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The New Hampshire Liberty Forum is an annual libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

conference hosted by the Free State Project

Free State Project

The Free State Project is a political movement, founded in 2001, to recruit at least 20,000 libertarian-leaning people to move to New Hampshire in order to make the state a stronghold for libertarian ideas....

. It has attracted as speakers the likes of U.S. Presidential candidates

United States presidential election

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, a sitting U.S. Senator

United States Senate

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, a sitting U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

, state legislators, directors of numerous policy institutes

Think tank

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, and a World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

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professional wrestler.

In addition to catering to a wide variety of liberty-minded interests, the conference also serves as a way by which the Free State Project can showcase New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

to prospective participants as a hotbed of pro-liberty activism.

2012 Conference

The 2012 conference will be held from February 23-26. The Second Amendment Sisters

Second Amendment Sisters

Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. is a non-partisan women's advocacy group in the United States dedicated to the protection of gun rights, specifically for the purpose of self defense...

of New Hampshire will be sponsoring a firearm safety class and shoot, and the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance

New Hampshire Liberty Alliance

The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance website states that it is a nonpartisan coalition working to increase individual political freedom in New Hampshire...

will be offering a tour of the New Hampshire State House.

Keynote speaker

Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin
Joel F. Salatin is an American farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include You Can Farm and Salad Bar Beef.Salatin raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley...

— farmer, lecturer, and author whose books include "You Can Farm" and "Salad Bar Beef"

2011 Conference

The 2011 conference was scheduled for February 24-27 in Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua, New Hampshire

-Climate:-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 86,494 people, 35,044 households, and 21,876 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,719.9 people per square mile . There were 37,168 housing units at an average density of 1,202.8 per square mile...

but in December 2010, it was announced by Free State Project board member Varrin Swearingen that the 2011 conference would be canceled. A primary reason for the cancellation included slow ticket sales after the event announcement was delayed partially due to the keynote speaker unexpectedly backing out.

2010 Conference

The 2010 conference was held from March 18 through March 21 in Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua, New Hampshire

, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Keynote speakers

Judge Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Napolitano
Andrew Paolo Napolitano is a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and now a political and legal analyst for Fox News Channel. Napolitano started on the channel in 1998, and currently serves as the network's senior judicial analyst, commenting on legal news and trials...

— former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and host of Freedom Watch on the FOX business network
NH State Rep. Dan Itse
Dan Itse
Daniel C. Itse, known as Dan Itse , is a conservative Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. A native of San Francisco, California, Itse is a professional engineer who resides in Fremont, New Hampshire...

— sitting New Hampshire State Representative
Jacob Hornberger — founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, a libertarian educational foundation based in Fairfax, Virginia

Speakers

Angela Keaton — development director of Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com is a website devoted to opposing aggressive war, imperialism, and assaults on freedom associated with both. The editors describe their politics as libertarian. Their stated motiviation is, "to show how the imperialistic tendencies of the American government lead to a loss of civil...

, producer of Antiwar Radio; serves on the boards of Outright Libertarians
Outright Libertarians
Outright Libertarians is an association in the United States of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and other self-identified "queer" people who are active in the Libertarian Party...

and Ladies of Liberty Alliance
Ladies of Liberty Alliance
The Ladies of Liberty Alliance was created in 2009, "to educate and empower female leaders within the liberty movement". This US-based group seeks to train women to effectively promote the ideals of liberty....
Brad Spangler — Director of the Center for a Stateless Society, proponent of agorism
Brett Veinotte — host of School Sucks Podcast (schoolsucks.podomatic.com)
Catherine Bleish — Executive Director of the Liberty Restoration Project
Charles W. Johnson — individualist-anarchist writer and activist, founding member of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left, occasional columnist; writes at radgeek.com
Daniel J. Mitchell
Daniel J. Mitchell
Daniel J. "Dan" Mitchell is a libertarian economist, senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is a proponent of the flat tax and tax competition, financial privacy, and fiscal sovereignty-Personal life:...

— libertarian economist, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
David D. Friedman
David D. Friedman
David Director Friedman is an American economist, author, and Right-libertarian theorist. He is known as a leader in anarcho-capitalist political theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom...

— author of "The Machinery of Freedom
The Machinery of Freedom
The Machinery of Freedom is a 1973 nonfiction book by libertarian economist David D. Friedman outlining the means by which an anarcho-capitalist society could operate...

