Every time I’ve recently heard someone complain about “Free Staters” I’ve been hearing about how the dreaded “Free Staters” want to “force” their views on people. I’m not a Free Stater, but I’d be proud to call myself one. For the sake of argument, lets pretend that I am .
I am now a Free Stater. *click*
You there! Reading the FreeKeene.com blog and hating every syllable. I want you to be left alone to live your life how you see fit so long as you don’t harm anyone. You disagree? Tough crap! I’m going to force you to be left alone!! By leaving you alone!! Theres nothing you can do to stop me…..!
Ha ha ha ha ha!
This whole forcing liberty thing is apparently an epidemic. I’m debating it with a guy on the usacarry.com forums in this thread here. I’m far from the best debater on the planet, so feel free to back me up if you see fit.
In the spirit of the summary execution of an unarmed man, CNN has an article today discussing how al Qaeda makes the money it uses to perpetrate violent attacks against the innocent: Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda. I wonder how much money al Qaeda is making off bootlegging liquor these days.
I often wonder how many times people like me need to point these things out before detractors finally realize that what we’re talking about has some substance to it.
Drug prohibition causes crime. Drug prohibition funds violent criminal enterprise. Drug prohibition does the opposite of addressing the problems of drug abuse.
Shouldn’t be long now before I have some fresh stories from across New Hampshire of needless victimization fueled by the insane drug war.
On Thursday when FreeKeene.com blogger Meg appears in front of a Cheshire County jury to face charges stemming from her civil disobedience arrest, I’ll be in the audience live-tweeting the events as they unfold.
I am going to trek westward to sit in the audience and support Meg because, well, she is a good person who believes in something important. She is willing to risk her own freedom so that others too can live their lives peacefully without violent state coercion. She didn’t hurt anyone. She stood in front of a car that was being used to unjustly haul someone away who had broken an unjust law.
Brave people like Meg are the reason that societies change for the better. It has happened before in this country… and it is happening again now.
Keene officials’ proposed 2011-2012 budget calls for a 2.51 percent increase in taxes this year.
The proposal was released this morning.
City Manager John A. MacLean writes in an introduction to the document that this year’s budget represents one of the smallest increases in spending seen in a decade — less than 1 percent.
However, reduced revenues mean more money would have to be raised by taxes to meet the spending plan.
Jason Talley of Talley.TV and the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund and I follow an undercover officer from Nashua PD with our cameras as he leaves his hiding spot in the police-friendly “Courthouse Pizza” (across the street from the court building). We pepper him with questions before he can escape in his buddy’s police cruiser. This is an excellent example of how more activists with cameras can make a huge difference – we were able to chase after this cop and others stayed behind at the pizza place to keep an eye on the rest of the cops:
