February 18, 2023
I read a news article about a 46-year-old Libertarian politician named Jason Sorens who is running for the elected office local position on the Amherst, NH, planning board. He works as a senior research faculty member at the Libertarian think tank American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, but he is an Amherst (NH) resident where he lives with his wife Olga and their children.
Jason Soren is a cult-like founder of the Free Stater movement whereby since 2001, he has recruited thousands of people over the years to transform New Hampshire's state and local government into a so-called utopia of limited government with little to no laws and regulations. Let us not forget that the U.S.A. is a nation of laws, not of men like Jason Sorens, please.
Free Staters are fringe politicians who are coopting the Republican Party in New Hampshire for their own cult-like purposes. There ultimate goal is to take over state and local government in New Hampshire by being elected to political offices and filling the bureaucracies with their cronies. Free Staters' political agendas and goals are not in line with the people and taxpayers of New Hampshire.
Jason Sorens calls himself a "minarchist", which means that he believes that limited government will always be necessary. Jason Sorens is really a leader of a misguided political cult that is trying to take over the state and local government in New Hampshire. Jason Sorens attended graduate school at Yale University. He moved to New Hampshire one decade ago in 2013.
Source: "Free State Founder Running For Amherst Planning Board Amid Anti-Free Stater Sentiment", By Nancy West, InDepthNH.org, February 17, 2023
My thoughts about Jason Sorens running for planning board in my Town of Amherst, NH, are that while he has every right to run for political office, he stands for everything that democratic government stands for, which is that we are a nation of laws, not of men. His ultimate goal is to transform New Hampshire into a so-called utopia of Libertarian government with little to no laws and regulations. This runs contrary to the foundations of our nation, which is the rule of law based on Human Rights that are protected by the federal and state constitutions and the government. Jason Sorens is a cult-like fringe politician who is more interested in recruiting people to his misguided political cause than serving the public good of the community, state and nation. I will NOT be voting for Jason Sorens for planning board on March 14th, 2023.
Jonathan A. Melle
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COURTS & CORRECTIONS: "Free State Founder Jason Sorens Fails in Court To Silence Critic"
By Damien Fisher, InDepthNH.org, March 20, 2023
The Amherst (NH) man who created the Free State Project, the Libertarian movement to transform New Hampshire into a liberty Mecca, lost his bid in court to silence a critic of his run for Planning Board.
Jason Sorens went to the Hillsborough Superior Court in Manchester this month seeking a restraining order against Wolfeboro Selectman Brian Deshaies, claiming Deshaies was waging a campaign of harassment and lies.
Sorens wanted a judge to order Deshaies to stop contacting him, to stay away from him, and to stop talking about him.
“Restrain (Deshaies) from spreading falsehoods about me to other people,” Sorens wrote.
Deshaies, for his part, claims he did nothing wrong, and simply made inquiries about Sorens, and exchanged emails with the Free State founder that contain factual information.
While neither Sorens nor Deshaies responded to a request for comment, Judge David Anderson ruled Monday there is no legal basis for Sorens’ request.
Sorens never alleged actual threatening behavior, and he did not provide any evidence that would require a judge to interfere with Deshaies’ free speech rights.
“(Sorens) has not laid a sufficient predicate for the issuance of a prior restraint on speech,” Anderson wrote in his dismissal order.
Sorens claimed in his complaint filed in court that Deshaies tried to get him fired from his job at Saint Anselm College, then he tried to get him fired from his current job at the libertarian think tank the American Institute for Economic Research, and Deshaies started telling Sorens’ neighbors that he had been fired from Saint Anselm’s.
Sorens also complains that Deshaies tried to get a reporter to write a negative article about him.
Deshaies states in his response that he never tried to get Sorens fired from any job. He contacted Saint Anselm to ask if Sorens was teaching from his Free State Manifesto, which advocates for seceding from the United States and calls for abolishing all government.
Sorens has recently amended his views on government, saying he no longer wants to abolish all government and allow capitalist markets to rule, but now he favors minimal government to provide basic services like police and firefighters.
Deshaies claims that while he did contact a representative at American Institute for Economic Research, it was to inquire about an unrelated matter, and he learned of Sorens’ job during that call.
Deshaies also claims that he never sent Sorens any harassing or threatening emails, and he never spread lies to his neighbors, as Sorens claimed.
“I have always been factual, polite, and have used no hateful words,” Deshaies wrote.
Deshaies admits he has contacted people in Amherst about Sorens and his Free State ideas, because Sorens is currently running for a position on the town’s Planning Board.
“I have made it clear he wrote the Free State Manifesto and that citizens should understand his stance on ‘Planning,’” Deshaies wrote.
The Free State Project, which has urged tens of thousands of people move to New Hampshire in order to change the government to being more Libertarian, has caused controversy in recent months. Last year, a small group of Free State Republican members of the House of Representatives proposed a bill to leave the United States.
A Free Stater was also behind the Croydon effort to slash the town’s school budget, and they played an outsized role in the drama surrounding Gunstock Mountain, which saw the paid managers all quit in protest until the Free State/liberty activists board members were forced out. Sorens has distanced himself from Gunstock and Croydon.
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Amherst, New Hampshire Planning Board Members:
Vote for not more than two:
Thomas Quinn: 2,283
Arnie Rosenblatt: 1,954
Jason Sorens: 1,110 - [LOST]
Write-in: 26
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