If you did not know, charges were dropped against all the remaining defendants of the NH9 – the individuals targeted and arrested at an October 2021 Executive Council Meeting. And here’s something else you might not know. Things have gotten more interesting since then.

We know you can get your ginned-up charges dropped if you subpoena the Governor as a witness – which he was. You can also ask important questions of your Executive Councilor who was present during the illegal arrests, like, “Did you knowingly participate and coordinate the unlawful arrests of nine innocent people on October 13th, 2021.”

One of Janet Stevens’ constituents asked that very question. This was her response.

 

 

Since a polite “no” would have been easier than blocking him, some folks might conclude EC Stevens has something to hide. Complicity would be the thing.

In the event of a civil suit, should Councilor Stevens expect to be subpoenaed as a witness? She was near the Governor when he appeared to signal the State Police to arrest and remove nine individuals who appeared to have been identified in advance, and there’s evidence to suggest this. Terese Grinnell Bastarche’s “Defendant’s Opposition to Motion To Quash Subpoena Of Governor Christopher T. Sununu” includes details you can – on your very own – confirm by watching the video that has been available since the day of the arrests. It is interesting reading.

 

• The Governor is the Prime Material Witness in the Case
• The video in this matter does not disclose anything that could be remotely characterized as a “disruption” by the defendant prior to her arrest.
• Governor Sununu is uniquely situated to testify whether, when, and how the meeting was disrupted.

 

If you need more proof, Governor Sununu is listed on the complaint as having ordered the arrests. Now go back and look at the video and ask yourself when and how those nine individuals were identified when no one actually did anything to disrupt the meeting.

The arrests appear planned, and these nine individuals were targeted. The Governor signaled the State police, who then went right to those people and removed them. The arrests were only disruption of that meeting to occur.

You don’t need to be an Executive Councilor to see that.

While we wait for word of a civil suit, any or all five Executive Councilors should expect to get subpoenaed to testify, including Councilor Stevens’ whose blocked constituent might have a different bone to pick.

Has she violated his first amendment rights by blocking him on a social media account where she engages in a reasonable amount of political communication? It is a common tactic of elected officials, regardless of political party, to block people. One I caution against. Several cases addressing the issue have been decided, so there is a growing precedent to suggest that blocking constituents may violate their First Amendment Rights in some instances.

I’m sure Councilor Stevens can find a judge in New Hampshire to disagree. That doesn’t seem too difficult for people in positions of power in this state. You then hope your accuser can’t afford to climb the Judicial ladder to a Circuit Court or Supreme Court. Most cannot.

What you can’t change is that Councilor Stevens blocked him, and now thousands of her constituents will know about it. The violation is a subject of debate among likely voters instead of between Janet and the constituent she blocked. You’re welcome.

Two closing points.

First, I get that annoying, angry, or vulgar trolls may not have much defense if blocked. Our practice is to remind people to be polite and on point when reaching out to anyone in government, with the understanding that, short of a finite number of circumstances, blocking a constituent on social media might violate the law.

Second, the constituent’s question was nothing that rose to the level of an annoying, angry, vulgar troll. “Did you knowingly participate and coordinate the unlawful arrests of nine innocent people on October 13th, 2021,” is a relevant question whose answer should be no. That’s not what the counselor did, which implies many things other than no.

If you were thinking about issuing a subpoena for a witness in a civil trial against Governor Sununu for false arrest, assuming there was one, Janet Stevens looks more than ever like your gal.

I’m sure that’s what she was thinking when she blocked the constituent rather than answer the question.

 

After her charges were dropped, Terese Grinnell Bastarche sat down for an interview with the GIP Guys. This is an excellent resource if you’d like more background on that day and what followed.

 

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By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals News Service Assessing a state sales tax on the purchase of gold and silver is becoming an outmoded, indeed outrageous, practice – but a small number of U.S. states still engage in it. Several of... Tom Bowler

It used to be a weekend event in Chicago where we counted the dead and wounded from gun shootings. Now it can be any day of the week, and it might be Philadelphia, Atlanta, or a small town like Naples, Maine.

No city or town in America is immune to gun violence from some deranged individual with their agenda. The only thing guaranteed is the Right will call for stricter use of the laws already on the books, and Liberal District Attorneys will call a press conference to plead for more gun laws. Both are feeble demands, but the call for gun control to end these random, senseless shootings is worse than feeble.

The claims are lazy. Gun controls have minimal impact on these ridiculous losses of life, for when the dust settles, and the facts come out, most of the weapons used in these shootings were obtained illegally. The strictest gun laws in the country will not keep a person hell-bent on injuring and killing people from accomplishing their objective.

