Gambling Hypocrisy: “Live Free or Die” (So Long As You Pay)

It’s next week.  You’ve just finished a hard day of work.  You get together with a group of friends and decide to play cards for money while enjoying some cold beer.  You lose $20 to your friend’s superior poker skills.  You’ve just committed a “crime” in New Hampshire which can get your ass tossed in jail for a year.

Refuse to be arrested for having done nothing immoral and having hurt no one, by defending yourself against the initiated violence of the state…  and the state will kill you.  You cannot defend yourself against state violence.  It is illegal.  State agents can kill anyone who defends themselves against state aggression.

It’s next week.  You’ve just finished a hard day of work.  You get together with yourself and go on the new New Hampshire Lottery Commission website while enjoying some cold beer.  You waste your entire life savings to the odds of the lottery system.  You’ve done nothing illegal.  The state has gotten its cut of your money.  Sucks to be you.

The state will launch PlayNowNH.com on July 1. The site includes interactive games such as “Super Slots,” “Speed Bingo” and “New Hampshire Poker.”

Don’t you see the insanity of this?

The article is here.

NH Repeals “Wartime Registration of Aliens”

New Hampshire has repealed a law from 1917.  The law required that someone living here who is an “alien” appear in public and “register” their presence on our sacred turf if the governor demands.  Failing to do so would have resulted in said “alien” being subjected to state violence and being placed in a cage for up to a year.  The law read:

Whenever a state of war shall exist, or be imminent, between the United States of America and any foreign country, the governor may, by proclamation, direct and require every subject or citizen of such foreign country within this state to appear within 24 hours after such proclamation and from time to time thereafter within 24 hours after his arrival in this state, before such public authorities as the governor may in such proclamation direct, and to personally register his name, residence, business, length of stay, and such information as the governor may from time to time in such proclamations prescribe.

I think it is fair to say that a state of war is always “imminent” between the United States and someone else in the world judging by the way the politicians screw with the rest of the world at their leisure.

Removing this “power” from the governor is a good step in the direction of liberty.

Liberty-ish News Update

1. An awesome John Stossel op-ed published in the New Hampshire Union Leader today is titled “War on drugs worse than drugs(.)”

2. Speaking of the war on drugs being worse than drugs themselves…. more news on the violence of the drug war here in New Hampshire.  Here we have a violent home invasion in Durham spurred by players in the black market.

Police have said that the home invasion was drug related as the five men were under the belief that a significant drug transaction was going to take place at the residence — involving 10 pounds marijuana valued at $30,000 — and they developed a robbery plot to get the drugs and money.”

(more…)

The Lengths The State Will Go Enforcing Morality

In Plaistow, NH seven (I repeat seven) law enforcement agencies set up an “undercover bachelor party” to catch alleged prostitutes:

In addition to stripping, sources also revealed that some of the strippers would perform sex acts for money at some of their shows, police said.

Consenting adults + voluntarily exchanging money + in exchange for sexual services = victimless crime.  How dare someone declare they own their own body and agree to have sex for money.

Wait a second…  it is happening right now in every city in America (and it’s legal).  Tell me the difference between a man wining and dining a female prospect with the hopes of having sexual relations with her at the end of the night and a man who outright pays a woman for sex.  Both instances involve consenting adults.  Both instances have no victim.

Wait, that’s not right.  There is a victim in the latter instance.  The victim is a victim of the state. (more…)

NH Courts Continue To Claw For Survival

Superior Courts across the state are being forced to cut jury trials by one third over the next fiscal year as part of a broad cost-cutting measure that could have dire implications for some casesreports the Foster’s Daily Democrat.  This is excellent news for those of us who want people who haven’t harmed anyone to remain unmolested by the state and court system.

The best news: “Prosecutors may be forced to plead out cases that don’t go to trial quickly enough and others may be dismissed altogether, Rockingham County Attorney Jim Reams said.

What cases do you think are going to be dismissed?  Surely not the ones with victims when there are so many without.

As our friend Mark Edge says in his guest blog below: “You just have to make them spend they exurbanite price of a trial to prove that you parked the car.

The court system is the weak link in a system that disproportionatly hurts people who haven’t hurt anyone else.

Plead not-guilty…  to everything.