> The FSP doesnât push anything. Individuals who moved to NH as part of the FSP may run for office and may differ from each other on particular policies they support. There is a huge distinction here.
> You canât expect 1000s of libertarians to be in lockstep about anything. And itâs not fair to point to one and attribute his views to the entire project.
Yes, I'm aware that the FSP as an organization officially limits their mandate to recruiting the liberty minded (broadly defined) to New Hampshire.
And I don't expect that the "liberty minded" will agree on everything.
That doesn't change the fact that:
* many Free Staters run for office under the Free State moniker
* the authoritarian white nationalists who have parasitized the LPNH call themselves Free Staters
* the white nationalists openly call for a variety of authoritarian policies, such as censorship of journalists, assassination of politicians, and the expropriation/deportation/murder of "communists". (And their definition of "communist" is so broad that it includes LP presidential candidate Chase Oliver.)
* the Free State movement is judged by the bile being spewed by the white nationalists regardless of the fact that they're only a single faction within the broader liberty movement.
* the bile repels both actual libertarians and the non-libertarians whose support / acquiescence we need to implement pro-liberty reforms in NH.
The above is especially true when people see the current FSP executive director Erik Brakey and long time Porcfest organizer Dennis Pratt defend/support the white nationalists.
For example, for the 10 year anniversary of the move being triggered, Dennis chose to do an hour long interview with Jeremy Kauffman. Kauffman was fired as executive director of the FSP because he wouldn't stop promoting white nationalism. (See below for a recent example of his rhetoric.)
I want to recruit more libertarians like Larry Sharpe and Chase Oliver, and fewer white nationalist Trumpers like Jeremy Kauffman.
The more the white nationalists grow in numbers and power, the greater the threat to liberty they will become.
They're already crowing about passing state-wide legislation to force local LEO's to collude with the Feds to kidnap people who moved to NH without government permission.
This possibly apocryphal anecdote from @IamRageSparkle illustrates the issue:
"I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
