So the New Hampshire House’s ludicrous “debate” over sexually explicit materials in middle school libraries went “viral” … and deservedly so. For example, Libs of TikTok is an X (Twitter) account with 2.8 million followers. See the post below. My comments follow.

UNREAL. At a hearing in NH, State Rep Glenn Cordelli attempted to read from inappropriate books in school libraries. He gets shut down because it’s too graphic. The Democrats freak out and then all vote to not let him continue speaking.

Too graphic for a room of adults… pic.twitter.com/DWjgSiYCN2

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 16, 2024

Obviously, the Democrats come across as groomers, hypocrites, and thugs. Of course, it is likely that more people outside New Hampshire than inside New Hampshire know about this particular incident because WMUR, NHPR, etc., are mouthpieces for the New Hampshire Democrat Party. For example, this “reporting” by Ray Brewer keeps viewers/readers totally in the dark about the nature of the sexually explicit material being foisted on school children in New Hampshire. And here is some deflection by Adam Sexton … the “news” is that things are going sideways, NOT that the Democrats are trying to cover up the sexually explicit material in public schools:

And the Speaker, a Republican, comes across as a complete and utter buffoon … telling Rep Cordelli that he cannot read from a book available to middle school children if it is “graphic in any way,” calling the availability of the sexually explicit material in middle schools “a very sensitive situation for both sides,” Really? Seriously? We cannot talk about the specifics of sexually explicit material in public schools because it may hurt the feelings of the Democrats. What a BUFFOON. And what would you call the New Hampshire House Republicans for making this buffoon the Speaker?

But perhaps the best part is that the House apparently has a rule against “reading from a paper” (3:44). I hate this phrase, but … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.

And the grand finale to this FARCE. The House voted to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools. Again … YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. The New Hampshire House is a national CLOWN SHOW a LAUGHINGSTOCK, and deservedly so.

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The Southern border is where most of the action is, but the Swanton Sector (NY, VT, NH) has seen a 240% spike in illegal crossings. None of them Canadians (who increasingly have good reason to escape the wrath of Trudeau). A border problem a local hunter discovered and captured on his game cam.

[Chris] Feeley recalled being in his tree stand one morning when a startled group of deer unexpectedly ran by — followed by two men “of Mexican descent” with backpacks and walking sticks, one of whom was poring over the screen of his smartphone.

“He stopped right underneath me and was looking at his iPhone and was following a trail, so obviously somebody gave him a route of which way to go,” Feeley said.

“I was just stunned, I didn’t know what to do. I just let them walk off, I gave them 10 minutes before I went back to the barn to call Border Patrol.”

That call to border officials soon became a regular event for Feeley, who began spotting groups of migrants on his automated trail camera with increasing frequency.

“The receptionists know it’s me when I call,” he said. “They’re like, ‘Oh, hey, Chris, how’s it going?’ and I’m like, ‘Hey, I had some more just walk by my camera, if you want to send the boys up there.’ “

Mexicans entering from Canada. Map Apps on iPhones.

The New York Post reports that for $350.00, “migrants” can fly to Toronto or Montreal and then march south across the US border. Why is Canadian Customs even letting them out of the airport? Didn’t Tyrant Troodough promise to put a stop to that? I may have misremembered, but how subtle is a winter-time spike in Mexican “tourists” to the Great White North? And why don’t they just stay?

Because they have been instructed to go to America.

We’ve already reported on the South/Central American conveyor that moves millions on trains and buses to the Southern border. The UN and our own government are doing this to us. Now we’ve got Customs and Border Patrol warning residents near the Canadian border to carry a firearm.

Residents living near the United States-Canada border in Vermont have been told to watch out for illegal immigrants with criminal records amid an increase in crossings via unofficial ports of entry.

Customs and Border Patrol agents urged locals to carry a firearm just in case, noting that while the vast majority of undocumented newcomers are peaceful and simply in search of a better life in the US, there will be some who have a propensity for violence.

I’m not sure about the Swanton Sector of New York or Vermont, but in New Hampshire, that’s not going to be a problem.

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It isn’t Zionists conflating Hamas with Gaza civilians. It’s the “pro-Palestinians.” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

Video from the above link – RTWT:

 

Come Visit Gaza!

 

 

Another video – not sure of the provenance; I’ve been told this is atypical for the typical Gazan but still worth seeing:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/we-had-a-great-life-in-gaza.mp4

 

Remember that Gaza journalist who misses life in pre-war Gaza?

