| who and what speech? any links?
are you a Canadian citizen? Dual? If dual or american then there might just be a way - except you don't believe in voting... so thats out...
re: 'spreading the word' at your current location
well, as I see it, libertarians have been 'spreading the word' for about 30 years now - and we have an extremely stagnant growth rate. One of the problems is that alot of our ideas are easily margininalized by statists with just wo words: Prove it.
sure we have miniature examples throughout history, but nothing that really compares to what we propose. No wonder we are called 'utopians' and 'dreamers'. What has been missing is... reality. Something tangible we can point to and say, "see, looky there, look how they have such a limited government and yet: drugs are not rampant and taking over society, the neighbors do not have nuclear weapons hidden in their basements, nudists are not parading down main street, the educational system is working better than our public schools, their economy has been growing at phenomonal<sp?> rates every year without this 'boom/bust' cycle we have... they have morals, churchs, community, neighborhoods!" - until that point there is no way we will really ever be able to 'convince' others of whatever truth lies in our ideology.
Thats what the Free State Project will serve to other states, and what the Free Town will serve to other towns in New Hampshire.
US politics is shifting a bit, but only within its own self-defined limits: the republicans are now spending like democrats use to, democrats are starting to advocate fiscal responsibility. Woopie-doo. You get different rhetoric but the same results from either party.
well, once I move myself (within a year, once I can figure out how to move my business without going bankrupt) to the Free State, you officially have an open invitation to come and visit whenever you would like - if nothing else it will be quite interesting viewing a truely libertarian community (no, not some whacked-out Outpost of Militants with a cult leader or somesuch). I will obviously keep ya'all informed of whats happening in my own little world...
good to meet ya,
michael
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