Good afternoon.
Time for some mostly New Hampshire-esque news with some random thoughts of a former statist.
- The City of Rochester is about to attack 1,716 of the people who live within it’s boundaries for failing to “register” their dogs. Attack really is an appropriate word to use to describe this.
- Take a naked picture of a seventeen year old who has lived an additional 364 days from their birthday: go to jail. Wait a day, no jail. When a 80 year old can lawfully have sexual intercourse with a sixteen year old…. how does it become an immoral act when a consensual picture/video is taken of it? A seventeen year old could be prosecuted and tossed in prison for taking a naked picture of themselves.
- There is only one actual crime committed in this story about a woman who worked for an ambulance company in Merrimack and stole morphine to sell it on the street. What is interesting is that the retail price of the morphine is $60 whereas she sold the drug for $200. Prohibition is precisely how the drug cartels have become so profitable and how they fund their violent operations. If drugs were legalized the cartels would be gone while at the same time people who have addictions to dangerous drugs like these could be helped alleviate their addictions. Oh, and how do you suppose the narcotic user who purchased the drug from this thief got the money to do so?
- Merrimack has a new district court: “In Merrimack, the halls of justice could not be more different.” I’ve spent a lot of time in New Hampshire’s district courts. I certify to you that very little “justice” is done.  I think most people know that the courts typically function as an extortion racket and public relations front for violence.
- The habitual offender who escaped that I wrote about earlier has been caught. Off to his cage he goes for committing the crime of escaping from a sentence for a victimless crime.
- “The leaders of two New Hampshire towns will wash a fire truck belonging to neighboring Newmarket after losing a friendly bet about which town could draw the most mailed-in census forms.” Well, the losing “leaders” of the people should surely be embarrassed that their subjects failed to participate in a government program which has been, and probably will be used again, for cruel purposes.
- In both the prison and the jail populations drug offenders are thought to now comprise 20% to 25% of the population here in the United States.
- In the popular medical journal The Lancet there is an awesome new study published which supports what I and other anti-drug war people have been saying about opiate addicts: “Treatment with supervised injectable heroin leads to significantly lower use of street heroin than does supervised injectable methadone or optimised oral methadone.” Not using street heroin means not having to commit crimes against innocent people to afford said heroin. As I’ve said many times before, I do not remember a burglary or robbery that become solved which did not involve an addict needing money for drug addiction. Of course it happens, but when ending the large percentage of these crimes is such an easy thing to do, why don’t the government people do it?
- Today is the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. “China decided that it had no choice but to “spill some blood” during the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to preserve stability(,)” a high ranking Chinese official wrote about in his diary. There is always another choice to being violent. Perhaps today those of you who are reading this who are not active in the liberty movement will have the courage to join with those of us who wish to have more freedom in our lives.  I ended my career in law enforcement because I believe using violence is wrong. Don’t you?
PS:
The land of the free imprisons 701 people for every 100,000.
The un-free country of China only imprisons 117 per 100,000.
