The following is an article from the June 2013 issue of Reason magazine about the Free State Project. It is part of the front page series called “Experiments in Libertarian Living.” The three experiments are FSP, free cities in Honduras and secessionionists in Australia. Garrett Quinn is a frequent contributor who covered the 2012 Libertarian Party National Convention in Las Vegas.
Notably, Free State member Hardy Macia, who moved from neighboring Vermont, passed away on May 13th. He was a frequent Libertarian Party candidate for public office, who most recently ran for U.S. Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd district and earned 4.4% of the vote. He was a former member of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) and played an instrumental role in Gary Johnson’s 2012 presidential campaign. Johnson said the following in a post in memoriam on his Facebook page: “If we needed our website fixed, an online town hall organized, or a place to crash in New Hampshire, the answer was always the same: ‘Call Hardy’.” There are many Libertarians involved in the FSP.
Here is the article:
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