by Ian | May 16, 2011 |
Ademo, Pete, and the newest crew member, Beau have kicked off the “Free State Friendship Tour”! Today they left from Keene to begin a solid month of traveling in and around the Shire. Free Keene’s Ademo filed this first post on LibertyonTour.com. This morning they traveled to Greenfield, MA in an attempt to get accountability, as the people calling themselves the “commonwealth” are still aggressing against Ademo and Pete for recording bureaucrats in public. Stay tuned at LibertyonTour.com for the latest.
by Ian | Apr 21, 2011 |
Heika met Ademo and Pete from Liberty on Tour last year at her workplace at the time. She ended up coming out to the summer Nightcap events in the park and getting to know many other liberty activists. She excitedly got involved in the movement and began learning about the ideas of liberty. Her road to liberty has been a particularly difficult one. When she was arrested for enjoying a beer in the park last summer, many of her family members and “friends” ostracized her for being associated with liberty lovers. Despite the setback, she continued down her path and has now become involved in the local homeless shelter and Keene’s government through council meetings and committees and is even planning a run for city council later this year. So, welcome Heika as our newest blogger. You can get full details on the rest of our bloggers here. Here’s her bio:
Heika Courser (“hcourser”) – Heika is a Keene native and friend to many FSP members. She is a big supporter of the phrase, “No victim, no crime.” Although she is not in support of many things the government does, she has recently become very interested in local politics, such as city council and other city committees. Heika also proudly partakes in many acts of civil disobedience as well as supports her liberty-oriented friends with vigils, protests, attending court hearings and trials, and more.
by Ian | Mar 26, 2011 |
Free Keene welcomes our newest blogger, Lyndz “AnarchoMama” Stevens! She is an experienced blogger who is very into Unschooling and is also a member of the Monadnock Families for Liberty. To learn about our other bloggers, please visit our bloggers page. Here’s her bio:
Lyndz Stevens (“AnarchoMama”) – Lyndz Stevens (along with her partner and their two year old son) moved from Hawaii to New Hampshire as a member of the free-state project in February 2011. She was brought up, as most children are, to respect the State and accept its existence as a necessity. It took the birth of her son in December 2008 to truly open her eyes to the brutality of life under a government. These days, she believes that men are good in nature and fully capable of existing in a world based upon voluntary action. She believes that government of any form infringes upon the inherent nature of freedom, and hopes that her own child might someday live in a world where he is truly FREE.
by Skeptikos | Dec 17, 2010 |
Summarizing my political views is hard. In the forums, I’ve been calling myself a “liberaltarian” — because I’m too libertarian to call myself a liberal, and too liberal to call myself a libertarian. (I posted an essay here, at Blue Hampshire, where I discuss particular policies and describe how I reached this position.)
But in this post I want to focus on a more interesting aspect of my views.
Beyond policy lies another level of politics. This is the structural, or institutional, level. Institutions determine, not individual policies, but how policies are chosen. When New Hampshire Democrats and Republicans fight to make it harder or easier for college students to vote, they are making crude forays into structural issues. Campaign finance reform would be a structural change.
While straightforward republican democracy has been working relatively well in America, it suffers from well-established flaws. Special interests and voter biases, in particular, create the most obvious problems. Anarchists (of whatever variety) and communists are unique in that they actually propose an alternate set of institutions to deal with these flaws. No other major political philosophies do this.
In opposition to anarchists and communists, however, I would like to see more structural experimentation: let a thousand nations bloom. (more…)
by Ian | Dec 6, 2010 |
There has long been critique surrounding this blog that it’s all about civil disobedience, when nothing could be further from the truth. From its early days, Free Keene has been a source for blogs about all manner of activism in Keene and NH, including politics. We have covered the campaigns of liberty-lovers for state house and city council throughout the last four years. However those posts are typically overshadowed by the civil disobedience because CD is so atypical and politics not-so-much, plus civil disobedience can happen anytime while politics is usually relegated to the campaign seasons. I had extended an invitation to local democrat Will May to blog here a long time back, so as to add extra balance to the content of Free Keene, and he has finally accepted. Free Keene welcomes as our newest blogger, Will May, the founder of the NH secessionist website, NHBloom.org. Here’s his bio:
Will May (“Skeptikos”) – Will is not a libertarian. He moved to Keene in 2008 for the Free State Project, and, after one too many books by Paul Krugman, took a sharp turn to the left. Having been critical of Free Keene in the past, he intends to be the opposition blogger, providing an alternative perspective and the occasional debate. He still has a strong anti-authoritarian streak, however, and is working to promote a liberal-libertarian alliance in Keene.
Read about our other bloggers on the Bloggers page.
by Meg McLain | Nov 12, 2010 |
In light of my recent TSA encounter, I have received national media attention, including FOX News, Drudge Report, InTouch magazine, and more. Even the TSA published a pair of their own videos, since they had the freedom to do something I was prevented from doing myself – recording. The videos, which lack even the most standard feature(s) of surveillance videos like a time stamp, the ability to show multiple angles of the same area, or even a clear view of one area in general; are supposed to disprove my claims. While everyone is free to determine what they believe to be true, to me this another case of government not giving you the full story. The TSA has continuously been caught in lies to cover the embarrassment of the truth, and this seems to be yet another instance of that, in attempts to misguide attention from the real issue. The biggest question for me is: why is there a large portion of the secondary screening area not shown in either camera angle? An area where much of my incident took place, and where countless others have been taken to be put through a procedure I can only describe as molestation. This should be a concern for everyone.
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Ademo, Pete, and the newest crew member, Beau have kicked off the “Free State Friendship Tour”! Today they left from Keene to begin a solid month of traveling in and around the Shire. Free Keene’s Ademo filed this first post on LibertyonTour.com. This morning they traveled to Greenfield, MA in an attempt to get accountability, as the people calling themselves the “commonwealth” are still aggressing against Ademo and Pete for recording bureaucrats in public. Stay tuned at LibertyonTour.com for the latest.
