1. It is refreshing when the state focuses on going after those who actually hurt others. A woman attacked with a dumbbell. An accused rapist. Another accused rapist.  A man who breaks a woman’s nose in a domestic dispute. A man who shakes a helpless 11-month old child. This behavior, if proven to have actually have committed, is unacceptable and should be met with justice.
Is it really hard to understand that people within the freedom/liberty movement simply want consensual acts between people as well as acts which harm no other individual to be unfettered? It is amazing that simply wanting to allow other people to live their lives in the way they see fit is a goal that needs to be striven for.
In the “land of the free” shouldn’t this already be the state of affairs?
2. A homeless man in Portsmouth, NH smashed the window out of a local business so that he could be arrested and taken to jail. He needed a place to stay as the local homeless shelter had kicked him out. The question this makes me ask myself is that I wonder if he would have more options and places to go in a world where onerous zoning and building codes did not exist. Destroying someone’s property is in fact a real crime that warrants application of justice. I just wonder if a troubled man like this one could have found help somewhere in a world a tad bit freer than the one we currently occupy.
3. A man risked his freedom and endangered the lives of others in Farmington, NH by committing a burglary and violating a protective order. Why would someone do such a thing?
“A local man was charged May 24 with entering the home of his ex-girlfriend through a screen window and demanding money and prescription drugs from the occupants.”
I wonder how many times I need to point these things out to people who read here at Free Keene before they figure out that drug prohibition is causing these crimes. This obviously drug addicted man wouldn’t have to commit such crimes (and the public wouldn’t have to pay countless billions a year investigating them) if drug prohibition were eliminated. Ending drug prohibition would not only eliminated these crimes… but energy could be focused on helping people quit their addictions. Think of how the $69 billion a year United States drug war money could be better spent… or not spent at all.
4. Two Harvard medical doctors are being charged and seventy young people had their freedom taken away in Weare, NH. Why? The young adults were drinking alcohol. The medical doctors were the hosts of the party. These young adults who had their freedom taken away just graduated high school. I’d wager a bet that %80+ of them are eighteen years old and that many are planning a career in the military. Those who are not planning a career in the military face the possibility of being forced into the military if President Obama says so.
How can someone who can be forced to die fighting for this country not be able to have a beer? It baffles me… and it should you.
5. In Gilford, NH a hiker has been arrested for laying nude alongside a hiking trail. As strange as laying nude along a hiking trail may be… there really is no victim in this case. Everyone knows what private parts look like. Should this man who arguably acted oddly really be facing the possibility of being locked in a cage? The state’s only tools to change behavior which is disagreeable are violence and cruelty. I’ve seen it first hand.
I’ve also seen first hand within the liberty/freedom community the exact opposite. I’ve seen people who have victimized others within our community be shunned for their failure to accept responsibility and make good on their actions. People talk and simply agree to not have any interaction with someone who hurt other people unless they made good for their immoral acts.
It required no violence or threats of violence…Â it required no forcible stealing of money…Â and boy was it effective.
