[Transcribed by Mail-to-Jail. Though Ian has been released from jail, we just received his blog #9 – his last blog from jail – in the mail and we are posting it now.]
“Gratitude”
By the time you read this, I may be out of jail. I am writing it on Sunday, October 2nd and my early release date is this Friday. In New Ham,shire, a jail must hold a prisoner for at least ? of the sentence. At that point, they have discretion on when to release the prisoner. Since my issues is with the police and “justice” system for aggressing against peaceful people, I do not give the jailers any trouble by non cooperating or being disobedient. My beef is not with them. This decision is even easier considering that the Cheshire jail is one of the better jails and actually has a mostly friendly, humorous, and compassionate staff. Many of them are able to empathize with the plight of the nonviolent, victimless “offenders” that they are tasked with keeping.
Though, not all the jail’s policies are humane. For example, a local activist, Andrew 280″ Mercer recently checked in for alight here due to a speeding ticket. During the booking process he refused to give his address and phone number and was held in a cell in booking without any bedding, socks, shoes, water, or food – with cold A/C – for 24 hours. I’d say that amounts to torture – there is no reason why a non-cooperative could not be relegated to segregation. That is a 23-hour-per-day lockdown where “privileges” are severely limited, but segregated prisoners are fed and given bedding. So, while I have my critiques of the Keene Spiritual Retreat, there is still a lot that sets it apart from many jails, much of which I detailed in blog post #2.
Suffice it to say, that if you are cooperative and respectful towards the guards, they will return the respect to you. After I’m released, I’ll blog about some of the discussions I had with some guards (as well as share some prisoners’ stories).
For me, I have no issue with the Corrections Officers, as like many bureaucrats, they are merely cogs in the inhumane machine of government. They are not the aggressive parts of that machine as are the police and courts. They do not have discretion and cannot choose who to keep and who to release, whereas the police and prosecutors and robed men could choose tomorrow to stop enforcing bad laws. It would be nice to see jail administrators given more leeway to release prisoners early, instead of them having to obey the orders of robed men until 2/3ds sentence. Perhaps that is something that can be changed inside-the-system.
My reason in providing that explanation is so you know why I will be released after 60 days instead of the 90 to which I was sentenced. So, unless I get a “write-up” for something this week, this should be my last blog from jail.
I thought it would be a good time to express gratitude. Focusing on thought of gratitude is something I tend to do on a daily basis. It is important, I think, to appreciate the good things in life. Sometimes it’s easy for those of us who aren’t distracted by “bread and circuses” like sports and pop culture to become awash in negativity regarding the rise of oppression and tyranny as well as the apparent lack of concern by our associates and neighbors. Being grateful is a good way to stay positive and look on the bright side.
With that in mind, here are some of the things I appreciate:
- I am grateful to you for taking the time to read these blog posts and visit FreeKeene.com. I am glad you find value in this site and am thankful that you have helped make it one of the top 50 liberty-oriented websites.
- I am grateful to everyone who has made the move to New Hampshire and become active to achieve liberty in our lifetime. Even though it is still very early in the movement, there have been successes here that would not have even been in my wildest dreams when I lived in Florida. There’s no doubt that concentration g activists in one geographic area is the key to success. That has been proven. Now we just need more people to move, and sooner rather than later.
- I am grateful for all the longtime NH inhabitants who love liberty. In my experience, NH natives and other “pre-staters” tend to be the best activists. I also appreciate those who quietly support liberty, but may be afraid to “come out” because, for instance, they own local businesses and do not wish to be targeted by the aggressors.
- I am grateful for the diversity of activism forms in the movement. Where I come from, the only activism was a failed political campaign every four years and some outreach. Here in NH, the campaigns in many cases have resulted in wins, now with over a dozen “free staters” in NH “representative” seats – a level of success the Libertarian Party hasn’t reached nationwide in 40 years. Here the outreach is more varied and consistent, even at this early stage. In addition NH (and Keene specifically) is the liberty media capitol of the world. The variety of TV and radio programs (and blogs) originating from The Shire will only help promote the idea of liberty-oriented people moving here and getting active. The programs range from news and opinion to politics, to relationships and to comedy which means the audiences will be diverse, attracting even more people here. All of this growth, and we’re not even a decade in since NH was chosen by the Free State Project.
- I am grateful to all the brave souls who put their freedom on the line by non cooperating or engaging in civil disobedience. Your courage inspired me to move sooner rather than later and inspired me to join your ranks. May the courage to say “no” to the people calling themselves the state spread far and wide. Indeed it’s already begun with people disobeying in Orlando, Phoenix, Austin, and D.C., much of which has directly been inspired by NH liberty activism. Of course I hope those brave activists will decide, as Eddie Free has (the Jefferson Dance Party super activist from D.C.) to make the move to NH and amplify their efforts.
- I am grateful to everyone planning to move to Nh as part of the Free State Project. We have 1,000 “free staters” here, but thousands more are needed. Thank you in advance for making the momentous decision to join us here. We’re just getting started and can really use your help, ideas, energy, activism, and leadership.
- I am grateful to be alive now and here. Slowly but surely, mankind has moved towards more liberty. Sure, there are tyrants out there desperately trying to retain their grasp of control, but the internet is changing that. Now it’s easier than ever in the history of man to reach out with the truth and destroy old, decrepit, and dangerous ideas like “the state”. It’s an exciting time to be alive.
- I am grateful for the friends and acquaintances I have made in my activist family. The social life here for me is a completely different world from my former home of Florida – there actually is one! Plus, it’s not more of the site-around-and-gripe-about-the-government type that I was used to in Florida. Here activists cook and dine together, play sports, shoot, sing karaoke, game, date, build, and celebrate.
- I am also grateful for the adversaries of liberty. Specifically those calling themselves the police and the “justice” system – even the trolls on this blog. I know, it may seem strange to appreciate them, but allow me to explain:
When I first moved here, I was pretty angry at “the government” for hurting peaceful people. Moving here allowed me to change for two reasons. One, I was around a real exciting, growing activism movement as I described somewhat above – that helped restore hope to reach liberty in our lifetime.
Second, moving to a smaller place like Keene allowed what had formerly been faceless bureaucrats to become identifiable, and very human. I cam to realize that most people calling themselves “government” aren’t evil. Many of them believe they are doing good and do not realize that what they are doing is wrong, but they are too scared to peak out or act differently for fear of losing their job and then not being able to support their family.
I am still frustrate by their aggression sometimes and I look forward to the day when they begin to honor their peaceful neighbors’ choices.
So not only do I appreciate them as fellow (if confused, ignorant, and fearful) human beings, but I also appreciate the contrast they provide. When they engage in aggression against peaceful people, they provide a clear example of what we don’t want to happen in our ideal society. The parade of absurd arrests and trials gives us the opportunity to galvanize support locally and encourages people to move here sooner as a part of the FSP. As long as we continue to expose their anti-social actions, they are actually helping to destroy the legitimacy of “the state” and thereby assisting in digging its grave. Of course, the smartest thing to do is to ignore the activists – that’s the best way for they to extend their relevance, but either way, some day we will evolve past their monopoly on violence. By tipping their hand, they only hasten their irrelevance.
Last but not least, I’m grateful for the anonymous trolls here that provide an anti-liberty viewpoint. Clearly, they are very concerned that the status quo is in jeopardy from the ideas of liberty. Their continuous visits and comments belie the relevance they place on Free Keene. After all, if this were an unimportant blog, they would ignore it and spend their time elsewhere. As Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
He also said, “Be the change you wish to see.”