"; holds A.B. from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
Devin S. Standard — firearms instructor, accomplished martial artist, hunter
Eddie Allen — International Currency Director for the American Open Currency Standard
Ernest Hancock — publisher of FreedomsPhoenix, host of "Declare Your Independence" on the Liberty News Radio Network and the Republic Broadcasting Network
Republic Broadcasting Network
Republic Broadcasting Network is a satellite, shortwave, and Internet radio operation based in the state of Texas. It is run by John Stadtmiller, who advertises it as a "truth radio station"...

; best known as creator of the Ron Paul
Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

r3VOLution logo
Jason Talley — author, contributes to fr33agents.net
Jenn Coffey — National Coordinator of the Second Amendment Sisters, elected NH State Representative
Kelley Vlahos — contributing editor for The American Conservative
The American Conservative
The American Conservative is a monthly U.S. opinion magazine published by Ron Unz. Its first editor was Scott McConnell, his successors being Kara Hopkins and the present incumbent, Daniel McCarthy....

magazine and its blog; correspondent for Homeland Security Today, political writer for FOXNews.com, regular columnist for Antiwar.com
Kenneth W. Royce
Kenneth W. Royce
Kenneth W. Royce is an American author who primarily writes under the pen-name of Boston T. Party.He has written non-fiction books that offer a libertarian stance on privacy, police encounters, tax resistance and gun politics...

— aka "Boston T. Party", founder of Free State Wyoming
Free State Wyoming
Free State Wyoming is a political migration project whose goal is to bring people of "demonstrably ethical character" to the state of Wyoming in the western United States to encourage "political liberty, free trade and voluntary cooperation."...

, shooting instructor, speaker, author of books on guns, history, law, politics, and government
Michelle Seven — mother taking up her case against the IRS
Pasha Roberts — producer/director of the movie "Silver Circle" (silvercirclemovie.com)
Radley Balko
Radley Balko
Radley Balko is an American libertarian journalist, blogger, and speaker.- Education :Balko earned a B.A. in journalism and political science in 1997 from Indiana University.- Employment and publications :...

— journalist, senior editor for Reason magazine, and blogs at theagitator.com
Scott Bieser
Scott Bieser
Scott Bieser is an illustrator and writer of comics, and a former computer game animator.His credits for Interplay Productions include the Amiga version of Battle Chess, Chinese Battle Chess, Battle Chess 4000 , Total Recall , Booger-Man, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary Game,...

— cartoonist, former video game animator
Shelly Roche — libertarian activist with a podcast at ByteStyle.tv; computer programmer, entrepreneur
Skip Coryell — founder of the Second Amendment March; author of seven books related to personal defense and 2nd Amendment activism; Chief Instructor and co-owner of Midwest Tactical Training
Stewart Rhodes — founder and Director of Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers is an American nonprofit organization that advocates that its members uphold the Constitution of the United States should they be ordered to violate it....

; former firearms instructor and former member of Ron Paul
Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

’s D.C. staff.
Thomas Naylor
Thomas Naylor
Thomas Naylor, born May 30, 1936, in Jackson, Mississippi, is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, the author of thirty books, and a founder of the Second Vermont Republic...

— co-founder of the Second Vermont Republic
Second Vermont Republic
Second Vermont Republic is a secessionist group within the U.S. state of Vermont which seeks to return to the formerly independent status of the Vermont Republic . It describes itself as "a nonviolent citizens' network and think tank opposed to the tyranny of Corporate America and the U.S...

; author, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
Tom Baugh — entrepreneur, inventor; author of "Starving the Monkeys: Fight Back Smarter"
Tom Mullen — author of "A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America"
William Norman Grigg
William Norman Grigg
William Norman Grigg has authored several books from a Constitutionalist perspective. He used to be a senior editor of The New American magazine.-Biography:...

— award-winning investigative journalist and author; blogs at freedominourtime.blogspot.com

Additionally, members of the Liberty Caravan (libertycaravan.org) spoke about their journey to New Hampshire

New Hampshire

2009 Conference

The 2009 conference was held from March 5 through March 8 in Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua, New Hampshire

, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

Keynote speakers

Dick Heller — brought suit against Washington D.C. with the Bill of Rights Foundation, and together they successfully overturned the D.C. ban on handguns. Mr. Heller is a participant in the Free State Project.
Dr. Mary Ruwart
Mary Ruwart
Mary J. Ruwart, Ph. D. is a research scientist and libertarian speaker, writer, and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning international bestseller "Healing Our World."-Biography:Born in Detroit, Ruwart...

