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Date Posted: 13:13:26 10/06/99 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: Why end up in the middle of nowhere?
In reply to: Tim Condon 's message, "Why end up in the middle of nowhere?" on 13:04:53 10/06/99 Wed

> The subject of finding a "home base" for libertarians
> has always intrigued me. But why search for a
> location far away from civilization? When I spoke
> with libertarian writer Edith Efron about the subject
> in college (regarding the attempt at the time to found
> a new country in the South Pacific), she said "What
> are you going to do there, trade coconuts?" She had a
> point. Why not pick a nice but sparsly settled area
> of the United States proper (Wyoming? West Virginia?
> Alaska? Montana? Mississippi?), and invite all
> libertarians to come and live there. Once you hit a
> critical mass, you came wield political power by
> electing local and state politicians to office, and
> presumably eventually change the laws in a more
> libertarian direction. There was an attempt of this
> sort in the 1970's by a lady named Mary Glennie, who
> for several years tried to recruit libertarians to
> "come live in Ft. Collins" (Colorado); I don't know
> how the effort eventually turned out.

I am aware of her effort in Ft. Collins. It has not worked. The reason that we are investigating remote areas is so that we can have the maximum amount of freedom, but still have the protection of the United States.

Other efforts have failed in the past because they were aiming for fully soveriegn separate nations.

I personally like being an American and wish to stay an American.

But I also realize that there's more freedom in Nevada and Puerto Rico than there is in New York or DC.

Why not have a section in the US that combines the freedoms of all the states into one?

Also, I like tropical climates. Alaska and Colorado are not very appealing to me.

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