{"id":12891,"date":"2022-05-26T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2022-09-04T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T12:56:02","slug":"760-projecting-a-state-of-freedom-derek-proulx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12891","title":{"rendered":"760 – Projecting a state of freedom | Derek Proulx"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The strategy behind the project depends upon attracting a significant number of liberty-minded activists to a single state<\/strong>, one with a low enough population to effectively enable them to lobby and influence the local culture so as to elect more freedom-oriented political representatives to local governments.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, there are other similar projects springing up, such as one now underway in Alberta<\/strong> involving the separation of that province from the rest of Canada. Its proponents argue that Alberta must be freed from the tyranny and \u201cabuse\u201d of the federal government.<\/p>\n

But why these strategies? It appears the realization that freedom-loving people are a minority is causing many of them to create a refuge from the submissive majority.<\/strong> The success of their efforts is being measured against how well a particular \u2018free state\u2019 can maintain its independence and freedom segregated from the majority culture. <\/p>\n

In the short run, this strategy can be judged successful but the greater challenge \u2013 and long-term danger – still remains. A free state cannot long co-exist next to a tyrannical state<\/strong>, let alone within one, as is the case with provinces and states within their republics or confederations. History and logic both demonstrate that the more dominant state will inevitably rule the smaller.
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\nThus the necessity of inculcating a philosophy and deep understanding of the nature of individual freedom remains an eternal task, one that must be directed beyond the confines of a segregated jurisdiction<\/strong>. Establishing a universal awareness and appreciation of freedom\u2019s profound virtue and benefits is a cultural pre-requisite towards establishing any free state \u2013 or free nation \u2013 or free world – in a manner that\u2019s Just Right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLive free or die\u201d is the state motto of New Hampshire, and our guest Derek Proulx, a volunteer with the Free State Project elaborates: \u201c\u2026for death is not the worst of evils \u2013 slavery is.\u201d The strategy behind the project depends upon attracting a significant number of liberty-minded activists to a single state, one with [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,59,111,28,26,508,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-free-speech","category-governance","category-latest","category-libertarianism-politics","category-local-politics","category-politics","issues-alberta-separation","issues-free-speech","issues-gun-control","issues-new-hampshire-free-state-project","guests-derek-proulx","category-12-id","category-59-id","category-111-id","category-28-id","category-26-id","category-508-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/13086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}