No Longer Illegal in NH
In a 42-page decision, the US District Court for New Hampshire has ruled in favor of protestors including Free State Project early mover and attorney Brandon Ross who violated the state’s “ballot selfie” prohibition and were investigated and threatened by the Attorney General’s office. In 2014, Ross had taken a picture of his ballot and posted it to his facebook accompanied by the words “come at me bro”. They did, and now Ross and his co-plaintiffs state representative Leon Rideout, and Andrew Langlois are victorious in their case thanks to the NH ACLU, as the law has been overturned as unconstitutional!
The defendant in the case, representing the state, was secretary of state Bill Gardener who argued that free speech (photos of ballots) should be curtailed because voters will be either induced to sell their votes or subjected to coercion if they are permitted to disclose images of their ballots to others. Judge Paul Barbadoro denied there was any evidence those speculative objections would be the case, and even if there were evidence, that’s not reason enough to restrict free speech.
State Rep Tim Horrigan, Snitch
The case reveals on page 18, that it was Timothy Horrigan, an anti-freedom state rep (rated as a “Constitutional Threat” in 2015 by the NH Liberty Alliance) that both introduced the bill banning ballot selfies AND snitched to the Attorney General’s office about Ross’ facebook post. Ross, in an exclusive interview for Free Keene said Horrigan’s behavior, “shows that lawmakers will absolutely use their laws they’ve just made to try to censor people”.
Ross also said he was surprised the state actually moved against him, saying, “I gave them too much credit, thinking they would never try to enforce that clearly unconstitutional law. Joke’s on me. But, a little healthy defiance can be a good thing now and again too.”
Thanks Meg…I will hoist a lemonade in your honor later today.
Excellent points made by Robert Fernandez, people should be able to freely transact without having to purchase the "privelege" to do so.. Jurors should laugh at prosecutors that bring cases like this forward.
I encourage all free people to be peaceful and practice free trade with other consenting free people. A system that purports to "protect" your freedom while insisting at the point of a gun you buy a license to do so is oxymoronic…
Good job meg 😉
thanks jason! 😀
"Basically taunted by the police for five hours" – I've heard this before – until video shows something totally different. I can think of an attention starved woman about a year ago whining on TV how TSA agents manhandled/traumatized and brutalized her, only to see a video later of TSA agents consoling and handing paper towels for the woman to blow her nose in – as they tried to figure out why this one woman out of 10,000 that day decided to try and resist going through a security checkpoint.
Your point has no relevance Matt..
Well, if a Free Keener thinks its okay to bring up past behaviors and transgressions of those they dislike, what makes a Free keener think it doesn't go both ways. Meg, in my opinion, exaggerated her 'mistreatment' by the TSA ; I see no reason why I can't question the voracity of her statement in regard to the Capitol Police. So…relevance. There you go.
The video shows the pertinent facts..arrested for lemonade….thats the point seems fox news thinks thats the point too.
It is completely in character for cops to taunt and try to psych people out while in custody. Also Meg's account was not a one dimensional account, she seemed to honestly differentiate behavior of the individuals involved.
I have interacted with Meg and am usually able to suss out deceptive people.
She made a incidental reference to the cops at the station ; a reference that depicts the cops in there natural manner
again nitpicky and irrelevant
They weren't really actually busted for "selling lemonade", that was just the actual detail…Smeggums would have been just as arrested as if she'd been selling flowers, tea, bagels, bandanas, or indeed, *SELLING*ANYTHING*…I am so, so so glad that those fine Christian Capitol Police cleared a National temple of the BLIGHT*OF*COMMERCE*…..FREE means FREE…Not even $.10cents a glass lemonade, cheap as that is…And if they had just had a little artsy-fartsy picnicy kinda thang, they coulda given out lemonads gratis…But the bitches always goots to get that *FUCKING*MONEY*…..I just realized what's wrong with all you *FREEWEENIES*…For you, it's all about $MONEY$, because… Read more »
But that ballsy blonde DC dick was a nasty ass cunt, huh???…See her camera swatting???…She looked like Anne Coulter on the rag…~tKoK.
