Cato Institute’s David Boaz snubs Free State Project
David Boaz, a libertarian author and television commentator, discussed the need to prevent the U.S. government from encroaching on freedoms in a lecture held in Kemeny Hall on Thursday. The event, “Freedom in Crisis,” was sponsored by the Dartmouth College Libertarians.
“My own attitude towards the Free State Project is that the federal government should move to New Hampshire and leave the rest of us free,” Boaz joked.
“Freedom is under assault again,” he said. “It is easy to let the immensity stop us. But it didn”t stop Thomas Paine, it didn’t stop Frederick Douglass and it didn’t stop us.”
Another student asked Boaz about the Free State Project, a group that aims to recruit 20,000 “liberty loving people” to move to New Hampshire and direct the New Hampshire government in a libertarian direction.
While I agree moving the federal government to NH rather than activists would be a better solution… however that’s not possible and that wasn’t the question. By giving the answer he did it seems to me that he thinks very little of the FSP and it’s goal.
If the goal is freedom… how much of it has Cato brought about? Seems to me their goal is to ride the Washington DC statists coat tails and preach half baked liberty oriented ideas to the most statist of them all… DC bureacrats.
Not to say that the FSP had brought about much change yet. Then again they haven’t been around for 32 years.