Please be the change and help us get to the win by joining to Free State Project and making the move to New Hampshire, hopefully along with your family and some liberty-loving friends, as soon as possible! (Get over 130 reasons to move toe Keene at http://move.FreeKeene.com)
Finally, thanks again to mail-to-jail.com and everyone who wrote to me and sent books to me in jail – you all made a big difference. Hopefully my next blog will actually be typed by my own hand!
sounds like a righteous cause.
very cool
Good luck with this Brad! I appreciate your doing this. As an aside, and possibly of use to you in your quest…I was informed many years ago by a judge that the NH Supreme Court had changed the common meaning in one of the wordings from the alleged NH bill of rights. Article 15 in the NH alleged bill of rights states a defendant has the right to be “fully heard” by himself and counsel (presumably his lawyer). When trying to use that alleged right, I was informed in that instance the word, “and” had been changed to mean “either… Read more »
Thank you, Bob and David. I have been working diligently on the Petition for Declaratory Judgement to declare that 311:7 is defunct when viewed through the Right of Revolution. This really puts the State in a bad position, because if they say the Right of Revolution doesn’t stand for this… basically they’re removing it from the Constitution. They do that then they lose people like me who encourage those fed up with the system to USE the system to vindicate their rights rather than turning to subversive activities. I still have faith that there are judges in the NH Judicial… Read more »
Looking forward to the updates, Brad. You’re a rare and restorative individual and NH is lucky to call you one of our own
/hug
the laws one of my favorite subjects.
I heard that some states you can be an apprentice if a law firm will take you as an apprentice, and by being apprentice you can become a lawyer and then just take the bar test.
this is just going by my Dusty memory but maybe Louisiana is one of those States.
I just did a Google search.
i guess that’s not what you were talking about but…
by this cursory search says there is six States https://www.google.com/search?q=what+states+can+you+become+a+lawyer+by+apprenticeship&oq=what+states+can+you+become+a+lawyer+by+apprenticeship&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDY1NjZqMGo3qAIAsAIA&client=ms-android-americamovil-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Another ridiculous article. Do you honestly believe the state will take the bar away? Are you aware the bar is the governing entity over licensed lawyers. They set the ethics, self governing, watch dogs over lawyers so there is no dishonesty, fraud, etc. To be a member of the bar, several things are needed. Today, each U.S. jurisdiction has its own rules which govern admission to its bar. Generally, admission to a bar requires that a candidate does the following: Earn a Juris Doctor degree or read law Pass a professional responsibility examination or equivalent Pass a bar examination (except where diploma privilege is allowed) Undergo a character and… Read more »
Hi wrongway… we meet again. I have approved your comments. “Do you honestly believe the state will take the bar away?” The Bar is enforced through a state law. State laws are subject to comporting with the state constitution. If a state law, as applied, conflicts with the constitution, it’s no law at all. “It wasn’t all that long ago when Garret from freekeene represented some on in court. He failed so badly it was an embarrassment. Garret and his “client” were ridiculed by the citizens of Keene.” I’ve represented two people in court. I won both cases. ““Ademo Mueller”… Read more »
I have never heard of you representing anyone in court. Was it for a parking fine? Ademo never had his rights violated. He has a rap sheet a mile long. He fled Keene because he was going to be arrested. He was convicted of wire tapping. Ademo is not a freelance journalist. He can’t even spell his own name for the most part. He doesn’t have a degree. The most respected writers have college degrees. Freekeeners latched on to the “journalists” misnomer because the word is vague. Every time the freekeeners hassled the police they started with the “I’m a… Read more »
“I have never heard of you representing anyone in court. Was it for a parking fine?” You know, your general disrespectful attitude really detracts from any point you may trying to be making. Did you read this article I just published? I represented Jason Talley for violating the court orders enacted after Ademo’s arrest. The government can’t restrict rights because a judge violates someone’s rights… Yet that’s what they did. “Ademo never had his rights violated. He has a rap sheet a mile long.” That may be true, his rap sheet and all, but that doesn’t mean his rights as… Read more »
jj, with respect I ABSOLUTELY agree with the premise of the article. The average person charged with a crime walks into a court and they are basically facing a good ole boys club of opposition, including the lawyers (especially if they are public defenders). Your average cops, lawyers, judges individually are usually great people with a fair opinion of constitutional justice. When you get them together in a court room, they are operationally working together with a trusted rapport of familiarity with each other as if defending their own personal career space. A public defender in this environment can quickly… Read more »
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THAT
Whil I wait for approval, this article is a fluff piece with no realistic plan to make it true.
I will post all my court filings here… as I’ve always done in the past.
i think your brain is fluff
I know I should take the high road like high line he’s a good example but He hasn’t been here for a while like and had like long-term experience with this guy… I realize I should do something besides just Insult. I realize that I understand that but why shouldn’t I denounce The perpetuation of garbage… Garbage that poisons the conversation.. I understand I’m glad high line is here he takes the high road Very opposite from me I take the low road I Get in the gutter with the gutter people… When people are civil and behave properly and… Read more »
Hey David. I don’t pay too much mind to someone like Wrongway who is clearly afraid to identify who he is publicly. He posts anonymously. Would he use his real name, like I do, I’d have much more respect for his opinions. I stand behind my posts and comments as an individual that people know and can find. I wont obscure my home address or phone number in my court filings either. People can feel free to write me, call me, or text me if they have commentary they wish to share about this case. That said – thank you… Read more »
Yes.. I’m just saying that maybe I should try to avoid the low road.. (that I take so much, lol)
I know, right?
Jeepers. Ya know, this kind of reminds me of that one time when I took the high road and stuff and like totally made a New Year’s resolution and stuff to like totally stop making fun of Karl being such a total nancy-boy and stuff. I mean I just took that high road and stuff and just never looked back and stuff. Too bad Jacks could never do that cuz he’s such a total libtard dickfart and stuff, am I right Dave? 😉
I guess statists have taken over since Ian left.
That’s pretty disrespectful to someone who created the site and went to prison for complete freedom.
It’s very disrespectful.
Later
Uh huh. God us statists like totally suck, don’t we Dave? I’ll bet ya’d just grind us up with the back tire of your Honda and stuff if ya ever got the chance to and stuff, am I right? I’m not scared of ya though, Dave. Mostly cuz you have absolutely no idea where I live and stuff cuz I’m like totally streetwise and stuff and like totally know to never, ever, ever put my name on the internet and stuff cuz crazy weirdos like you might try to murder me in my sleep and stuff. Yay for me, huh?… Read more »
Afraid of identifying myself? looking at this group of people on this site, there is a lot more people trying to keep their identities from being known. Ian has changed his last name, Adam Mueller changed his name to Ademo, and so on.
Why would I want to post my name? So a bunch of burnt out freekeeners can march around my clinic harassing my patients and harassing my employees? You see, I do have a respectful job. You don’t need to know my name anymore that I need to know you name.
“You don’t need to know my name anymore that I need to know you name.”
It’s no secret who I am. I stand behind what I say publicly and am not afraid to defend it.
My name is Bradley Jardis. I live in Amesbury, MA. I’m a licensed amateur radio operator so you could find my exact home address if you really felt like it, rather easily.
I guess I can understand your concerns about being harassed considering your positions you take in response to blogs published here.
You have JJ at a disadvantage though. Because on his side are sane people with jobs, family, and hobbies that don’t have time to play activist.
The FKers on your side? They have all the time in the world to “protest”, and harass others, like has been shown time and time again on this very website.
c’mon karl. If American history was one long exercise in obedient servitude to institutions of power, the structure of government would have long ago devolved into a fascistic control grid (..granted, we’re almost there). Besides, what about your “fiery but mostly peaceful” protesters that share that special belongingness with “ANTIFA”? They don’t seem like the corporate conformists that place priority on their property tax bill over personal feelings of social injustice
I didn’t say I had a problem with protestors. I am arguing very narrowly here that anonymity is important on this site given the possibility of harassment from FKers.
“I didn’t say I had a problem with protestors. I am arguing very narrowly here that anonymity is important on this site given the possibility of harassment from FKers.”
Well, I am sorry about that. I wish that wasn’t the case.
