FSP News - November 2009

FSP News - November 2009

Google it, you'll like it

I was in Anchorage, AK after several months traveling the US. The next day in the early morning of my arrival, I saw a guy watching an old movie in the common area. I said good morning and I sat down. He started a conversation and it led to politics and how the government should be. Then he asked me if I knew about the Free State Project. I said no. Then he told me I should Google it. I asked, “What is it about?” He looked at me and said with confidence, “Google it, you’ll like it.” I spent days looking over the videos and reading about it. Three weeks later I moved to NH

Muhammad

Merchandise

The waiting...over. The sun...shining. The angels...singing. Free State Project silver rounds are now available from the FSP store page. (http://www.freestateproject.org) The pure, one-ounce silver round (don't dare call it a coin) is ready and waiting. Why a "round" and not a "coin"? Well, a coin is what the government makes and a "round" is the cool way numismatists refer to non-government issued flat, round, metal slabs. Although from the numismatic point of view, it's probably an insult. As if these beautiful discs of silver have no charm, no uniqueness, no purpose. They think they're just a "round", a slug, a blank. Now that just won't do. I guess you could call them "medallions", which is kinda cool, like a "metal lion" roaring for freedom. I can see it now. Our top story tonight: "The silver porc's bellow, heard through-out the land bringing stability and honesty to economies everywhere". Well, ok, maybe not. How about "sabot". Yeah, solid money, conforming to the laws of economics, running along the rifling of a straight-shooting economy with honest money for honest people. No, huh? The aesthetic approach? A thing of beauty? A gleaming, shining example of man's mastery over the rough and random world around us. A resplendent reminder that man can create beauty from the gritty dirt of the earth. Turning mud and stone into shining objects that tempt the eye to linger. An object that caresses the eye, and the brain working behind it. An object telling us that haphazard nature, while fascinating, has no choice but to look as it does. While a creating man can take the savage roughness and turn it into an exquisite object of pulchritude and style. Too high-brow? Snobbish? Yeah, you're right. Perhaps "round" is the best term. Plain, solid, everyday. So while we wait for the New Miss Mad-Ticks to give 'em a name, I'll sit here calmly, enjoy the sun's sheen on FSP silver, and listen to the angels sing.

For donors that received an SP (Silver Porc): I hope to be receiving the plastic cases for them any day now. (Darn, more waiting) If you want one for your silver porc - you know to keep it all fine and clean, passing it down from generation to generation, as a venerated family heirloom - send me an email at merchandise@freestateproject.org, and I'll get one out to you. For you hard-core gold-buhgs who expect the SP to be a working piece, being exchanged hither and yon as a vital part of a dynamic, reality-based economy; well you don't need such namby-pamby things. You want to handle the heft of the metal, feel the delicate cut of the design, trace your fingertips along the flutes, and hear the signing, ringing sound of the pure silver as you flip it through the air to a waiting vendor, completing the voluntary exchange that benefits you both as together you say; "Thank you".

The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire. We are looking for neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors who agree to the political philosophy expressed in our Statement of Intent, that government exists at most to protect people's rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else. freestateproject.org

In New Hampshire

At the ballots

Liberty-lovers had many great victories at the ballot box in New Hampshire on November 3rd. Free Staters are helping to install small-government candidates in districts where "politics-as-usual" would never have let such candidates succeed. A spending cap (capping the rate of spending increases to the rate of inflation) passed in Manchester, New Hampshire's biggest city. A liberty activist has been elected to Nashua's Board of Education. A Free-Stater won his race for Selectman, while a Friend of the FSP won his race for Alderman. These victories are encouraging for those who hope for greater freedom in New Hampshire, and they would not have occurred without the Free State Project.

Free State Blogs

What's happening in New Hampshire with the Free State Project? Free State Blogs attempts to answer that question. Here's just a sampling of this month's blog entries:

The RidleyReport

Videographer Dave Ridley from NHFree.com is one of our Porcs on the scene in New Hampshire. See some of what's happening in the Free State on the RidleyReport.

Check the NH Calendars

The NH Underground Calendar lists liberty-oriented New Hampshire events. The NH Liberty Calendar also tracks NH events. Check the calendars before a visit or a move - you are welcome to attend NH events!

FSP News Thanks & Statistics

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