Gaza journalist misses pre-Oct 7 Gaza (rumble.com)

Breezy terraces with what appears to be an excellent ambiance.  Beaches with people enjoying the sea.  And take a look at these market pictures.

Where is this open-air prison I keep hearing about?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s another video with material from just before Oct. 7:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gaza-just-before-oct-7.mp4

 

Another collection of marketplace stills:

 

 

Can anyone please tell me how the above align with either Open Air Prison or Concentration Camp?  Do concentration camps have spin classes, theme parks, and hotels?

Gaza Strip’s Arabs enjoy spin classes, fine dining, private beaches, theme parks, luxury hotels | JTF

Or plastic surgery?  Or obesity, particularly among women?  And a bunch more info here:

Pre-October 7th terror attack on Israel by Hamas, Palestinian Arabs and their useful idiots in the West accused Israel of turning Gaza into a “concentration camp” a.k.a. “the world’s largest open air prison” (barenakedislam.com)

Including a “cat café” and horseback riding lessons????  The above post also has an assortment of videos showing the horrific deprivations in Gaza.  And some videos pulled from a prior post of mine here:

Shopping mall opens in Gaza (youtube.com)

Ramadan: Gaza’s green markets are alive with colour (youtube.com)

First luxurious resort opens in Gaza Strip (youtube.com)

Gaza City 2022 | Palestine | Cities Around the Globe |Travels with Imam (youtube.com)

A Stroll Through Gaza | Islamic Relief Canada (youtube.com)

Gaza Palestine  Walking Tour | Gaza Strip Before The Attack 2023 | فلسطين غزة (youtube.com)

 

 

 

Not one bomb would have fallen either.  All the buildings in the “before” part of these picture-pairs would still be as they were.  NONE of these “before” images comport with either open air prison or concentration camp.  None.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>>>>=====<<<<<

 

Concentration camp?  Nope.

Open air prison?  Nope.

Weep at the loss of the Gaza that could have been…

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/the-gaza-that-could-have-been.mp4

 

>>>>>=====<<<<<

 

So let me wrap up with a picture of people in a REAL concentration camp:

 

 

You DO see the difference, don’t you?

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There are certain prerequisites to a functional democracy. Among these are limiting the vote to only legitimate voters, ensuring that the vote-count is legitimate, having an election-day as opposed to “early voting” for weeks prior to when the actual election is supposed to take place, and not allowing local election offices to be used as get-out-the-vote tools for the Party in power.

Equally important is that the voters get fully and fairly informed.

Stated somewhat differently, you can have voter ID, paper ballots, get rid of “early voting,” etc., etc., etc., and still not have a functional democracy if the government can censor the information available to voters (e.g., Hunter-laptop) and plant false information (e.g., Russia-bounties, the military are “suckers and losers”). America does NOT have a functional democracy because of government censorship.

Yes, it is a long listen. But if you don’t, then you are choosing to be uninformed and live in an alternative reality.

If you have not listened to this yet, you need to do it ASAP. Extremely important description of how our government is censoring speech in horrific fashion. You need to understand what they’re doing to fight it. https://t.co/i6nyt47ttU

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 17, 2024

damn. this is the clearest description i've ever heard of the events of the last ten years. Will the legacy media even try to debunk any of this? that's the dog not barking. https://t.co/wm8Kv56ffJ

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) February 17, 2024

As Attorney General I filed Missouri v Biden and it exposed a vast censorship enterprise between Big Government and Big Tech.

This is a must watch interview between @TuckerCarlson and @MikeBenzCyber on @TCNetwork re government censorship.

The right to Free Speech is… https://t.co/gTm8ufDMtu

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 17, 2024

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You can’t have a proper tyranny without a vast network of informants ratting out friends and neighbors, but the Twitter files and interviews with folks like Mike Benz have put a hitch in the surveillance state’s steps. Encrypted chat apps are another problem, but the uniparty is nothing if not persistent.

Under the brand of “Civic Listening,” informant networks are now coming to the West. The concept has been embraced by the censorship industry’s network of nonprofits, research institutes and private companies that work to shut down disfavored political speech online. Spurred by concerns about the growth of private discussion groups on platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, the censorship industry has turned to the cultivation of snitches to gain access to U.S. citizens’ private conversations.