Me too. I must say I prefer your method of communication, even if I disagree. Prior to you entering the picture, I distinctly remember numerous conversations other libertarians had with Ian and crew about tactics and optics of their messaging. The best way to go about “winning hearts and minds” so to speak. Ian and others like him were of the opinion to say nothing and just let people be assholes, harassing meter maids, crossing guards, county clerks, and anybody else they thought they could bully. Of course, FKers always gave the slimy justification that they can treat people that… Read more »
Uh huh. You know, cuz you libtard weirdos’ slimy way of forcing the rest of us to like pay you guys to like own us and stuff is just like the best way of doing things like just ever and stuff, am I right Karl? 😉 I mean jeepers, Karl, I don’t know what I’d do without you guys like telling the rest of us normal folks like just how much we like totally need you and stuff and like just how awesome a job you’re doing and stuff and like how society’s gears would just like just totally grind… Read more »
Do you also think the American colonists were “assholes” for “harassing” British officials? That they should have instead just meekly accepted the statist narrative that those officials had the right to control their lives in various ways, including extorting money via taxes (something that parking meters serve to do today)?
Do you really think this comparison is equivalent? Are you hoping to have a violent revolution over meter maids Starchild?
With respect to parking meters: the way I see it, what right do you have to park your private property on the street? Everybody owns that road, not just you. It sounds like you’re unjustly enriching yourself at everybody else’s expense. If you’re going to monopolize the space, you owe everybody else a use fee for depriving them of that space.
Far less offensive or “slimy” than the “you are a taxpayer, so I own you” energy often shown by statists, which is a lot more oppressive since it has the power and violence of The Law™ behind it.
“…the possibility of harassment from FKers”.
That’s rather rich, coming in defense of someone who is completely opposed to what FreeKeene stands for and just comes here to troll (i.e. harass people).
I resent that characterization. I am a half-troll. Sometimes I come in good faith, other times I come to make fun of you all. Usually it depends on who I am responding to.
As if your moral, financial, and voting in support of government violations of the life, liberty, and property of others is not a worse form of harassment than just about anything someone associated with Free Keene would be likely to do to you!
“You have JJ at a disadvantage though. Because on his side are sane people with jobs, family, and hobbies that don’t have time to play activist. The FKers on your side? They have all the time in the world to “protest”, and harass others, like has been shown time and time again on this very website.” Well, I don’t approve of harassing anyone, for any reason, at any time. I believe in prosecuting people who do that… I’m a former LEO. Yes, I didn’t personally approve of the Robin Hooding. I personally think parking regulations are important for businesses in… Read more »
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think you’d be leading the charge here on this. Still, given that the people on this site have a documented history of harassment (including Ian, by the way) don’t you think that is reason enough to be anonymous here?
As if passing and enforcing government laws that violate people’s human and civil rights doesn’t count as a “history of harassment” on anyone’s part!
You’re kidding, right? Jumping Jacks (aka wrongway1) seems to have LOTS of time to “play activist” (your term – I think being an activist for a good cause is one of the most serious and noble things you can do in life) and voice his opinions in this forum – mostly by attacking and disparaging those who care about freedom.
Making a comment on an online forum is a lot easier than physically going out. It takes what, a minute tops to write something out? Easily done during breaks.
This refrain about people who “don’t have time to play activist” is an old and tired one. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard non-activists make comments like these in an effort to dismiss activists and their efforts. Living in a region where most people are politically on the left and activism tends to reflect this, I most often hear such complaints voiced against left-wingers (often by right-wingers who are quite statist and not necessarily contributing much of meaning to society themselves!), but they sound much the same when voiced by a leftist like “Antifa Ghost” against libertarians. If… Read more »
People who are rude and unpleasant to others online definitely have more incentive to want to keep their identities from being known. Like Dave, I appreciate you taking the high road and being civil.
Why, thank you 🙂
God you just totally get it, Jacks. About all that posting anonymously and stuff, I mean. Not that bullshit about you owning drug-rehabilitation clinics and stuff and having employees and stuff and totally being a doctoral candidate and stuff cuz everyone knows you made that all totally up and stuff. But still. 😉
Sounds like you are jealous as usual. If you don’t believe I have a rehab center not “centers” who cares. It’s your choice to be ignorant not me. The rest of your comments are your same BS I have read over and over. I have no time to continue answering your BS jabs and pokes. You choose to be an Ignoramus.
Uh huh. Got it, Jacks. Got it.
One treatment center. Just one. And only one. Ever. Never two or three or four and stuff.
Just the one. And only the one. Cross your heart and hope to die, am I right Jacks? 😉
JJ, of all the people associated with FK, Brad is about the least likely I have seen that anyone should have a problem with. Besides that, I doubt any FK’ers would have an interest in protesting your clinic. Look at all of the trolling that I do and I had a handful of them over my place to help me stand a couple of gable ends for a garage I framed up a couple years back -you might have known Lumpy, he was a spirited activist, get him near a firepit with a couple of beers and some smoke and… Read more »
The allegation that changing your name means you’re trying to keep your identity from being known is rather silly. A name change is just that – a name change. Whether someone tries to keep their name from being associated with one’s actual person or not is a totally different issue from changing their name.
The people you’re criticizing are posting under the same names online that they use publicly in real life. You are not. See the difference?
Change your Status or you are a slave and have no standing as U.S. Citizen slave subject to a dead Queen, they have us all in probate court bound up deceased and bound by witchcraft blood sacrifices in Depart us all from DOS Department of State travel Passports and DOD Department Ment to depart us all from Defense DOJ Depart us from Jesus Justice DMV DOS Depart us all from Estate State National status by State of State INC., list us all As enemy combatants war criminals calling 911 making war on each other. Have us all listed as lost… Read more »
I approved your comment. Though… I have not the slightest clue what you said. 🙂
God bless you, we would do well to use our whole Family Christian given names take them back from Satan, thank God for you and your family raising you up in the way God said we should go and so for trusting in God, passing Gods love to comments section. Thank God we are in America a Christian Country of many Nations Ecclesia’s Called Out Ones, who stand for Gods inalienable rights freedom to speak the gospel of peace as Gods spirit directs. These many Nations / men came out of Egypt lies taxes slave traders courts as Abraham, led… Read more »
The gospel of peace is: How that God sent His only Begotten Son to die for our sins who had no sin in him, sent him to take us back from death by his Son who died was buried and God saw that good (God is a seer Apostle Prophet), and raised him the Third Day from the depths of slave traders courts alive in all power and authority of God in you who believe that power of God for our salvations.
I support your cause. I believe that every man should have the “right to counsel,” (Art. 15) and that he has an indefeasible right to choose his own counsel — whether or not that choice is a bar licensed attorney; and that this right applies to both criminal and civil actions. The right to counsel is merely a natural extension of all power being derived originally from the people (Art. 8), and of course we the people have a right to decide who to hire for our assistance. But, I must respectfully disagree with “Attacking RSA 311:7,” and instead suggest… Read more »
Hey Bear! I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my article and activism. I respectfully think you’re missing the point of what I’m trying to do. By making legal arguments about other things that gives the State the ability to skirt around the real issue: judicial misconduct and their covering for each other. I made some Article 10 arguments in State v. Jason Talley and also some other legal arguments. The Attorney Generals office and County Attorney used those other arguments as an excuse to totally ignore the judicial misconduct arguments. They clearly didn’t want to write about… Read more »
That’s a lot of wording and legal citations, but if you’re defending government officials having the power to restrict who can practice law, as it sounds to me from reading your remarks (please correct me if I’m wrong), I’m not quite seeing a coherent argument for this. You seem to understand that the ability to limit access to the legal profession, while nominally to protect the vulnerable, may be readily abused by those in power. You also seem to recognize that people have the constitutional right to voluntarily obtain the counsel of their choice to represent them. I think Brad’s… Read more »
My point exactly, Starchild. I’m saying if it DOESN’T stand for allowing the peaceful, respectful, and professional (under their own rules of Professional Conduct) formation of legal arguments to reform the State on behalf of another… what possibly could it, or SHOULD it, stand for. It may actually authorize using violence to overthrow the government. I think we all know the Revolutionary War was violence to overthrow the government… and this Article was written in the spirit of that. I don’t think we’re there yet, though. Not until they make ALL means of peaceful redress (like this) prohibited. (They’d be… Read more »
Strangely, when I saw “Attacking RSA-3117” I thought you were going to talk about attacking the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) public key encryption scheme with a 3117-bit modlus n, and I was like “Shit! The NSA has been busy if it can factor a 3117-bit modulus n in its prime decomposition p and q in anything less than a trillion years!”
