by Highline | Jun 11, 2010 |
1. On one night in Stratham, NH nine innocent people have been victimized by having their cars broken into and their belongings stolen. The last investigation I was part of having to do with precisely this type of behavior was a drug addict who needed money for heroin.
Guaranteed that these people were victims of drug prohibition as well.
2. A man who was convicted of killing a small child in Rochester, NH has hired a private investigator to attempt to clear his name. He vehemently maintains his innocence and was convicted on a purely circumstantial case.
3. A “prominent” physician is out arguing in Portsmouth, NH that people should support a “single-payer” health care system because it would improve the state of health care for all.
For a man who obviously has a great deal of intelligence, it is sad to think that he does not realize the violence that he is supporting while making this argument. It is also sad that he does not realize the conundrum in his logic:
If I have a *right* to health care… that would mean I have a *right* to his labor, or perhaps the labor of someone else to pay for it. Wouldn’t that make that person my slave?
I wish everyone could have health care in this country… I’m just not willing to support violence to achieve it. I hope you wont support violence to achieve it either.
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by Sam Dodson | Jun 11, 2010 |
As time passes, the singular thing remaining constant is change. As a blogger at Free Keene and a Liberty Activist, I hope to push ideas designed to ignite critical thinking over pushing limits. We strive to create interest, attract new movers, and generate discussion.
Keene is certainly changing, and it’s building momentum towards freedom, that will only grow as more activists move and more locals join us in working towards a more peaceful voluntary society.
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by Ian | Jun 10, 2010 |
Unlike the bloggers here whose names are attached to everything they write, the editors at the Sentinel are notorious for publishing unsigned editorials. Why not stand behind their words with their name(s)? (I suppose we’re to presume their editorials are the consensus of all their editorial staff? Perhaps it’s just head editor Jim Rousmaniere?) Anyway, below is the text of a recent critique against some of the liberty activism in Keene. In it they attempt to marginalize the record-setting 420 celebrations and act as though ending prohibition is an unimportant issue. They also back the puritanical view that women should keep their shirts on, cause, well, they may be equal, but they shouldn’t act like it – in the anonymous editor’s view. Of course, they also suggest that these are the only things that Free Keene activists have done and conveniently ignore the inside-the-system activists who have run campaigns like Free Keene blogger Nick Ryder and blogger-at-the-time Julia Miranda’s city council runs. Additionally, had they actually done some fact checking by actually interviewing one of us, they might have learned that neither the 420s or topless events were created by Free Keene’s bloggers.
Anyway, thanks to the Sentinel for the continued coverage, no matter how misinformed. Here’s their anonymous editorial:
“I remember Keene from when I was a child, when there was a Woolworth’s on Main Street,” writes a Sentinel reader in the feedback section of the newspaper’s website. “When I bought my first car, the first thing I did was pick up my best friend and head to Keene. I saw Keene flourish in areas of social growth for many years.” But now, he writes, “Keene has to realize that those days are gone.” Instead residents have to deal with the Free Keene movement. “These new people are activists,” the writer says, “and it’s the role of activists in our society to push limits. I don’t see any disadvantage to setting the limits back.”
We hadn’t thought of Woolworth’s as evidence of social advancement, but the staff was pleasant and it did have a decent lunch counter. The recent libertarian shenanigans downtown might make people nostalgic for just about anything. (more…)
by Ian | Jun 10, 2010 |
One one hand, the Keene Sentinel’s editorial stance is that the Keene Middle School outreach is ineffective and pointless, but this feature story in today’s paper by Sarah Palermo reveals that discussions are being sparked, within the school:
If today’s news becomes tomorrow’s history, what’s a teacher to do when it’s all happening right outside the classroom window?
Throughout this school year, members of the Free State Project or a related group called Free Keene have rallied outside Keene Middle School and Keene High School, waving banners protesting the government, and distributing literature as students leave in the afternoon.
They’re careful to stay beyond the boundary of school property. And teachers try to keep politics there, too, they say.
Keene High English teacher Jonathan Perry said he hasn’t discussed the groups and their agendas in his American Studies class, but the students bring up each event as it happens. (more…)
by Highline | Jun 10, 2010 |
1. An attorney with political connections in Concord, NH is caging a man like an animal for 18-months for participating in the black market sale of plants. Since the dawn of time people have wanted to alter their state of consciousness. People do it every day with alcohol. People do it every day with marijuana. By any measure of rational science marijuana is proven time and time again to be safer to us vs. alcohol.
“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man(,)” according to DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis Young.
Why must we continue to toss people in a cage for voluntarily agreeing to exchange money for this plant? Wait, I know why. Good grief.
This man is not accused of hurting anyone. Accordingly, he should not be hurt by the state.
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