To those who missed the fun here are some pictures and videos of the Free Vermont enthusiasts who still think the radical idea of liberty is a good idea. 

Here's Dan Murphy of Dubnotix and One Over Zero:

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Come join the fun on July 4 in Warren, VT from 10am-1pm for the Free Vermont Float! Let's have some fun and celebrate our "independence" at Vermont's largest July 4 parade in Warren.

Find the red n white ford pickup with Free Vermont signs by 9:30am or just join our jolly gang as the parade ensues at 10am. 

Help us hand out Vermont Commons newspapers, Free Vermont t-shirts and stickers, read out loud a section of the Declaration of Independence, or just dance, hoot and hollar to celebrate the ideas of independence and inalienable human rights...

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As your candidate, I oppose government subsidies to private industry. The nuclear power industry is the most heavily subsidized power industry in history; therefore Vermont Yankee must go. The State subsidizes Yankee in many ways; from free surface water for cooling (I would tax it, as it's a public asset used privately), to a lucrative opportunity to pollute but pay no fines.

This is my challenge to the Legislature. Stop subsidizing this aged power plant that is being run into the ground by its owner, Entergy Corporation in Louisiana. Stop playing games with your...

“Our Economy?” Says Who?

“Economy.” The Greeks had a word for it. “Oikos“ (“management of the house”) is the ancient root of our modern English word that gets bandied about quite a bit during these interesting times, usually possessive, in the singular. You know. ”Our economy.” Tell me if you’ve heard this one-sentence story before: More than 300 million Americans “share” an “economy” that, by all accounts, is going through a time of tremendous tumult. Sound familiar? This oft-told story about a mythical “our economy” ignores the ever-deepening socioeconomic divisions in a country more sharply divided along class lines than it...

Vermont Liberty Candidate issues first campaign statement ...

Vermont's farms, particularly our small farms, need new life, a new competitive edge. Not more regulation and price controls. Here's something concrete, positive and green that Vermont can do: grow industrial hemp.

And why not! Hemp is a cheaper and better substitute for oil and the petrochemicals that come from oil... and the consumer products that today rely on oil. But Big Oil doesn't want you to even know that fact. They want you to think it's pot.

They want no competition, and so it was easy to get a federal agency...

Friends, As of today your local Liberty Candidate is on the ballot for 2012 in Addison Senate District*. Officially.

If you're in Addison I'll be doing my best to come out and see you. I will do my best to understand your concerns and hopes for the future... and act on them.

In Vermont we have to gather a petition to get on the ballot, in our time-honored tradition of doing it yourself and getting it done. You put me on the ballot, and now you can put me into office. I'll do my best to earn that support.

Between now and November is a long job interview, consisting of public forums and debates, and a bluegrass bash...

Dire warnings that thousands of Vermont jobs are at risk due to looming defense cuts and related changes in Air Force priorities may turn out to be overstated, or at least premature.

In March, a report commissioned by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) predicted that Vermont would lose upwards of 2,100 jobs if automatic defense cuts, called sequestration, were triggered by the failure of Congress to reach a budget deal.

Vermont Air National Guard jobs were reportedly also on the line. Under the Pentagon’s initial budget the Air Guard could see a loss of 9,900 jobs nationally over the next five years, including 3,900...

The youtube video of 12 year old Victoria Grant speaking at the Public Banking in America conference last month has gone viral, topping a million views on various websites.

Monetary reform—the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation’s money—has rarely even made the news, so this is a first. Either the times they are a-changin’, or Victoria managed to frame the message in a way that was so simple and clear that even a child could understand it.

Basically, her message was that banks create money “out of thin air” and lend it to people and governments at interest. If governments...

Way up here in the heartland, far from the craft beer parlors, Facebook stock bucket shops, and gender obsessions of the mythical Urban Edge People, the detritus of your country is up for sale. The lawns are strewn with the plastic effluvia of lives lived through humankind's weirdest moment: Pee Wee Herman action figures, creeping tot tables, failed kitchen appliances that created more labor than they were designed to save, extruded plastic this-and-that, unidentifiable knick-knacks of forgotten sitcoms, Jimmy Carter Halloween masks, trikes brittle and faded from ultraviolet exposure, artworks conceived in a Zoloft fog, pre-owned cat litter...