Hi!

You may remember from such things as “When I ran for sheriff” and “When I got raided by the FBI.” Or even some slightly more obscure events, like “When I went to federal prison” or perhaps even:

But probably not.

I was going to run for sheriff again this year. In fact, I even filed to do so, but I also filed to run for State Representative of a district in Cheshire County. Having discussed the matter with co-conspirator Ian Freeman, we were under the impression that I could run for both a county-level and state-level office. However, the Secretary of State in New Hampshire disagreed, so I discussed the matter further with friends and family.

Ultimately, we decided that the best chance I had to do something positive was to drop the sheriff race and focus on running for state representative.

Why?

Because there is so much wrong in the world, and almost all of it comes back to the state.

The state has no business interfering in the decisions that a patient makes with their doctor. This includes Covid vaccines, abortion, sex changes, and every single other medical matter possible. It simply isn’t your business or my business, and neither is it the government’s.

It’s so difficult to turn our heads and mind our own business when our neighbors or even complete strangers are doing something that we do not approve of. Whether they’re smoking marijuana, letting their child crossdress or even transition, home-schooling, or whatever, it’s a perfectly human impulse to want to try to stop them. “They’re wrong!” we might insist. “And they’re going to screw that child up for life!”

A little humility goes a long way, I think, and it’s never beyond the possibility that we are the ones who are wrong. They believe that they are right as adamantly as we believe that we are right. The truly tragic and difficult part is that no one really knows. No one can know, because no one knows the future.

And thus we must let people make their own mistakes.

It doesn’t matter what I think about transitioning, abortion, vaccines, or anything else; what matters is that we allow each other the right to make our own mistakes.

Free State Project

I am not affiliated with the Free State Project. Technically, I have never been officially affiliated with the Free State Project. I moved to New Hampshire at the suggestion of a friend, and then I stayed, having made many wonderful friends. I count myself among those who believe that the freedom to make our own decisions is necessary for a peaceful and prosperous society, but in recent years the loudest proponents of the Free State Project have stopped arguing for persuasion and have started arguing for conquest.

I’m of the mind that we should persuade people to the ideas of peace and love, and that making people feel unwelcome, or even going further and driving them away, is directly counter to the ideas of peace and love. As soon as the Free State Project started saying “If you don’t like it, you can get out!” I stopped having much to do with them.

That is not the way.

Not only does the Free State Project not have the numbers for the insane conquest they are envisioning themselves as taking part in, but any such endeavor is doomed to produce exactly the same state that they allegedly once resisted. I can’t get onboard with any group that expresses such hatred and disdain for others.

It’s telling, I think, that they have abandoned the pretense of trying to sell people on the ideas of liberty. Telling because the ideas of peace, love, and prosperity sell themselves. If you can’t sell the idea of freedom to people, then you’re not simply a bad salesperson; you have fundamentally misunderstood something. Imagine being so bad at selling the idea of a prosperous world where adults get to make their own decisions that you ultimately abandon the idea and start declaring, “EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE IT CAN GO TO MASSACHUSETTS!”

So no, I’m not a free stater. I’ve never signed their pledge. And at this point, I wouldn’t sign their pledge, because I do not believe in conquering.

I believe in freedom.

Thank you for your support.