Fired up for the wide-open spaces

Fired up for the wide-open spaces

by Simon English • 07/26/03

Some Americans are so fed up with the government interfering in their lives and stealing their pay they are loading up their 4x4s and heading for the hills.

The Free State Project is seeking 20,000 libertarians to move to Alaska, take control of local government, legalise drugs and prostitution, slash taxes and privatise everything. Nine other states have also been identified as possible "targets" with Wyoming shifting up the charts on the grounds that almost no one lives there and many of those that do are rich and retired.

A recent ruling by the Wyoming Supreme Court that bars are perfectly entitled to serve customers who are already utterly drunk also caught the eye of the freedom seekers.

The plan is that by voting en masse in a low population state, the 20,000 can elect politicians who like guns and feel like firing one every time they come across a government-subsidised bus service.

Finding 20,000 supporters for this ought to be a cinch. Mustering the loathsome, socialistic, mutual co-operation necessary for the scheme to work may be trickier.

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