A tiny American town\'s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears.
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Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears Into the woods.
And it all caught the attention of Grafton\'s neighbors: the bears.
They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid.
Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal.
The anything-goes atmosphere soon spread Into the neighboring woods.
State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town\'s thick wilderness.
When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse.
In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road.
Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American Town and completely eliminate its government.
A tiny American town\'s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears
