The Manchester Free Press

Wednesday • March 10 • 2010

Vol.II • No.X

Manchester, N.H.

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The Government Wants to Control You

Wed, 2010-03-03 17:08 -0500

Today more than ever, we must ask ourselves about the direction this country is heading in. Is it for the freedom our forefathers believed in and fought for, or is it giving in to the greed of a people that believes in self interest that can only be paid for with higher taxes?

There is that word again. Taxes. A word that means money in the pockets of those who take freedom away.

When Keene police arrested a woman for choosing to go topless like the men do, their actions were paid for with taxes. When Lauren or Dave are placed in a car that was paid for with tax dollars, remember that it was greed that helped to pay for the illegal arrests.

Personal or political greed--it does not matter. There are other forms of greed as well. When a home is seized by a bank, it is done because of corporate greed. When the government does not want you to speak out in the name of real freedom, it is because of greed.

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Hokey Pokey Racist? Will Hate Crime Legislation Criminalize Our Kids?

Wed, 2010-03-03 16:56 -0500

By Katharine DeBrecht (www.radicalsruiningmycountry.com)

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama heralded his signing of controversial hate crime legislation. While I believe any crime is one of hate, the slippery slope of “hate crimes” has led to a dramatic infringement on the liberties of the people of Great Britain, Canada and Scotland. Worse, such anti-liberty legislation in these countries has criminalized and traumatized children.

According to the 2009 report The Myth of Racist Kids, published by the Manifesto Club (a British civil liberties group), 40,000 children each year are being falsely labeled as racists after a 2002 rule requiring schools to document and report all instances of perceived racism to local governments.

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Mr. Obama is incorrect - the science of "global warming" is NOT settled

Wed, 2010-03-03 16:23 -0500

England just had the coldest January in years. The high-speed train between England and France was stopped by unusually cold and snowy weather. The Copenhagen "Global Warming" conference had the coldest weather the city has seen in a long time.

To top it off, Mr. Obama said in his State of the Union address that the science of Global Warming is settled beyond doubt. The Republicans laughed; that was the silliest thing I've heard a President say in many years.

If you google "climategate" you'll find that newspapers in England are doing their job and reporting on the scientific frauds done at government labs so the scientists could get more grants of our money.

And now, just after Mr. Obama told us that the scientists had agreed it was getting warmer, DC has a record snowfall going back to the 1800's.

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The TSA: Always There To Help

Mon, 2010-03-01 06:55 -0500

After eight interminable years, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has finally done something right.

Yep, I’ll wait while you pick yourself up off the floor. Shocks like this don’t come along every day.

OK, here it is: the TSA has informed "All … employees" that "we are not first responders to a [medical] emergency and we cannot allow a distraction during our critical mission."

Yee-haw, what a relief! Should we faint from hunger after hours in the checkpoint line, we needn’t fear that incompetent LaWanda and her blue gloves will waddle to our side, hustling us into eternity at warp speed ("Whatsa matter witcha, huh? You a terrist, tryin to detrack me? Git up, lessen you want me to detain yo sorry as – Oh, wait, you be havin a heart attack, huh? Yo, stand back, ever’one, I seen this on TV, lemme just punch him hard in the chest, like this – ooomph – "an’ again…").

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Sheep-Shearing Season on the Revenue Ranch

Mon, 2010-03-01 06:51 -0500

During the most recent Federal Reserve-engineered economic bubble, state and local governments made extravagant promises to their tax-feeder constituencies regarding pensions and other benefits. Now that the bubble has burst, sales and property taxes -- once a mighty, roaring river of revenue -- have been reduced to a thin, pathetic trickle.

This comes at a time when, as the New York Times reports, there is "a $1 trillion gap between what all 50 states have promised their workers [sic -- a more accurate description is "employees"] and what they have set aside."

As the economic crisis deepens, how will state and municipal governments continue to provide for their most cherished constituency -- those who live by plundering the productive?

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Secession Is In the Air

Wed, 2010-02-10 15:01 -0500

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but secession is in the air.