— author and 2008 LP Presidential candidate
Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Basil Molyneux is a blogger, essayist, author, and host of the Freedomain Radio series of podcasts, living in Mississauga, Canada...

— host of Freedomain Radio

Speakers

Charles Arlinghaus — president of the free-market Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
David Bergland
David Bergland
David Peter Bergland received the United States Libertarian Party's nomination for the 1984 presidential election. Bergland and his running mate Jim Lewis received 228,111 . He received the party's vice-presidential nomination in the 1976 presidential election, sharing the ticket with Roger...

— Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...

(LP) Presidential candidate, activist, and author
Will Buchanan — from the Walk For Liberty
Jenn Coffey — National Coordinator of the Second Amendment Sisters
Second Amendment Sisters
Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. is a non-partisan women's advocacy group in the United States dedicated to the protection of gun rights, specifically for the purpose of self defense...

, & elected New Hampshire State Representative
Pete Eyre — Bureaucrash
Bureaucrash
Bureaucrash is an international network of libertarian activists whose stated goals are "decreasing the scope of government" and "increasing individual freedom" which engages in culture jamming.-History:...

Crasher-in-Chief
Gary Franchi — National Director of Aaron Russo
Aaron Russo
Aaron Russo was an American entertainment businessman, movie producer and director, and political activist. He was best-known for producing such blockbuster movies as Trading Places, Wise Guys, and The Rose...

's Restore the Republic
Patri Friedman
Patri Friedman
Patri Friedman is an American activist and theorist of political economy.- Background :Friedman grew up in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Upper Merion Area High School, class of 1994, where he went by the name Patri Forwalter-Friedman. He graduated from Harvey Mudd College in...

— Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto
John Taylor Gatto is a retired American school teacher with nearly 30 years experience in the classroom, and author of several books on education...

— author of numerous books including "Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling"
Anthony Gregory — Research Analyst at the Independent Institute
Independent Institute
The Independent Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Oakland, California. Founded in 1986 byDavid J. Theroux , the Institute sponsors studies of major political, social, economic, legal, environmental and foreign policy issues. It has more than 140 research fellows. The Institute was...
Dan Itse
Dan Itse
Daniel C. Itse, known as Dan Itse , is a conservative Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. A native of San Francisco, California, Itse is a professional engineer who resides in Fremont, New Hampshire...

— New Hampshire state representative who introduced States' Rights bill HCR 0006
Glenn Jacobs — WWE wrestler "Kane", Free State Project member, creator of the blog Adventures of Citizen X
Angela Keaton — Development Director from AntiWar.com
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com is a website devoted to opposing aggressive war, imperialism, and assaults on freedom associated with both. The editors describe their politics as libertarian. Their stated motiviation is, "to show how the imperialistic tendencies of the American government lead to a loss of civil...
Adam Kokesh
Adam Kokesh
Adam Charles Kokesh is an American activist and talk radio host. Kokesh was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and is a veteran of the Iraq War. He is an outspoken opponent of the U.S. military intervention in Iraq and has received media attention related to anti-war protest...

— from Iraq Veterans Against the War
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Iraq Veterans Against the War is an advocacy group of active-duty United States military personnel, Iraq War veterans, Afghanistan War veterans, and other veterans who have served since the September 11, 2001 attacks who are opposed to the U.S. occupation of Iraq...
Tom Mullen — author of "A Return to Common Sense"
Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann
Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Described by Rolling Stone as, "the point man for drug-policy-reform efforts," Ethan Nadelmann is known as a high profile critic and...

— founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance
Drug Policy Alliance
The Drug Policy Alliance is a New York City-based non-profit organization, led by executive director Ethan Nadelmann, with the principal goal of ending the American "War on Drugs"...
Evan Nappen — lawyer and author of "New Hampshire Gun, Knife, and Weapon Law"
David Nolan — founder of the Libertarian Party
Kenneth Royce (Boston T. Party) — author of books on guns, history, law, politics, and government
Matt Simon — Director of NH Common Sense Marijuana Policy
Lisa Snell — Director of Education and Child Welfare, Reason Foundation
Reason Foundation
The Reason Foundation is an American nonprofit think tank founded in 1978 that also publishes Reason magazine. Based in Los Angeles, Reason is self-described as nonpartisan and publishes a statement of values that can best be described as libertarian...
Marc Stevens
Marc Stevens (radio host)
Marc Stevens is a voluntaryist essayist and talk radio host from Phoenix, Arizona. He is the host of The No State Project. Stevens is also the author of the 2002 book, Adventures In Legal Land, an examination of the legal and political systems of the United States.-Adventures In Legal Land:In 2002,...

