Sandy,
Heh, with the forum here everyone gets to nitpick

But so far I'm not bored. I guess it didn't sink in that the UWRS conflict can't be an eternal part of the storyline if it wasn't a set story arc. It'd be like batman fighting twoface every episode for fifty years if UWRS were the only source of conflicts for the story

Actually, that reminds me... Shouldn't batman be in adult diapers by now? Instead of the batmobile, he should have the batwalker.
wdg3rd,
I will clarify. There are (probably) soldiers and even a few police out there I wouldn't mind hiring for private security. These few individuals got in believing they were defeinding the freedom of their home and family, and often come back with emotional scars because of what this belief led them into doing and having done to them. The butchers, however, that are the standard fare in governance are what they'd be defending that home against. Finally.
There's also the college money and other benefits-seeker. I don't hold as much of a distaste for this sort as the butchers. Parasitical, but people do that in a governed nation. Depending on how stable they were afterwards, would be whether I'd consider them reliable security. After all, they have that private company mercenary spirit at least.
The rest, the sociopaths who get into the military so they can kill people without consequences, can go in a meat grinder for all I care.
I never read anything by Kurt Vonnegut, at all. So I wouldn't know his readable from his unreadable. If the bastards firebombed their own POWs, well... I shouldn't wonder that they weren't charged with treason for attacking "their own" troops. But even so. It should be over the normal, if psychotic, line when it comes to that.
New Hampshire, by the way, is probably not a safe zone. Remember, you're still dealing with the Federal interference even if you somehow got rid of what even NH is doing. I'll just give something of an example of NH's issue. I don't know if you've read this lever action essay, but LNS put forward the libertarian/conservative test. It's simply the Lincoln Test. The rule is simple. Ask someone what their opinion of Lincoln is. If they love him, they're either a conservative or a libertarian who hasn't been exposed to all the information yet. I met a NH conservative who called himself a tenth amendment conservative. Yet one of the reasons he loved Lincoln was because Lincoln Preserved the Union. Despite the fact that the tenth is one of the things that should've been part of the Federal Government's requirement to allow secession. Just because the FSP chose it doesn't mean you're going to be free of statist imperialist ideology. Or Federal interference. Or even state and local interference. The nation has to go crazy before it can go sane again.