You’re my favorite former National Security Agency guy!
I worked for RSA for 7 years. They put me through the CISSP exam, gave me a security clearance which I used to get me a gig a large defense contractor making the good bux. (bailed when they mandated the clot shot. None for me, thanks). RSA was good to me, but no one I know is there any more, they got bought out by some hedge fund, started cutting heads and salaries, closed the bedford woods office. Best 7 years of my career
I wrote a poem about RSA back in October 2002 and had it published in Mathematics Magazine (Volume 75, Number 4) under my name at the time to help you and others remember it for their exams: Proof by Poem: The RSA Encryption Algorithm Take two large prime numbers, q and p. Find the product n, and the totient ?. If e and ? have GCD one and d is e‘s inverse, then you’re done! For sending m to the e mod n gives secre-c. Note: The version above is what I actually submitted for publication to Mathematics Magazine, which… Read more »
LOL, bro your brain is bigger than mine. I barely passed CISSP and to be totally honest, i’m surprised they gave me a clearance (went from high school dropout, house framer to support monkey for the fortune 50’s, trust me i ain’t all that)
I like math too!
If you had zero right to do something and a bunch of other people had zero right to do the same thing and you added up ALLLLL that zero right using magical legislation, what would the sum be?
I think it would still be zero right to do that something, but admittedly, I’ve never been published in Math Magazine and possess little magic.
I’d say you should check your premises.
Well, it was fun supporting you while it lasted. No, I can’t support removing minimum standards for attorneys and flooding our courts with ignorant dipshits that don’t even know the fundamentals of law let alone the specific procedural rules for each court. The courts already move slow enough. Or worse, an uneducated lawyer that doesn’t know that certain arguments, objections, or appeals need to be made at certain points in the process, thereby screwing their client down the line. Also, the state mandating minimum requirements protects people from unethical charlatans that would step in and promise to get them off… Read more »
I think that they are already allowed to? (a person of good moral character that doesn’t make a habit of it), beyond that anyone can represent themselves(?) I think you’re taking it too seriously, karl. watching a dipshit represent him or herself might potentially be about the most comical part of the trial 🙂
I mean ..tell me you wouldn’t stand in line for tickets to watch wazoo represent someone 🙂
I could crack a beer and watch a defense that starts with “vaxx and spammed her fear to spread pushing daisies and physics girls were spaming vaxx onto the people where the cures kill too. your spam is my activism so stay ignorant of the “science!” Blocked by both the NH Free State Project and the NH Libertarian Party Twitter accounts. #FREEDUMB”
But look at what licensed attorneys are getting away with. The Sullivan County Attorney, Marc Hathaway, blatantly lies in his report clearing Judge Burke. He said that “within moments” Judge Burke corrected his “inaccurate impression.” This is clear BS as it never happened. This gentleman is a licensed attorney. Judge Burke is a licensed attorney. Judge John Arnold was a licensed attorney. Judge Tina Nadeau was a licensed attorney. Judge Edwin Kelley is a licensed attorney. Just because because you are a licensed attorney doesn’t mean you’re going to comport to ethical standards. In this case, none of these people… Read more »
karl likes to tout his “i know better than you and oh by the way I am also morally in the right” opinions, but if you read between the lines, most of his convictions have a common undertone of elitism. i.e. “flooding our courts with ignorant dipshits that don’t even know the fundamentals of law” yeah, karl, like that is a genuine risk with this proposal, LOL. 99.999% of those charged with a criminal offense would make ZERO behavioral changes in terms of selecting a bar-registered Juris Doctor vs. a non-qualified representative because they are not interested in criminal conviction.… Read more »
The courts already get sovereign citizen types that make a fool out of themselves. Some even get posted here, like that one loud retarded fellow Clubfoot or whatever his name is. So yes, making it explicitly legal will make it worse.
Now you’re shifting the goalpost by saying that experienced LEO should be able to be an attorney. That’s not what Brad is proposing. I also disagree in that case as well. Just because you’ve been in the courtroom giving testimony doesn’t make you an expert in litigation.
You mean “Man-bun McBrain-damage”! LOL
So your response to the standards being insufficient is to remove the standards? That doesn’t make sense. How do you figure that will fix the problem? Why not propose more stringent standards instead?
The people in the system will always cover for each other. What I’m saying is that since the people covering for each other control the system, allowing outsiders to practice with consenting litigants is appropriate to attack the system and its players when need be. I get where you’re coming from and your concerns. I think the simple solution to your concerns is that all non-lawyer representatives have to comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct. (Which they do now.) I’m just saying allow non-lawyers who follow the rules to practice more frequently. I am NOT a sovereign citizen. I… Read more »
I agree (and with you karl) that some of those sovereign citizens that get up and argue a defense are painfully obscure and esoteric (bordering on nonsensical), but in every case I have seen the judge reign them in very quickly and besides, trying to make a point this way appears to be generally more harmful, than helpful to a defense. These occurrences are very few and far between. I don’t see how this proposed change could impact the courts in any meaningful / substantial way, particularly since the proposal really doesn’t change anything (again, the current statute allows for… Read more »
Often I see the opposite, where the judge gives the sov. cit. a wide berth to make their argument because they are pro se and the judge doesn’t want to be perceived as violating their right to due process.
I suppose if judges are allowed to swiftly remove non-lawyer representatives that make these kind of arguments then I would be one step closer to agreeing with it.
If a defendant raising a “sovereign citizen” defense is being charged in a case (like Ian Freeman’s) in which they did not actually violate anyone else’s life, liberty, or property, my sympathy is entirely with them, regardless of the sophistication or lack thereof with which they make their arguments. They may not know the law, and may make fools of themselves in the eyes of the elitists who are familiar with it and hold it sacrosanct, but as far as I’m concerned the fact remains that The Law™ is not sacrosanct, and individuals are sovereign – that is, they have… Read more »
With respect, the premise of the article is not about pro se arguments on behalf of oneself in legal proceedings, but about using representation that otherwise has not met the traditional requirements of the profession. I do not believe that a Juris Doctor degree and admission to the bar granting permission to practice law should be a requirement. HOWEVER, as someone who grew up in New England an hour south of where I live now, I can tell you first hand how traditional and respectful New Englanders prefer to remain and so it pains me to watch buffoonery from the… Read more »
“ or that looking the other way, while knowing full-well that someone was being scammed, absolves oneself from any moral responsibility” I too struggle with this one. Ian may have opinions on public policy that I disagree with, but he really is a good friend to have. He’s been very kind to me for many years, and even though I firmly disagree with how things went down with his KYC process, I still consider him to be a good friend and libertarian ally. I’ve had so many conflicting feelings about his court case. I’m mad he’s locked up and frustrated… Read more »
I agree. I have never met him, but his friends support him 100% and that kind of loyalty says a lot. The greatest uneasiness I have really centers around his statements about his position on age of consent, citing his own experiences as a 10 year old boy. It creeps me right the fuck out. To defend his participation as voluntary with a 16 year old post-pubescent predator, to me suggests that he has not come to rational terms with what happened to him. I am picturing some skinny, dark haired kid on a florida street that needed an older… Read more »
“whether he knew a scam was taking place? c’mon, how could he not? immoral doesn’t necessarily translate into illegal.”
Well Mark Edge personally witnessed Ian on the phone during some KYC procedures and he states that Ian specifically asked people if they knew what romance scams were.
Knowing Ian as I do I can see him going “alright” with a sigh.