— author of "Adventures in Legal Land"
Deborah Stevenson — Executive Director of National Home Education Legal Defense
Aaron David Ward — libertarian comedian

2008 Conference

The 2008 conference was held from January 3 through January 6 in Nashua at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Moved to first weekend in January based on predicted New Hampshire primary

New Hampshire primary

The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years , as part of the process of choosing the Democratic and Republican nominees for the presidential elections to be held the subsequent November.Although only a...

date of Tuesday, January 8, 2008, which came to pass.
Slogan: Moving Liberty Forward

Keynote speakers

Bernard von NotHaus
Bernard von NotHaus
Bernard von NotHaus is the creator of the Liberty Dollar and co-founder of the Royal Hawaiian Mint Company. He created the Free Marijuana Church of Honolulu...

— currency architect and creator of the Liberty Dollar
Liberty Dollar
The Liberty Dollar was a private currency produced in the United States. The currency was issued in minted metal rounds similar to coins, gold and silver certificates and electronic currency . ALD certificates are "warehouse receipts" for real gold and silver owned by the bearer, ALD certificate...
John E. Sununu
John E. Sununu
John Edward Sununu is a former Republican United States Senator from New Hampshire, of Lebanese and Palestinian Christian ancestry. Sununu was the youngest member of the Senate for his entire six year term. He is the son of former New Hampshire Governor John H...

— Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

United States Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

from New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul is an American physician, author and United States Congressman who is seeking to be the Republican Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election. Paul represents Texas's 14th congressional district, which covers an area south and southwest of Houston that includes...

— U.S. Congressman from 14th district of Texas
Texas's 14th congressional district
Texas's 14th district for the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that covers the area south and southwest of the Greater Houston region, including Galveston, in the state of Texas. The district was created as a result of the 1900 U.S. Census and was first contested...

and Republican Presidential Candidate

Speakers

Sharon Harris
Sharon Harris
Sharon Harris is a libertarian political activist and president of the Advocates for Self-Government.Harris holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in psychology....

— president of Advocates for Self Government
Advocates for Self Government
The Advocates for Self-Government is a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian educational organization. It was founded in 1985 by Marshall Fritz and the current president is Sharon Harris....
F. Paul Wilson
F. Paul Wilson
Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres. His debut novel was Healer . Wilson is also a part-time practicing family physician. He made his first sales in 1970 to Analog while still in medical school , and continued to write science fiction...

— author the Repairman Jack
Repairman Jack
This series of novels uses realistic, thriller-like situations to tell a story with a broad supernatural theme. It is technically a spin-off branch of the aforementioned larger, overarching supernatural horror series, The Adversary Cycle.- Introduction :...

series
Bob Schulz — Chairman of the We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. also known as We the People Foundation is a non-profit education and research organization in Queensbury, New York with the declared mission "to protect and defend individual Rights as guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States."...
Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper (lecturer)
Barry Cooper is an anti-drug-war lecturer known for his DVD series, "Never Get Busted" and his reality show, KopBusters. Cooper formerly served as a law enforcement officer.-Early life:...

— from NeverGetBusted.com
Jim Babka
Jim Babka
Jim Babka is a writer, activist, and former radio talk-show host. He currently serves as president of the Downsize DC Foundation and DownsizeDC.org, Inc.-Early life and education:...

— president of the Downsize DC Foundation
Downsize DC Foundation
Downsize DC is a policy advocacy organization which aims to limit the size of government in the United States through awareness and petitioning. Though it claims to be non-partisan, it does have strong political ties to the libertarian movement...
Peter Christ — founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is a non-profit, international, educational organization comprising former and current police officers, government agents and other law enforcement agents who oppose the current War on Drugs. LEAP was founded on March 16, 2002...

(LEAP)
Tom Eddlem — host of Dangerous Talk and blogger at LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com
LewRockwell.com is a 501 libertarian web magazine operated by Burton Blumert , Lew Rockwell , Eric Garris , and others associated with the Center for Libertarian Studies ; its motto is "anti-state, anti-war, pro-market"...
Gardner Goldsmith
Gardner Goldsmith
Gardner Goldsmith is a television and radio script writer, journalist and author whose work has appeared in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He was also the host of "Against the Grain", and creator of The Liberty Conspiracy...

