Will Buchanan's Walk For Liberty Blog http://willbuchanan.com/blog Freedom for All Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:42:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Walk For Liberty Day 222 - Completing a Walk Across The Country: Reaching the Atlantic Ocean http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-222-completing-a-walk-across-the-country-reaching-the-atlantic-ocean/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-222-completing-a-walk-across-the-country-reaching-the-atlantic-ocean/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:08:56 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-222-completing-a-walk-across-the-country-reaching-the-atlantic-ocean/ December 31st 2008, day 222 / Snowstorm! / Last day of coast-to-coast journey of the Walk For Liberty / Crowd of people joining me to walk to the beach, despite the snow! / Reaching the ocean at Hampton Beach / More people waiting for us at the ocean / Snow covered beach / Final approach to the ocean / Setting foot into the Atlantic Ocean / Doing a Polar Bear Plunge / The After-Party New Year’s Eve Bash / Welcome Home Cake / Modeling a custom Walk For Liberty shirt / Nintendo Wii games / Karaoke / Recording GPS coordinates the next morning / 8.51 miles for liberty / http://Donate.WalkForLiberty.com / Snow Angel / Cloverfield homage?

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-222-completing-a-walk-across-the-country-reaching-the-atlantic-ocean/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 221 - T-1 Day - The Antics Of Keith http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-221-t-1-day-the-antics-of-keith/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-221-t-1-day-the-antics-of-keith/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:34:06 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-221-t-1-day-the-antics-of-keith/ December 30th 2008, day 221 / Coast-to-coast Walk For Liberty is almost complete / Walk For Liberty recap / Watch the whole story of the Walk For Liberty at http://Videos.WalkForLiberty.com or http://YouTube.com/WalkForLiberty / Subscribe to the Walk For Liberty YouTube channel at http://SubYT.WalkForLiberty.com / Keith joins me and performs a public service / I’ll continue doing the Walk For Liberty videos even after reaching the coast / Walking into the water at Hampton Beach, NH at 3pm on New Years Eve / Exeter, NH / 13.76 miles for liberty / http://ArrivalPlans.WalkForLiberty.com / Keith’s antics of walking through ice water and climbing up a downed tree

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2009/01/walk-for-liberty-day-221-t-1-day-the-antics-of-keith/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 220 - Cops Satisfy Their Curiosity About You At Your Expense http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-220-cops-satisfy-their-curiosity-about-you-at-your-expense/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-220-cops-satisfy-their-curiosity-about-you-at-your-expense/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:44:52 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-220-cops-satisfy-their-curiosity-about-you-at-your-expense/ December 29th 2008, day 220 / Hierarchy of mailboxes / Cop car stalking me / Curious cops / When cops are curious, it’s not like other people being curious, because they can arrest you as a result / If cops were just curious it would be one thing, but they can snap into their law enforcement role instantly / They’re satisfying their curiosity at your expense / Not wise to treat police officers like any other curious person / I can’t treat them like regular people until they are again peace officers rather than law enforcement / Todd and his kids walking with me / 9.40 miles for liberty / http://Amazon.WalkForLiberty.com / Bug-eyed Iron Man

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-220-cops-satisfy-their-curiosity-about-you-at-your-expense/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 219 - Cops Don’t Pull Speeders Over For Safety Reasons, But Rather For Revenue Collection http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-219-cops-dont-pull-speeders-over-for-safety-reasons-but-rather-for-revenue-collection/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-219-cops-dont-pull-speeders-over-for-safety-reasons-but-rather-for-revenue-collection/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:54:15 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-219-cops-dont-pull-speeders-over-for-safety-reasons-but-rather-for-revenue-collection/ December 28th 2008, day 219 / ManchVegas / Mannequin supports Ron Paul! / Manchester, NH / No Dog Fouling / Incidents of Cop-unsafety / Cop pulling someone over when his car is hanging out onto the highway / Pulling people over for the “safety” reason of speeding, yet the cops is creating more of a hazard himself / Speeding is just an arbitrary “crime” and is not a danger to anyone else / If a cop can’t pull someone over safely, then he shouldn’t do it at all / If cops aren’t pulling people over for safety reasons, are they doing it for revenue collection? / Having quotas to fill / Peace officers aren’t supposed to collect revenue for the state, they’re supposed to keep the peace / Candia, NH / 30 miles to go on the Walk For Liberty / Finishing on New Year’s Eve / http://ArrivalPlans.WalkForLiberty.com / 10.15 miles for liberty / http://SubYT.WalkForLiberty.com click to subscribe to my YouTube Channel / ManchVegas