“Ian did meet his KYC requirements” People here keep saying this, but no, he didn’t. All he did is collect information about his customers. While it is true that KYC requires the collection of that info, that is only one part of following KYC regulations. The other part is to register with the government and report suspicious transactions. After all, what good is it to collect information just for it to sit on a random hard drive? You may as well not have collected it for all the good it will do. Case in point, the games Ian played with… Read more »
Your post calls into question, what is the culpability of people for the actions of others. That is a good question.
Apparently you think Ian bears some responsibility for what other people may have done with something purchased thru him?
Would you be in favor of “arresting the State of NH” for selling alcohol to people while knowing that alcohol will cause death, destruction, despair, disease, drunk driving and down right devastating dip shittery ?
(alliteration Tourettes today…please forgive me)
Genuinely interested in your thoughts on my question.
If it was nearly guaranteed that alcohol does all of those things to people, then sure. But it doesn’t. Most people use it responsibly. Speaking of drunks, did you know that it is a crime to sell alcohol to somebody visibly inebriated in NH? The store employees can get in trouble if they sell to minors too! Heck, if they have a suspicion that an adult is going to give the alcohol to a minor, they have an obligation not to sell. Look at that, culpability for the actions of others! Now let’s look at Ian – While some people… Read more »
So when a person DOES “use alcohol irresponsibly”, maybe causes a death, you do or don’t think the State should be held accountable?
If the state knew or could reasonably foresee that an alcohol sale would lead to death, then sure. If not, then no.
If a person sold alcohol in defiance of a State edict, I think we know THAT alcohol sale could lead to death don’t we? <smirk>
Are you saying the State has never sold alcohol that DID lead to a death? Do you think they’re busy prosecuting themselves in those cases?
“If a person sold alcohol in defiance of a State edict, I think we know THAT alcohol sale could lead to death don’t we? <smirk>” Not necessarily. What is your point? “Are you saying the State has never sold alcohol that DID lead to a death? Do you think they’re busy prosecuting themselves in those cases?” No, I am not saying that. I’m saying the state should only be culpable if they know or a could reasonably foresee that the sale would lead to death. I have no idea if that circumstance has happened or has been publicized, but they… Read more »
As if being elderly is equatable to being drunk!
Rather than getting stuck in the weeds of hypothetical comparisons, i’ll quote Ed Snowden: “right and wrong is a very different standard than legal and illegal” -in Ian’s case, a jury of his peers decided that what he did was illegal (and wrong) and I think I can guess why. Taking the case of Mary Hurd (I think was her name?) into consideration, there were three parties involved in the transaction, 1.) The Nigerian scammer, who knew he committing a scam, 2.) Mary Hurd, who didn’t know she was being scammed (but was probably hoping for a large payout) and… Read more »
It may be unpopular for me to say this here, but as a former LEO I am a supporter of the FBI. All the contact I’ve ever had with agents has been positive and they were all very kind. I do want the agency libertarianized, but believe that what they do is vital to the American way of life. They protect us from violent crime, unconstitutional policing, and foreign influence. These things create the environment for us to have free debate about the changing of society towards one with more libertarian policies. I think the protections they provide make it… Read more »
I’m with you on that! FBI = Federal Bureau of Ingestion! Investigate and arrest those cashiers who coerce people to buy “food” that is bad for them!!
If we can save just one life!!!
Like I said, I knew my opinion of the FBI would be unpopular here. The FBI will defend your right to be an anarchist/voluntaryist though, Bob. They’ve come a long way since COINTELPRO and meddling in the democratic nature of our government. In America a citizen has the right to advocate for the abolishment of the entire government system. Great quote from The West Wing: Josh Lyman : Tell me democracy doesn’t have a sense of humor. We sit here, we drink this beer out here on the stoop, in violation about 47 city ordinances. I don’t know, Toby, it’s… Read more »
I appreciate that you on the one hand, want to alter the forcible court system monopoly. A little puzzled why you would then, on the other hand, want to embrace other kinds of forcible monopoly. Also, I would have appreciated at least a guffaw…Federal Bureau of Ingestion, c’mon man! That’s funny! Abolish? All peaceful people have the right to make their own choices. I have no problem with people wanting to join organizations that have different goals and/or methods than I do, as long as those goals and methods don’t trample on the rights of others. I also appreciate that… Read more »
“I also appreciate that you are helping to keep this blog alive, during Ian’s unfortunate kidnapping. Advancing ideas of Voluntary human interactions is good and noble work. Thanks!”
Thanks, man!
I am going to be representing Joseph Hart, Joa, in his recent arrest by the Hillsborough, NH Police. I’ll be keeping this blog very busy with all the filings here.
I will submit everything for the public to review and judge.
“Federal Bureau of Instigation” Entrapment appears to have become SOP. Planting folks all over J6, sending folks to crypto meetups, meddling in political campaigns, staging gubernatorial abduction attempts, c’mon Brad. They have 60,000 people. This organization is the epitome of weaponized deep state and more corrupt than at any other point in its’ history. I am not sure it can even be cleaned up with the right leadership, at this point. Are there decent people employed bu the FBI? Sure there is. I bet every one of them struggles between quitting and restoring their soul / living a guilt free… Read more »
“Are there decent people employed b(y) the FBI? Sure there is.” I’ve only ever interacted with kind, polite, and smart agents. When I ran for Sheriff I met with them a few times to talk about myself and things I wanted to do as an elected official. They were very cool. I met Special Agent Phil Christiana when I was an Epping, NH Police Officer. He too is a very nice guy. His job is to investigate federal crimes and potential public safety threats. You can’t blame him for wanting to look into the large amount of people moving to… Read more »
You know, I almost went FBI. Applied after 9-11 and after I graduated with my B. Sc. from U-Mass Lowell, long before I had a clue about the true nature of the way the world works. weeks after applying, I got a small postcard in the mail to show up at the FBI building in Boston, specific date and time. I show up and take a few hours worth of psych evals. A few weeks after that, I get another notice in the mail, “congrats you passed the first battery of tests” or something similar, The next step was to… Read more »
The funny follow up to this: I have a friend who is a TOTAL LEFTIST (literal closet communist, we agree on basically nothing, but we are like siblings in a weird sense), she has more degrees than a thermometer, father was a university professor, she is a lawyer (in MA), graduated with advanced foreign policy degree from tufts, etc. Always been really into global politics, but I always got the sense that she is attracted to power positions like this, like a moth to a flame, because it lends (perceived) power over other people, always made me a little nauseous.… Read more »
“You know, I almost went FBI.” That’s cool! “No way to make a difference in that swamp” I respectfully disagree. Funny we’re having this conversation on a voluntaryist/libertarian blog website, but, the Bureau does a great many things to make websites like this possible. They defend the 1st Amendment from states that might encroach. I just wish they’d do more to defend the 2nd Amendment. They were to do that and they’d have a HUGE new base of support amongst American citizens. Like when the New Mexico governor cracked down on legal carry in public, I think the Bureau should… Read more »
Please ask yourself this, Brad: If these “kind”, “polite”, and “nice” FBI agents had been told you were doing something “illegal” that they judged to be within their professional purview, even if you were not harming anyone else, would they have been willing to use violence or the threat of violence to steal your resources or kidnap you and put you in a cage, using as much force as necessary to get you to comply, up to and including killing you if you effectively resisted? Or if they would not have acted in such a manner toward you – perhaps… Read more »
“Please ask yourself this, Brad: If these “kind”, “polite”, and “nice” FBI agents had been told you were doing something “illegal” that they judged to be within their professional purview, even if you were not harming anyone else, would they have been willing to use violence or the threat of violence to steal your resources or kidnap you and put you in a cage, using as much force as necessary to get you to comply, up to and including killing you if you effectively resisted?” I’m sure they would have been willing to. That is their job. I like the… Read more »
So, if you sell twinkies to a fat mom, with a chubby kid in tow, there should be some kind of culpability if the kid shows up a few months later 3 sizes bigger with a dull corn syrup glaze in his eye? You don’t think the cashier did enough by saying, “hey mom, do you really think your kid needs that twinkie?” You think the cashier should have said, “Mrs Very Large Mom, I’m afraid, all I can sell you some celery and carrot sticks! You’re scamming your kid! ” About how many years in jail would be enough… Read more »
I’m not certain that this represents the best analogy. Maybe it would be more analogous if the mom was TELLING the kid that the twinkies were really carrot sticks that would allow him to see for two miles unaided by a lens and lift a fully grown horse above his head, while secretly knowing that they would not only do neither, but would actually result in the corn syrup-glazed, far away stare – WHILE the cashier heard the entire tale from the mom and KNEW both that it was a lie, and ALSO KNEW that the chubby kid DIDN’T KNOW… Read more »
I don’t think your revised example is more analogous Clymer, because the scam victims who bought cryptocurrency from Ian to pay their scammers were not children, but legally independent adults fully responsible for their own actions.
