Free State Project

We have a Republican majority leader who is libertarian on steroids.

He belongs to something called the Free State Movement.

He makes the MAGA movement look moderate, okay? This is my Republican majority leader.

And there is a picture, everyone, of Jason Osborne, the Republican majority leader, with Jesus Christ with his arms around him, and it says, "Jason is fighting for all of us.

[rock music] Hey there all you porcupines, you.

This is your host, your renegade statesman, your executive director of the New Hampshire Free State Project, Eric Brakey, coming to you for episode 131 of the Porcupine Report.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We're gonna have a great conversation with our guest in a little bit.

Uh, we, we requested the numbers of bear encounters for the last, uh, for five years of data from individualized towns here in the state of New Hampshire and we, uh, compared them, uh, against the NHLA Liberty Scores for the legislators of those towns.

And believe it or not, we found no correlation whatsoever between, uh, how liberty aligned the representation of that community is and the- And bear encounters.

I know it's silly to say, but this is a, this is a myth that has been, uh, around the Free State Project for quite some time, and now it's finally debunked.

In fact, not only did we find no positive correlation, we found a slight negative correlation.

Like, uh, there's one in the UAE, I think, um, a common law thing, and then there's the, the Brunei thing.

And I think the free state project in, in New Hampshire will never be totally free, at least initially, because they're part of the US.

But, you know, I think that project, I could see moving there if you wanna be around liberty-minded people.

I wouldn't myself do it 'cause I don't really see personally the attractiveness to living around other libertarians.

Mm-hmm

... because I think it was a part of the Free State Project.

Like they were, it was like their guys, and like it's-

Did Elischa get upset that, you know, we were having Porkfest so he asked bears to go maul us or something? [laughs]

I, I don't, like, and I can't conf- you know, I don't have any way of knowing.

The, the way I see it, like, Liberty Forum is supposed to be the, like, buttoned-down political convention, whereas PorcFest is supposed to be, like, the spontaneous order type thing.

But that-

Right

We'll, we'll find out

...

I guess I, you know, I took, I took PorcFest for granted.

I never went back after my first, my first trip, and now I kind of, I kinda feel bad.

I am a very dedicated libertarian.

I'm a board member of the Free State Project.

I've lived in and I've lived in New Hampshire for about six years now, which is absolutely the best state for libertarians to live in.

And you're going to hear me show that repeatedly, you know, probably throughout the show.

And they ultimately pull people towards them.

And so you need to be activating and selecting for these kinds of people who will be unequivocally libertarian and who will continue to pull forward.

But to answer another part of it, you know part of the reason i am such i'm and i'm going to keep showing the free state project it's like it's essentially like the idea of like let's establish a libertarian homeland like it's not this utopian idea and i i really i kind of i mean i i understand unless you

encounter bears right okay

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Let's hop into the show.

Hey there, all you porcupines, you, this is your host, your renegade statesman, your executive director of the New Hampshire Free State Project, Eric Brakey, coming to you for episode 129 of the Porcupine Report.

You know, there's so much wisdom in what you were saying.

And in fact, I would point to the Free State Project as an example.

On paper, libertarians should be a force to be reckoned with in New Hampshire.

And how's it turning out? There's a lot of infighting, a lot of factions over here.

WHAT WE DO IS WE SAY, HERE'S THE THING, IF YOU'RE AS OUTRAGED AS WE ARE ABOUT THIS, HERE IS A PROVEN SUCCESSFUL WAY THAT YOU CAN WITH ZERO DOLLARS OF YOUR MONEY AND ABOUT MINUTE OR TWO, MAYBE THREE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME, YOU CAN ACTUALLY HELP US STOP THIS OUTRAGEOUS THING FROM HAPPENING AND HELP TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN CAUSED.

AND IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.

I WILL SAY, I LOOK AT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE FREE STATE PROJECT, THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY, INSERT LIBERTY ORGANIZATION NAME HERE, THEY CAN ALL POINT TO SUCCESSES THAT THEY'VE HAD.

SO I'M NOT TRYING TO SAY, LIKE, OH, EVERYONE JOIN ME OR EVERYONE DO THINGS THE EXACT WAY I AM.