Wednesday • September 8 • 2010
Vol.II • No.XXXVI
Manchester, N.H.
Just in case you didn't get the memo, here it is:
Elect good people to Federal office in the primary, or your base will run to us.
We only need 4% to "win"
-The Libertarians
--note: author doesn't speak for LPNH, but likes them. Oh, and don't forget: NotAyotte.com
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I just listened to today's podcast of Wall Street Confidential [mp3] with Jim Cramer... and got a major shock. At 4:50 into the show, we learn that the buried in the new healthcare bill, and recently signed into law, is a requirement that sales of gold bullion over $600 (ie, about half-an-ounce at today's prices) will now require a disclosure to the Federal government, in the form of a 1099 report. To help pay for that healthcare.
The prediction? That this will restrict the liquidity in the physical gold market. Sure makes sense to me: the regulations will squeeze the smaller dealers, thereby shrinking the market.
The following is an open letter circulated by my friend Ziggy Encaoua. Reposting here with permission -Denis
A few months ago when the Free State Project reached 10,000 signers, I wrote a piece saying that its only inevitable that the more the number participating in the Free State Project the greater the interpretations of libertarians that will be advocated & there will be some who’ll be unhappy with that.A friend just forwarded to me this thread on the FreeKeene forum. I didn't read the whole thread, but it seems that the (meaningless, inconsequential) "Shire Society Declaration" that circulated a few weeks ago, is in fact plagiarized from L. Neil Smith's "Covenant of Unanimous Consent", without so much as a mention or hat-tip to the original author, who is now thoroughly incensed.
Typical... of the Keeniacs.
I do not believe there is any product or service that I want from the Federal government. Their military is creating as many terrorists as it eliminates. Their pointless bureaucracies, such as the FDA, do not in fact keep me safe (remember Vioxx?), their DEA is destroying the US Constitution with its unwinnable "war on drugs". Their Education bureaucracy gave us the boondoggle known as "No Child Left Behind". And so on.
My government is willing to take my neighbor's children away from him, if he doesn't educate them according to government standards. My government is willing to imprison my neighbor for a full year for possessing just one seed of hemp, to monitor his every phone call in the event he might be a terrorist, to devalue the money in his wallet by simply printing more of it, and to imprison him if he should attempt to trim my hair or nails with my full consent -- if he lacks government-approved 'papers'. My government runs so-called border patrol checkpoints ... fully 50 miles removed from any national border.
I have a Conscientious Objection to involuntary Government. The NH Constitution, Part I, Articles 4, 5, & 6 all say my neighbor should be left unmolested. But the people whose interpretation counts, well, they don't read it that way. Funny thing about that. The US Constitution doesn't give the Supreme Court authority to interpret the Constitution -- the very first Supreme Court gave itself that power.
MANCHESTER, N.H.―To demonstrate a spirit of voluntary cooperation, the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance has joined the state Department of Transportation’s Sponsor-A-Highway program for a two-mile section of roadway between Lee and Durham.
The Liberty Alliance, a non-partisan coalition working to increase individual freedom in New Hampshire, will be responsible for cleaning both sides of the roadway for two-miles along Rte. 4 between Lee and Durham at least four times a year for the next two years. For the first outing of the commitment on Sunday, June 13, 12 members of the alliance came out in the rain and spent more than two hours picking up 36 bags of debris, which included trash cans, hub caps, old license plates and empty soda bottles.
NH Senator Sylvia Larsen is President of the Senate, which under New Hampshire's structure of government arguably makes her the most powerful person in the state -- unlike the Governor, she doesn't have an executive council to appease. Like myself, she was born in Wisconsin, and has been involved in NH politics since moving here. Unlike myself, she served in the Wisconsin State Legislature.
But I digress. Senator Larsen enjoys a tremendously supportive following in her adopted home town of Concord. At least, she did. It seems that the proprietors of some mom & pop restaurants are not too thrilled with the Senator's recent voting record.
"If Congress were to pass a law requiring that all our citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 were to be pressed
into service for prostitution to pay off the national debt... would we all sit meekly by and watch them go off? I THINK NOT. So obviously, we have the power of nullification." Rep. Itse - one of the reasons I... ♥ NH
Reposting this disturbing message from Rep. Dan Itse. While I do not agree with the partisan nature of the email, I am deeply disturbed by the image below, which appears to be a "back-room deal" between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, and appears to completely subvert the Democratic process. --Denis
Fellow Patriots,This email is to inform you of the darkest day in the Legislature to date. Last Wednesday the motion was made to non-concur with the Senate on HB1128 and ask for a Committee of Conference on the condition that the Senate would reconsider their action on SB450 and non-concur and ask for a Committee of Conference by 3PM. Never before has a conditional motion been made in New Hampshire.