Look at the details of the shooting incident in Philadelphia during the holiday weekend. First, people were appalled that the event happened during the 4th of July celebration. Holidays or days of the week mean nothing to these killers. When they snap, they snap, period. The randomness of the shooting is most alarming to me. In the neighborhood security video, we see the man in the video raise the AR-15 and begin shooting round after round into a parked vehicle.

When he finished shooting, five innocent people were killed and two injured. The shooter was soon arrested without incident. Officers arrested Carriker during a chase on foot, and he had an AR-style rifle, a 9 mm handgun, a scanner that tracks emergency response radio traffic, and was wearing a bulletproof vest and ski mask, authorities said.

Authorities are also investigating a since-deleted social media page believed to belong to the accused gunman, 40-year-old Kimbrady Carriker, that includes a series of posts about guns, the Second Amendment, and the “loss of freedoms,” according to a law enforcement source. Initial reports from neighbors of Carriker indicate a growing rage, and many felt he was prone to performing the violent act he acted out on Monday night. This lack of action, not gun control, is the problem. People saw the person’s personality change but did nothing about it. His posts on social media showed he was a ticking time bomb; on Monday, the fuse was lit, and the carnage was left in his wake.

Carriker had no previous record, but many of the shooters recently have had multiple incidents where they were not incarcerated but let back into society to repeat their crimes. These DAs can continue to call for new laws, but until they enforce those on the books, they should skip the press conference and do their jobs.

 

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Attorney and farmer John Klar has released a book with Vermont’s Chelsea Green Publishing titled Small Farm Republic: Why Conservatives Must Embrace Local Agriculture, Reject Climate Alarmism, and Lead an Environmental Revival.

Farmer, writer, and food rights activist Joel Salatin writes in the Foreword to Small Farm Republic:

“[Klar] dares Republicans to get off their chemical industrial anti-health soil-degrading train and embrace a bottom-up entrepreneurial solution: small farms serving local food needs. This book is prescient and timely. “Food liberty is necessary for any liberty at all.” Amen, John Klar. Conservatives who embrace liberty and freedom can get on the right side of national health and food/farm integrity by embracing this prophetic treatise. ”

Chelsea Green Publishing writes:

“John Klar offers an alternative that puts small farmers, regenerative agriculture, and personal liberty at the center of an environmental revival.”

Klar calls for a nonpartisan focus on chemical pollution over greenhouse gasses; small farms over globalist plans to dominate food production; and improved American food quality and security over increased dependence on foreign food. Many of the policy proposals advanced in his book were part of Klar’s political platform in prior elections.

Small Farm Republic is available at Amazon, where it ranks as #1 in Agriculture & Food Policy, and at Chelsea Green Publishing (chelseagreen.com). Klar’s substack newsletter and podcast is johnklar.substack.com.

 

Editors Note: John Klar will be one of the regular contributors to our new venture in Vermont.

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The modern techniques used by the U.S. Democrat Party to install its politicians have been gradually developed since the 2000 election, which saw Al Gore lose to George Bush II on technicalities in Florida.

Many on the U.S. political left cried fraud, and there likely was some involved.

Many US Republicans have been complicit or accepting of DNC-led fraud because they remember 2000 and are willing to play political ball and give a victory here. Unfortunately for them, the US Democrat Party has metastasized into a group of totalitarians, fascists, communists, and radical socialists hell-bent on the total destruction of the USA so that they can rebuild it in their own image as a new country.

Step One of the Playbook is to smear all political opponents in the most rude and base ways possible so that US citizens do not bother to read or hear anything that the opposing politicians say. The object is to get U.S. citizens to simply ignore all candidates and vote Democrat. RFK, for example, is smeared as an anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theorist. What does that even mean? Most U.S. Democrat Party followers would not be able to really tell you.

Trump is smeared as a far-right, homophobic, racist, fascist, Nazi, white supremacist. Despite none of these claims actually being true, they have been drumbeat for so many years that most people do not bother to even question them. The ridiculousness of the smears makes it difficult to actually produce an intelligent and logical response– they are that dumbfounding. Have you noticed that according to leftist news media sources, there are no center-right candidates in the US political field? These leftist legacy media folks have lost all credibility in the eyes of any intelligent, honest citizen.

The Second Step of the DNC’s Election Fraud Playbook involved polling and disinformation. The Democrat Party, through its institutionalized media outlets like The Atlantic, Politico, and a slew of polling institutions, puts out numbers that it has allegedly drawn from legitimate polls, which show its politicians as favored or within reach of winning. In reality, most DNC politicians have no chance of winning their elections. Almost all of them require some sort of ballot fraud.