But even if this hypothetical scenario happened exactly as you describe, no way do I think the cashier should be violently raided, have their property confiscated, and spend years in jail for selling the Twinkie.
Good points. I distinctly recall all of those being made by multiple people in multiple ways a decade ago. Libertarians who held those opinions were cast out as authoritarians trying to control the freedom movement. Like, just let people do whatever they feel is right, man. Then, assholes came and shat over everything. lol
The philosophy that we follow isn’t specifically Ian’s philosophy. That is, it didn’t originate with him. It’s mostly about the NAP, self-ownership, the golden rule, peace, etc. Ian from what I can tell puts it in practice. Ian stated he’s glad he and the guy who he gave sexual favors at a young age didn’t go to jail. You can argue all day that Ian is defending a predator… but if you step away from present-day societal norms for a moment, isn’t it a worthwhile question to ask who better than Ian can determine whether Ian was victimized? Cringe and… Read more »
“isn’t it a worthwhile question to ask who better than Ian can determine whether Ian was victimized?” And the answer that is anybody with a brain can make that judgement. If Ian wants to delude himself that he had a great time as a coping mechanism, then so be it. It doesn’t change that he was manipulated and victimized when he was a child, nor does it make it okay for kiddy diddlers to diddle kids like Ian believes. By the way, this applies to other crimes too. If I rob a dementia patient, did I commit a crime if… Read more »
“He could have registered for free as a money transmitter and pay his taxes. That’s what it would have took to resolve this.”
This is what I struggle with. I care about Ian a lot but am frustrated that he took the steps he did to end up in jail.
I don’t want my friend locked up. He should be with his wife and running his radio show.
“He could have registered for free as a money transmitter and pay his taxes. That’s what it would have took to resolve this.”
Which just shows the moral bankruptcy of the system that persecuted him, because of course neither of those actions would have made any difference in terms of preventing any of the victims from being scammed.
“It doesn’t change that he was manipulated and victimized when he was a child” Ian is not delusional and he doesn’t have dementia. If Ian says he wasn’t, then I’m inclined to believe it. “nor does it make it okay for kiddy diddlers to diddle kids like Ian believes.” No one has said this is okay. Karl the half-troll strikes again? “You can bring a horse to water and all of that. Keep telling yourself that the evidence isn’t blatantly obvious in the court record.” The only thing that is blatantly obvious is that the FBI had an axe to… Read more »
“No one has said this is okay. Karl the half-troll strikes again?”
Ian wants the age of consent removed. Point-blank, he does think this is okay. All the pedo apologia you’ve been writing makes me wonder if you think it’s okay too. Otherwise why bring up the historic shit as if it’s relevant to anything?
“The only thing that is blatantly obvious…”
Given that everybody here appears to be able to see this but you, I’d say it’s blatantly obvious that you have your head in the sand on this one.
‘Otherwise why bring up the historic shit as if it’s relevant to anything?’ Hmm maybe you’re right Karl. Maybe everyone throughout all of history who thought marriage at puberty was okay was just because they were all pedos and stuff. That’s not ignorant at all, not one bit. “Given that everybody here appears to be able to see this but you, I’d say it’s blatantly obvious that you have your head in the sand on this one.” Idk I think there’s a few others, but don’t even bother trying with you because of that half-troll side and stuff. Ha when… Read more »
Still waiting to hear why it is a relevant point to bring up other than you trying to normalize it.
There are many ways to show that someone who questions or opposes age-of-consent laws aren’t automatically pedophiles or child predators or whathaveyou. Talking about history was the most obvious and convenient way for me to make that point. But if that’s still lost on you I just don’t know what to tell you… other than try trolling less and understanding more.
Ian’s public opinions combined with his dating history tell another story there, bud.
What happened in the past isn’t relevant here.
Jeepers. You said it, Karl. Boy those pedophiles sure do like totally suck and stuff, huh? Especially that Joe Biden guy.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the Bidenator like totally sniffing away at Mitch McConnell’s nieces and stuff.
Yowsers. I mean look at ’em all. Just grinning away even while the shit’s like totally going down and everything and stuff. Now that’s just bad parenting and stuff, am I right Karl? 😉
Now Silvia, are you sure that’s relevant? That happened in the past and stuff. Just saying.
I know, right? God. What’s with these libtard weirdos like totally living in the past and stuff? Especially when they could be living in the present and stuff in like the happiest place on earth? And I’m not talking about Disneyland either, Intrigare. No siree, Bob. I’m talking about Canada. God it’s so awesome there. And their politicians care so much about children and stuff that they drew up this super-sweet bill and stuff to like totally protect them from like pornography and stuff. Oh, and then they snuck in an amendment and stuff that like totally penalizes “hate crimes”… Read more »
Uh huh. Past isn’t relevant. Got it.
As it relates to Ian’s creepy opinions in this context, yes.
Do you ask the same question of anti-libertarians who bring up the issue in order to attack libertarians like Ian and try and normalize a witch-hunt mentality?
No, Intrigrare is correct. The FBI, or at least certain people in it, were out to get Ian and libertarian/free state activists, and Ian’s views on age of consent are completely irrelevant to this fact. Every anarchist, if they are consistent, wants such laws abolished. It doesn’t mean we want children to be harmed. And yes, the people involved in a particular situation are better able to say whether such harm occurred or not than is some government official being incentivized with power and a State paycheck to find victims whether they really exist or not (or create them if… Read more »
look, man I have never met Ian and certainly would not want anyone to be attacked in prison. I have been donating to the FSP monthly for at least a decade, so any movement that advances freedom for human beings and restricts the ability of government to act tyrannically against the people that it is supposed to serve, i’m down with. What I ain’t down with, is rationalizing destructive and harmful behavior. I grew up in a very fucked up world and saw much from a very young age. I have seen, with both peers and family members, the tragic… Read more »
We agree. And I believe Ian Freeman would agree with you also.
Based on what?
Based on my limited observations of him over the years, what I’ve seen him say and do and his response or lack thereof to haters like you. He seems to adhere to the golden rule, which is basically what clymer is talking about and basically what the NAP and self-ownership is all about. Now shoo troll.
A post-pubescent 16 year old is not an “undeveloped kid”, and as Ian’s case makes clear, for a teenage boy to have sex at that age will not necessarily cause a “lifetime of damage”, etc. Claiming otherwise is irrational fear-mongering.
Some human laws may arbitrarily declare that adulthood magically occurs on one’s 18th or 21st birthday or whatever, but that’s not how nature actually works.
“that is, they have the right to live as they choose so long as it does not involve initiating force or fraud against others”. Exactly Star Child, nice point! For sure, the fork in the road for “laws” is those which protect the right you mention above and those which violate it. At the risk of channeling Capt. Obvious, I’ll mention those laws which violate rights, are only tools used to manipulate and subjugate people, make sure “the right people” make money, etc. Of course, people need ways to resolve actual crimes, but when the law itself and the enforcement… Read more »
“No victim, no crime.”
I’m there with those four exceptions.
This minarchist is in good company with his anarchist friends though.
Why not just hire an attorney from a different jurisdiction to represent you pro hac vice? In that case, they don’t need to play nice with the prosecutor and judge.
