Molon Labe!: you have GOT to read this!

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It's not so much the $25, as the method of delivery. I'd rather make sure that the money gets there, and no one else can use it.
 
Boston!

Welcome to The High Road, Sir! :D

I haven't read Molon Labe, but I thoroughly enjoyed your Y2K book (I know it's around here somewhere...). More timely than ever.

Drop in on us every so often-this is one of the Good places.
 
Wllm. Legrand said:
I've read it. Read Unintended Consequences, as well. Also Enemies Foreign and Domestic.

Good reads, all of them, though I'd put U.C. best, M.L. second, E.F.A.D. last.

One of my majors was English, so it is difficult to read any fiction work without strict scrutiny, despite the affection all have for "the cause". Enemies has the least interesting character development, while M.L. has areas that are meant to be informational, but veer off tangentially from the target. Good character development, in contrast to some of the unbelievability of Enemies.

U.C. was a first in what seems to be a developing genre. It is unusual to be first and best.

In addition, Loompanics, a libertarian publisher, may have had a reviewer from the "other side" of the Libertarian "Free State Project" do the review. There are two camps within Libertarians on this subject. First, the L. Neil Smith "New Hampshire" goal, then there is the Boston T. Party "Western State" objective. For the life of me, I cannot understand how ANY westerner (such as myself) could EVER move back east....Many libertarians simply (excuse the expression) DO NOT GET IT!

Childish? That reviewer is absurd.
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Could you expand or post a link to find more information on this Western State objective. Or perhaps a new thread explaining it.
 
I'm intrigued and need to read this book.

I have to wonder though- from the sounds of the book, its a recipe to break from the rest of the country. Why pick a landlocked state like Wyoming for this other than its very low population? All the federal government would have to do is tax the crap out of imports/exports and not allow citizens to fly airplanes into US airspace, Wyoming would be shut down in a week. :scrutiny: I think Alaska would be a far better pick.
 
cracked butt said:
I'm intrigued and need to read this book.

I have to wonder though- from the sounds of the book, its a recipe to break from the rest of the country. Why pick a landlocked state like Wyoming for this other than its very low population? All the federal government would have to do is tax the crap out of imports/exports and not allow citizens to fly airplanes into US airspace, Wyoming would be shut down in a week. :scrutiny: I think Alaska would be a far better pick.
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There's a whole chapter in the appendix dedicated to this very question. The reasons given for 'why Wyoming' are very compelling.

The move to Wyoming by freedom lovers represents a regaining of freedom in exactly the manner in which it was lost: incrementally and gradually, over time.

When exactly would the feds 'shut down' Wyoming: when a majority of counties had libertarian Sherriffs? When a majority of counties had libertarian councils/eldermen/local officials? When the state house/senate were largely libertarian? When permitless carry were legalized? When the speed limits on open highways were eliminated?

My belief is that a 'showdown' with the USG would not happen until fairly far down the road toward freedom. By the time it did happen (if ever), Wyoming would already be the freest state in America by a LONG margin.
 
Welcome Boston:)
I finished your Gun Bible a couple of weeks ago that I got from you last year at the Tanner show. Nice work. You motivated me to get out with the M1A more. Your teaser in the back of Boston's Gun Bible got me hooked, I'm definately going to have to pick up Molon Labe.
As the title of a chapter in Boston's Gun Bible says; Boston is Nuts!
:D
 
stoky said:
Welcome Boston:)
I finished your Gun Bible a couple of weeks ago that I got from you last year at the Tanner show. Nice work. You motivated me to get out with the M1A more. Your teaser in the back of Boston's Gun Bible got me hooked, I'm definately going to have to pick up Molon Labe.
As the title of a chapter in Boston's Gun Bible says; Boston is Nuts!
:D
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Is it the latest version of BGB? If so, look on the inside cover. See the review from "Michael C. in Ohio"?

I, um, know that guy... ;)
 
Howdy all, and thanks for your positive feedback!

from neoncowboy:
My belief is that a 'showdown' with the USG would not happen until fairly far down the road toward freedom. By the time it did happen (if ever), Wyoming would already be the freest state in America by a LONG margin.
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Yep, this was exactly my premise.

We lost our freedoms incrementally, and (short of a civil war),
that is likely the only way we can ever get them back.

The point of incrementalism (regardless of who employs it),
is that the other side remains paralyzed to respond in a big way.

from crackedbutt:
I think Alaska would be a far better pick.
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On the surface, it seems so, but Alaska is quite controlled
by the feds. And it's too isolated to attract large numbers
of free staters.

Antelope, Oregon:
No offense taken; I just wanted to nip that in the bud as it's
come up elsewhere. The FSW is not planning to bus in our
people in order to boss around the locals. Wyoming is our
home, and we want to be/have good neighbors.

from Gifted:
It's not so much the $25, as the method of delivery. I'd rather make sure that the money gets there, and no one else can use it.
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Totally understandable, but we've a very honest Post Office,
and in my 13 years of doing this I can count almost on one
hand the number of cash mailings lost.

If it arrives OK, only I have use of FSW $.

Latest version of BGB is 3rd printing (2005).
The printings of 2005 and 2004 each contain about 40 revised
pages, mostly in the Optics and M14 chapters. Well worth
replacing your 2002 first printing!

I've no new version of BGB planned--too busy elsewhere.

Molôn labé!

Boston T. Party
http://www.freestatewyoming.org
http://www.javelinpress.com
 
Just finished it moments ago.... Great read. Could not put it down. I found the satanism in DC office to be unrealistic and needless but it did not really detract.

Would love to read more exploits of 'The Panther'.:evil:
 
I read the book about a year ago, and I agree it was hard to put down.

