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"WE'RE ALL EQUAL HERE, I KNOW I LOOK A LITTLE CRAZY AND I DON'T LOOK LIKE OTHER PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE TREAT ME LIKE OTHER PEOPLE JEFFREY TUCKER -- EDITORIAL DIRECTOR AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH STATE REP. ANDREW PROUT JEFFERY TUCKER "WE'RE ALL EQUAL HERE, I KNOW I LOOK A LITTLE CRAZY AND I DON'T LOOK LIKE OTHER PEOPLE BUT PEOPLE TREAT ME LIKE OTHER PEOPLE, AND I LOVE THAT" PORC FEST IS THE LARGEST GATHERING OF LIBERTARIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE SOT YOU CAN BUY APPAREL ATTEND TALKS GET MEDICAL ATTENTION BUY HEMP- INFUSED PRETZELS AND -- FREE CARRY YOUR RIFLES AND GUNS -- NEW HAMPSHIRE ADOPTED "CONSITUTIONAL CARRY" TWO YEARS AGO PORC FEST IS HOSTED BY THE FREE STATE PROJECT -- WHICH JEFFERY TUCKER, WHO'S BEEN ATTENDING FOR SIX YEARS -- CAN EXPLAIN BETTER THAN I CAN -- YOU GET ENOUGH PEOPLE WHO LOVE LIBERTY IN A SINGLE STATE THAN YOU CAN AFFECT VOTING OUTCOMES IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE MOVING AROUND THE FESTIVAL IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO FIND FREE STATERS WHO'VE BEEN ELECTED TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE -- STATE REP. ANDREW PROUT : HILLSOROUGH COUNTY DISTRICT 37 WHICH IS THE TOWNS OF HUDSON AND PELHAM ANDREW PROUT WAS ELECTED IN 2016 -- YOU KNOW ... ONE OF THE BIG OBSTICLES OF COURSE IS THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT ITSELF LIBERTARIANS -- HOWEVER -- DO NOT ALL IDENTIFY AS REPUBLICANS CHRISTOPHER WAID, MOVED TO KEENE FROM NEW JERSEY WE'VE GOT AROUND 20 REPRESENATIVES IN THE STATE HOUSE THAT HAVE BEEN ELECTED THAT ARE LIBERTARIAN ...... THEY'RE ELECTED AS DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS" PORC FEST IS REALLY ABOUT COMMUNITY JOHNATHAN GOVEDNIK -- 'PORCRANGER' SECURITY STAFF: THE POPULATION HERE IS LOOKING AFTER EVERYONE -- ADULTS, KIDS, EVERYONE JEFFERY TUCKER: PEOPLE HAVE MOVED HERE TO BE AROUND EACH OTHER YOU'RE IMMMEDIATELY A PART OF A COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE IN THE FREE STATE MOVEMENT REALLY CARE ABOUT EACHOTHER IN THE HILLS OF LANCASTER NEW HAMPSHIRE -- NATHANIEL REED NBC 5 NEWS PEOPLE LIN

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Porcupine Freedom Festival, or PorcFest, may be the largest gathering of libertarians in North America. At their yearly festival, one can purchase "Porc"-themed apparel, attend talks with prominent libertarians, purchase hemp-infused pretzels (their baker swears they're better than Aunt Annie's), and free carry semi-automatic guns and rifles. Constitutional carry was legalized in New Hampshire in 2017. PorcFest is hosted by the Free State Project, which aims to relocate enough libertarians to New Hampshire to influence state laws and them more libertarian-friendly. " you get enough people who love liberty in a single state then you can affect voting outcomes in the State Legislature" Jeffery Tucker, the editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research, told NBC5. At PorcFest, it doesn't take very long to find Free Staters who've been elected to the New Hampshire State Legislature. State Rep. Andrew Prout (R-Hillsborough-37) told NBC5 that, since being elected in 2016, he's been struggling to enact libertarian ideals in Concord. "One of the big obstacles, of course, is the machinery of government itself," he said. Many libertarians are quick to point out that they don't all identify as Republicans. Christopher Waid, a Free Stater who moved to Keene, New Hampshire from New Jersey, told NBC5 that New Hampshire has "around 20 representatives in the State House that have been elected that are libertarian." Under present regulations, he pointed out, candidates in New Hampshire cannot be elected as libertarian directly, but rather have been elected as both Democrats and Republicans.PorcFest's aims to bring libertarians from across the world together. At least one attendee flew in from Australia specifically for the event. "You're immediately a part of a community, and people in the Free State movement really care about each other" Tucker said.