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Post: Jeb’s Senate Commenter: CT Patriot “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are continually betrayed by the Republicans we elect. Post: The Proverbial Picture Worth A Thousand Words Commenter: NHnative Ed I want you to answer this question, which I’ve asked you many times: What the hell do you want the voters to do out here? I don’t know one regular reader here that doesn’t get what the Uniparty is all about. We’re all dedicated voters and workerbees.. we go into the polls and pick from what is usually a list of crappy Republicans. What else can we do? Most of us knew Chris Ager would be a deadbeat water carrier- just as he’s been. We did what we could and no one listened- as usual. They installed their puppet, just as we knew they would. He’s delivered us nothing but more puppets to pick from, just as we knew he’d do. Do you want us to waste a vote going third party and grow the nutcases from that group? Do you want us to waste a vote writing in a candidate? Are we supposed to accept that we’re bitter clingers and just give up? or move to Florida? I mean what choices are there really? You of all people know how corrupt the state is and that a whole lot of our real power to change all this has been stripped from us- but yet this audience keeps on soldiering onward. This audience here are not the Bitter Clingers.. that is the WMUR crowd. Ed you need to spend your time directing people instead of beating them over the head with names. We need to root the corruption out of NH, give us a plan to do this. I think we’ve got an organizational issue on the right in NH. The RINOs need to be identified- loudly, and gone- replaced by MAGA supporters. Because, given that Trump won here AGAIN, that is clearly who the majority of the actual voters on the right want and support. But yet Concord is packed with clowns. Post: Inventing Human Rights To Erase Religious Freedom Commenter: Jay Eshelman Article 7 of the Vermont Constitution is the fly in the ointment. Why it hasn’t been challenged in Federal Court is a curiosity. But clearly, Article 7, in the Vermont Constitution, usurps the rights of individuals enumerated in the U. S. Constitution. Nowhere in our founding document is a State authorized to mandate “… that the community hath an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right, to reform or alter government, in such manner as shall be, by that community, judged most conducive to the public weal.” The 5th Amendment states that: “No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution specifically states that: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” On the other hand, Benjamin Franklin warned of the impending lawlessness of ‘the People’ (i.e., the ‘community’) when he opined that: “… this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such… is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.” Yes, “Vermonters, you are being governed by law-breaking ideologues.” Unfortunately, “… world depression and local food shortages” are the least of our worries. Post: Another Local School District Asked to Explain Its Anti-Semitism Commenter: Beth Is this an SNL skit or a Babylon Bee post? “This mistake involved a spring concert where someone approved the theme “From the River to the Sea.” You were quoted in the Seacoast Online article saying it “was mistakenly chosen as the theme for Hampton Academy’s upcoming spring concert.”” For sure someone should submit it to Not the Bee. Post: An unholy alliance: Leftism and Islamism Commenter: NITZAKHON If I might, I’d like to dig a level (or two) deeper on why these two seemingly-opposed ideologies are attracted to each other. BOTH Islam and Communism… * Ruthless authoritarian systems * Value the Collective over the Individual * Have America as target #1 * Have any competing religion – for as I’ve been saying for years, Communism is a religion – as enemies Now, what will be entertaining to watch is what happens if they succeed in bringing down America (and more broadly, the West)? Just how quickly will they turn on the other? And in a battle between atheistic Communism (not placing any value on human life) and religious-jihad Islam (ditto), with no more moral limits on WMD use, who would win? Two great books on this: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror Post: Trump Trials Falling Like A House of Cards Commenter: Bs M We have been seeing all these kinds of fluff headlines for the last seven years. Remember that giant red wave, that was actually a dried up puddle in the desert? If things were sane and normal, these headlines would all be true, but the entire world is now run by insane criminals. The stories always end the way they want them to, reality and facts be damned. Don’t get to excited. If by some miracle this doesn’t take Trump out of play, they absolutely will JFK him. The only way this does not happen, is if Trump has been part of their team all along. Sometimes I wonder, especially with the crazy decisions Trump makes at times. Yes I am voting for Trump, but the man’s decision making process, stumps the hell out me more than I like to admit. Mike Johnson being the most recent. And Kevin McCarthy just prior to that. Trump also still thinks the poison shots, were manna from heaven. Post: The Cultural Issues Tainting the Libertarian Movement Commenter: Not Quite Human The problem with libertarianism is that it ignores the tendencies of human nature and essential science. We as a society will always be as bad as we can get away with, particularly if our culture does not value those virtues that are necessary to a functional society. They are “for” liberty, but ignore that mankind as a whole tends to be “for” slavery–to himself and to others. And half of them would find themselves in chains to others just as soon as they got the “liberty” they seem to want, begging for shackles because they are NOT fit for liberty and someone said there was garlic and free housing in Egypt. The real problem of society is not “you’re not the boss of me”; the real problem is “at what point is bossing warranted?” Because eventually, everything we do and are is connected to others, and stopping someone dragging others down around them is a greater aid to general liberty than simply pronouncing the Satanic mantra, “‘Do what thou wilt’ shall be the whole of the law” and then washing your hands of your neighbors.

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• Bs M
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Most American cities and towns are proud of their Open-Air or Farmer’s Markets. They block off city blocks, bring in local vendors and food tents with ethnic offerings and music, and organize these events as community gatherings and social events.

They are a melting pot of humanity, with young and older people from every background mingling and sharing a piece of Americana. New York, specifically Queens, has its unique twist on the open-air market, and the residents are enraged that law enforcement cannot stop this Big Apple event. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has little, if anything, to say about this social event. Open-air brothels are the focal point of some Queens neighborhoods.