First of all, a fellow named Bill Miller has started a new website, SecessionNews.com, and it is a Drudge-Report-like compilation of anything connected with secession across the land and around the world. It is an extraordinary endeavor, and it reflects a great deal of talk about, interest in, separatism and independence these days. Miller, a retired computer engineer, has undertaken this, he says, because he has a passionate interest in getting Americans to understand that secession is a legitimate and honorable political strategy. Increasingly, it seems, they’re listening.

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The Census and Despotism

Wed, 2010-02-10 07:44 -0500

“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,” says St. Luke on why Mary and Joseph found themselves in Bethlehem, “that all the world should be taxed.” Joseph had to go to his own city because the tyrannical Roman government was conducting a census. But the information may have been used for more than just taxation. The Roman government’s local ruler later decided he wanted to find the Christ child and kill Him.

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Presidents Day week of lobbying against the War in Afghanistan

Tue, 2010-02-02 08:27 -0500

Last December, President Obama announced the latest in a series of escalations of the war in Afghanistan. When he took office one year ago, there were 32,000 troops in Afghanistan. During 2009, that number was increased to 68,000. When this most recent escalation is completed, there will be 100,000 U.S. troops and 150,000 contractors in Afghanistan.

In 2009 the death toll for U.S. troops tripled starting in June, and rose to a monthly high of 59 in October. General Barry McCaffrey, who studies our Afghan operations for West Point, warns that American casualties will reach 500 per month by summer.

The death toll for Afghan civilians has skyrocketed as well, particularly since the U.S. has radically increased the number of drone attacks which indiscriminately kill innocent civilians. Estimates are that 98 innocent Afghans are killed for every two terrorists killed by drone strikes.

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Warmongering vs. the Sanctity of Life

Thu, 2010-01-28 08:31 -0500

Pro-life Hypocrisy

Churches all across America observed Sanctity of Human Life Sunday on January 24. Literature was passed out on the evils of abortion. Sermons were preached on the sin of abortion. The 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade was denounced. The immorality of being a doctor who performs abortions was proclaimed. The horrors of partial-birth abortion were explained. Testimonies were read of women who regretted having abortions and doctors who felt guilty in having performed them. Prayers were made on behalf of women contemplating having an abortion. Gruesome pictures of abortions gone awry were shown. Calls were made for a constitutional amendment banning abortion. Planned Parenthood was singled out for special condemnation. Yet, nary a word was said about the ongoing slaughter of innocents that is funded by the U.S. government.

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Professional Party-Pooper

Sun, 2010-01-24 10:21 -0500

In the past, I spent lots of money and lots of time supporting this or that candidate, advocating for or against this or that legislation, as a lot of "political activists" have done, and continue to do. Looking back, I now not only realize that it was a total waste of time trying to beg "the system" for freedom, but I realize that it was WORSE than if I had done nothing at all. By bickering over who should be my new master, or whining to the masters to please do what I wanted (they didn't), I was only reinforcing the notion that "the system" is legitimate--that I should HAVE a master, and that I have some obligation to do what he tells me to do.

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Gold and Silver Coin Prices

Sat, 2010-01-23 08:52 -0500
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Tilting at the City of Manchester

Thu, 2010-01-21 14:05 -0500

Tilting at the City of Manchester to release Big Mike from jail

Who:
Don Quixote de la Shire
anyone who joins him
and onlookers

What:
Tilting at Manchester City Hall, District Court, Police Station, and Jail in order to free pro-freedom activist Big Mike from Valley Street jail.

When:
Sunday January 24th
Noon

Where:
Don Quixote will start his ride at the spot in Veterans Park, that Mike and Brian were arrested last week. We will continue to City Hall, District Court and Police Station. If necessary, the knight errant will tilt his Lance of Levity and Axe of Anarchy against the doors of the jail.

Why:

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The First Anniversary of Hope and Change

Thu, 2010-01-21 13:03 -0500

"Democracy came into the Western World to the tune of sweet, soft music," wrote H.L. Mencken as the opening to his Notes on Democracy. With the ascent of Barack Obama, the music was triumphant and loud, captivating the entire center-left media establishment, the nation’s youth, the official counterculture, the legions of professional victimologists, the mainstream antiwar movement, the civil bureaucracy, the legal profession, the unions, most traditional Democrats and the young and old members of American academia. For the lion’s share of Obama’s loyal supporters, his ascent to the throne marked something nearly as significant as the entrance of democracy itself onto the Western scene. It signaled a turning point to one day be listed on a short list of American victories for the modern world – a watershed to appear on timelines featuring the Emancipation Proclamation, women’s suffrage and the Civil Rights movement.