One of the organizations at the forefront of creating this snitch network is Meedan, a San Francisco based nonprofit. The organization has received one of the largest federal grants ever awarded for a censorship program: $5.7 million in taxpayer dollars was awarded to it by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for its work to tackle “hate, abuse, and misinformation with minority led partnerships.” Meedan also received a smaller ($144,850) grant from the government-funded Open Technology Fund for a “claims and memes database” to monitor “fact-checked claims and debunked visual misinformation from internet repressive countries.”

These groups operate in at least two spheres. The first is as a tip-line to which the snitch sends the offending content or commentary. The AI-powered engine then generates a response the snitch can share to counter the misinformation.

Another function of the Civic Listening propaganda project is prebunking “the censorship industry’s plan to brainwash the public at scale by feeding them weakened versions of disfavored narratives before they encounter the real thing, biasing them ahead of time.”

Funding so-called NGOs helps them get around the more direct action we saw revealed in the Twitter files with the combined result of chilling speech and making it more difficult for the average citizen to filter the noise they create.

It is devious and sinister, and you should be on the lookout for local evidence of it. That might require some folks to sign up and use these apps and tools to filter for responses that we can then look for in the digital universe. When you see them, we can say hey, that sounds exactly like the response coming from the government-funded censorship industrial complex.

Provide a screenshot, call them out, and maybe ban them from your Telegram, Messenger, Signal, or WhatsApp channel. Your call. We’re just here to let you know that this is out there, and I bet we’ll see it rear its head everywhere conversations are allowed, perhaps even in our comment section.

I do invite them to try. Our readers are not easily moved by watered-down arguments meant to pre-bunk or debunk. And they will bring receipts. But not every forum will be so well informed.

And please, let us know if you see any evidence of the pre-bunking apps especially applied locally.

One more. Trusted Messengers looks like another effort in the same vein. More on that here.

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Maine is the “whitest” state in the country, but the demographics of The Pine Tree State have been changing significantly in the last thirty years. Legal and illegal immigration is driving this change, and the percentage of foreign-borns in Maine has increased by 20,000 in those three decades.

Asians account for 20% of the 56,000 immigrant residents. Unfortunately, not all those folks calling Maine home are here for the state’s beauty but more for the opportunities afforded by a Progressive environment and understaffed law enforcement. Many are fueling the growth of the illegal marijuana farming industry, which is threatening the safety of all Mainers.

There are close to 300 illegal Chinese-owned pot farms known in Central and Northern Maine. The rural regions of the state are conducive to these clandestine operations. The Local and State Police are ill-equipped to combat the scope of this problem, and the Federal officials of Maine have been asking for help from Merrick Garland, the DOJ, and DHS since last August. Their efforts, including the letter below, have gone unanswered.

The text of the letter sent by Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden:

Dear Attorney General Garland:

We write to express our concerns about recent reports of a memo produced and circulated by Border Patrol officials regarding alleged illegal Chinese marijuana growing operations in the state of Maine.1 According to that memo, law enforcement in the state have identified 270 suspected properties that have been used as illegal Chinese growing operations, producing an estimated $4.37 billion in revenue. These illegal growing operations are detrimental to Maine businesses that comply with State laws, and we urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to shut them down.

Maine state law permits marijuana use in certain circumstances, and the Maine Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) provides oversight. OCP is responsible for licensing, compliance, and general oversight of both medical marijuana use and recreational use, and it consults with other state agencies—including the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Department of Labor; and the Department of Public Safety—on rulemaking related to their areas of expertise.

These reports of illegal growing operations within the state are alarming, and we are writing to request additional information about what the DOJ is doing to address this situation. We request answers to the following questions:

1. 1. 1. 1. What is the DOJ doing to address illegal growing operations, including illegal growing operations that are run by foreign governments or entities?
         2. How are the profits from these illegal operations being returned to the country of origin?
         3. These reports identify Chinese ownership. Is the DOJ aware of this alleged Chinese ownership or any other foreign involvement in these operations?
         4. Please provide any additional information about the memo identified in these reports, including who produced it, when the information contained in the memo was first obtained, and what actions have been taken in response?
         5. What action is the DOJ taking to swiftly shutdown any illegal marijuana growing operations in the state of Maine?