Also, if the court is as corrupt as you are suggesting, how will this help? Won’t the Good Ole Boys Club just go harder on non-professionals?
I suppose you could hire an attorney from an outside jurisdiction… But I’ve never seen an attorney ever go after judges the way Jason Talley and I did. You’ve gotta be cut-throat to play their game.
I think there are many judges in New Hampshire with integrity that want to do the right thing. I just think they don’t want to sit in judgement of their peers.
I think there are many judges who BELIEVE they are doing the right thing, but they’d wilt, obfuscate or get angry in an actual equal footing argument with somebody when asked why their judgements “enforce laws” rather than render actual justice. Believing in or knowing what is “the right thing”, but still enforcing victimless crime laws regardless, does not imbue those judges with integrity. It reveals the lack of integrity. People who. as a condition of employment, “obey authority” are generally not people I would want to render justice, since their interest isn’t aligned with justice, it’s aligned with blind… Read more »
Well said, Bob.
If freekeene had a party…
https://files.catbox.moe/alzefd.mp4
Biden
forgives more debt
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/21/biden-student-loan-borrowers-00142343
i’m glad that these willing borrowers of money used to obtain advanced degrees in ideologically-driven subjects that don’t appear to help them locate gainful employment, don’t have to pay back the money they borrowed (willingly). And just when we thought uncle Joe couldn’t get any more benevolent in his advanced age, he even lets the banks that lent the money off the hook! After all, why make them shoulder the burden of these loans when American tax payers have pockets plenty deep enough to take care of it. After all, we need the banks! Especially if they are too big… Read more »
It’s a two-fer – essentially buying votes at the same time it incentivizes more people to attend universities where they will likely be subjected to a barrage of leftist/statist indoctrination.
Since Ian has left a more stateist faction has taken over this admin jobs of FreeKeene
Like I said before “when the cat’s away, the statist mice will play” I guess.
It’s totally disrespectful to everything Ian stood for and freedom.
It’s really a defilement and slander of freedom, freekeene and Ian
What do you mean exactly David? Are you calling me a statist?
I am. A libertarian statist. Ian knows this and I send him all my blogs to the jail he’s at.
Dave is probably the best troll here. He supports Biden but then complains because a statist posts here. lol
My version of the government would be to have what we have now… cops, courts, roads, national defense.
No victim-no-crime with the exception of:
1- Small sales tax.
2- Roadway regulations. (Speed, DWI, stop signs, traffic lights…)
3- Weapons of mass destruction possession. (cannot possess biotoxins, nukes, etc.)
4- Involuntary commitment.
So basically you can have all the hookers, drugs, machineguns and silencers you want… so long as you don’t endanger, hurt, or irritate anyone else.
I’m such a statist.
I encourage you to consider becoming more of a Panarchist and open to peaceful parallel societies. That way, those who support your ideas can be subject to them and those who PEACEFULLY reject them but are willing to leave others alone, are left alone. You’re a well meaning and good guy, let’s not turn your preferences and ideas into instruments of involuntary tyranny for those who prefer something else, but who remain peaceful. Voluntaryism does not prevent your goals, it just rejects imposing them on people willing to leave you alone. The means we use should not be ignored… Read more »
Thanks Bob 🙂
I’ve sworn allegiance to the NH and United States Constitutions and believe that my liberty activism and advocation should be within the confines of those documents.
You know what Bob, if you want to stop using every service the U.S. government provides and get off U.S. land, by all means, I think you should be left alone. Until then, you use U.S. property or services, you pay. You own property here? Guess what, those property deeds were first issued by the State of New Hampshire, and they never gave up allodial rights as part of the sale. Therefore, you need to honor the contractual conditions of that fee simple title, which subjects you to property taxation and potentially even eminent domain. This situation, where one entity… Read more »
“I’ll take a democratic government, thanks.”
Though I love Bob, I agree completely.
I believe that was karl and not Bob. If I understand Bob Call’s position on government (and I am still learning), ANY political structure (including traditional democratic processes) invariably strengthen the legitimacy of coercive governments, so withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which state power ultimately depends is the best way to create a society that is not controlled by government, which is prone to corruption. So an ideal system would have no constraints on individual liberty, other than preventing crime, aggression, etc.
“So an ideal system would have no constraints on individual liberty, other than preventing crime, aggression, etc.”
Yep, that’s the system I want! Cops, courts, roads, national defense.
edit: sorry, i thought you wrote “thanks Bob, i agree..” Just read it again, my bad
Services eh? Hmmm…
Not being able to untangle goods and services people actually want from bads and disservices they don’t want is quite the “you will eat everything we serve you or else” buffet of asininity and an Overlordian mind trick.
Don’t fall for it.
Why do you think you’re owed services a la carte, or that this would happen without government?
The only thing I’m owed is the same thing you are owed. If you are peaceful and not “trespassing” against others, there should be reciprocity of choice. If there isn’t reciprocity, to style what we then have as “freedom” is absurd and a lie. Would you frequent a Restaurant that told you, you HAD to pay for a large nacho plate (with jalapenos!!!) and 37 beers you never ordered? Or being told, “see that guy waaay over there in California, he drank those beers and said put it on Antifa Ghost’s tab? You gonna pay up or do we have… Read more »
Yeah, I am more on the side of the libertarians with this one. Just purely looking at the state of America in 2024 you would have to have ideological blinders on to not see the true nature of this out of control government, both in terms of spending and power grabbing. My sense is that the left sees government as a necessary means to ensure that balance is maintained in society, keeping it moving forward and developing human beings to live together, advancing only mutually beneficial interests and preventing the most powerful from exploiting the most vulnerable. This may be… Read more »
“Law no longer protects the people from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from the people.”
THAT.
Exactly why the practice of law should be something that anyone can do… so long as they follow the Rules of Professional Conduct.
Sullivan County Attorney Marc Hathaway blatantly lies in his report clearing Judge Edward Burke of criminal liability… and gets away with it..
Except he hasn’t gotten away with it… because I’m not legally done with him yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsXVBjUB0Q
“As an observable fact, we can verify that wealth and power has concentrated in fewer hands as western governments have become larger. The super class demonstrate a tendency to reinvest wealth and power in order to control government, which allows them to continue to slant the playing field more toward their advantage. Ultimately, this disparity becomes so extreme that the design of the super class becomes unfathomable. The national security apparatus has become their policing arm, regulatory agencies have become revolving doors for the industries they control, the governing class all appear to be on their payroll, only advancing rules… Read more »
(Maybe instead we can look at changing the economic system by which wealth and power funnels up into the hands of the few. Just some food for thought!)
Yes, exactly. That’s why I spend so much time talking about the economy and sound money. Fiat currency is the biggest problem because it fuels both predatory practices by the super class, and profligate spending by the political class. The only answer I can think of is the same answer that has worked before; limited government and an informed citizenry that diligently enforces law and jealously protects their natural rights. I am in the same camp as Brad on this one. example: Federal programs to control public education appear to be more of a means to prevent public education, more… Read more »
Eliminating coercive taxation would be the obvious way to make that happen.
“Congrats, you’ve identified the problem, which is the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few. Now, how does removing the government fix this control by the wealthy? After all, in the absence of government, there is nothing preventing them from hiring their own private armies and ruling over you directly. Or buying off all of the “private courts” while refusing to recognize any others.” Exactly how I feel. Democracy sucks sometimes… but: “Democratic societies protect people’s right to express their views, champion the rule of law, enforce predictable governing rules, run competitive elections and support an independent media,”… Read more »
Ok maybe it was on my end that I thought I was blocked from posting..
So it could, probably was, my bad
We wouldn’t block you, buddy 🙂
Government of, for and by the people should have dominion over corporations insofar as to restrict monopoly power and protect the common good (i.e. environmental pollution). Government should be limited in scope so that it remains transparent and controllable. The marketplace of ideas, when left free of corporate influence over corrupt government can do a lot to advance society in terms of freedom and possibility. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate, which is… Read more »
“How does removing the government fix this control by the wealthy?”