I will call Congresswoman Cortez, Sandy, as I refuse to use her preferred three-letter label. I will concede that Sandy has no direct impact on local happenings in her district, but she must speak out when her district is running amuck. Sandy prevented Amazon from building a distribution center in Queens that would have brought thousands of good-paying jobs because she did not understand tax breaks versus taxpayer loans. Sandy is an ignorant loudmouth who has done nothing for her home district. She will have primary competition in this year’s election and may have to return to shaking drinks.

The area of Corona in Queens has become overrun with illegal migrants who are doing whatever they can to make money to live. The streets are littered with clothes, household appliances, sneakers, and toys for sale. They are also the home of the largest open-air brothel in New York. Seven days a week, morning, noon, and night, young girls and older women display themselves on the city sidewalks, soliciting customers to pay them for sexual activity. Signs are on the buildings promoting the offerings of these prostitutes, and grammar school children are employed to hand out flyers and business cards promoting specific hookers.

Because of the police shortage, the court overloads, and the Liberal DA’s unwillingness to charge and prosecute sex trade offenses makes all of the activity possible. These DAs overlook the truth that many of these females are here against their will, part of a sex trafficking operation component of the illegal migration. With the girls and their Johns openly operating, the streets are not safe for law-abiding New Yorkers. This kind of local activity puts progress in Progressive for people in Congress like Sandy. She is not impacted by activity that would be a crime in every other corner of America because she lives safely in a gated D.C. community. Sandy and her Squad members are in office to destroy America. They despise America, its history, and the capitalism that made America a superpower and leader of innovation.

Whether it is Cortez in New York, Omar in Minnesota, or Tlaib in Michigan, their home districts have suffered during their terms. As people are waking up to what has happened in the last decade, you can sense a return to normalcy and a threat to the Democrat stranglehold these Leftist Reps have enjoyed. It is time to save America and reinvigorate our patriotism. Retiring Biden/ Harris will be included in this effort.

 

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This author recently wrote about the nature of capitalism in contradiction to its opposing ideology— communism. We echoed Javier Milei’s view that capitalism’s self-correcting mechanisms are not failures. This is akin to being on a bandstand in a jazz band. There are no failures if you approach the unfolding of events as part of the process.

A failure is only a failure if the group treats it as such. If a jazz band improvises off of a misplayed note, then it becomes part of the performance. Similarly, If a company’s investments losing value and causing price rebalancing across the market is considered simply a natural process in the markets, which it is, then all of the accessories to considering such an event a failure are unnecessary.

These accessories are typically government interventions and media hysteria promoting such interventions. None of this is necessary. The government and media can still exist and play a role in markets without such non-capitalistic socialist and communist-styled interventions. Contrary to socialist orthodoxy, all societal participants and jobs could exist and even be improved under the capitalist model.

This past week, a Tesla factory was raided by supposed anti-capitalists. A growing movement on the political left decries capitalism. They often protest that capitalism leads to all sorts of nefarious things and does nothing good. These people have believed wrongly that capitalism is a failing system and that what is necessary is to tear down the capitalist economy. This is simply silly.

What humans call capitalism is a natural and universal process. We use words in the English language like market, economy, and capital to describe features of human interaction. Such interactions are necessary in a society. They happen in all human societies. These interactioms help people to create prosperity and abundance for themselves and for their communities.

No human can live alone. We are not meant to live solo. Everyone who has tried has lost their life. Humans are meant to live in communities and interact with each other to help each other share the responsibilities, duties, and activities that are essential for human life. The exchange of complex, sophisticated goods and services that occur between humans requires the devices we call markets, prices, and capital.

We would not be able to build airplanes, computers, clothes, or other complex products without this system of interactions that we call capitalism. It doesn’t matter what this system of interactions is called. All of these products, which many take for granted, require intense specialization of labor and activity.

For example, a car requires steel to be mined, refined, and finished into a product. Similar multistage complex processes must occur with multiple different types of plastics, electronics, textiles, and other materials. None of this can be possible in any system other than the one we describe by the word capitalism.

Thus, saying that capitalism must be torn down and destroyed is like saying we must tear down and destroy a natural human function— like walking or communicating through speech, or farming. Imagine if farming was decried as a negative human process in the same way that the political left is propagandizing against capitalism. How stupid would that be?

This is why the arguments to destroy and overhaul capitalism are silly at best and ultimately stupidly idiotic.

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I have been saying I need to get involved, but I hate leaving the house and have said when an event is local, I will attempt to go. Moms for America had an event at Harley Jacks in Ossipee, and I did not get the gumption to go.

Then in a Wolfboro group I had talked about my efforts to at least act locally and then was told a US Senate Candidate would be down the road at Indian Mound Golf Course’s restaurant, The River’s Edge Grille & Tavern. I was called out and had to standby my word. Can’t get much closer. How could I not say “Yes”?

Holly Novelesky, who is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, was the guest speaker. She is dynamic and a very good speaker. She runs a business and has been in the Steel industry along with being a Nurse and she served our country as a US Army reservist. She is as strict as Trump when it comes to immigration, being a nurse, of course she wants to work to fix the many issues in the Medical Industry, and is very energy conscious and understands that you can not just turn off coal and go alternative.

She understands we need to work on transitioning to alternate green energy solutions. She believes all illegal immigrants should be deported but does not advocate actively looking for them. Her attitude is when anyone commits a crime, if they are here illegally, meaning if they did not go through the Lawful process of immigrating here, then they should be immediately deported.

