Responses
On February 17, 2006, economist Walter Block publicly expressed his support for the FSP. He is quoted as saying,
You people are doing the Lord's work. The FSP is one of the freshest practical ideas for promoting liberty that has come out of the libertarian movement in the past few decades. May you succeed beyond your wildest dreams, and thus demonstrate in yet another empirical way the benefits and blessings of liberty.Jeffrey Tucker reflected about his experiences at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in Nashua, saying in part
If you are willing to look past mainstream media coverage of American politics, you can actually find exciting and interesting activities taking place that rise above lobbying, voting, graft and corruption.The project has been endorsed by Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.
In 2010, Lew Rockwell from the Mises Institute endorsed the project. He referred to the city of Keene, New Hampshire as "The northern capital of libertarianism".
In 2011, Peter Schiff said he had considered moving at one point.
Critics argue that the Free State Project is "radical", a "fantasy", or that they "go too far" in seeking to restrict government.
The Free State Project was the centerpiece of the 2012 documentary film Libertopia.
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