Because just being wealthy does not give you the perceived legitimacy of being a State, and the coercive power that comes with that. Without government, the chief mechanism for wealthy people to exert control over others is gone. One guy trying to run a private army isn’t going to be very effective. To control large numbers of people, and get them to cooperate and buy into your system, you need not just money and weapons, but an institution that has wormed its way into people’s lives over time.
“Would you frequent a Restaurant that told you, you HAD to pay for a large nacho plate (with jalapenos!!!) and 37 beers you never ordered? Or being told, “see that guy waaay over there in California, he drank those beers and said put it on Antifa Ghost’s tab?” No, I would not. What is your point? “To answer your question – The reason I think this would happen “without government” is EVEN in the pseudo free market we have today, you aren’t (yet) made to pay for the California guys appetite. That’s HIS tab and his choice.” Why do you… Read more »
..so he’s been trolling this entire time! that wisenheimer!
So…..
The Republicans are doing Russia’s work.
With this Smirnoff guy.
Jesus.
Your *peeps are Traitors.
And *you are Traitors.
Hopefully people like Comer are prosecuted, as any American would want.
Which leaves out REPUBLICANS.
Fucking Traitors.
THAT’S YOU THREE
:q
folks, if I can just suggest – if you’re planning on replying to this bizarre and unhinged rant, to not use the word “racist”. Please. He’s liable to hurt himself
It used to be fun messing with Dave, but now I feel too bad about it. His brain is even more broken than usual. I’m not even sure he’s capable of coherent thoughts anymore. In some respects, he’s posting like wazoo.
Yeah, something going on up there.. he’s out of his tits. Needs to use absolute “I am your enemy” terms (“traitor”). Honestly, it’s sad and scary. Grouping you, I and Brad together as republican, statist traitors.. I got nothing
Oh I’m sure everything’ll be just hunky-dory again once Dave’s totally slept off that 30-pack of Schlitz and stuff Clymer. Well, at least till Saturday night when he totally ties one on again and stuff. You know how he is. 😉
lol is schlitz still a thing? Nostalgically reminds me of my early teens when me and my buddies used to pool change together, emptying pockets and have the neighborhood homeless dude that lived in the woods go the the package store to buy us carlins black label
This sounds vaguely familiar. Lol.
What? What’re ya talking about, Karl? Messing with Dave is like a Free Keene dot com staple and stuff. 😉
Ya know, I think your problem is you’re just not doing it right and stuff. Don’t ask me for advice, though, cuz I like totally think you like totally suck and stuff. 😉
Idk I think Dave may be on to something about Republicans. He just left out Democrats so I think that’s where he could use some work 😛
Ya know Intrigare, I’ve always liked the term “uniparty” myself.
I think it was Steve Bannon who coined that term and stuff. Which like totally ensures that Dave’ll never add it to his personal lexicon and stuff, am I right? 😉
Anyway, looks like Nikki Haley’s gotten her ass handed to her again. And in her home state and stuff no less. Jeepers. I can’t wait to see how Dave’s gonna handle that. 😉
So Republicans back a man who still lies about the election after sending a mob to stop the count at the Capitol. And they go to a Russian spy and call him “extremely credible” for information of how to impeach Biden. Shocker the Russian spy was a liar. So Republicans go to an “extremely credible” Russian spy to overturn our government, so that a convicted rapist can be installed into office! And now when they are blatantly in bold-faced exposed for it they don’t even own it! What more evidence do you need that Republicans are Traitors? So that means… Read more »
i’m thinking this post could have been broken up into 5 separate posts
To the stupid cunt.
Your boy Comer sold the USA to Russia.
You getting a clue yet?
I know, right? I mean God, what a tool and stuff, huh Dave? That Comer guy I mean. 😉 Anyway, I just love going down memory lane and stuff. How about you, Dave? Hey, remember that one time when Karl was like trying to like totally scare us like totally shitless and stuff about global warming and stuff and he like totally like told us that it was gonna like totally like suffocate us and stuff even though global warming is like totally about globally warming things and stuff and not about globally suffocating things and stuff? God. Karl’s just… Read more »
Are you speaking to me, David?
If not, please don’t call explicit names to other members of the FK community here.
You’re welcome to attack me, but please respect the other members.
If that is taking the high road, i am guessing that the low road includes more insults
Trump’s campaign PAC “save America” might be facing felony charges
(America should be saved from HIM, and his traitorous dupes and minions, including the ones in here)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/02/23/trumps-leadership-pac-likely-committed-felony-bipartisan-ethics-group-says/amp/
Oh no! 😛
LOL (this blog is like a handful of adults having a conversation and the petulant child periodically runs in the middle of the room to make obnoxious noise for no other reason than to make himself seen and acknowledged)
The origin of the American republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations had been driven together by fear and necessity. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected, the legislators of antiquity are consulted, it is an empire of reason. In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, with a constant eye to our circumstances and endeavor to foresee the future operations of our system and its effects upon human happiness.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924020874099/page/n44/mode/1up
https://rumble.com/v4ft07q-she-is-saying-what-they-are-planning-still-a-conspiracy-theory.html
Nikki Haley got 4 delegates in Mi. Primary.. GOOD FOR HER!
So… It’s all because of me that there is so many comments in threads.
Let that sink in.
I’m glad that the moderator isn’t the statist that I had thought.
As you were
“I’m glad that the moderator isn’t the statist that I had thought.”
I really don’t like moderating posts. The posts are really off-topic to the blog, but if this is how you guys like to communicate, so be it 😛
And I am definitely a libertarian statist. I want to see the United States of America and New Hampshire libertarianized. I want America to exist as it does now but in a libertarian format.
yeah, Brad, I happened upon this blog as a means to network with folks that are both local and like-minded. It turns out that you are probably the closest match that I personally have in this regard, probably because we have both worked in or with government and understand the requirement for foundational structure necessary to effect safety and happiness for the people. Although folks like karl and I have very little in common, in terms of sharing a worldview, there is no denying the fact that he is a generally intelligent person and so I am glad to exchange… Read more »
“probably because we have both worked in or with government and understand the requirement for foundational structure necessary to effect safety and happiness for the people.” Oh absolutely. I think more anarchists should spend time on ride-alongs with the police on Saturday nights to see just how necessary pre-defined rules are necessary for the safety and security of society. I don’t like state violence like most people here. The solution is to limit it by reducing nearly all victimless crimes, in my view. But still, violence will exist in the world. Having laws about it means we can define where… Read more »
“I think more anarchists should spend time on ride-alongs with the police on Saturday nights…” As an anarchist, I completely agree. Not necessarily for the reasons you think this would be a good idea, but for purposes of accountability and transparency, as well as penetrating the “bubble” of these workplaces and exposing those who work in them to the perspectives of how ordinary people view the sausage-making. Ordinary members of the public should be empowered to go on police ride-alongs, sit in on classrooms in government schools, and walk into prisons or government agency offices to observe the goings-on, on… Read more »
““I think more anarchists should spend time on ride-alongs with the police on Saturday nights…” As an anarchist, I completely agree. Not necessarily for the reasons you think this would be a good idea, but for purposes of accountability and transparency, as well as penetrating the “bubble” of these workplaces and exposing those who work in them to the perspectives of how ordinary people view the sausage-making. Ordinary members of the public should be empowered to go on police ride-alongs, sit in on classrooms in government schools, and walk into prisons or government agency offices to observe the goings-on, on… Read more »
So you don’t block comments(?) ?
I deleted some that were clearly just attacking people. But generally no.
Ian wouldn’t.
And it’s his site, or*was his
It’s still his site. I communicate with him frequently about what I’m posting here and such.
The comments on the blog should be about the comments on the blog, in my view. But if you guys want to go way off topic I’m not stopping you. I just don’t like people attacking people other than me.
Mr. Wrongway1 is surely having his way attacking me 😉