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Now I consider myself a Hippie Conservative with a twinge of liberalism, so I asked her, “What about those illegals who have been here working and actually contributing to society where they live, is there any way we could work with those good people caught in a bad place?” She said she believed in the two-tier system we have always had, and that would create a third tier, which would mean all the immigrants who have already gone through the process, and the ones in the legal process now, would unfairly be held back while those who broke the law to come here would go to the front of the line, and that is wrong. I could not argue that point.

She was asked about what she could do to look into the issues of the legal system in NH where we have issues from the top down where people who are not actually trained in Law Enforcement are overseeing our State police, Sheriffs, and local departments. She said her position does not give her much pull in local with NH issues.

She was then asked about congressional investigations into Law enforcement issues in states and why she could not work to have a panel of some sort investigate it? She had not thought about it that way, and that she would look into the issues.

Now, I Wish I had thought about the major case involving child welfare at the NH Youth Detention Center. If ever something needed federal attention, that is it.

I asked her about her Energy Independence plan and whether it would include drilling in Anwar (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and she admitted she was not familiar with details about drilling there and would need to research further. I should have pushed her since Trump has said he would start up again as soon as he gets back in office, and how she did not know with all the news around about it over the last couple of decades? At least I planted the seed.

I spoke about her Clean Energy policy and how alternative green energy is not proven, especially in climates like New Hampshire’s, and her thoughts on Nuclear Power, which I believe is our best solution at this point in time. She said she should have included nuclear when she spoke about her Energy Independence policy and that alternative energy methods should work in concert with nuclear and coal as we work to transition to green energy in the future.

I didn’t like her answers on ANWAR or her Green Energy Plan, but those, in my humble opinion, are not enough to withhold my vote. I can vote for her “Without Holding My Nose,” and that is my litmus test on being able to vote for someone. https://www.holliefornewhampshire.com/

 

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Antifa was founded in the 1930s to attract National Socialists to their Marxist cause. The Former were attracting people away from their movement—which has very similar worldviews—and the Marxists wanted a monopoly on unhinged, violent street thuggery. Socialists do, after all, think they should own everything.

Someone has to own it; it just can’t be you.

For obvious reasons, these details are left out of the 21st-century Anifa brochures (saving space for all the color photos of them setting  Portland ablaze). Pretty. Fire. Hee Hee.

Any affectations to the contrary are nonsense. They don’t care about gays, or blacks, or women’s health care, or being trans, or justice of any kind. They are focused on using those things to divide people so that they are unable or unwilling to join hands against the Democrat party. A party that hates it when other people have guns. The party of “you didn’t build that.”

Antifa are the left’s modern-day red shirts (in black block). They are engaged in street actions. They are, for all intents and purposes, a militia. But, laws regulating militias never mention Antifa. They talk about patriot groups or anti-government groups and use that as an excuse for other agendas. Vermont passed anti-militia legislation as part of a zoning dispute. Portland, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an Antifa member, has legislation prohibiting or limiting citizen ‘militias.’

 

SECTION 1. (1) A person or group of persons is subject to an action described in subsection (2) or (3) of this section for engaging in paramilitary activity if the person or group
of persons knowingly, while acting as part of a private paramilitary organization or on behalf
of or in furtherance of any objective of a private paramilitary organization:
(a) While armed with a deadly weapon, publicly patrols or drills;
(b) While armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon:
(A) Publicly engages in techniques capable of causing physical injury or death;
(B) Substantially disrupts governmental operations or a government proceeding;
(C) Assumes, exercises or asserts, without legal authorization, the functions, powers or
duties of:
(i) A law enforcement officer, including any sheriff, police officer, marshal or other peace
officer; or
(ii) Any local, city, county, state or federal official; or
(D) Interferes with another person and thereby:
(i) Prevents the other person, or attempts to prevent the other person, from engaging
in conduct in which the other person has a legal right to engage; or
(ii) Causes the other person, or attempts to cause the other person, to engage in conduct
from which the other person has a legal right to abstain; or
(c) Trains to engage in any activity described in paragraphs (a) or (b) of this subsection.

 

No state allows paramilitary militias – not exactly -but what, in the context of the Oregon bill, is something Antifa does not or has not done? They are, by design, a trained, organized, violent faction, but all we ever hear is how they are involved in some violent act or about how they seized a police station or courthouse or tried to do that.

It might be a good question for candidates who support additional layers of law to address “groups,” especially if they invoke January 6th. The only armed individuals were government “employees.” If that is the framework or motivation for new legislation to address unrest, you’d better be prepared to explain how you’ve gotten buy-in from ‘constituents’ in BLM or Antifa, both of whom are more likely to run afoul of the law was the intention that it be equally applied.

 

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66 Billion to Illegal Immigrants & Just 3 Billion to Our Homeless Veterans …

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Kelly Ayotte is no conservative … unless you define “conservative” as spending the first five years of your Senate term being a mini-me John McCain and the last as a mini-me Jeannie Shaeenie. Morse is no conservative either … he voted to enshrine Obamacare into State law and staunchly supported COVID-tyranny.

More importantly, running as a “conservative” is not the way to win statewide office in New Hampshire for the foreseeable future. Hell, even the supposedly “conservative” CD-1 looks like it is going to belong to Chris Pappas for as long as he wants it. So why should the NHGOP primary be about which candidate is the most conservative … given that real conservatism is anathema to a majority of New Hampshire voters?

Let’s look at the 2022 CD-1 primary and general election. Karoline Leavitt received approximately 25,000 votes in the primary, while Mowers and Gail Huff Brown … who presumably were viewed as less conservative than Leavitt … combined for approximately 33,000. Prescott and Baxter combined for approximately 15,000.

Pappas won the general election by a landslide … 167,000 to 142,000. The “conservative” in CD-2, Burns, fared even worse. He was blown out by 36,000 votes. So, I ask again, why are Ayotte and Morse … who aren’t even conservatives … making the primary about who is the conservative? Makes no sense.

