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American Conservative Magazine attacks Free State Project

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Freedom4Me73986 Posted: Thu, Jun 16 2011 11:47 PM

 

The American Conservative cites the Slate article about Free Keene and a union leader piece about last year’s Topless Tuesdays in an attack on Free Keene:

These sorts of hijinks certainly aren’t representative of libertarians in general, or even of the Free State Project itself: as Weigel notes, the Keene wing of that movement is particularly prone to confrontational acts of civil disobedience.

It’s not easy to see what the Keene activists hope to accomplish with these stunts. One of the aims of the libertarian movement is surely to convince others that people can live together peacefully and responsibly without criminal laws forcing them to do so. Holding “Topless Tuesdays” and pot-smoking rallies next to a middle school might not be the best way to achieve this. These sorts of hijinks only make sense if their aim is to persuade all the non-libertarians to move away.

http://freekeene.com/2011/06/16/american-conservative-magazine-attacks-free-keene/

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James replied on Fri, Jun 17 2011 4:03 AM

These sorts of hijinks only make sense if their aim is to persuade all the non-libertarians to move away.

I think they'd like that.

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Eric080 replied on Fri, Jun 17 2011 10:33 AM

Maybe the author of the article could read Thoreau and get back to us.

"And it may be said with strict accuracy, that the taste a man may show for absolute government bears an exact ratio to the contempt he may profess for his countrymen." - de Tocqueville
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Women are allowed to be topless in public in Canada and some other places in the U.S.

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