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经济学人:豪猪自由节和自由州项目策划解放新罕布什尔州

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United States PorcFest and the Free State Project Anarchists get organised
美国豪猪自由节和自由州项目无政府主义者组织起来了

The plot to liberate New Hampshire
策划解放新罕布什尔州

A YOUNG man in a leather loincloth saunters past a woman dressed like Alice in Wonderland.
一名身着皮革遮羞布的年轻男人漫步走过一个打扮得像梦游仙境的爱丽丝一样的女人。

The tang of pot wafts through the air,and a small remote-operated drone buzzes overhead
大烟的味道飘在风中，一家小型远程操控无人机在头顶嗡嗡作响

(Bought it in China, says the proud owner;
（其所有者骄傲地说，这是从中国带回来的，

I'd use it to follow chicks, marvels one chap).
我用它来追踪我的小鸡们，这让小伙子大感惊异）。

Guns are everywhere; Bitcoin is the currency of choice.
在这里，枪支无处不在，比特币是一种货币选择。

The Porcupine Freedom Festival,which ended on June 29th,saw more than 1,500 libertarians and anarchists descend on Lancaster,New Hampshire.
于6月29日结束的豪猪自由节（Porcupine Freedom Festival）期间，有1500名自由主义者和无政府主义者屈尊来到了新罕布什尔州的兰卡斯特。

The event's mascot is a porcupine,which,though well-armed,only causes pain when attacked.
节日的吉祥物是一只豪猪，尽管全副武装，但遇袭时仍会疼痛。

New Hampshire is a natural stamping-ground for freedom-lovers.
新罕布什尔州是自由爱好者的天然宝地。

It has low taxes,lean bureaucracy and some of the loosest gun laws in America.
这里有着低廉的税收，稀薄的官僚意识和全美几乎最为宽松的枪支管制。

Grown-ups can ride around without seat-belts or motorcycle helmets.
成年人可以不系安全带或不带头盔地兜风。

The right to rebel when public liberty is manifestly endangered is enshrined in the state constitution.
在州立宪法中，当公共自由明显岌岌可危时反抗的权利被奉若神明。

This is why it was chosen as the site for the Free State Project (FSP),
这也就是为什么，这里会被选作自由州项目（FSP）的地点，

which aims to lure at least 20,000 like-minded people to this small state (population 1.3m) and make it even more liberty-loving.
这个项目汇集了至少20,000名志同道合的人，他们来到了这个（人口仅有130万的）小州，使这里变得更加热爱自由。

Since 2002 nearly 16,000 have pledged to come and help slash state and local budgets,limit government meddling and legalise choices that do not harm others,
自2002年起，约16,000人承诺来到这里，帮助大幅度削减州和地区的预算，限制政府干预以及使不妨害他人的选择合法化，

such as drugs,gay marriage and maybe prostitution.
比如毒品、同性恋婚姻甚至性行业。

It will be a Yankee Hong Kong,says Carla Gericke,FSP's president.
FSP项目主席卡拉·格里克评价道，这里就像一个美国版的香港。

The one place in America that is economically free,like a beacon to the rest of the country—or even the world.
她说：这是全美唯一一个经济自由的地方，对于整个国家——甚至整个世界来说，这里就像一块熏肉一样诱人。

More than 1,600 Free Staters have already made New Hampshire their home.
超过16,00名自由州人已经把新罕布什尔州看做自己的家。

They are beginning to have an effect.
并且他们开始有影响力。

In 2012 the Granite State became the first to allow lawyers to tell juries they may acquit a defendant if they believe the law is unfair.
2012年，花岗岩州成为首个允许律师在认为法律不公的情况下，告知陪审团他们已经宣判被告无罪的州。

In 2011 the state stripped away much of the red tape that kept home brewers from selling their wares,spawning a boom of nanobreweries.
2011年，该州废除了禁止家庭酿酒者出售自家商品的大部分规定，带来了一批纳米酿酒厂的成长繁荣。

And in January the state House was the first legislative body in the country to vote to legalise marijuana for recreational use,
1月份，州议会成为全国首个投票通过大麻娱乐用途合法化的法律机构，

although lawmakers backed down when Governor Maggie Hassan,a Democrat,proved reluctant.
尽管当民主党州长玛吉·哈桑对此表示不情愿时，州议会又退缩了。

Some locals feel that the anti-government agitators have gone too far.
然而，一些当地人觉得，反政府煽动者也许过火了。

A group in the small town of Keene tops up parking meters that have run out to stop traffic officers from issuing penalty tickets.
小镇基恩中的一个团体重新启动了废弃的停车收费器，来阻止交警开罚单。

The traffic officers complain that activists sometimes harass them;
交警抱怨道，这些激进分子不时骚扰他们，而激进分子则否认这一指控。

a charge the activists deny. Other protesters are accused of provoking cops into arresting them so they can film the resulting altercation.
其他的抗议者则被责备激怒警察逮捕他们，以录下随之而来的争执过程。

An anti-libertarian group called Stop Free Keene grumbles about the public pot-smoking and rude street art that the newcomers bring.
一个叫做停止解放基恩的反自由主义团体则对这些新来者带来的公众吸大麻行为和粗鲁的街道文化怨声不迭。

In the jovial atmosphere of PorcFest,where idealists bond over their shared mistrust of rules and big institutions,the prospect of a future New Hampshire that can do without such things seems far-fetched.
在节日的欢快氛围中，理想主义者因他们对规则和大机构的不信任感而团结，而没有这些内涵的新罕布什尔州未来似乎遥不可及。

Tech geeks (who still dominate the Free State movement) enjoy home-made bananarchy ice cream while prattling on about the power of crypto-currencies.
电脑怪客（仍主导着自由州运动的人们）一边闲扯着神秘货币的力量，一边享受着家庭自制的香蕉自由冰激凌。

Bitcoin can topple governments and end war, gushes one fan.
一名狂热粉夸张地赞美着：比特币能够推翻政府，结束战争！

Others are more realistic.
但其他人则更为现实。

I'm an incrementalist,explains Jason Sorens,the subdued intellectual who dreamed up the Free State Project while he was getting his PhD from Yale.
在耶鲁大学读博士时设想出自由州项目、如今因担心而日渐沉默寡言的学者杰森索朗解释道：我是一名渐进主义者。

Now a lecturer at Dartmouth College in Hanover,he is eager to use New Hampshire to test libertarian theories about enlightened self-interest and reciprocal altruism,small government and large networks of voluntary institutions.
如今在汉诺威市达特茅斯学院任讲师的他，急切地想用新罕布什尔州测试自由主义中，关于开明利己主义、互利主义、小型政府和庞大志愿组织网络等理论。

We don't have all the answers, he says,but it's worth the experiment.
他说：我们没有得到所有的答案，但这次试验做得很值得。译者：杨雪

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1.more than 超过；多于

例句:Their replies were no more than grunts of acknowledgement.
他们所谓的回答不过是表示承认的咕哝罢了。

2.pledge to 承诺

例句:In the treaty both sides pledge to respect human rights.
双方在条约中都承诺将尊重人权。

3.such as 例如；诸如

例句:Issues such as these were not really his concern.
他其实并不关心诸如此类的问题。

4.allow to 允许

例句:Add a little of the warmed milk and allow to froth a little.
加一点温牛奶，并让它起点儿沫。

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