by Garret Ean | Oct 23, 2012 |
In addition to previous Free Concord coverage of Barack Obama’s recent campaign stop in Manchester, Dave Ridley has posted four videos so far from his eye on the ground. Rather than playing it normal and objectively recording the event, as I tried, Dave walked along the periphery of the security perimeter, and interacted with police and secret service along the way. He asked poignant questions of the secret service, Obama staffers, and event attendees. Some of his questions pertained to Obama’s treatment of Bradley Manning, and there is one encounter early on with USSS in which it is insisted that he not film, though no action is taken. In the fourth video, a Manchester officer tells him that he is required to answer questions and are seen clearing the sidewalk of all people before the president’s entourage passes through. You can see the one brief encounter I had with a suited USSS agent when I tried to film from inside the secured area here. Ridley’s four videos are embedded below. Additional newsprint coverage is available from the Union Leader and the Concord Monitor.
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by Ian | Oct 22, 2012 |
The Nashua Telegraph’s Kevin Landrigan has a story pointing out that medical cannabis has a bright future in NH. Apparently all three candidates for governor in NH support it in some manner.
Here’s the story.
by Garret Ean | Oct 22, 2012 |
Lifelong activist for indigenous rights Russell Means has passed away at the age of 72 in Porcupine, South Dakota. Known for his work with the American Indian Movement and Republic of Lakota, Means was also an accomplished actor and musician. His perseverance in the cause of liberty exemplified living freely despite occupying an unfree world.
by Highline | Oct 21, 2012 |
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.
Please read the article here.
by Ian | Oct 21, 2012 |
It’s gone hater-viral! Now with over 300,000 views amassed mostly in the last 48 hours, the video of the Manch cop opening Derrick J’s door has passed all the other great videos at Cop Block’s Youtube to reach the #1 spot.
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!
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by Darryl W. Perry | Oct 20, 2012 |
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.
In addition to previous Free Concord coverage of Barack Obama’s recent campaign stop in Manchester, Dave Ridley has posted four videos so far from his eye on the ground. Rather than playing it normal and objectively recording the event, as I tried, Dave walked along the periphery of the security perimeter, and interacted with police and secret service along the way. He asked poignant questions of the secret service, Obama staffers, and event attendees. Some of his questions pertained to Obama’s treatment of Bradley Manning, and there is one encounter early on with USSS in which it is insisted that he not film, though no action is taken. In the fourth video, a Manchester officer tells him that he is required to answer questions and are seen clearing the sidewalk of all people before the president’s entourage passes through. You can see the one brief encounter I had with a suited USSS agent when I tried to film from inside the secured area here. Ridley’s four videos are embedded below. Additional newsprint coverage is available from the Union Leader and the Concord Monitor.
