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[edit] Questionable Motives

According to a former Free State Project President Amanda Philips, the Free Town Project was actually ruse meant to discredit the Free State Project:

“ 1) They have nothing to do with the FSP.

2) They quit long ago. The man behind it wanted nothing more than to discredit the FSP. They don't live in NH & never had any intention of moving to NH, just wanted to stir up trouble in a small town.

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— Amanda Philips, In a comment on Livejournal

TheWama

JoeSmack removed the above, saying:
 Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! You recently added an external link to a blog in an article. It has been removed because the link pointed to a non-encyclopedic source. Please refer to Wikipedia's policy on external links for more information.
--JoeSmack Talk 09:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
However, checking the policy on blogs it says:

[edit] Links normally to be avoided

8. Links to blogs, except those written by a recognized authority.

Emphasis mine. Given that the quote cited, though resident on a blog, is written by the person who was President of the FSP at the time that the Free Town Project was active, I maintain that the citation is valid, as she represents a recognized authority on the matter.

TheWama 05:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Silly idea on merging with Free State Project

  • It is an unofficial splinter group that has no ties with the broader FSP movement other than getting its inspiration from it. -AlexLibman 07:33, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
  • This is a revisionist position. The facts are that the group was founded on the FSP's own Forum by long standing members of the FSP who are residents of NH, and have served in leadership positions in the FSP. Rather, the FTP was discredited by one person, Larry Pendarvis, who is not and never has been a member of the FSP, nor a resident of NH.75.67.83.165 (talk) 04:31, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This reads like an advertisement

I have a bunch of info to add, but don't want to edit it because I am involved in a way.

The link to the savegrafton.org site was removed because the site has gone away, but the http://save-grafton.blogspot.com/ site is still around, so maybe a link to that? It is a blog, but that is what the savegrafton.com linked to when the June 19, 2004 meeting happend, and some news articles talked about it.

There is a bunch of stuff wrong with this article. I can point stuff out if someone wants to edit it.

Mike Lorrey is not a NH native, he was born in Lowell MA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.233.140.33 (talk) 16:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)