New Hampshire Republican Liberty Caucus Chairman Carolyn McKinney has penned an excellent article explaining why it is important to vote in support of Question #2 on November 6th.
Question #2 is a proposed amendment to Part II, Article 73-a of the New Hampshire Constitution that will allow greater public oversight of those who have the power to make rules that literally have the force of law.
Chairman McKinney’s article mentions judicial abuses suffered by Keene, NH based judicial monitoring activists and journalists as examples of the abuses that justify greater oversight of judicial authority.
How did it happen? Looks like someone posted the video to reddit with the title, “We’ve seen lots of bad cops treating citizens poorly; Here’s some bad citizens treating a good cop poorly.”
The comments section is full of Stockholm Syndrome sufferers who excuse the officer’s aggression by claiming he’s just doing his job and was “respectful”. They ignore that officer Harrington aggressed against a peaceful driver who had not endangered anyone, then attack Derrick for daring to keep his privacy (and the heat in the car) by only cracking his window to talk to the officer. (Among other nasty, vitriolic comments.)
The reddit comments are a sad reminder of how worshipped the police are – how people will excuse their aggression so long as they are nice-seeming about it. It really highlights why its so important for liberty-loving people to move to NH and get together – lots of people love their oppressors and we are highly diluted across the country and world. If you haven’t signed up yet, hop on over to the Free State Project site and get onboard – we just crossed 13,000 signers!
Every ten years, New Hampshire voters are asked to vote on “Question Proposed pursuant to Part II, Article 100 of the New Hampshire Constitution. ‘Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution?'”
There seems to be a lot of misconceptions on what would happen if the voters of New Hampshire elected to hold a Constitutional Convention. Some people think this is a convention to modify the federal constitution, others believe it would eliminate the current State Constitution.
According to the 2012 Voters Guide – Explanation of Constitutional Amendment Questions published by the Secretary of State: “If a simple majority of the voters who vote on this question [question 3] vote YES, the 2013 Legislature will set a time for election of delegates to the convention. Delegates will be elected in the same manner and same number as the members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
Should the voters elect to hold a convention, delegates may, by a three-fifths vote, propose amendments to the Constitution. However, just like proposals for amendments made by the Legislature, such amendments only become effective if they are adopted at a later election by two-thirds of the voters.”
Current State Rep. Seth Cohn wrote, “In favor, as things cannot get through the Senate, and some reforms are needed to protect rights under threat. Items still need to get a 60% majority of the people.”
I would like to reiterate what Seth wrote. There are some changes that I would like to see and I know they will not pass the Legislature. On November 6, join me in voting for Question 3.
It was almost 8:00am, and I did not have a ticket to enter the expansive, barricaded area of Elm Street and other roads surrounding Veterans Park. Bulldozers and other large construction machines formed a fortification of the streets to vehicles, and metal barricades monitored by suits and badges kept out pedestrians. The gates were slated to begin receiving unarmed civilians on foot at 9:00am. I was unsure if I had missed my opportunity to get a ticket when I received a text message. “Bailing”, it said, “Obama wont be there til noon”.
After a brief telephone conversation, I had learned that a group of occupiers, who had planned to mic check the president, would be ditching their plans to slave for the empire. Almost all willing participants had a taxpaying job that they could not afford to miss at some point later in the day. Many had woken at 5:30 to get tickets from the Radisson at 6:00am, tickets which they would not be able to use with the president not scheduled to speak until after noon. The actual timeframe of events was not revealed until that morning. “The occupy movement has been destroyed by jobs”, one activist joked. (more…)
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE The NH Liberty Party previously filed a Declaration of Write-in Candidacy for a Slate of Presidential Electors which listed Dale “NOTA” Everett as the Presidential candidate. The NH Liberty Party instead wishes to have Bob “NOTA” Robertson be the Presidential candidate. Further, pursuant to State and Federal Law, the NHLP requests the Secretary of State to tabulate all write-in votes for Mr. Robertson, Ms. McCulligh, NOTA and/or Liberty as being votes for this slate of electors.
The notice also includes the State and Federal law that require the tabulation of write-in votes.
