If you had 500,000 Libertarians who would do any one thing that you asked them to do, what would it be? Why?
I will have each one of them opening a topic in revleft.com about how great libertarianism and capitalism are until the amount of posts bring their server down [:D]
Gather them all in one place and challenge the state to a fight.
They would have to back down.
I would tell them to act however they felt.
Why?
The answer is obvious 
Form ranks.
But seriously, it would much better to have 500,000 land owning libertarian activists, then micro-secession will be a real possibility. 500,000 living-in-their-moms basement libertarian activists wont accomplish much.
Move to Montana as fast as possible.
The Libertarian Party has a Free State Project. After discussions and a poll they selected New Hampshire (pop 1.3 million). After the get 20,000 libertarians to sign up and commit to move to NH, they will be able to elect a libertarian legislature and governor and seceed from the Union.
However, I choose Montana instead. (The winters are just as cold.) Montana has only 600,000+ pop, and many of them are already independents, and most belong to the NRA. This would be an easier state to convert and can be done much faster.
Given a choice I’d want members of the Constitutional Party instead, but I’ll take any opportunity.
Please see http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94331 . I haven’t found a link to the actual document, but if this is really truy, it is really Treason.
If you have 500,000 people you don’t need to own land, you can take over any city in the world. Iraq was conquered by less than 500,000 people.
I agree with Stranger, but more specific I would build a guerilla army of 500,000. The federal troops would have to give up after a year or maybe five.
(Actually I wouldn’t really do that, I would just tell them to go home)
Tell them to move to NYC and start a free state project, and privatize everything in manhattan
Move to Montana as fast as possible.
The Libertarian Party has a Free State Project. After discussions and a poll they selected New Hampshire (pop 1.3 million). After the get 20,000 libertarians to sign up and commit to move to NH, they will be able to elect a libertarian legislature and governor and seceed from the Union.
However, I choose Montana instead. (The winters are just as cold.) Montana has only 600,000+ pop, and many of them are already independents, and most belong to the NRA. This would be an easier state to convert and can be done much faster.
My place of birth! [H]
IIRC, Ron Paul did especially well in ol’ Montana. A good sign.
My head hurts after looking at that site. Seems likes a sort of Stormfront for commies (complete with an ‘opposing ideologies’ forum).
He had 25% in the Montana primaries if I recall correctly. Highest number in all states, I think.
Montana is exactly my kind of place from what I’ve heard about it. A job opportunity there would be super-sweet.
The reason I asked is that I’ve always thought: If only I could convince 500,000 people to vote for a Libertarian Governor. We could start tearing this thing down[8-|]
I just realized the other day that with that many supporters you could do so much more… Thanks go out to Sage in the “voting philosophy” thread for starting the wheels in my head turning.
That’s the trouble. There isnt much in the way of jobs there.
Other than Montana, there are a few other states I would say have a libertarian bent to them - Alaska, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina.
You could do a lot of entrepreneurship in a place like Montana, I am thinking specifically digital entrepreneurship.
Also, there has been some sort of state by state push for allowing states to transact in gold. Montana is one of these states considering it. The first state to take gold is going to see a massive influx of global investment. It will be a boom opportunity. Every time I hear Peter Schiff go on about the Perth Mint, I think geez, what a boon to the city of Perth. You have this fairly unique mint enterprise that has little global competition, in a growing and (I consider) stable niche. Brilliant.
I hate to admit it, but I think I agree in part with the theory that a higher population and more industrialization leads to more statism. It would be a sad trade off.
I agree with the trade off, but I don’t see it as sad.
I dont know, personally I find the idea of a Montana with New York style government sad. At least in consideration of how the state is now.
I’d rather have 500,000 well trained, physically fit, obedient and nearly brain dead soldiers than 500,000 (or even millions, for that matter) libertarians, who tend not to be physical fit, well trained or obedient.
good point