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-218-walking-with-a-crowd-to-murphys-taproom-in-manchester/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 217 - Why Are People Friendlier In Places Where There’s More Freedom And Less Government? http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-217-why-are-people-friendlier-in-places-where-theres-more-freedom-and-less-government/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-217-why-are-people-friendlier-in-places-where-theres-more-freedom-and-less-government/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:50:56 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-217-why-are-people-friendlier-in-places-where-theres-more-freedom-and-less-government/ December 22nd 2008, day 217 / Greenfield, NH / Working on downed utility lines / Journey’s End? / Are people friendlier in places where there is more freedom? / Waving to people you pass / People in sparsely populated western states seeming more friendly and helpful / People offering me rides / Getting snitched on further east / People friendlier in New Hampshire / Newspaper and TV coverage / Why are people friendlier in places where they’re freer? / In places where there is more govt, it breeds mistrust among people so it can control them / If people are afraid, they often look to the govt for protection / New York City campaign “If you see something, say something” / In places where there is less government, peoples’ natural kinship comes out / 17.02 miles for liberty / http://Amazon.WalkForLiberty.com / “Save Our Island!” / Even dogs are friendlier in NH?

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-217-why-are-people-friendlier-in-places-where-theres-more-freedom-and-less-government/feed/ Snow Couch in Support of Ian Freeman by Lauren Canario and Jim Johnson http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/snow-couch-in-support-of-ian-freeman-by-lauren-canario-and-jim-johnson/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/snow-couch-in-support-of-ian-freeman-by-lauren-canario-and-jim-johnson/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:56:54 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/snow-couch-in-support-of-ian-freeman-by-lauren-canario-and-jim-johnson/ On November 14, 2008, Ian Freeman of Keene, NH was arrested and sentenced to 93 days in jail…for having a couch on his lawn.

On December 24, 2008, Lauren Canario and Jim Johnson of Winchester, NH built a couch out of snow on their lawn in support of Ian.

This is that couch….

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/snow-couch-in-support-of-ian-freeman-by-lauren-canario-and-jim-johnson/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 216 - Does the Government Care About Its Reputation, Or Is It Content Just To Let People Die? http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-216-does-the-government-care-about-its-reputation-or-is-it-content-just-to-let-people-die/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-216-does-the-government-care-about-its-reputation-or-is-it-content-just-to-let-people-die/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:35:09 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-216-does-the-government-care-about-its-reputation-or-is-it-content-just-to-let-people-die/ December 20th 2008, day 216 / Bridge warning sign in Marlborough, NH - “Pass at your own risk” / Taking responsibility for yourself / Don’t trust the government to build things that are safe, despite what they might say / Big Dig tunnel collapse / Collapse of Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis / Army Corps of Engineers Levee collapse in Hurricane Katrina / You’re always at risk / Private companies have much more incentives to build reliable, sound structures, since their reputations matter, unlike with the government / Private companies have to compete for customers, so they care what people think about them / Government is not incentivized to build good structures, since they don’t have to care about their reputation / Walking with Lou from Peterborough / Oldest free library supported by taxation / 10.52 miles for liberty / http://Donate.WalkForLiberty.com / Free State Project adopted highway / State of Maine potatoes?

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]]> http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-215-whats-the-difference-between-republicans-and-democrats/feed/ Walk For Liberty Day 214 - Interview With the President of the Free State Project http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-214-interview-with-the-president-of-the-free-state-project/ http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-214-interview-with-the-president-of-the-free-state-project/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:18:21 +0000 Will Buchanan http://willbuchanan.com/blog/2008/12/walk-for-liberty-day-214-interview-with-the-president-of-the-free-state-project/ December 17th 2008, day 214 / Walking through snow / First day back to walking since arriving in NH / Thoughts on the NH arrival celebration and on getting to NH / Retrieved and fixed the RV / Staying with other Free Staters / Interview with Varrin Swearingen, President of the Free State Project / Comments on Keene, NH / How Varrin discovered the message of liberty in his life / Connection with Marshall Fritz, founder of the Advocates for Self-Government and the Alliance for Separation of School and State / Being in Marshall’s school / Large crowd having lunch with us at Panera Bread in Keene / 3 more people walking with me / Walked 13.91 miles for liberty / http://Amazon.WalkForLiberty.com / Jake-rider / New Hampshire Free Press spotted in store in Swanzey with article about the Walk For Liberty!

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