Comments on: No More National Callers to Talkback, Please!

By: the Ghost of Jack Daniels

the Ghost of Jack Daniels — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:39:06 +0000

I’d be scared to take calls from FreeKeeniacs too . . .with all that logic and stuff it’s hard to tow the line.

By: bile

bile — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:01:20 +0000

4 years is “a pretty good stretch of time already?” You have to live in the state two years just to run for state office as I understand. Those who have moved are in the minority of those who signed the SOI and moved before the original condition was met. To act as if swift change would occur with 600+ people spread over a state of 1.3 million is rather silly. All social movements start with the more brave minority. Those willing to up and move. To put themselves on the line. You are building a strawman argument that you can’t lose. Why not wait until the original plan is even half way met? Would you have questioned Ghandi in 1917? Or those in the woman’s suffrage movement in the late 1800′s and early 1900′s?

What would you consider progress? Would you have considered abolilition of slavery in the US a failure 4 years after Paine wrote African Slavery in America? Is not getting more people interested in your idea the first step? Has the past two years, for all liberty movements, not gained more momentum and support than perhaps any other time in history?

By: AnAmazedReader

AnAmazedReader — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:31:33 +0000

Such grandiose claims about what will be in the future. But of course, past is prologue. The “Free State” movement has been in this area for a pretty good stretch of time already, so its fair to ask:

What has been accomplished thus far that demonstrably affects the lives the vast majority of citizens in Keene and the surrounding areas?

The reason that the movement has been such a failure, in the broadest and most meaningful sense, is because its adherents confuse rhetoric with reality. Clearly, it’s easier that way; it’s a form of regression that’s comforting. But in terms of actually making the agenda a reality? Not a shred of significant evidence. Just a bunch of self-referential stunts and echo-chamber talk.

By: John Delano

John Delano — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:10:27 +0000

You can buy a prepaid phone pretty cheap and activate it with a Keene ZIP code. you can probably get one for under $20. I know there is one at Wal-Mart for just under $30 that includes 300 minutes over 2 months.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:20:06 +0000

Dan Mitchell said he does not intend to screen calls. I can’t say for sure what the board op will do.

By: Dan Patrick

Dan Patrick — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:00:30 +0000

What if your only phone is a cell with a non NH area code?

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:48:26 +0000

Who?

By: Denis Goddard

Denis Goddard — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:14:41 +0000

Why give these people quarter? Why?

By: Edward Tubbs

Edward Tubbs — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:34:17 +0000

I wonder if the out of state area code on my cell phone means I’ll be screened?
I’ve lived in Keene for 2 years, FYI.

What about people with skype phones?

By: Slim

Slim — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:50:45 +0000

I have not called in to Talk back because I am not in the area but I do enjoy listening to the show if I am up on Sat mornings.

As for Cynthia the “mob boss” of Keene loosing her cool on the air which showed the illusion that she convinced herself. She needs to realize this is the beginning and it will be happening all over NH very soon. Most of the calls on Sat that I heard from the archive that Ian posted were from Keene area.

I also wonder what constitutes the “Monadnock region” are the people over the river in Vermont in the region or the people from Mass. Is Concord in the region according to the coverage map the signal from WKBK can reach Concord. If some o those people are not encouraged to call then WKBK probably should reduce the signal power so that they do not cross outside the “Monadnock region”