Sun-King Chris Sununu did NOT repeatedly win elections because the majority of voters believed he was a real conservative. He won precisely because the voters believed, quite correctly, that he was NOT a real conservative. I am aware that Sununu used the term “conservative” to describe himself, but his positions … abortion-on-demand, “diversity-is-our-strength,” boys participating in girls’ school sports, COVID-tyranny, etc., etc., etc. … were anything but real conservativism.

Unfortunately, bitter-clingers this is what New Hampshire has become … a place where only a pseudo-Republican like a Chris Sununu or a Larry Hogan or a Charlie Baker can win a major office like Governor or Congress.

What probably would best position Ayotte and Morse for the general election is to just drop the conservative-schtick.

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For years, I have always tried to give the libertarian movement the benefit of the doubt. I know there are different factions/degrees in the movement that may be more left or right leaning than others that claim to invoke or promote various concepts of voluntary, individual liberty.

I am not an expert on this school of thought, nor do I have any status or prestigious credentials about libertarianism to offer. What I can offer is my own observation and keen sense of identification.

Economically, I think the movement is spot on with many issues such as auditing the Fed, getting rid of income and other unnecessary taxes on both the Fed and state level, opposition to big central banks, concern over the revolving door (back and forth between multinational corporations/lobbyists and political positions), statist/coercive policies on any level and more.

In terms of civil liberties, they are great with a majority of issues such as defending due process, opposing unequal treatment of the law, opposing aggressive foreign policy, supporting vocalized protests against abuse of state and local power, calling out the weaponization and militarization of our federal administrative agencies, opposing the media propaganda, promoting voluntary associations and assembly, and the list goes on.

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In principle, the elements of voluntary association, non-aggression, localized representation, grassroots initiatives, free markets, regional banks, and decentralized currency all embody a set of concepts that sound pro-liberty, Constitutional, and likely are. 3

However, culturally, there seem to be some flaws. Unless, of course, there are various movements infiltrating some apparatus sectors of the libertarian movement. Either way, and most prevalently with LGBT activism, the legalization of drugs and legalization of prostitution ideas do not reflect the moral order of God’s natural law. This is not to say all libertarians support this. However, the umbrella of libertarianism seems to include anyone and anything that “does not harm anyone” and is “voluntary,” tolerating the pseudo-intelligentsia woke ideology that crept in behind the original movement closely associated with Ron Paul.
Where is the line drawn, though? Can anyone assert to be a libertarian because they don’t want to go to war, want local governments to have more control and privatization of the economy as much as possible?

What about staunch pro-choice, LGBT, prostitution, and drug rights? Can they be libertarian if they invoke one of these progressive issues while simultaneously declaring they are anti-vaccine, want less government all around (not a bad idea on its own), etc?

The libertarian movement should continue to be inclusive (in a non-woke manner) and promote the voluntary, non-aggression, anti-regime change ideals many sincerely promote in various ways and through a multitude of mediums. However, the party needs to adopt or become more vocal on some moral positions that are in alignment with Judeo Christian framework we were founded on (if they have already, then I refute this statement).

The concept of individual liberty is necessary, but only if it does not violate the natural rights of others. LGBT activism, hard drugs such as fentanyl and opioids, and the pouring in of hard drugs and rampant prostitution have all done spiritual damage to our youth despite this concept of “individual liberty.” Though the government has also abused the war on drugs and can use these issues as a false cover to become Orwellian, the issues should not be ignored. These issues should devolve to the states if not explicitly stated in the US Constitution. The laws of nature imply a moral order, not just rogue forms of individual liberty. This is a spiritual issue more than anything. Sometimes a consensual decision leads to spiritual death and depravity and our country should also protect these people in bondage or victims to un-Godly decisions, as well as our children.

Even if heavy-handed government policies are not enforced, at the minimum, God’s law should be promoted in the libertarian apparatus, especially with the way drugs and sexual perversion are polluting young people’s minds and cognitive development, not in a way that evangelizes but in a way that upholds the natural moral order. If we promote these values organically and work to engineer these ideas and promote the liberating power of the God of the Holy Bible, perhaps the next generation, less government would be necessary to promote and protect public health and order.

To those who already confront this and call this out thank you. This is more of an external view.

 

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• These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
• Click on the bill number to read the bill.
• Click on the committee name to email the committee your thoughts.

Of the 1 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 5 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Support	HB1291	relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right.	Commerce	Tue 5/14	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, adds definitions, and increases the maximum square footage. It also gives municipalities the right to require accessory units meet the definition for workforce housing.
Oppose	HB1593-2024-1885s	Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1885s, making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to support recreational activities for individuals with developmental disabilities and relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund, to HB 1593-FN, making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to support recreational activities for individuals with developmental disabilities.	Finance	Tue 5/14	1:35 PM	SH Room 103	I. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund recreational activities for individuals with developmental disabilities. II. Restructures the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund under RSA 167:64 as the Medicaid payment fund and disproportionate share hospital fund, administered by the department of health and human services.
Of Interest	HB1525-2024-1839s	Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1839s, relative to credits for the business profits tax and business enterprise tax, to HB 1525, relative to historic horse racing game operator employer licensing.	Ways and Means	Wed 5/15	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill extends tax credits for the business profits tax and business enterprise tax.

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Steve attends his youngest son's law school graduation, so Mike hosts the show with the Eds and Meagan. They discuss the insanity of the ongoing Trump trials, Rashida Tlaib and the pro-Hamas members of Congress, and much more!