I agree the Satanism of the upper-level Feds was a bit over the top, but who can say for sure? I'd be reluctant to believe such a thing about W, but Clinton...well that's at least slightly easier to believe. :)

As with many books, it's the ideas in this one that are important. It's not so much what the book tells you. The important thing is how it makes you think. It's my understanding that Boston had a falling-out years ago with the Free State Project, when the FSP selected New Hampshire rather than Wyoming. The arguments for each are compelling. The FSP is still going strong in New Hampshire, Google them and check out what they have to say.

If and when things get really bad in the US, I would say that the places to go would either be the FSP stronghold in NH, or of course, the old standby, Texas. If anybody's going to get fed up and have the cojones to secede, it's the Lone Star State, but then you have to consider that a defiant Texas would be equally at risk of invasion from the U.S. and Mexico!!
 
I seem to recall that at least one state has a standing order when the legislative sessions starts each year they take a vote to secede.... Anyone remember what state that is?
 
Howdy, Boston. Desertrat from Claire's site, here. :)

I'm just starting a re-reading of ML. Thoroughly enjoyed the first go-'round. Very well thought out as well as highly entertaining. The various quotes and cites from real people, real life, definitely add to the storyline.

I highly recommend the book.

Art
 
Art, Jim, and cls12vg30--glad you liked Molôn Labé!
The Leopard (why do some people call him the Panther?) will
feature prominently in the sequel, which I'll begin work on later
this year. I've an interesting story for him...

Regarding Texas (where I've lived) as a likely secession candidate,
that's probably just mythology. Even if the true independent spirit
was still there, the pols in Texas are quite corrupt and in bed with
the feds.

Regarding the FSP, if they see more than 500 actual movers to NH,
I'd be very surprised. Yes, those who do relocate there will see
an increase in their own respective freedoms, but I can't imagine
what they expect to accomplish politically with <1,000. Those
same small numbers, used effectively, in Wyoming have a chance.

My falling out was truly based on their prior falling out with logic,
vs. any personal choice on my part. Logic compels Wyoming as
the first try for a free state. The whole issue has been widely and
often aired out by now. There are plenty of forum links on this to
wade through if one has the time/inclination. It makes for interesting
reading, at least for backstory.

Molôn labé!

Boston T. Party
http://www.freestatewyoming.org
http://www.javelinpress.com
 
Boston

Thank you for responding here to this post on THR and welcome. I was recently in colorado for over a year and half and I tried to meet you on a couple occasions thought I was unfortunately never able too. A close freind of mine allowed me to read his autographed copy of your excellent book Bostons gun Bible. I liked the way honestly ranked each firearm. It was a very informative publication.

I ment no disrespect on your representation of the FRN. There isnt any easy way to accept payment in this country than the FRN, so your pretty much stuck taking them.

Thanks for the response, looking foward to more posts from you.

Brother in Arms
 
funny, I thought I commented on this thread

I got the book for Christmas and finished it by december 27...it kept me up all night!
 
from John Elder:
All three novels seem to believe in an inner liberty-loving tendency in gun people that I haven't seen in my considerable exposure.
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I've not seen many myself, so we novelists must manufacture
them from the bits and pieces we do see in real life.
Life often imitates Art, sometimes even in heroism.


I've been hanging out at the FSW's new virtual home:
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum/index.php

You don't have to be a FSW Member to join our forum, nor to
attend our 26-29 May FSW Jamboree and Appleseed Project
shoot ( www.rwva.org ) in Worland.

Meanwhile, thanks for supporting my books! I hope to meet
you all in Wyoming this Memorial Day Weekend. Bring copies
of my books to sign for you. And bring your rifles!

Molôn labé!

Boston T. Party
http://www.freestatewyoming.org
http://www.javelinpress.com
 
The FSP is still going strong in New Hampshire, Google them and check out what they have to say.
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I don't need to. Just recently, a bunch were being moonbats in Manchester when Bush was last here, carrying signs for secession, and when the cops arrested them, proclaiming that they were being treated like the Jews were by the Nazis. :scrutiny:

Needless to say, the people who LIVE here weren't too enthused with them calling for secession like that...or with them in general. The general attitude they seem to have been projecting is that they're somehow better that the people who have lived here for generations, and are going to "change things" to suit their agenda. As far as PR is concerned among residents of the state, they pretty much blew their own foot off with that.

I regularly see "FREE STATERS GO HOME" bumper stickers. And if they make another scene like that in a state that values its peace and quite and lack of crime and such, Concord is likely going to crack down on them.

See, NH already WAS libertarian in the sense that the longtime residents want to be left alone...and don't want a bunch of upstarts coming in and saying how they're going to change things. Big, big mistake.
 
The Hologram of Liberty

Also read Boston's greatest contribution The Hologram of Liberty.
 
Thanks Chui. (That's Swahili for leopard...cool.)

Here are the links to Hologram of Liberty.

http://javelinpress.com/hologram_of_liberty.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/18...104-8404567-4834323?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

The FSW forum has a good thread on it:
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum/index.php?topic=2118.0

Also, Gary North posted a very good essay on what happened
at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north445.html

For those wanting a grad course on the subject, download
North's 484pp. book:
http://demischools.org/philadelphia.pdf
 
BTP sez

I've been hanging out at the FSW's new virtual home:
http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum/index.php

You don't have to be a FSW Member to join our forum, nor to
attend our 26-29 May FSW Jamboree and Appleseed Project
shoot ( www.rwva.org ) in Worland.
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The wife and I will be there at the appleseed project
I enjoy all the books, I'm still working on the wife, but she has turned into a total gun nut so we're halfway there. :D
 
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