>Libertarians Pursue New Goal: State of Their Own
>By PAM BELLUCK
>New York Times
>October 27, 2003
>
>And recently, Keene became the home of Justin Somma, a 26-year-old
>freelance copywriter from Suffern, N.Y., and a foot soldier in an
>upstart political movement. That movement, the Free State Project, aims
>to make all of New Hampshire a laboratory for libertarian politics by
>recruiting libertarian-leaning people from across the country to move to
>New Hampshire and throw their collective weight around. Leaders of the
>project figure 20,000 people would do the trick, and so far 4,960 have
>pledged to make the move.
>
>The idea is to concentrate enough fellow travelers in a single state to
>jump-start political change. Members, most of whom have met only over
>the Internet, chose New Hampshire over nine other states in a heated
>contest that lasted months.
>
>
>Keene, a college town of 24,000, is not the only Free Stater destination
>in New Hampshire. Indeed, as many members acknowledge, one quandary for
>a movement of individualistic people is that it can be hard to get
>everyone on the same page.
>[...]
>Although Jackie Casey had voted for Wyoming, she just moved from
>Portland, Ore., to Merrimack, between Nashua and Manchester, renting a
>basement apartment with her cat, Soopa Doopa Hoopa, and her two
>9-millimeter handguns. (She wants a machine gun "or at least a rifle"
>for Christmas.) She has already hung one wall and her bathroom with
>framed posters of Frank Zappa, who was a libertarian himself.
>
>"I don't like to go places that don't let me have my gun," said Ms.
>Casey, 33, who sells memberships to a Las Vegas survivalist training
>institute and models for comic books (her likeness has graced the cover
>of one called Reload). Her New Hampshire plans include starting eight
>businesses "because nine out of every 10 fail, and I've already started
>two, so I need to do eight more."
>
>
Ooooh, I'm waiting for these two factors to start a-conflictin'. The
high frequency of Libertarians with personality disorders, and _lots and
lots of guns_. This could be more fun than _Battle Royale_.