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This sermon is made in honor of the holy sacrament of 4/20. In the Torah, God said in the context of creating the world for man, “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food.” Genesis 1:29. When God created this holy proclamation to humanity, he was, of course, aware that he had given humanity cannabis, psilocybin, opiates, alcohol, and other plants or plant-derived substances that would change the human consciousness from its default state.

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Noem’s shooting-her-dog story; is this just another ghost-written book and it doesn’t matter what the book says; who should Trump pick for VP? Noem has no backbone after capitulating to the NCAA on women’s sports; for what reason did Trump meet with Desantis? Did he think he needs help from Desantis? Should Trump select his son, Don, for VP? Tulsi Gabbard? The protest on college campus supporting Hamas; is it all funded ultimately by the CCP? Is it unusual to have this chaos when a republican is in office?

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A judge in New York may have slipped up when he repudiated the US Constitution on the record during a trial. Essentially supporting secession from the federal government, judge Abena Darkeh proclaimed that the federal constitution did not exist in his courtroom. This decision absolutely violated the federal constitution and the US Supreme Court. 

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It's Passover, so Steven was unavailable; Alu seizes the opportunity for a hostile takeover of the podcast and begins throwing AnCap bombs from the first moment! The crew gets into a heated debate about whether the government should ever interfere with private contracts and whether discrimination should ever be outlawed; four different opinions emerge, and many brilliant points are made; the Eds seem to argue that the government is necessarily a party to all contracts.

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In January 2024, there was a meeting of the New Hampshire House State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs committee. The committee heard two separate bills on secession.

The first one, CACR 20, would be a constitutional amendment that would see the people of NH vote to amend the constitution to say that if the federal government’s national debt reaches $40 trillion, New Hampshire shall peacefully secede from the union.
The second one, HB1130 would form a commission to study everything we would need to know about secession, such as economic impact.

This is video of the full public hearing for both bills and the people’s testimonies.

On Wednesday morning, NHexit.US announced that local liberty activists in New Hampshire have hired a chartered airplane pilot to fly a pro-independence banner over the three largest cities in the state. Over the past few years, the calls for serious discussions on peaceful separation of New Hampshire from DC and the union have grown dramatically. New Hampshire is already home to the most influential liberty movement in the world.

Notable events since 2021 include:

• legislation to place an independence referendum on the ballot which was sponsored by nine lawmakers in the New Hampshire House
• a poll by SurveyUSA finding that almost 100% of NH residents strongly resent the federal government and 29% are ready to secede immediately
• increasing demands by lawmakers and the centrist governor telling the DC tyrants to back off 
• An abundance of pro-independence sentiment, including flags for the Granite Republic, hats, T-shirts, books, articles, and podcasts, and even a national anthem

This Saturday, an airplane banner could be added to that list. The tentative plan is for the banner to fly over Nashua, Manchester, and Concord. If you look up while in one of these cities, you just might be able to snap a photo or record a video of the banner. We encourage our readers to post their photos to social media with the tags #NHexit, #secession, and #NHpolitics. 

Additionally, the question of secession will be asked by another highly reputable pollster. The University of New Hampshire is currently conducting a political survey that includes multiple questions related to New Hampshire independence. The results could be published within days or a few weeks. 

 

 

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A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence (FNHI) shows that while the peaceful separation of New Hampshire from the federal government has low support among politicians, it has significant support among registered voters.

According to an overwhelming number of respondents, the people of the United States are getting more and more divided over important issues like LGBT rights, guns, abortion, election integrity, race relations, involvement in foreign wars, climate change, immigration, and so on (91%).  Nearly as many fear that if this trend continues, it will lead to increases in political violence (89%).

Large majorities of respondents agreed that the federal government doesn’t have their best interests in mind (67%); that it violates their rights more than it protects those rights (65%); that it produces laws, regulations, and court rulings that are incompatible with New Hampshire’s culture of freedom (63%); and that its financial decisions and economic regulations hurt our livelihoods, and could lead to inflation and bankruptcy (77%).

In short, 63% of respondents feel that their state can be trusted more than the federal government.

One possible way forward would be for New Hampshire to begin ignoring federal laws and regulations regarding matters reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment. Fewer than half of respondents believe that the federal government should be able to force New Hampshire to follow federal mandates and laws regarding cannabis (27%), medicine (37%), public health (42%), education (41%), welfare (42%, firearms (42%), businesses (38%), and abortion (33%).

This approach, also referred to as ‘nullification’ is common, currently being utilized by dozens of states, and is consistent with the recent enactment of New Hampshire HB 1178, ‘prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms’. 

However, a more comprehensive way forward would be for New Hampshire to reclaim its sovereignty, peacefully separating from the federal government to govern itself as an independent country, an idea that was supported by 29% of respondents and 52% of Republicans. Only 58% of respondents do not support immediate and full secession from the federal government today. More than 2/5 of respondents agreed that the state should be able to do this without securing permission from the federal government (43%). And only 3% of respondents would support the use of military force by the federal government to interfere with such a separation.

Again, while politicians declined to put the question to the people, more than 2/5 of respondents support the idea of placing independence on the ballot (42%) while only 47% currently oppose it.

History is filled with proposals that seemed at first to be politically impossible, but after serious discussion and evolving circumstances, proved to be politically inevitable. To take just one example, shall-issue laws for concealed carry licenses, once viewed as extreme, are now the law in nearly every state. As the results of this poll show, peaceful separation already has more support now than shall-issue laws had in 1990. Today, not only is shall-issue the norm, but 25 states allow their residents to carry concealed guns without even requiring a permit. If New Hampshire independence follows a similar path, it may only be a few short years away from broad adoption. 

