*Disclaimer: Anarchy In Your Head does not condone the burning alive of jackboots.
You may have heard of the Porcupine Freedom Festival, more casually referred to as Porcfest. Well Burning Porcupine is a much less official occasion that was thrown together by a few Free State Project members out in Grafton, based loosely on the Burning Man Project. Details below were copied from the New Hampshire Underground. The plan is to build a wooden porcupine for a bonfire rather than a wooden man.
Burning Porcupine Festival: July 14th-25th 2008
The 12 Days of Freedom
What happens in Grafton stays in Grafton
See Free-staters at their Wildest!
Anarchic camp-out in Free Town Grafton NH
There will be drinking, burning things, sitting around BSing, bands, toilets and showers in the woods, talking about the revolution, and of course a giant burning rodent. 
It’ll be one big party. Lloyd is going to do a naked fire dance. Tim Condon is going to prance in a gorilla suit to do: a circle of liberty, poetry reading, lead a Scrabble tournament, readings of patriotic documents, MC a magic show, a libertarian play. Wookie skydiving is on the schedule. There’s a possibility of warm-weather jello wrestling. Get your nails done by illegal nail buffers: an unlicensed Buff-In. Sumo-wrestling to settle any endless debates – noisemeter from the crowd to arbitrate. Shooting and golf – with extra points for shooting golf balls out of the air. Libertarian karaoke – full spray with firehose if you’re really bad – instead of the hook aka Gong Show. Logging competition. Burning Porcupine moving-making contest. Poker tournament with ounces of silver. Fireworks illegal in most states – IED exhibition. Burning President William. An FSP Roast – a few minutes for each freestater notable (submit your nominations for people to be roasted) – cardboard cutouts for roasting those in absentia. Live video from the event. Nightly UN flag burning.
If any of these events don’t actually happen: sue us.
Blame Burning Porc planning on these irresponsibles: Tim Condon, Bob Hull, Lloyd Danforth, the Kannings, Rich Angell
Yay! Fire!
I have been excited about this for months!
Excellent!
Good cartoon!
But of course, burning jackboots alive is something I wouldn’t complain about were it to happen.
If we come across any huge wooden porcupines … that baby’s goin’ up in flames.
Dammit Russel, Don’t you know that all this talk of burning babies is Spoiling It For The Rest Of Us(tm)?!?!?
You’re not sounding very pacifist there, Russell! O.o
I’ll plan to get up there a week early for help with construction and whatever
Free State Project–pretty funny, considering it’s endorsed by the anti-gay, anti-immigrant Ron Paul, and it seeks to protect “property” as part of the “life, liberty and property” triage. Don’t confuse Libertarianism with Anarchism.
*Innocent whistle* …I, on the other hand, do not adhere to AHIMSA.
Can’t wait to attend one of these. Poker, beer, women, explosives. What more can a guy want? I might even get a manicure.
Is this an actual festival, or is this just a running joke, sort of like “snipe hunting?” I don’t think it would be one bit funny to drive all the way up there to find out it was a joke on “newbs” who were gullible enough to think this was real. The comments at NHUnderground confused me, as people were questioning whether this was a joke or not in the first few pages of the thread. I don’t care of the events listed were just a gag… I just care if people will actually be there when I spend 5 hours driving up.
I am an actual person and have the actual metal frame of the actual burning porcupine in a solid state of existence. It wont be a joke because at least Alex and I will be there and burn the porcupine. Ha ha! you foolers and exaggerators and jokers! It will happen anyway!
1st Annual actually … so you never know what exactly will happen at this event.
Some of us will actually be there when you show up Alex. If we are all thrown in jail there will be plenty of comments on this website or on the New Hampshire Underground … and all there will be is the rock alter for the Burning Porcupine.
send me a giant wooden bong and I will also set it on fire , way more than once
I plan on being there, burning flags, wood, and anything else I can get my hands on.
You foreign chappies are so slow to catch up: in England we’ve been having “Burn a Catholic” Night every year on the 5th. November for centuries.
Can’t Wait! Love the Cartoon Dale. I picture early America, as it was, without threat of Indian attacks (not that the people there wouldn’t be able to defend themselves)!
See you there (eclair!)
yes the real porcfest hasnt yet begun, i will be there early as well to help mow down some of that giant grass i saw in the videos. i wish the free state project was more concerned with eliminating gov inside of minimizing gov, oh by the way i want my scale back DALE!!!
Free-stater not in residence but in spirit. Go forth and rock! And may we all hope for a country to be proud of instead of this pussified, bawl-baby cluster- fuck that we have now. Mark rocks and Ian’s is way too idealistic.
sorry been drinkin cheap but tasty wine. previous entry should have read “Ian is way
too idealistic.”
Thanks for your project. I like this site. KEEP IT UP..e
Awesome, but I’m sure no offense was intended to any actual companies called “Jackboot, Inc”, including any that may exist in the future. I mean it’s the government agents that are being portrayed there, and any free market entity (that doesn’t initiate aggression) calling itself “Jackboot, Inc” wouldn’t be a problem, right? So, like, if I ever wanted to sell some rugged footwear, guns, body armor, and helmets by having door-to-door salesmen traveling around in a wooden porcupine, that would be alright, won’t it?