What kind of fucked-up shit-for-brains would actually post his headcheese pimpled dickworm ideas on here, and use such goddamm filty language? You sure ain't MY KING, you cocksucker maggotmouth…~tQoK.
Damn Meg is Hot!!!
@David
Are you people capable of anything other than histrionic bullshit? If your organization takes Fox News as a credible source, than you have larger problems than your Glorious Leader being locked up.
@meg
Are you aware that "smeg" is short for "smegma"?
Smegma (Greek sm?gma, "soap"[1]) is a combination of exfoliated (shed) epithelial cells, transudated skin oils, and moisture. It occurs in both female and male mammalian genitalia.
Also, tits or gtfo.
The unveiling of the MLK Memorial today pales in comparison to Meg's lemonade stand. To paraphrase Dr. King, 'As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Lemonade salesman is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "No Lemonade Sales". No,… Read more »
That was pretty funny David. Thanks for the laugh… 🙂
@jw
Um…i dont believe I called fox news a "credible source" though they did get it right in this case. Also histrionics can be used to great effect;smart people know that.
@jw,
A classy person knows that "meg" is short for Megan.
@jw,
You aren't as smart as you think you are.
🙂
@"David",
Why did you write so much stuff?
🙂
Sorry david-keene, Dr. King did tend to go on and on. If you finish it you can have a cookie.
@David,
Didn't even bother to look :it was you so i hadn't noticed you were quoting mlk
Not merely quoting, david-keene. I updated the speach to be more relevant to the lemonade oppression of today. Remember when Meg was simply a Mediawhore? Now she is a full fledged Freedom Fighter.
Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, lemonade is 10 cents a glass!
Sliced up different, yet its still the same absurd anti-freedom garbage coming from you haters:
"Obey the laws *all of them* because the gooberment has some sort of "legitimacy". What kind you say? Well, simply because they're in power, I worship power, and that should be good enough for you because that is good enough for me. I'm better than you are, you know."
Every time you sad people post anything, this is what people actually see from you.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their lemonade.
I have a dream today.
Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, lemonade is 10 cents a glass!
At least the lemonade takes my mind off the beers on the wall.
I'm glad you got a chuckle, brad. The real joke is Meg.
How many we got left brad?
@David,
Your post just show that you don't know what the protests are about.
So your critiques are toward something that isn't happening
Shutup Meg.
david-keene, Who let you back on the Blog?
@Peter Griffin,
your mother.
ooooooo…. Snappy comeback david! LOSER!!
david-Keene, your critiques are toward something that isn’t happening.
Your mother.
Great Job Meg. This time you were clever enough to spin your story in a manner that's not likely to find the video of the truth showing up on National television….. Handcuffed to a wall and taunted for five hours? PLEASE……..
Meg may be short for Meagan, but "smeg" is still short for "smegma"…….
Bill on Tue, 23rd Aug 2011 12:01 am – Belched forth the usual vile trash against freedom: Great Job Meg. This time you were clever enough to spin your story in a manner that’s not likely to find the video of the truth showing up on National television….. Handcuffed to a wall and taunted for five hours? PLEASE…….. — See what I mean? "Blah blah – follow the law even if it sucks. Blah blah, I'm better than you. Blah blah, they are in power, worship them because I think that everyone should worship power, wrong or right." Don't like… Read more »
I can understand you eunuchs continuing to taunt Meg over her missing papers.
You aspire to be just like your cowardly armor-plated masters.
Yeah, it takes at least a dozen fat blue line thugs to work up the courage to insult a chained up lady.