The survey also found strong support for independence and extreme discontent with DC politicians among all 8 states polled. In Texas, 90% of Republicans recently endorsed putting secession on the ballot, officially placing the position in their platform. California progressives have a strong independence movement of their own, and surveys show that around half of Californians support or are open to independence from the union. Progressives in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington also support independence. States like South Carolina, Florida, and many other states have new independence movements that are rapidly growing, as well. 

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Over the past few weeks, a group of pro-freedom activists in New Hampshire has been holding informal meetings to brainstorm how to best promote independence in the next legislative session. Predictably, progressive authoritarians have already begun to attack the concepts of independence and liberty. A few conservatives cling to hope that they can fix DC and all 50 states, convince all Democrats to embrace conservative liberty values, and ‘save America’. 

 

I have written dozens of articles, published three books, and produced hundreds of videos making the case for a national divorce from the authoritarians. Here are just 100 reasons why every New Hampshire citizen who supports freedom should support a bill and a ballot referendum on independence from DC. 

 

1. Without the federal income tax, we’d each save around $25,000/year right off the bat.
2. The IRS is corrupt, tyrannical, and about to grow by 80,000 employees and billions of dollars. Years ago, they were caught targeting conservatives. Now, they are surely much more polarized and hateful against us. I could live without them.
3. The ATF is extremely anti-gun. They have been one of the biggest reasons that federal gun control laws have grown increasingly strict. The ATF passes laws and bypasses Congress. Once the murderous criminal, Dave Chipman is confirmed as the new ATF director, things will get much worse. I could live without the ATF. Once we divorce DC by declaring independence from the union, the ATF will no longer have jurisdiction over us. 
4. The CDC is out of control, and the agency will only ever grow more tyrannical. This was before corona-fascism made the CDC into the most harmful agency to liberty of all 400 illegal executive agencies. By the way, did you know that the CDC took legal ownership over every rental property in the united states?
5. I don’t trust Joe Biden to run my life or to do anything that could impact me. I have around 28 trillion reasons for distrusting that corrupt, evil, demented sociopath. 
6. I don’t trust Congress to run my life. They have proven time and again that they support authoritarian socialism. Even with majorities in the House and the Senate and even with Trump in the White House, Congress did nearly nothing to expand liberty. But they did pass many laws that violated my natural rights. 
7. The federal government benefits from terribly untrustworthy elections, such as the one in 2020. Once HR1 passes into law, all elections in the united states will be required to abide by the same insane rules that caused us all to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
8. Once HR51 passes into law, DC will be a state, complete with two more hardcore socialist Senators. The Democrats will control the Senate forever.
9. If you aren’t a big fan of sobriety checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
10. If you aren’t a big fan of immigration checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded and/or conducted. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
11.  Local cops only use tanks, drones, BEARcats, and other aggressive military gear against us because the feds give them those toys. Once we cut ties with DC, our local cops will return to their proper role as peace officers instead of acting as soldiers against us.
12. One of the reasons that Dictator Sununu locked us down and derailed our economy involved pressure and money from DC encouraging him to do so. 
13. If you don’t like being forced to pay for the DC politicians to wage futile endless wars in dozens of countries all over the world while veterans, women, and babies in our own communities starve on the streets, it means you want to separate from DC. 
14. If you are ready to give up on the war on drugs and stop sending cops to homes to punish people for consuming a plant, separating from DC is the first step you must take. DC politicians STILL consider cannabis a schedule one top-tier dangerous substance that is 100% illegal to possess. 
15. Do you love it when cops steal your property (car, house, money, guns, etc.) without convicting you of a crime? Well, federal law allows law enforcement to seize any property that could be involved in a past, present, or even future crime. And the feds have ‘extended’ that authority to state and local cops. Once we sever ties with DC, cops in NH lose the power of civil asset forfeiture.
16. If you ever wondered why bad cops almost never receive any punishment, you should know that ‘qualified immunity’ is a federal doctrine. Without DC, local cops become much more accountable to their neighbors.
17. The millions of federal regulations cost businesses over 2 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity. Once we divorce DC, our businesses will truly be able to unleash their creativity, making New Hampshire more prosperous than we could ever imagine.
18. Who should decide whether NH accepts illegal aliens or Afghan refugees? Biden and Pelosi or our governor and legislature?
19. Are you tired of being ruled by nine lawyers in long black robes who live in DC and have the power of Gods? If five out of the nine rule a certain way, that becomes the law for all 330,000,000 people in the united states.  
20. The federal reserve and DC politicians have overseen a decline in 99% of the US dollar’s purchasing power over the past century.
21. DC politicians have run up a debt of 28 trillion dollars and counting. And they claim that you and I are responsible for it. 
22. Nearly every politician has ambitions and eventually wishes to be sent to DC. This affects nearly every decision they make. Once DC is no longer in their minds, they will focus on what is most important: you.
23. Federal law enforcement (including the FBI) have shown themselves to be thoroughly corrupt. Even conservative commentators like Dan Bongino have called for their abolition. A few months ago, the FBI and other federal cops came to New Hampshire and violently kidnapped six of my friends. They are charging them with crimes that could result in them spending the remainder of their lives in federal prison. Their excuse? That my friends committed some victimless crimes by using and selling cryptocurrency. Once we leave DC, that will never happen again. 
24. Want a suppressor so that you can save your hearing? They are only illegal because the feds prohibit them. Without the feds, NH would be totally free, and you could put a suppressor on your SBR without any worries. 
25. Are you worried about increasingly strict EPA restrictions on vehicles, houses, and everything else? Once we divorce DC, they will have no jurisdiction over us.
