It appears your posistion is out of sync. with the stated mission goals.
I also remember something in the mission goals about, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, encouraging people of "good moral character" to move to Wyoming. There's nothing wrong about wanting to smoke a doobie in downtown Keene at a 420 rally (and I'd probably join them if I was there, even though I haven't 'partaken' for probably twenty years now), but do you think that wanting to do so automatically means someone is of "good moral character"? I'm trying to get across to maxx what I see as the difference in approach in the idea of numbers in and of themselves between Wyoming and NH. I didn't mean to give the impression that I spoke for you or for the FSW, and I'm sorry if I was too sloppy in my wording and left that impression.
Numbers are important, and I'm not afraid to promote Wyoming. I've talked to a lot of people about it, both in person and online. I'm anything but quiet about it. I can't reach the numbers that maybe you do, or that Boston and others do, but I do talk it up to people. But I also realize that the majority of those people will never take it seriously. Those looking for a quick fix won't be interested in Wyoming. Those looking to maintain their accustomed lifestyle would never consider Wyoming. Those who aren't really committed to liberty beyond one or two pet issues won't be interested in Wyoming. I'm OK with that. I don't discourage them, or try to exclude them, but I realize it is usually just a fantasy they might indulge for a few minutes before moving on to more "practical" things they have to worry about.
I'm also up front about Wyoming's "relative laissez-faire Western culture" and what that might mean to somebody who is considering moving. I have to admit, it is somewhat foreign to me, too, but I am willing and eager to adapt myself to it rather than try and adapt Wyoming to my lifestyle. Again, I don't try to use that to discourage people, I talk up the positive aspects of it, but it's a culture that's not for everybody. The last thing I want is to convince somebody to move there and have them either hate it, (and by extension distrust both me and any freedom movement they might encounter in the future), or worse, accelerate the BS that we all know is coming Wyoming's way by being unable to leave it back where they came from.
I don't know how out of sync I am with the mission goals, as I am not privy to the planning that you and others have worked so hard at. I am certainly not trying to undermine it by keeping people out of Wyoming. I'm just trying to get maxx, and others to see that in Wyoming it is a far deeper thing than simply numbers. Much of what he suggests is useful, but also some of it tends towards looking at numbers to the exclusion of the rest of it. The pledge registry is going over like a lead balloon, not surprisingly. But there are aspects of the idea that could be useful and productive if we can tease them out. To the extent I have any goals in this area, or think I might have any influence, it would be to try to figure out how to adapt some of the ideas used in NH to the different needs of a Wyoming movement. It is not to discourage or ignore the issues of numbers, but to find ways to pursue numbers that are in keeping with a laissez-faire and individualist western culture as opposed to a more group oriented eastern culture. If maxx and other FSP'ers understood the difference, they might be more able to help us figure out how to adapt the methods that have worked for them.