Step Three of the DNC’s Election Fraud Playbook (EFP) involves Secretaries of State and Governors. These individuals are either Democrat Party politicians themselves or under threat of death to follow the Democrat agenda (like the Georgia governor, whose staffer was killed in 2020 to send a message to him to cooperate or else). These people in state office wield their power to force election-related policies that will set up later ballot fraud. They hire and train election workers. They work in conjunction with Big Tech NGOs, like Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech & Civic Life (CTCL) and other organizations, to subliminally show poll workers how to throw the election. Of course, Alphabet and Meta, the parent companies of Google and Facebook, do their fair share in manipulating peoples’ information streams on their smartphones so that they understand their role in the election fraud strategy.

Step Four of the EFP is election day itself. On this day, many techniques are used to prevent Republicans from voting. Different states use different methods, and these methods constantly develop in order to circumvent Republican and Independent efforts to maintain election integrity. Maricopa County in Arizona, for example, sabotaged ballot readers in Republican majority precincts, which resulted in long lines and ballots up for adjudication (see next step). In California, for the Gavin Newsom recall election against Larry Elder, many residents reported that their vote had already been cast somewhere else when they hadn’t yet voted. This is another popular technique– the ghost vote. Democrat-led voting precincts take all measures possible to remove Republicans and Independents from counting rooms and voting centers, citing voter intimidation or some other nonsense.

Step Five is the ballot adjudication. This works especially well for mail-in ballots, which have drastically increased in usage after COVID. Most Republican-led legislatures are too distracted or too complicit to effectively walk back COVID measures, and most states are maintaining high volumes of mail-in ballots. These must all be opened by hand and can be easily set aside for adjudication. When a ballot is damaged or marked incorrectly (according to the poll worker or the counting machine), it must be adjudicated.

In 2020, adjudication rates skyrocketed. This process is usually conducted in a secret location that the public and media cannot oversee. In Pennsylvania, the adjudication process takes up to seven to ten days after the election, which gives the PA Democrat Party, one of the most corrupt in the country, plenty of time to manufacture however many votes it needs and prevent any opposition. This is also a time when additional ballots can be printed and appeared.

In 2024, there is an additional step being prepared that comes even before Step One. This is a Step Zero. It involves all of the newly arrived illegal immigrants from the Biden junta’s first few years in office. All of these people have been trafficked from places all over the world through sophisticated networks of racist NGOs intent on packing the USA with Africans, Asians, and anyone they can find who isn’t Caucasian. The mission is to prepare for a planned Caucasian ethnic cleansing that is being perpetrated in academic institutions in California, New York, Arizona, and Chicago. The plan is to have illegal immigrants staff the election.

These newly minted U.S. citizens, many of whom have court dates over the next seven years, have been issued smartphones by the U.S. government with Apple and Google operating systems. They are the perfect pawns for the U.S. Democrat Party. Since they are not even U.S. citizens yet, they can be abused extralegally, and the U.S. standing laws don’t neatly apply to them as they would to longstanding citizens. These illegal immigrants already have loose morals and know that they are in the country potentially illegally. They mostly all have very fluid identities and a fluid sense of how the world works. They can be manipulated through their smartphones via signals intelligence warfare techniques very easily. They are all beholden to the Biden junta and the U.S. Democrat Party because those people enabled their access to the USA and helped them to set up their lives here. Additionally, many of them have conflicted identities and relationships with the countries where they came from, many of which are outspoken critics or outright geopolitical enemies of the USA.

The 2024 election may be the most fraudulent yet. The Biden junta will try to stay in power by any means necessary. They may attempt to assassinate RFK Jr, hoping that US citizens will sheepishly allow another Kennedy politician to be killed for the power and profit of the globalist-corporatists and the military-industrial complex. They will continue to attempt to jail Trump, and continued programming from legacy media channels is their rationale behind promoting basically any ridiculous charge they can concoct.

The charge doesn’t matter– what matters is that the U.S. Democrat Party can encourage a handful of loud, obnoxious activists to show up and make a scene so that it seems there is some consensus in support of the U.S. Democrat agenda (which is not one that supports real, true democracy, but seems to subvert it at every level).

 

 

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White nationalists hung a banner on a highway overpass. When asked to remove it for failing to have a permit, they did. The State, looking for something – I speculate on that more here – charged them with a civil rights violation that I concluded would fail miserably. It did.

Not only did the State fail to make a compelling civil rights case, but it also failed to secure a trespassing charge, as the defendant’s motion to dismiss was granted.

You can wade through the details of the full decision here. There are some interesting points about trespassing, the overbreadth doctrine, how the State chose to charge the defendants, and how the judge wrangled the related law and statute.

At the end of the day, this might be the most crucial part of the decision (IMO).