26. Are you sick of random federal judges issuing injunctions that overrule actual laws passed by Congress or state legislatures? An independent NH would not have to worry one bit about federal judges.
27. The DC politicians are destroying the once-mighty American military. Their current secretary of defense and commander-in-chief continually insist that the #1 priority for their military is pleasing LGBT individuals. An independent New Hampshire could have a military with a top priority of defending us against hostile militaries. As it should be.
28. Have you accumulated a respectable net worth? Soon, the federal government will tax your net worth each year in addition to all of the other taxes. 
29. The US Congress literally does not represent you or me.
30. The federal government hates you. Especially if you are white. 
31. Multiple federal court rulings have declared that the first amendment does not protect any speech that is insulting, especially towards a government agent. 
32. Right now, even policies that you think are set by state lawmakers are really controlled by the feds via extortion. 
33. If the thought of Pelosi’s Capitol Police Force growing worries you …. You might support NH independence from DC. 
34. If you would rather have your highway taxes spent on highways … You might be a NHexiter.
35. Do you think that Facebook and Twitter are too powerful and too damaging to liberty? Federal law grants them effective immunity from lawsuits while also granting them the power to manipulate content. They get to act as both a publisher and a platform, whichever suits them at the moment. 
36. If you support sound, free-market money like gold and silver (and crypto) ….You already support NHexit. It’s only a matter of time before the feds ban them.
37. If you are afraid that Donald Trump might become President again …. You just might be a NHexiter.
38. If you are afraid that Kamala Harris might become President…. You just might be a NHexiter.
39. If you think that Title IX is a major reason that free speech and due process in colleges were destroyed, you support NHexit.
40. If you believe that boys should not have a free pass to the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, you support NH independence. 
41. If you can’t count the billions of federal laws….you might support independence.
42. The FDA hurts and kills patients by stifling innovation and preventing people from using medications until the FDA spends decades of time and billions of dollars approving them.
43. Cutting ties with DC would immediately and drastically cut prices and improve the availability of drugs like epinephrine, insulin, loperamide, and many others. 
44. DC politicians use the federal department of education to brainwash your children to hate freedom. Once we are independent, that goes away.
45. The federal government believes that showing online ads to specific cohorts is a crime.
46. If you are not comfortable with the REAL ID becoming a dystopian federal identification card, you might be an NHexit supporter.  
47. Support in Congress for a magazine ban is getting very close to a majority. In a few years, your magazines will be federally illegal. 
48. Once HR127 passes Congress, every firearm will be effectively illegal. Hope you’re ready to turn in your guns to the feds! You are a patriot and not a criminal, so you’d never violate federal law, right? 
49. It is very likely that Congress (or federal regulators) ban armor plates for all civilians very soon. Hope you’re ready to turn in your plates!
50. Even the best ‘conservatives’ in DC are working with Bloomberg to take away your guns.
51. Technically speaking…the federal government should not exist anymore. 
52. Federal judges have ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect you. 
53. The federal government thinks it can take your property by force, as long as it plans to use the property for anything that could benefit the government, including giving your property to companies like Pfizer. Without DC, states and localities have no power of eminent domain (AKA theft of property).
54. Federal politicians from Biden to McConnell and everyone in between consistently sell us out to oligarchs like Putin and Xi to enrich themselves. 
55. We can’t take power back from Congress, even with a Convention of States.
56. The DC politicians incentivize single motherhood and discourage employment. 
57. If you don’t believe that global warming is the biggest threat to our lives, you should not be in the same union as DC, the federal government, and the other states. 
58. If you don’t appreciate being spied on by the NSA and other creepy DC agents and politicians, you should consider divorcing them. 
59. If you don’t want to support the Taliban by providing them with money and military weapons and helicopters, you should leave the union and stop paying federal taxes. 
60. The federal government considers people guilty until proven innocent – the opposite of how it was supposed to be. Peaceful protesters have been receiving punishments in prison for months despite never being convicted. If you support due process, you support NHexit.
61. The federal TSA regularly violates our natural rights, despite literally missing 95% of actual threats. 
62. DC politicians maintain a horrifically managed ‘no-fly list’, which mistakenly puts many people (including babies) onto the list, preventing them from flying. It’s also nearly impossible to get off of the list. 
63. Conservatives from Candace Owens to Matt Walsh have spoken in support of state independence from DC. 
64. Federal government leaders believe that if you don’t wear all the masks they recommend and if you don’t get all of the vaccines they recommend, you are just like the Taliban suicide bombers. 
65. DC politicians prohibit beneficial pipelines that would have been amazing for our national security and economy while simultaneously supporting pipelines for nations that are hostile to us. 
66. Who is arming the violent Mexican drug cartels? Federal agents from DC!
67. The federal government has kidnapped innocent Japanese people and put them in concentration camps. New Hampshire has never done that. And they couldn’t ever do that. Because we all have lots of guns. 
68. The US government banned firearms and ammunition from Russia. New Hampshire would never do that.
69. The US government puts many kids in cages at the border. New Hampshire would handle immigration in a much more sensible and humane way. 
70. Things will literally never change for the better. Even with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress and the SCOTUS, freedom only diminished and tyranny continued to grow.
71. New Hampshire citizens are the hardest workers and earn the most money, which is demonstrated by our continent-leading median household income. We don’t need DC politicians to be wealthy.
72. New Hampshire is the freest state. Nearly all of our issues are caused by federal laws. Once we are independent, we will be almost 100% free to live as we please!
73. New Hampshire is the safest state. We don’t need DC or other states bringing violence to our peaceful paradise. 
