by Highline | Jul 27, 2010 |
Want to easily stay in touch with other individuals who believe in a peaceful evolution into a society where violence isn’t used to solve peaceful problems?
Have a cell phone that is able to send and receive text messages?
Join the Free Keene UPOC group. It is like an internet chat room… but one that is connected to your phone through text messaging. If you don’t have unlimited text messages, or even a cell phone, not to worry: you can read/send messages through the website.
This is sort of like the Keene 411 system… but easier to use/set-up. It is also private… so the general public cannot view the discussion.
(Membership in the group is restricted to verified contributors/participants with the Free Keene blog and forum. After you click “Ask To Join” please PM me on the forum so I know who I am verifying!)
by Ian | Jul 17, 2010 |
Liberty activists have turned out in support of a bar owner whose customers are being targeted by the Weare police. Here’s the story from Weare News’ Dan O’Brien:
About 40 people gathered at Palmer’s Tavern on Saturday, July 10, to show support for George Hodgdon, the 60-year-old bar owner who was arrested July 1 for allegedly misleading a police investigation of a bar fight.
Police said the victim of the April 30 assault was Deering Selectman John Greene, 31.
Greene’s reaction to the event: “People are going to say all kinds of things now to get out of trouble.” A large segment of the Hodgdon supporters were members of the Free State Project.
They parked a camper in front of the Route 114 bar with an electronic road sign attached. The sign displayed phrases including, “Weare The Public,” “Live Free Or Die” and “Don’t Tread On Me.” (more…)
by Ian | Jun 28, 2010 |
The School Sucks Project outreach spreads all the way across New Hampshire to the Seacoast where the public library was successfully targeted with bookmarks promoting the School Sucks Project and Freedomain Radio. The Seacoast Online’s Dave Choate reports:
PORTSMOUTH — Thousands of bookmarks promoting two organizations’ points of view recently created a headache for public libraries on the Seacoast.
The two groups placing the bookmarks in Portsmouth, Dover and at the University of New Hampshire are the School Sucks Project and Freedomain Radio. The School Sucks Project Web site calls for an end of public, government-funded education in the United States, charging that it is ineffective and values obedience over creativity. Freedomain Radio bills itself as a philosophical radio show.
It’s not a new phenomenon at libraries, but Portsmouth Public Library Director Mary Ann List said several in the area were hit recently with a scourge of bookmarks promoting an unspecified political cause between the pages of books. The messages tend to be politically or religiously focused, she said, and libraries typically strive to remain disassociated with that type of propaganda.
The latest dispersal was the largest Cathleen Beaudoin said she has ever seen. (more…)
by Sam Dodson | Jun 16, 2010 |
One of the kids passed me a note on Monday:
Note from KMS Student
I guess the teachers were right. S.A.U. 29’s schools are doing an “expessially” good job educating these kids! Some parents question our right to say things to kids without parental approval.
(more…)
by Highline | Jun 16, 2010 |
Beginning this friday in Tilton, NH there will be suspicion-less checkpoints where people must stop, display their papers, and submit to a thorough questioning about what they’re doing roaming about. Every question asked is designed to incriminate the answerer. I only wish the soon-to-be answerees knew that they have the constitutional right to not utter a single syllable in response to questions by government agents.
“According to local authorities, the “sobriety checkpoint” is the most effective method of detecting and apprehending an impaired operator. The program, approved by the New Hampshire Highway Safety Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, provides federal highway safety funds to support these checkpoints.”
So that makes it okay to do police-statish things in the “Live Free or Die” state?
“Those Who Would Sacrifice Liberty for Security Deserve Neither.” – Benjamin Franklin
*clicks heels*
by Highline | Jun 12, 2010 |
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love…Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.”
Dr. Martin Luther King — 1958
Modern day modification:
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love…Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate people who believe using state sanctioned violence is appropriate, but to win his or her friendship and understanding… and to show them that the initiation of violence is never appropriate to solve problems.”
… just a thought I had while reading his amazing words of wisdom.
