Free Rich Paul, Restore Personal Freedom
Our friend, super activist, and Keene resident Rich Paul continues to sit in jail (on purpose) in brave protest of the horrible drug war that infects our society. The drug war is the justification used by the government to steal a great deal of our freedom and is from my experience largely attributable to why so many people feel that the police hurt more than help. Like many brave souls before him, Rich continues to live without freedom so that one day a bad law/policy may come to a crashing end.
A Free Talk Live website contributor (thanks Xpansive) has submitted the following video to the new and improved FTL website which allows the listeners to suggest show content. I find the video touching… and I think that everyone, especially drug war supporters, should watch it. If you do not want to use mind altering substances, that is a respectable decision… just please don’t attack peaceful people who choose opposite.
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19 Comments on Free Rich Paul, Restore Personal Freedom
He wants it taxed. Someone should really talk to him.
Pro-decrim folks just say that because they think it’ll be more appealing to others, if they advertise how much extra taxes could be gathered.
Drugs, like food and clothes, should not be taxed. Well, nothing, in fact, should be taxed!
I agree with you folks on the tax thing.
But, I’d much rather see marijuana be taxed than my friends in jail for choosing to use it. 
Definitely with you there Brad.
If it takes taxation to legalize pot, then so be it. Once it is legalized, then work on taking away the taxation. One step at a time!
Xpansive produced a thoughtful, well layed out video that was engaging and provided a clear message that was easy to understand and mostly avoided being preachy and judgemental. Now watch him(or her) get pissed on for the taxation bit buy the zealots…This video has been the only thing I have seen on here that has the potential to provide thought prevolking conversation with some one other than a Free Tard..Im sure it took time and effort to make it..I commend them..It certainly was a little more difficult than showing up to piss of the towns folk on one of your “days off”
Xpansive produced a thoughtful, well layed out video that was engaging and provided a clear message that was easy to understand and mostly avoided being preachy and judgemental.
Xpansive was the one who posted it… he didn’t produce it. I mentioned him to thank him for posting it on the site.
I completely agree with you… the video is wonderful. HEY! We agree on something.
It certainly was a little more difficult than showing up to piss of the towns folk on one of your “days off”
All my days right now are “days off.”
Why?
I quit a career of eleven years because I was hurting people who hadn’t hurt, bothered, disturbed, annoyed, or done anything to anyone else. If I could have kept my former job and get away with enforcing law that only have victims, I would have. That’s not how it works, sadly.
When victimless laws are enforced… the people committing the victimless acts (holding an open container) become the victim.
The people that kidnap, cage and kill people for not paying taxes are called what? if the people against the kidnapping killers are “zealots.”
I’d like to hear your name for them, it’s got to be good.
I like the vid very much, NR. Pointing out one minor disagreement is not akin to “pissing on” something.’
I’m glad you liked it though
Pointing out one minor disagreement is not akin to “pissing on” something.’
History shows that when someone disagrees with a current government policy through protest or CD, the majority lashes out in this manner.
I tried to contrast this with this anonymous fellow to Jim Crow laws. Jim Crow laws and the open container prohibition are exactly the same in the manner of their enforcement: people not harming anyone else are harmed by the government.
I say let him rot in jail. And the rest of you should just pack your things and move to some other state. Better yet, move to South America. They need people like you
I suggest you find a better way to handle those you personally disagree wiith, GA, than to lock them in cages. I suggest especially that you use your own money to fund the programs you support, rather than extorting money from your neighbors.
And you don’t own NH, so you have no right to tell others to leave.
I liked the video. It was well done and poignant. I guess I was just pointing out what was obvious to most people: that we don’t want drugs to be taxed.
BTW, pardon my ignorance, but why exactly is Rich Paul in jail. I guess I missed that report.
Currently, the average “street price” / “retail price” of marijauna is 50 – 100 times that of an equal amount of tobacco. There has been talk of “$50/ounce tax” on marijauna. In any media report, it is always, ALWAYS referred to as “the drug”, never “the herb”, or “the dried flowers”. Know your propaganda, folks! Don’t let yourself be conned by the media-info-edu-tainment-industrial-complex.MACHINE! Welcome to the machine…///…for some strange reason, SPELLCHECK on here prefers “marihauna”, to “marijauna”, unless I type out both spellings. Then, they are both red-underlined!…whatever,…
Rich Paul? Let the fucker rot in jail!
It’s sooooo good except for the two tiny tax clips. Being stolen from is not freedom.
If Mr. Paul wishes to spend time in jail rather than do the right thing and act like an adult, then I say he should be transferred to the State Prison, where he will cry like a baby to be let out after a couple of weeks.
So “doing the right thing” doesn’t mean standing up for the idea that people actually own their own bodies, “doing the right thing” instead means locking people who take such a stand in cages.
I guess while we’re using that level of twisted logic, we might as well say we’re a “free country” because we’ve got a higher incarceration rate than any other country on the planet.
Here’s a clue, mr former hippie, how about you start acting like an adult, and a decent human being, and stop attacking people because they make life choices of which you don’t personally approve?
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