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.
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.
The Keene Sentinel was out today covering the Keene Middle School outreach event. I sat and spoke with Josh, a new reporter at the Keene Sentinel for about 20 minutes, and I did my best to explain the reason for reaching out to the middle school kids. There seem to be a few discrepancies in his story vs our discussion, so I’ve marked a few very minor corrections in red:
Free Staters protestLiberty Outreach at Keene Middle School
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Updated June 4, 9 p.m.
By JOSH STILTS
Sentinel Staff
Published: Friday, June 04, 2010
Police were on handcalled by school officials, Friday as about a dozen sixmembersparticipants of the Free State Project stood outside Keene Middle School at school’s end, holding banners and signs that read “FreeKeene.com” and “School sucks project.”
It was the second time this week the protesters had shown up as students were leaving school.
On Tuesday, Free Keene memberblogger Sam E. MillerDodson stood outside the school on Washington Street by himself, holding a similar sign. He dropped the sign afterwas attacked when a parent, unable to control his anger, hit his hand holding the sign, MillerDodson said, and a student ran off with itencouraged by the juvenile behavior of the parent, ran up – snatched the sign from his hand and ran away to rip it in half. MillerDodson said he needed reinforcements. called for nearby police (more…)
TX police spend hours harvesting mint plants they mistook for marijuana, legal weed and prohibition, and it looks like fatties are the new smokers so let’s tax and vilanize them.
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.
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:
