By some estimates, up to 15 000 americans have just been marching for freedom in Washington DC, USA and most of the day I have been watching for the updates, listening to the Revolution Broadcast, talking with other people on their chat and even made a supportive phone call all the way to US.

Yet I live in Croatia. So why am I so, shall we say “obsessed”, about the freedom issue in USA instead of the local issues. Why have I always been fairly international about my efforts instead of putting more focus on the local situation?

Part of the reason is that I am an internet critter, and my job is essentially 100% internet based, and internet is by definition international. I could’ve chosen to focus on the Croatia based sites, but I didn’t want to limit myself. I didn’t find a good enough reason not to go all the way, make sites in english and target an international audience.

And this choice is all the more fitting in the context of where I stand today, as an Earth inhabitant and a voluntaryist. The way I see it, freedom is a worldwide issue. It is not like it matters more whether people are free in one particular locality or another especially in a world that is a global village, so interconnected that an one can influence another even if they were on opposite hemispheres of Earth.

People sometimes say that when there is a particular cause we share it helps to put aside our differences and focus on what is our common goal, and nationalities, imaginary borders within which we are living may very well be among such differences. If you share the same exact idea it does not matter whether you live in USA or in Europe or wherever else. And if pursuit of that idea will make you actually go as far to change your location then so be it.

I see USA as a former beacon of liberty that may be unparalleld in history and even today as it is for all intents and purposes a police state in the making, it seems to still have a most vibrant movement of liberty activists in the world, liberty which actually involves freedom from such things as taxes, coercive government programs, government’s regulation or even government itself.

There is a project in New Hampshire, USA, an alternative to which at this point in time exists nowhere else on Earth, a Free State Project. It’s goal is liberty in our lifetime, starting with minimizing government and then perhaps even more. As someone who cares about freedom I am increasingly convinced that this is the focal point, the center of the worldwide movement for freedom. If a free state is once again established in New Hampshire, and especially if a working voluntaryist society is established, it will serve as a powerful example to the rest of the world just as USA influenced the rest of the world being a perceived beacon of freedom.

So living in one place or another essentially matters not as much as the actual ideas. If people carrying a particular idea populate mostly a particular part of the world then it is not only natural, but even logical and prefferable to cooperate with those people and focus on those parts of the world.

This is in big part why I am seriously beginning to entertain the idea of working towards moving to New Hampshire and becoming a member of the Free State Project. It seems as if I could find my home there, stop feeling like an isolated netizen whose most activities are online because that’s where all of the really interesting people are, and actually start being there with them, working side by side towards the goals we share.

Borders don’t matter. Countries don’t matter. We are all humans, we are all undeniably Earth inhabitants and all want for freedom. That’s really all that matter at the core. Localities, borders etc. should never stand in way to our cooperation towards those shared goals.