74. Half of the people in the united states believe that Biden was legitimately elected and that Republicans are all traitors, while the other half believes that Biden lost the election and progressives are traitors. How could one country be united if its people hate each other so much? 
75. The DC politicians now feel so entitled to infinite power that they essentially ban medications that could help treat COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. 
76. DC politicians are so arrogant that they no longer feel the need to pass legislation in Congress; they now use executive orders to pass new laws, including the most recent one forcing all private companies in the united states with over 100 employees to vaccinate their employees or test them for COVID weekly. This will affect 80 million employees. If you don’t want DC sociopaths coming between you and your employer (or you and your doctor), you support independence. 
77. When conservative states began having success treating COVID with monoclonal antibodies Biden and DC politicians began to BLOCK the life-saving treatments from getting to pro-freedom anti-Biden states like Alabama and Florida, potentially causing people to die.
78. DC politicians have made it clear that they will continue to prioritize foreign nationals and illegal immigrants over American citizens like you and me.
79. On the other hand, DC politicians have made it very clear that Cuban immigrants are not welcome here (because they tend to vote for freedom and against communism). 
80. The Biden IRS is now going to monitor every bank account with over $600 in it so that they can tax all people who make any money in any way. Those who receive more than $600 in PayPal transactions in a year will also be subject to taxation, according to experts. Peaceful separation solves this IRS issue because the IRS would no longer have any jurisdiction over us. 
81. When NH adopted federal food laws, it made selling mushrooms illegal, among many other prohibitions. Now, the only way to make it legal for anyone in NH to sell mushrooms is to create more regulation requiring ‘licenses’, which is somewhat counterproductive. The only other way to make mushrooms legal in NH would be to sever ties with DC. 
82. Dictator Biden nominated an actual Soviet communist to be the comptroller of the currency. If you don’t want your country’s financial system to be run by an avowed communist, you support separation from DC.  
83. On 10/8/21, the preliminary deal on a GLOBAL tax on businesses was officially agreed to. A total of 136 countries have signed onto the measure, guaranteeing that they will work together to stomp out businesses seeking to evade taxes by implementing at least a 15% tax on them, no matter where they come from. Once New Hampshire becomes a self-governing state, its low (or absent) tax on business could attract so much business to the state that it could cause the biggest economic boom in world history. 
84. Dictator Biden’s OSHA implemented a vaccine mandate for nearly every worker in the united states. It is extremely unlikely that an individual could beat this in federal courts or via federal legislation. Separating from the union is actually the more practical way to nullify this mandate. 
85. A federal law to require all new cars to have passive drunk-driving monitoring technology is about to go into effect, making all cars in the united states more expensive and much more intrusive. The law does not specify, but the new technology may be tantamount to perpetual breathalyzers and/or eye monitoring in every car. 
86. The medical system and all medical institutions in the united states are becoming increasingly racist towards whites, and it all starts with DC politicians. 
87. The Supreme Court is composed of 9 judges. The SCOTUS is perhaps the most powerful entity in the united states now. These nine judges are either evil or mentally retarded. They certainly do not believe in freedom. Is that who you want to be ruled by?
88. The US House of Representatives passed legislation that would take over control of elections, taking the power that always resided with the states and granting it to DC politicians. Among the many measures in the legislative package was a law that prohibited any election in the united states from requiring ID in order to vote. New Hampshire citizens who would like to retain their voter ID law must either support secession or give up voter ID forever once this federal law passes. 
89. DC politicians just passed a law mandating that all vehicles made after 2026 be equipped with perpetual monitoring systems to detect ‘impaired driving’. The vehicles must also have ‘kill switches’ that allow cops to turn them off at any moment. If you don’t like this policy, secession is the only solution. 
90. In the summer of 2022, federal government will begin to require facial recognition/uploading pictures of your face in order to access tax/ documents on the IRS website.
91. The President announced that the next US Supreme Court Judge he nominates will be a black woman. Upon joining the court, she will likely hear a massively important case involving ‘affirmative action’.
92. DC politicians are literally stealing our organs. In 2021, a policy change at UNOS essentially caused nearly all organs from donors in New Hampshire to be sent to NYC, CT, and MA, harming New Hampshire’s patients who desperately need organs to live. DC is viciously fighting NH legislation that would allow Granite Staters to state their preference that their neighbors be granted priority over foreigners if they pass away with viable organs. 
93. The brilliant experts in DC are using $30,000,000 in taxpayer funds to give out drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users. The statement from the DC politicians specifically mentioned that they are being distributed primarily to minorities and that they are to be used for illegal drugs. 
94. Our Lords in DC believe that they must force New Hampshire to build more housing projects so that our state could look more like the Bronx.  
95. Our brilliant Lords in DC are destroying our savings and devaluing our salaries by printing so much money that annual inflation is now at a frightening 9.1% annual rate.
96. DC politicians have been forcing you and me to pay for dangerous bioweapons labs in Ukraine for years. 
97. Your federal tax dollars are being used to pay Tik Tok influencers to create and promote propaganda approved by Dictator Biden. If you don’t want to be forced to fund such endeavors, you may want to consider secession. 
98. If you don’t enjoy paying $6 billion for the annual NIAID budget doled out by Anthony Fauci to fund foreign bioweapons labs and development and approval of ludicrously expensive patented pharmaceuticals and suppress use of cheap off-patent drug, you should consider supporting a vote of NH residents to leave the union.
99. The federal government violates free speech in numerous ways. Leaving their jurisdiction solves these issues and restores freedom of speech, expression, press, association, and worship. 
100. The federal government is increasingly racist. Most recently, Dictator Biden nominated a black woman to be a judge on the highest court because of her gender and skin color. Ironically, she will likely soon be ruling on an affirmative action case. 

 

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