by Ian | Jun 7, 2010 |
Last year, a good group of liberty activists made a difference at the “Project Graduation” event. We’re going back this year, but without your help it may not happen! There are different shifts available, but they really need people for 12:15a-4a this Fri/Sat night. (The event starts 6/11 and ends early 6/12 AM.) Here’s the message from volunteer coordinator Christine Kehoe:
We are still very short of the number of volunteers we need to chaperon and run games and activities!!!
Please, if you have not already signed up to cover a 4 hour shift, we need you!! We are only halfway to the number of people we need to make sure we can go forward with the event.
The chaperon shifts are 9pm-12:30 and 12:15-4 am and the clean-up shifts are 4-8am and 6-10am. The 12:15 shift is always the hardest to fill and is where we have the greatest need!
Can you help late Friday night, particularly from 12:15a-4a (technically early Sat AM)? Throw in your name here on the forum thread, and I’ll pass on your info to Christine. Thanks!
by Ian | Jun 7, 2010 |
An anonymous commenter on the Keene Sentinel site has asked questions, and I will answer them (quoted exactly as they were written) here so they aren’t lost behind the Sentinel’s paywall after a week:
1. are you advocating 12 and 13 year olds drop out of school and self educate?
No, I’m advocating they visit SchoolSucksProject.com and listen to the podcast there.
2, If freedom of life choices and self ownership is the foundation of your ideology when does a person start to make these choices for themeselve?
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by Sam Dodson | Jun 7, 2010 |
“Curious” wrote with the following questions from the Sentinel Middle School Outreach Story:
Now that the Free Keene set, has taken it apon themeselves to do the neighborly thing and creepily now approach our children, I have a few imortant questions Id like to pose at Sam and Ian specificlly. Please answer them directly, no hyperbole or philisophical preamble please. I think everyone reading deserves some straight talk.
Thanks for reaching out “Curious”, sharing ideas is the core of my activism. I along with most others are happy to engage in rational discussion exploring our perspective. Feel feel free to talk with us or ask us questions at these events. We’re friendly and interested in exchanging ideas.
(more…) by Highline | Jun 7, 2010 |
Time for some news from around New Hampshire viewed through the perspective of a person who used to be authorized to use violence to enforce morality.
I welcome your opinions about mine:
1. Lawmakers are contemplating a change to the “Right-to-know” law which would allow greater governmental accountability for the people. The people, you know, who have to consent to the government in order for it to even exist.
“But those who worry about the continued efforts of public officials to restrict public access see this as one more attempt to inhibit the spirit of the law.”
Public servants. People who work for and answer to you. They’ll be the judge of what you should know. Just trust them.
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by Highline | Jun 7, 2010 |
And you’d better believe it is a threat:
I don’t want to pay $892.96 to fund the police attacking people for doing things that haven’t hurt anyone.
I don’t want to pay $1561.55 to fund the local school system that will dumb down kids and teach them that it is okay to use violence to solve problems.
I don’t want to pay $353.24 to fund other school systems to dumb down kids and teach them that it is okay to use violence to solve problems.
I don’t want to pay $400.25 to fund keeping humans in cages for doing things that haven’t harmed anyone else.
……… but I will. I will because I don’t want violence to be used against me. I am a believer in karma so I’d say that I’d deserve it.
I used violence all the time to enforce the will of the majority. If someone didn’t do what I said I’d either slam them on the pavement, put 50,000 volts of electricity through their body, hit them with a baton, or spray them with painful pepper spray. I hurt a lot of people who never hurt anyone else. I regret it. I am sorry.
If I don’t pay the government will sell my home. If I don’t leave when they sell it they will use violence to get me out. If I defend myself… I’ll be killed.
I understand how someone can think that this is acceptable behavior for a supposed “civilized” society. It is not.
by Ian | Jun 7, 2010 |
From new mover Adam Mueller – a sample of what REALLY happened at the Keene Middle School outreach:
While doing some outreach at the Middle School in Keene, NH one curious kid had several questions. It was going well when a school official ended the conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Q0wr3vOYk
Another middle school outreach is scheduled for tomorrow at 2:20pm. Keene High is Wed at 2pm. Check the calendar for details.
by Highline | Jun 6, 2010 |
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.
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