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The Internet Will Set You Free. Very Free.
Posted by Steven Wu on Tuesday, February 04 @ 16:13:15 EST Oddities
The Free State Project is an Internet-based society using its web site to organize 20,000 believers to "move to a single state of the U.S., where they may work within the political system to reduce the size and scope of government." And it seems that Delaware is first on their list. According to a local Delaware newspaper,
"If successful, by 2010 an army of 20,000 will move in, ascend to power and eliminate virtually all taxes--along with nearly all government programs and regulations. No public schools, no health, welfare or social services, no liquor laws, no gun control or land use laws. Smoking would be allowed nearly everywhere, as would almost all forms of gambling and prostitution."
 
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Re: The Internet Will Set You Free. Very Free. (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 04 @ 19:57:30 EST
Best comment I ever heard about the Free State Project was on Slashdot. It went something like this: "They only need 5,000 members to choose a state. Let's all sign up and see how far we can send these idiots packing!"


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Re: The Internet Will Set You Free. Very Free. (Score: 1)
by justene on Thursday, February 06 @ 11:11:01 EST
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The original concept of a union of states was so people could live together and arrange their state the way they wanted. So its a nice theory. Practice will be harder. 20,000 is unlikely to be enough and keeping those 20,000 in agreement will be impossible.


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