Advice for Free State carpetbaggers — Go home

[NewHampshireDem]

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=39374

IT SOUNDED pretty benign on paper: “The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.”

Since the Granite State is probably 100 times freer than most other states, we figured, sure, come on in if you love winter and can appreciate our brand of freedom and lifestyle. But it soon got ugly. In a public forum on the Free State Project’s Web site, outsiders who had never set foot in New Hampshire began to criticize the state government because it didn’t fit their definition of Libertopia.

The more vocal members promised, while they sit in their armchair prisons in places like New York, Florida and California, to “liberate” the people from tyranny.

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Eventually, speculation among the Free Towners turned to the inevitable resistance they’d face. One response: “We don’t want their honey, we do want them out of their hives. If they sting we swat, and if they don’t wise up we torch the hive.” This same individual offered that while he was technically a resident of New Hampshire, he didn’t actually live in the state. Someone asked, “Do we actually have to live in Grafton in order to vote there?” The general feedback was no, you could “cleanse” the town of non-believers while still living elsewhere.

First they’d privatize the roads and the schools, eliminate mandatory recycling, and wipe out taxes for their fellow cultists but not for the “statists,” that is, those of us who were already here. Once that’s done, they’d legalize drugs, prostitution, incest and other crimes they refer to as “victimless.”

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Wait, is this the Free State Project or the Free Republic Calling-All-Crazies-athon?

[cprise]

1. classify them on our own terms

Going around calling them 'Free Staters' won't help much in a sound-bite environment.

Liber-topians conveys a much more accurate impression, IMO.

Don't fall into the trap of letting them always define the terms of debate.