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FEEDS THE RICH, BURIES THE POOR

Wed, 2010-01-20 07:22 -0500
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Two Activists Arrested in Manchester for a 420 Celebration

Tue, 2010-01-19 04:22 -0500

By Joe Skinner

Saturday January 16th 2010 was an unseasonably warm day in the New Hampshire region. Because of this my roommate Mike and I figured it would be a perfect day to go, live free and hold an impromptu 420 celebration at Veteran’s Park in downtown Manchester. Celebrations like the one we were planning that morning were held throughout the late summer and fall in both Keene and Manchester, NH. These celebrations, in which the participants partake in the public and open consumption of cannabis, were left completely unmolested in every instance of them occurring in the Manchester area. That is until that Saturday in January.

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Radicals try to wall in Federal Compound in Concord

Fri, 2010-01-15 22:03 -0500

A small group of anti-Fed activists attempted to barricade the Federal employees into their own compound in central Concord, New Hampshire on Saturday January 9th, 2010. They held signs explaining some of their problems with the U.S. government. They said the wall was to protect the people from the thugs and spouted extreme left and right wing slogans like "End the War" and "Taxation is Theft".

They began constructing a siege wall surrounding the Fed Compound. The wall consists mainly of large granite blocks originally installed to protect the U.S. government outpost. The gaps were being filled with ice and snow. The construction workers got particular pleasure trapping the Federales behind a wall of their own making.

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9 Vt. state office candidates favor secession

Fri, 2010-01-15 17:33 -0500

http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/13/9-vt-state-office-candidates-favor-se...

excepts:

Peter Garritano thinks it's time for Vermont to call it quits with America.
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Their name: Vermont Independence Day.
...

Their cause isn't new: It's the latest incarnation of a movement that's bubbled in Vermont and elsewhere for years. Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire and Texas all have made noise about seceding, to no avail.

Their method is: Organizers say it's the first time since the Civil War that a secession movement has fielded a slate of candidates for statewide office, although individual pro-secession candidates have run before.
...

Steele, a U.S. Army veteran, says if elected he'll call a statewide convention to consider articles of political independence and try to get Vermont National Guard troops returned home from the wars.

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The Government Thinks You are Stupid

Wed, 2010-01-13 09:25 -0500

By Kat Kanning

CO2. It is, of course, the gas that humans breathe out and plants breathe in. What better scam to convince people of the need to tax the very air we breathe? Without CO2, plants cannot live and of course, without plants, humans cannot live. Some scammers like Al Gore stand to make a huge profit off of “carbon credits” (See Al Gore Could become World's First Carbon Billionaire http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/6491195/Al-Gore-could-become-wor...) - the government scheme to tax all life, basically all human action.

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Tsa Should be Abolished

Tue, 2010-01-12 05:53 -0500

Another great article by Becky Akers:

"Have you ever seen a bureaucracy beg more tirelessly for abolition than the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)? For a month now, its spectacular ineptitude has hogged headlines, from the agency’s posting of its classified nonsense on the internet to its welcoming the Underwear Bomber aboard his plane."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers118.html

And for comic relief please read some of the posts on the TSA blog:

http://www.tsa.gov/blog/

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Good Samaritan's Rights Demonstration

Sun, 2010-01-10 10:09 -0500

LFOD Rally creator faces prison for doing a good deed!

Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Time: 11:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Office Of The NH Fire Marshal
Street: 228 Sheep Davis Drive
City/Town: Concord, NH,03301

HOST: UNH Young Americans For Liberty & Richard Olson Sr.

HELPING YOUR NEIGHBOR SHOULD NOT BE A CRIME!!

This demonstration is to protest the NH State Fire Marshall for his felony indicting, punishable by 3-7 years imprisonment, of a good Samaritan for helping homeowners during the NH ice storm state of emergency.

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