Chaz, you accuse me of being a "Liberty Hater". Hater of Liberty, NO. Hater of Liars, YES (on BOTH sides). Say what you want (I'm sure you will find a way to spin this too), you don't know me. "Smeg" has already been proven to be a bald faced liar. I remind you of the TSA incident, where she claimed to have been publicly brutalized. Video of the incident showed that none of her claims were true. That video showed her being consoled, not brutalized. The camera works both ways Smeggy. Given your track record. If you claim, it and… Read more »
freestaters = attention-hungry goofballs
@peter Griffin,
thanks 🙂
Bill, You *claim to* be a person that hates the hypocrisy (on both sides, according to you) yet I never see you taking anyone but the government's side. If you were honest (which you never seem to let go on Meg about) you'd tell us all you worship power (yes you do) & somehow very strangely think that you are better than us. Please feel free to not preach to anyone here about "honesty". It is very insulting coming from the likes of you while it literally reeks of your vile hypocrisy. Keep in mind for future reference that whenever… Read more »
This is "Bill" : "I know your fighting and exposing government over reaching and, who knows, you may achieve some things BUT ! you told a LIE! and ALL THE GOVERNMENT STUFF THAT YOUR FIGHTING AGAINST FALLS AWAY IN LIGHT OF LIE TELLING! Again this is "Bill" :"I know people going to jail for lemonade, people are getting money taken from them through taxes for stupid wars, and I know your fighting against that but you TOLD A LIE and THAT'S THE IMPORTANT THING." LOL……………….little mix up of priorities?, "Bill" Glad you are not the boss bil because if you… Read more »
@Bill,
Meg is also fighting for YOUR FREEDOM.
wtf are are you fucking doing ?
besides being a fucking sniper on here?
fucking cowardly fool.
if you had half the cajones meg has you might be able to do something besides snipe on a website
"Good heavens Miss Sakamoto – you're beautiful!"
I –
I don't believe it!
There she goes again!
She's tidied up, and I can't find anything!
All my tubes and wires
And careful notes
And antiquated notions
But! – it's poetry in motion
And when she turned her eyes to me
As deep as any ocean
As sweet as any harmony
Sorry – selling lemonade on the National Mall, that was advertised with the desire to be arrested for it, is not fighting for my freedom – so "no thanks". Like all freestaters, Meg chose to do something that was 'safe' – meaning a cite and release, and she knows full well that this entire debacle will be dismissed – and it won't be because the "government" knows it was wrong…it is because it just doesn't matter – they got their job done…they removed them – and now onto the next day of the usual Washington DC protests. Funny the news… Read more »
The day I'll think Meg or anyone else for that matter has balls, is the day she takes a police cruiser on vacation – since she paid for it and all. Or decides to redecorate the interior of the oval office. Meg doesn't even really work – she has her little side biz with "liberty flair" which is more an arts and crafts hobby, but I doubt very very highly that she claims it on her taxes, if she even files taxes. And more than likely – the government doesn't even give a shit.
your so full of bull Matt ; you'd so lose in a real debate.
Matt,
your last submission has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese
Shouldn't it be 'peace of Swiss cheese', david-keene?
Kudos to Meg's stylist.
Chaz,
You say I need to come up with the words "Thank You". OK, Thank You……. for continually showing what a bunch of idiots you are. I do not worship power. I did not ever ask Smeg to do anything for me. If anything is being done on my behalf, I would ask that they do it in the full light of honesty. Ms. Smegma has an unfortunate record of dishonesty which = lack of credibility.
Well stated Matt
david-keene, wash your filthy mouth out with soap, go to your room and let the grownups talk!
@David,
Look in a dictionary.
@bill,
why are you in love with me?
@Matt,
I'm holding out hope that some day you have a grasp of what's going on.
And make some good points in that regard.
🙂
@david-keene
Glad you are not the boss bil because if you WERE no one could tell a ,you’d make SURE of that, but wars and intrusive money extracting government etc…lol
HEY BILL MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO OUT AND GATHER UP SOME OF YOUR FRIENDS AND DO A PROTEST AGAINST LIE TELLING…seeing as to you that is the real evil
I can see you know how to spell,so keep me out of this shit! Damn glad I am not the boss! Watch-BILL-Bill bil Please keep this in mind. —bil