 

The State’s construction does not stop at messages motivated by race. Presumably, the State could bring a civil action against a person whose presence on public property is motivated by any other protected characteristic. For example, the State could, under this theory, bring a civil action against a person who walks on public sidewalks, knocking on doors to spread the message of their religion. The State could likewise regulate a person who drives a car on a public highway to a job working with people with disabilities. The State could prohibit abortion protests on the Statehouse lawn. “Such a law that confers on police a virtually unrestrained power to arrest and charge persons with a violation of the resolution is unconstitutional because the opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation, is self-evident.” (citations removed).

 

How the State of New Hampshire tried to invoke a violation of the Civil Rights Act opened the door to wide-ranging abuses of power, which was a point from my remarks on this case in early June.

 

Disregarding how offensive we may find white nationalists, neo-nazis, anti-semites, BLM, Antifa, or anyone else willing to use racism, intimidation, or violence to advance an agenda in the absence of incitement (an expression directing immediate acts of violence – a challenging standard to meet), there’s no there there.

You can’t have a civil rights law that infringes on the First Amendment, nor can you pretend it capable of such a thing when the legislature never intended it.* What are you after, and why do you think you can get it? I’m opposed to anti-semitism and race-hating white purity movements but not at the expense of free speech.

Is this some veiled effort to get a shadow of a penumbra of a hate-speech ruling squeezed out of 354B:1, and if so, to what end?

 

I think this was a fishing expedition searching for court precedent that would allow the State to use civil rights law to pick and choose opportunities to chill the right to free speech. “[a] virtually unrestrained power to arrest and charge persons with a violation of the resolution is unconstitutional because the opportunity for abuse, especially where a statute has received a virtually open-ended interpretation…”

It is fair to ask why.

 

 

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You might have heard that in Croydon, our superintendent admitted, on two separate occasions, in public, that even for $1 million per student per year, he wouldn’t be able to teach the two dozen kids in the Croydon Village School (CVS) to read.

What you probably haven’t heard (unless you were at my talk at PorcFest this year) is that at a recent school board meeting, the principal of CVS admitted that ‘we don’t really know how to teach kids to read.’

What you definitely should hear is the podcast Sold a Story, which explains how one publisher, and a few academics, made a pile of dough (enough that one of the academics drives a Maserati), pushing a theory of reading that is contradicted by basic facts, known for decades, about how brains process the written word.

(It’s also contradicted by common sense, although teachers enamored with the approach don’t seem to recognize that. As you listen to the description of the ‘reading recovery’ method, ask yourself how you might, when reading a book on biology, be able to guess a word you’ve never seen before — like ribosome or mitochondrion, or chirality — from context, without being able to sound it out. Or how you might, when reading a book on history, be able to guess the name of a city or country, or historical figure that you’ve never heard of. And so on.  The very idea boggles the mind.)

There is a reasonable chance that this approach is being used in your local schools, as it is in Croydon. (At least one in four schools across the country uses it.) You might want to check with your school board.

As I listened, I couldn’t help thinking about all the parents in Croydon who were terrified at the prospect that privately-run micro-schools might ‘make a profit off the children.’

Oh, the irony.

 

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On Monday, James O’Keefe announced a court win for a case started while he was still running Project Veritas. Veritas challenged Oregon’s Laws regarding recording people in public, and the 9th Circuit Court agreed with O’Keefe and Veritas.

 

Today, on the eve of our Country’s birthday, I received incredible news on the result of a lawsuit that I filed almost 3 years ago: Oregon State recording laws have been overturned! That’s right – I was able to change a state law that disallowed my investigative journalists to covertly record their subjects while doing our reporting.

 

The opinion notes that,

 

“We conclude that Oregon’s law is a content-based restriction that violates the First Amendment right to free speech and is therefore invalid on its face.”

“Oregon does not have a compelling interest in protecting individuals’ conversational privacy from other individuals’ protected speech in places open to the public, even if that protected speech consists of creating audio or visual recordings of other people.

 

New Hampshire law reads like stereo instructions to me, but the gist of it is that you need consent from both parties to record unless it is an obvious public place or recording equipment is visible and there to record others. That means you can’t claim you were recorded without consent if you are caught on a microphone at an event where recording is obviously taking place.

There is a boatload of exemptions for state and law enforcement to surveil you without permission, and there’s no requirement anywhere in public where you have no expectation of privacy. But the dual consent law exists and likely impacts the ability of journalists to get details that might be held back in the presence of a visible recording device.

This may be good or bad, depending on your opinion. It is my practice to speak as if I am always being recorded. This solves two problems. First, no open-mic gaffes because your speech sis yours and it is deliberate, and second, there is no opportunity for inconsistency in your principles.

If I’m being me in all cases instead of pretending to be something I’m not, then there is no oops moment, not that this matters in the context of New Hampshire Law. The statute is indifferent to truth or falsehood; it is the act of recording that is regulated. And in Oregon, they are going to have to revisit it, thanks to James O’Keefe.

 

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