NATIONAL— In an ever-growing popular movement dubbed the Free State Project, thousands of Americans have and are planning to pack up their lives and move to the state of New Hampshire.
The exodus has been spurred by those who have heard the talk and the speeches over the years of grass-roots movements like the Tea Party and other like liberty groups but yearn to do something more pro-active.
That pro-active event is to move to the Live Free or Die state and use the power of education and the vote to reduce burdensome taxation and regulation, reform state and local law, opt out of federal mandates, protect individual rights, expand free markets, restore constitutional federalism and much more.
On their Facebook page the group proclaims: “While as individuals we vary in our approach, we all are working to exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation of a society in which the maximum role of government—if any—is the protection of life, liberty and property.”
That sentiment seems to appeal to those who consider themselves patriots and are not interested just in talking about liberty but taking action to preserve and expand it.
Members of the group plan to use their vote not just to elect but to be elected to local and state offices to bring about the much needed change nearly impossible in the current climate of ever-expanding government and governmental oversight.
Latest numbers show that nearly 1,200 liberty lovers have already moved with another 13,000 pledging to follow.
Already Libertarians have claimed a dozen seats in the 424-member state legislature.
“The first biggest success is we’re still around,” Carla Gericke, the project’s president told Fox News. “People are going forward, and we’re past the experimental stage. We’re now in the getting it done stage.”
The move toward New Hampshire could very well be the inoculation the country in dire straights needs.