by Highline | Jun 6, 2010 |
Equlibrium. One of my favorite movies of all time and a movie with a message that changed my life.
The movie centers around a government enforcement agent in the future where everyone is forced to take medication to repress emotion. When the agent stops taking medication he begins to realize all the cruelty that he is inflicting on people. Once he realizes the cruelty that the government represents, he violently destroys it. The message, minus the violence (violence is the problem), is one that I wish every person who enforces government laws would absorb, reflect, and find metaphors for.
I too was a government agent doing cruel things to people. I wasn’t taking medication to repress emotion like in the movie… but I was led to believe that what I was doing was the right thing to do. Hurting someone is never the right thing to do.
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by Highline | Jun 6, 2010 |
Some recent news from New Hampshire and beyond …
- In Bangkok, Thailand the police chief makes misbehaving officers wear “Hello Kitty” armbands while on-duty. For people who pride themselves on being quite macho I am sure this is quite hard to take. The C.R.A.P. campaign comes to mind.
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by Highline | Jun 4, 2010 |
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.
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by Highline | Jun 3, 2010 |
A man who was doing nothing more than carrying a switchblade knife has been arrested for being a felon in possession of a deadly weapon. This comes right after the wonderful Rep. Jennifer Coffey (a FSP participant) was victorious in seeing that mere possession of a switchblade knife by anyone not branded a felon is now legal in New Hampshire. Of course, if you’re a felon, you are a second class citizen essentially for life. You can achieve said second class citizen-ness for simply holding (and never using) a chemical substance in your hand… a trivial act which harms no one.
New Hampshire has one of the strictest (and arguably one of the most confusing) laws regarding felons being in possession of a deadly weapon. Under the law a felon could lawfully possess a crossbow while at the same time be tossed in prison for seven years for cutting steak with a dull steak knife. I shall explain:
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by Highline | Jun 2, 2010 |
- The police in Dover, NH are refusing to disclose the location of their public surveillance cameras. The Dover Police clearly haven’t paid attention to London, UK where there are literally a million cameras and %80 of their crimes go unsolved.
- Know how many cars you own? The City of Manchester, NH hasn’t the slightest clue. Really. When it’s stolen money you work with, you really don’t have to spend it wisely or pay attention where it goes. Credit to the new mayor though… he is trying to crack down on this incompetence.
- A “crime” committed in New Hampshire by a non-person (a corporation) usually has a higher penalty assessed (usually a felony when a real person would get a misdemeanor) so that fines are higher. After all, you can’t put a file folder in a jail cell. The Dartmouth fraternity of The Tabard is now facing felony charges because a 20-year old ended up arrested for the third time at one of their parties. $$$$$$$$$$$$$
- A bakery was robbed in Nashua. Another drug prohibition caused crime. The man pictured here appears to be “on the nod,” a term that describes a state of being commonly achieved by users of narcotics. This crime doesn’t sound like it had all that much forethought either. It sounds like a desperate sick man needed money… and he surely got it.
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