[TheForge] [YAK] Re: Small shop questions

[Mike Spencer]

Bill>  Sorry, can't let it pass. Start small: visit freestateproject.org

Andy> Already a member. :)

Umm, so, lessee now.  New Hampshire.  That's the place with "Live Free
or Die" on the lisence plates.  Mind you, that's not a suggestion.
It's a *order*.

Friend of mine in NH nearly went to jail because he didn't believe the
State should be able to oblige him to advertize any particular slogan
or political position.  The DMV refused to give him plates without the
slogan so he cut it off with tin snips.  They busted him.  

[Long story omitted, details of which, in any case, I have now forgotten.]

Eventually he went with plates that still had the slogan but har been
um... accidentally damaged by flying rocks -- quite a few of them -- just
in that part where the slogan was.

So: When all you come-from-away freedom dudes take over...er.. inhabit
the Granite State, are folks going to be free *not* to advertize
some pre-chosen slogan on their vehicles?  Eh?

Maybe you should start with just one township, say, Odell, NH.
Quoting from the Statistical Gazeteer of New Hampshire (1875),

      ODELL, Coos County.  In 1860 the town had one white inhabitant.
      In 1870 the person had died or moved away.

Not too sure what the population of Odell is now but it was around a
dozen hast time I heard a number.  Most of the land is owned by paper
companies so there's a nice, ready-made liberation issue right on your
door-step.

And now back to your regularly scheduled blacksmithing...

- Alonzo J. Fogg