I'm no longer a "Free Stater"
I've known Ian for 6 years now and I signed up for "The Free State Project" about that time. I've since decided that although it's a good idea, it will not work. I spent a great deal of those 6 years listening to Ian's "Freetalk Live" and calling the show and posting on his BBS. I have to say that it's hard to find a meaner bunch of people than those associated with "Freetalk" when it comes to one having a "belief" in a "Creator".
The entire 6 years I called about liberty issues and even nurtured Ian along on his path to liberty. Many of the very arguments he makes daily now I presented to him on his show. I certainly do not claim 100% of the credit as many other liberty minded people also called him and helped him along the path to liberty. Yet he still doesn't get something very basic to the success of the liberty movement - YOU NEED A BIG TENT!!! There's no way 10000 people will ever make a difference in this big land we call the USA (a legal fiction...). Even a million will make no difference. You must not exclude those who are "close" to understanding liberty.
Ian is very good a being a "divider". He will accept your call to his show but if you do not accept HIS idea of what a liberty minded person is, he will shut you down. I no longer listen to his show or call in anymore because he decided that I was not "good enough" for his show and rather than have the balls to tell me so, he would put me on hold for 1-2 hours until the end of the show. Those in his circle and those on his BBS will spew hatred toward any who have a belief in the creator, but they will accept with open arms any kind of fringe behavior. You can see what I put up with for 6 years on his BBS with my thread "Christian Anarchy is the only sensible answer"
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/hijack-free-zone/christian-anarchy-is-the-only-sensible-answer/
I always presented my arguments in a civil tone and was frequently met with hostile tones and spamming tactics like posting porn in my thread. I put up with it for a long time until I decided to fight fire with fire and I started posting awful gory death photos in the threads of those who were attacking me. That pretty much put an end to those tactics but then they decided to simply ignore me in hopes that I will go away but that hasn't worked either. I'm too damn stubborn!!
Anyway, I said all that to say this: Many of the "liberty activists" who seem to be associated with the Freestate Project are rabidly anti-christian (I suppose they are also rabidly anti-Jewish and anti-Arab but they don't have the courage to take such a politically incorrect stance). They (especially Ian) are also quick to try to divide the liberty movement on minor issues - even actively attacking Rand Paul (and Dr. Paul too) on minor issues instead of supporting him on the issues that really count. If it were up to Ian, he would love to have seen Rand lose that seat.
If you review my thread above, you will see that I never tried to shove my belief down anyones throat but rather made my points and let others respond in kind. It was civil unless someone else decided to get nasty.
So what you have with Ian and perhaps to a lessor extent others in NH are DIVIDERS. People who want to EXCLUDE men like Rand Paul (and of course me as well) because they differ on 10% of the issues. As long as they have this attitude of exclusion, they will never succeed and so I have decided that my family WILL NOT move to NH. Really there is no need as people across the continent are waking up to the ideas of liberty. The chains are becoming apparent to more and more people every day and the house of cards is falling. It is more likely that the federal government will cease to exist before 10000 liberty minded people move to NH.
