chose New Hampshire to be its home.

[sandm000]

It's pretty much everybody's business, since he's supposed to be the head of the Free State Project, a public organization, and the FSP chose New Hampshire to be its home.

HOLY SHIT, he's in charge of this thing? I thought we were supposed to be self directed, choosing which battles to fight, which political philosophies to support, on our own, w/o needing a ruler or leader. It's his brainchild, yes, but that doesn't mean that he gives orders. That's the reason I moved, because people like Dennis (not trying to pick on you) were doing there own thing without an organization to direct their actions.

That's like saying Ben Franklin is in charge of Electricity.

[TimeLady Victorious]

It's pretty much everybody's business, since he's supposed to be the head of the Free State Project, a public organization, and the FSP chose New Hampshire to be its home.

HOLY SHIT, he's in charge of this thing? I thought we were supposed to be self directed, choosing which battles to fight, which political philosophies to support, on our own, w/o needing a ruler or leader. It's his brainchild, yes, but that doesn't mean that he gives orders. That's the reason I moved, because people like Dennis (not trying to pick on you) were doing there own thing without an organization to direct their actions.

That's like saying Ben Franklin is in charge of Electricity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project#History

The Free State Project was founded in 2001 by Jason Sorens, then a Ph.D. student at Yale University.[6]  Sorens published an article in The Libertarian Enterprise highlighting the failure of libertarians to elect any candidate to federal office, and outlining his ideas for a secessionist movement, and calling people to respond to him with interest.[7]  The movement has, since then, come to emphasize secessionism much less strongly, with Sorens publishing a note in the journal to this effect in 2004.[8]  Sorens has stated that the movement continues an American tradition of political migration, which includes groups such as Mormon settlers in Utah and Amish religious communities.[9]

Also apparently I was wrong. According to http://freestateproject.org/org the head of the FSP is Varrin Swearingen.

[blackie]

Also apparently I was wrong. According to http://freestateproject.org/org the head of the FSP is Varrin Swearingen.

Hmmm, Irena Goddard is chair of the BOD now.

[sandm000]

It's pretty much everybody's business, since he's supposed to be the head of the Free State Project, a public organization, and the FSP chose New Hampshire to be its home.

HOLY SHIT, he's in charge of this thing? I thought we were supposed to be self directed, choosing which battles to fight, which political philosophies to support, on our own, w/o needing a ruler or leader. It's his brainchild, yes, but that doesn't mean that he gives orders. That's the reason I moved, because people like Dennis (not trying to pick on you) were doing there own thing without an organization to direct their actions.

That's like saying Ben Franklin is in charge of Electricity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project#History

The Free State Project was founded in 2001 by Jason Sorens, then a Ph.D. student at Yale University.[6]  Sorens published an article in The Libertarian Enterprise highlighting the failure of libertarians to elect any candidate to federal office, and outlining his ideas for a secessionist movement, and calling people to respond to him with interest.[7]  The movement has, since then, come to emphasize secessionism much less strongly, with Sorens publishing a note in the journal to this effect in 2004.[8]  Sorens has stated that the movement continues an American tradition of political migration, which includes groups such as Mormon settlers in Utah and Amish religious communities.[9]

Also apparently I was wrong. According to http://freestateproject.org/org the head of the FSP is Varrin Swearingen.

Also, apparently I was wrong, because the FSP is about getting people to NH, not what they do there after. Woops.

And Edison is in charge of light bulbs.