This morning I had an excellent conversation with the University System of New Hampshire General Counsel Ronald Rogers and Plymouth State University Vice President for Student Affairs Richard Hage. I got a genuine sense that these two professionals were doing their very best to balance what is understandably is a difficult situation to deal with.
In response to the respectful way that the General Counsel and Vice President’s concerns were addressed to me, Tommy and I have decided that during our educational outreach we will have unloaded weapons with both trigger and breech locks securely affixed. In other words, the firearms we intend on carrying for symbolic speech will be rendered absolutely non-functional.
The following is a press release regarding a information distribution Tommy Mozingo and I will be partaking in at Plymouth State University on 12/09/11. The intent of the information distribution is to call attention to the illegal regulations that the University System of New Hampshire has enacted to restrict self-defense rights by both students and public members.
In a recent episode of Freedom Watch, Judge Napolitano talks to Lynn Chong, former chair of the Belknap (NH) County Democrats. Frustrated with Obama’s foreign policy, she changed her voter registration from Democrat to independent udeclared and will vote for Ron Paul.
“I would definitely call myself a progressive,” said Will Hopkins of Belmont [NH], who returned from a tour as infantryman in Iraq to become executive director of New Hampshire Peace Action, a group seeking to end foreign wars and cut defense budgets. “I supported Obama in 2008, but I’m supporting Ron Paul. That’s where I’m putting my eggs this year,” he said. “A lot of folks in the peace movement are taking a close look at Paul.”]
Laura Knoy interviews Andrew Carroll, along with Free State Project president Carla Gericke and Libertopia director Christina Heller in today’s show of The Exchange.
“We are the 99%! We will be heard! There are criminals on Wall Street who walk free, there are protesters in jail…There’s something wrong with this system. We are the 99%! We will be heard!”
He handled it graciously by smiling throughout and then by asking them if they feel better. He was also sure to point out his agreement with the Occupy Wall St. movement, saying,
“I’m very much involved with the 99. I’ve been condemning the 1%…the people on Wall street got the bailouts and you guys got stuck with the bill and I think that’s where the problem is.”
On November 10, I traveled down to Philadelphia to cover the story of the Truth-Freedom-Prosperity “Warming Station” at the city’s Occupy Movement. This is where Occupiers can stop in for a warm cup of tea and enjoy some open-minded discussion with liberty-lovers.
While not terribly liberty-loving (almost everyone I met there was a Constitution-worshiper), the group’s members are far more in-touch with the problems of government intervention than the rest of the Occupy Movement.
The group is leading by example, but not always in the ways I’d like to see. For example, they build a structure and offer the blueprints to others so that anyone can emulate the successful project. On the other hand, they intend to move tomorrow to make way for the construction of a multi-million-dollar, taxpayer-funded skating rink when asked by city police. How nice. (more…)