— author and host of Against the Grain
Don Gorman — political director for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance website states that it is a nonpartisan coalition working to increase individual political freedom in New Hampshire...

http://nhliberty.org/
Christopher Gronski — creator of Destination Freedom and NH coordinator for the We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. also known as We the People Foundation is a non-profit education and research organization in Queensbury, New York with the declared mission "to protect and defend individual Rights as guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States."...
John McManus — President of the John Birch Society
John Birch Society
The John Birch Society is an American political advocacy group that supports anti-communism, limited government, a Constitutional Republic and personal freedom. It has been described as radical right-wing....
Tyler Stearns — student, named "2007 Liberty Activist of the Year" by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance website states that it is a nonpartisan coalition working to increase individual political freedom in New Hampshire...
Wayne Green — creator of Byte magazine and of NH To Do
Lydia Harman — realtor, Integrity Plus Investments & Real Estate
Carla Howell
Carla Howell
Carla A. Howell is an American political activist and small government advocate. She is President of the Center For Small Government. She is most known for organizing tax cut initiative petitions, called ballot measures in other states...

— from the Center for Small Government

2007 Conference

Held in Concord

Concord, New Hampshire

The city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2010 census, its population was 42,695....

, from February 22 to February 25, 2007.
Slogan: Attaining Personal and Economic Freedom in America's Freest State

Keynote speakers

John Stossel
John Stossel
John F. Stossel is an American consumer reporter, investigative journalist, author and libertarian columnist. In October 2009 Stossel left his long time home on ABC News to join the Fox Business Channel and Fox News Channel, both owned and operated by News Corp...

— co-anchor of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

's 20/20, called "the most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time".
Michael Badnarik
Michael Badnarik
Michael J. Badnarik is an American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, behind independent candidate Ralph Nader...

— 2004 Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...

presidential candidate, and author of Good To Be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom.

Speakers

Ron Paul (video, audio) - U.S. Congressman from Texas's 14th congressional district
Jim Babka
Jim Babka
Jim Babka is a writer, activist, and former radio talk-show host. He currently serves as president of the Downsize DC Foundation and DownsizeDC.org, Inc.-Early life and education:...

— president of the Downsize DC Foundation
Downsize DC Foundation
Downsize DC is a policy advocacy organization which aims to limit the size of government in the United States through awareness and petitioning. Though it claims to be non-partisan, it does have strong political ties to the libertarian movement...
Jack Cole
Jack A. Cole
Jack A. Cole is an American drug policy reform activist and retired police officer. He is the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ,...

— executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is a non-profit, international, educational organization comprising former and current police officers, government agents and other law enforcement agents who oppose the current War on Drugs. LEAP was founded on March 16, 2002...

(LEAP)
Bill Westmiller
Bill Westmiller
William Joseph Ronald Westmiller is a North American politician. He currently resides in Thousand Oaks, California.Westmiller was co-founder of the Libertarian Party of Canada, was a member of the San Fernando Valley chapter of the Libertarian Party of California in the 1970s, and more recently he...

— national chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus
Republican Liberty Caucus
The Republican Liberty Caucus is a political action organization dedicated to promoting the ideals of individual liberty, limited government and free market economics within the Republican Party in the United States. It is part of the libertarian wing of the Republican Party...
Rob Kampia
Rob Kampia
Rob Kampia is co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, the largest 501 nonprofit organization in the U.S. that is solely dedicated to ending cannabis prohibition.-Formative years:...

— executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project
Marijuana Policy Project
The Marijuana Policy Project, or MPP, is the largest organization working solely on marijuana policy reform in the United States in terms of its budget, number of members, and staff...
Jim Harper — director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the largest privately held...
Joe McQuaid — Publisher of New Hampshire's statewide newspaper, The Union Leader
New Hampshire Union Leader
The New Hampshire Union Leader is the daily newspaper of Manchester, the largest city in the state of New Hampshire. As of September 2010 it had a daily circulation of 48,342 and the circulation of its Sunday paper, the New Hampshire Sunday News, was 63,991. It was founded in 1863.It was called...
Geoffrey Segal — director of government reform for the Reason Foundation
Reason Foundation
The Reason Foundation is an American nonprofit think tank founded in 1978 that also publishes Reason magazine. Based in Los Angeles, Reason is self-described as nonpartisan and publishes a statement of values that can best be described as libertarian...
Christopher Gronski — New Hampshire coordinator for the We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation
We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc. also known as We the People Foundation is a non-profit education and research organization in Queensbury, New York with the declared mission "to protect and defend individual Rights as guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States."...
Don Gorman — political director for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance
Lydia Harman — realtor, Integrity Plus Investments & Real Estate

External links

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