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im4edwards Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:02 PM
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YO NH, look out for moving trucks. Incoming Libertarians !
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/01/free.state.ap/index.html

Seems that they have selected NH over Whyoming (yeah I know its wrong) to become the "Free State". They hope to colonize the state and make it a haven for limited govt and a poster child for the Libertarian model.

Forewarned is forarmed !
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:06 PM
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1. one thing we are in NH
is armed!

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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:08 PM
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2. This is a typical campaign move to effect the Dem primary.
The GOP has its nomads who will move into close districts to assure GOP wins. Disgusting.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:21 PM
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7. ha
the close districts are too densely populated. They'll be stuck moving to the cold north - where it's nearly impossible to make a living.

These are the future WalMart employees of the north - they just don't get it yet.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:29 PM
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10. The GOP has done this in other states over the years,
Edited on Wed Oct-01-03 01:30 PM by blm
including Florida.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:41 PM
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12. they don't need to do it here
NH is GOP through and through. We haven't given in to the concept of a 2 party system, especially here in the north. In the 2002 state elections, in my district there were Democrats on the ballot for the first time in 10 years.
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:41 PM
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13. This has been in the works for a while-
http://www.freestateproject.org/

Yes, it's full of nutcases that insist responsibility stops at the individual (thus, social responsibility is anathema). But it should be taken seriously.

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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:11 PM
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3. more trailers than trucks
is the climate in NH conducive to growing marijuana?

After all, a libertarian is a republican who smokes pot, is one not?
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im4edwards Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:15 PM
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5. they don't agree with that description, wouldn't know about the pot
or NH climate. I was under the impression it was cold there.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:22 PM
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8. a libertarian
is a Republican who makes no pretense about lacking a social conscience.
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alonso_quijano Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:14 PM
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4. Libertarian motto:
"People won't mind living under feudalism if they've got enough pot!"

Actually, that's the capital-L Libs. I have a great deal of sympathy for and agreement with lowercase-l libertarians, but the right-wing nutbar types who consider taxation level as an absolute measure of freedom, and the ability to bully the economically weaker as a birthright of the rich, disgust me.
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clar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:18 PM
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6. I thought they'd pick a
Northeastern state. Better NH than VT. (Sorry New Hampshirites) I think they made a serious mistake though. Clearly they won't make any hay in Southern NH, which is more or less a Boston suburb. That leaves Northern NH, a part of the state which wields far less political influence.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:28 PM
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9. Must be big news. Here's a similar thread:
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:38 PM
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11. Isn't NH where you go
...so your taxes won't be spent on people with dark skin?

Or to avoid them almost completely?

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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 01:42 PM
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14. actually for you flatlanders
it's where you come to buy beer on Sunday. :P

I'll ignore the offensively racist implications in your post, at least for the moment.
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 11:31 PM
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15. Oh please do
Ignore the subject entirely.
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maxanne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 11:54 PM
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17. your offensively racist comments
were deliberate, then?
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 02:26 PM
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18. I hit a sore spot
And calling an anti-racist sentiment "racist" is a Right-wing tactic.

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SteveG Donating Member (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-01-03 11:36 PM
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16. since we were on the list.....
Delaware was one of the options...we lost.... never have I been so proud of our state.
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