I made a series of videos for New Hampshire Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate John Babiarz. You may not have seen him in the debates with the democrat or republican candidates so if you are going to vote here is a look at an alternative.
This is the main video that ties them all together:
There are 5 more short videos!
John’s Experience as a Fire Chief:
John’s Experience as an Emergency Medical Technician:
Farming and Food Independence:
Alternative Energy:
Marriage:
Does anyone remember when this guy called law enforcement and a fire truck in on that guy for having a fire without a permit in Grafton? Then stormed on his property and extinguished it and either, sent him the bill or threatened to?
Some libertarian. If he’s willing to exercise his power as fire chief (or whatever he was/is) what would he do with the governorship? Not that Ovide or Hassan would be better.
If you want nuance: A fire fighter extinguishing a fire on rural wooded land because the person did not bother to check for weather conditions before they started the burn was the very least Mr. Babairz could have done to stop a very possibly hazardous situation from getting out of hand.
If this incident showed anything it is what a good conscientious neighbor Mr. Babiarz is.
For calling law enforcement over a permit? It was specifically over a permit and if you look back, I bet there is an article on this site about it.
You are overreacting.
I’m overreacting by pointing it out as a reminder? I haven’t suggested any action as a result just merely reminding those who may have forgotten and informing those who weren’t aware.
You are wrong. All Babiarz did was to extinguish the fire. He did not take active steps to imprison the person who started the fire, in fact he even left the property without removing all fire-starting equipment from the possession of the person who had used it to start the fire. In other words, Babiarz allowed the hazardous situation that had caused the fire to remain fully intact–as soon as Babiarz was out of sight the fire-starter could have just started another fire. So if your idea of a “good conscientious neighbor” is someone who disregards inconvenient private property designations… Read more »
The weather conditions were fine, and the fire was very small, and contained withing a fire ring. He’d also previously approved the fire ring when the prior owner lived there.
The /sole/ complaint was that there was no permit in place. Since seasonal permits clearly don’t avoid false alarms (being good for an entire season, they do not alert a watcher that there will be smoke at a particular site on a particular day), and since there’s no fee to obtain a permit, the whole system is clearly about nothing other than demanding obedience.
On his website, this guy calls for “a citizens efficiency commission,” he says he wants to “institute user fees on those activities requiring government intervention,” he advocates “the encouragement of greener, sustainable alternative sources of power,” but doesn’t say who will be doing that “encouragement,” he says “I strongly believe in the right of the people to have access to quality education,” and he advocates “competitive public..schools,” whatever that is. Sounds like a statist to me. Not that Ovide or Hassan would be better.
I believe that what he means about the schools is this: If the schools are competitive, each school will improve their curriculum, sports, extra curricular activities, etc. in order to attract more students. By giving students and parent the choice of what school to attend, they will pick the school that has a better reputation. By our schools being competitive, the quality of education dramatically increase as schools compete and to attract more students… kind of like colleges and universities… at this time many children are stuck in the school district they are in without a choice, therefore schools don’t… Read more »
It sounds like you’re reading what you wish he means, not what he actually means. His website doesn’t say any of that stuff you wrote, in fact he specifically uses the term “public” schools, which by definition are not competitive since they’re all controlled by the same monopoly corporation.
If this guy really believed in competitive schools, he would have started one, as more than one freestater has already done. Instead, he’s trying to get a job that allows him to tell other people what to do under threat of violent coercion.
why can’t public schools be competitive? i am not trying to be contrary, I am trying to understand as well.
Can I decide to stop paying for the local school? No? Then there’s not competition; there’s a monopoly. Competition requires choice.
Public school cannot be competitive because without any risk of going out of business, there is no incentive not to suck. Public schools can only be competitive in the way that different McDonald’s franchises compete with each other. One might have cleaner bathrooms, or a 24-hour drive through, but they all have the same menu, the same uniforms, and they’re all licensed by, and answer to the same authority that can yank their permission to operate if they don’t conform to their “lowest-common-denominator” standards of mediocrity. If all you have is a McDonalds gift certificate, then at best you can… Read more »