Back in November of 2008 a Kensington, NH man was walking down the street in Portsmouth, NH around midnight when he became alarmed at two suspicious individuals following him. Fearing for his safety, the man opened a knife, spun around, held the knife at his side, and demanded to know what the two people following him wanted.
Sounds completely justifiable, doesn’t it?
I really have no impressive educational qualifications to be a writer for a blog that is comprised of individuals discussing the philosophy of voluntaryism. I’ve not finished my college degree (yet) and I haven’t even spent much time reading the works of people who philosophize about the precise things I write about.
What I have that I do believe makes my perspective unique is that for eleven years of my life I had the ability to initiate violence against peaceful people without repercussions. I got paid for it. Paid well. I elected, though, to give up a stable career with a generous retirement package because of the answer to the following question. The following question you can ask any person (or ask yourself) and instantly determine if they too (or you) are a voluntaryist.
DO YOU BELIEVE VIOLENCE SHOULD BE USED TO SOLVE NON-VIOLENT PROBLEMS?
If guns are your thing and begging (and paying) for permission to exercise a basic natural and constitutional right are not, there is good news for you. New Hampshire is on course to become the fifth state to do away with pistol “permits.”
There is only one organization in existence that gets more money when it fails at precisely what it is supposed to be good at. What is it?
That’s right friends, the government.
An article today in The Foster’s Daily Democrat is about how the bureaucarcy of New Hampshire’s Weights and Measures could be shut down in this state. It is titled “No state seal of approval: N.H. may no longer ensure weights and measures(.)”
Two days ago the New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Brian Beauchemin, a Henniker, NH man, for the shocking offense of leaving salt and corn kernels in the woods on his own property.
Yes, really…. and yes, it actually is illegal.
The thing that I found interesting about this particular case is that when the officer questioned him about what he was doing his response was a stern (and rife with New Hampshire pride): “I can do whatever I damn want on my own property.”
Sadly, this is far from the truth.
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