Greetings from a state that taxes based on rain … more on that to come in later posts I’m sure. I have been a libertarian since I knew what liberty was. I was lucky to have been raised in a poor enough school that our text books still spoke fondly of the Bill of Rights, something public school children miss out on today. Unfortunately I did not hear about the Free State Project soon enough and I fell into the category of politely explaining my beliefs and hoping that planting the seeds of agorism along with the constant abuses from government would cultivate freedom loving people with whom I could associate. What I underestimated was that even when someone agrees with you on 99% of the issues you speak about, many people are still programmed to believe that any dissent to government tyranny is tantamount to being anti-American, racist, sexist, or crazy.
About three years ago a close family friend packed up everything with no job and moved with his family to Northern Vermont. He is more of a “prepper” if I may label for the sake of brevity, but the idea of getting as far away from government control as possible was still a respectable motivation to me and I travel up there as often as possible. In our visits with him traveling through New Hampshire, riding my motorcycle with no helmet, or not buckling my seat belt, buying shirts and souvenirs with no sales tax and enjoying the views, I fell in love with the state. I began looking into moving there. Now I have generally been slow to evolve on electronics, not because I am against them, but because I have the awful misfortune of falling in love with operating systems and/or hardware that never seem to last (thanks free market for choosing against webOS and legit full vertical sliding QWERTY keyboards on cell phones!!) In any case I love the internet, but raising kids kept me from doing as much research as I’d have liked, but I finally came around to FSP, podcasts, Free Talk Live and subsequently Free Keene and this forum. It felt like a hand in a glove, but I more or less just enjoyed the content. I had looked into contacting some of the bloggers from Free Keene but wasn’t sure I wanted to join the forum since it seemed everything was going the way of Facebook but after my latest trip last weekend I decided today was the day to go ahead and do it.
So to sum up, I plan on surfing the forum frequently, although it seems a bit slow. I am on Twitter, but I don’t and won’t have Facebook so I am hoping it eventually falls out of favor and I get to chat with many of you on here soon!
Welcome to the forum. Please consider attending NH Liberty Forum March 5-8, 2015 in Manchester. That would be a great opportunity to meet hundreds of like-minded, liberty-loving folks and to see more of this state.
Mark
Hey thanks for the reply brother. I will be at Liberty Forum this year. Side note, I get a kick out of your commercials on FTL.
Welcome to the forum. Unfortunately facebook is almost a necessary evil these days to be fully plugged in but you can probably get by with the forum and checking out the event calendar at the main FSP site.
https://freestateproject.org/events/liberty-events-new-hampshire
Thanks for the reply Jeff, hope to meet you at an event soon. I think reasons like this are why I can't see myself on Facebook ever:
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-scanning-social-media-assign-threat-rating/#G4x7dt30uaedlasu.99
Welcome aboard. Thanks for helping breathe a little life into this forum.
Welcome! I lived in MD for 20 years or so, then PA the woke up and moved to New Hampshire last year. Thanks to overreaching government in the Mid-Atlantic states it seems we're getting more and more interest from that region. Liberty Forum isn't really in season but if you were to come up in summer and have room for a bushel of crabs…I'm just sayin'…
hope to see you at Liberty Forum, I'm Chris.
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Thank you for the replies Ian and Chris, I plan on being up for Liberty Forum to get to know some folks, and I will be up in spring for a few days looking at land. Hoping to have some friends available to give me a heads up on snow/mud conditions so we have the best possible conditions when we're walking land.