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Sincerely,

It seems like an appropriate letter that will evoke a response from the Attorney General, and help will be heading northeast to save the day. But you would be wrong. The Attorney General has yet to respond to this letter or the next from 51 Federal officers. The AG seems unconcerned with the Chinese Cartel setting up business in Maine, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or California. Can we assume, at this point, six months from the first letter, that because the illegal pot farming situation is connected to the CCP and Joe Biden is in the pocket of the Chinese, the Chinese have free reign in Maine or anywhere else they want to operate?

Nobody in China leaves without the CCP knowing their intent or destination. The 30,000 Chinese Nationals who have crossed our southern border illegally are here at the direction of the CCP. Setting up illegal pot farms, human and sex trafficking, and using American tax dollars to bankroll them is on the CCP. The results of what these people do is on Joe Biden. The President is either directing the DOJ to disregard the situation, or he is complicit. Joe Biden is selling out rural America, which is key to China’s takeover of America. Too simplistic? Then, give another hypothesis.

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Every protagonist in Greek tragedy is expected to have some fatal or tragic flaw. A weakness that compels toward their demise. If the ATF ever had a higher purpose, its modern obsession with control over a constitutionally protected right, at least in the current court climate, could be their undoing.

Anti-2A wins have been few and far between, but the progressives are nothing if not persistent. As our new tagline states (or will when we complete the next site rebuild), Tyranny never rests, so neither shall we. And you can’t have a proper despotism while the people retain not just the right to self-defense but an ability to meet or even counter the State’s force advantage.

They will not rest until they have the guns.

With that mission statement in mind last year, ATF issued a complex and convoluted pistol brace rule in its latest effort to bureaucratize the Second Amendment into a maze that is impossible to navigate. The rule got a lot of attention on our pages but has since been stayed pending a handful of legal challenges over which ATF has not fared well. In a last-ditch effort to save their Rube-Golbergian masterpiece, ATF now insists that if you evade or ignore the rule, you are evading taxes (or something), and you can’t sue them for that.

My best guess is that they are convinced this will end up at the US Supreme Court, and Chief Justice Roberts will roll over on the tax issue the way he did with Obamacare. But it is a risky bet. If the courts are forced to decide the question of ATF’s capacity to generate revenue on an enumerated and protected natural right, the result could be the partial or total loss of that ability, which could have nationwide implications.

Liberal states have long used fees (taxes) to inhibit the exercise of the right to self-defense.

No one bringing lawsuits is challenging the National Firearms Act’s empowerment of ATF to collect these taxes, so that may be why ATF is throwing the Hail Mary. It is little more than an argument for the defense, so it seems unlikely to go much further than that, but it does appear that ATF has run out of excuses.

 

 

 

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An MS-13 gang member, a thug, and a known killer brutally raped Kayla Hamilton. How do we know he was a killer? All MS-13 members have to kill someone to be accepted into that criminal organization. Kayla fought with all her strength and ability but died anyway, just unable to resist the larger, stronger man.

Kayla’s mother, Tammy Nobles, has filed a 100 million dollar lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Dept. of Homeland Security and the Dept. of Health and Human Services for operational negligence, specifically for Mayorkas’ running of his department.

I urge those who care to watch Mrs. Noble’s testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee, while those who don’t care should be made to watch it. (That’s every pompous liberal Biden supporter.)

(A written copy of her testimony can be found here)

Tammy Nobles is not politically active, only a grieving, heartbroken mother seeking the justice of holding those responsible for allowing this vicious MS-13 brute into this country to account. She charges proper screening by DHS employees who would have seen his MS-13 gang-related tattoos, and a phone call to the El Salvador government could have confirmed his criminal standing and would have prevented Kayla’s horrific murder.

Do you reader and I have to suffer this kind of loss of a beloved child, wife, or mother before we call out Biden and all his supporters for the criminal supporters they are? In any reasoned examination of the facts, these people are aiding and abetting before the fact, after the fact, and in fact, the violent crime wave responsible for not only Kayla Hamilton’s death but hundreds of thousands of violent crimes being inflicted on law-abiding American citizens.
This horror is at the hands of leftist Democrats. Vote them all out.

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Republican loss in the special congressional election in NY yesterday; how much may have been due to snow? How much due to Mazi Pilip being a registered democrat? How much attributable to Trump being the nominee? How much to the backlash against Santos having won an election there? What is being done to recruit another candidate in November to run against Suozzi in November, or will they run the same candidate? Can Long Island be saved?

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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 52 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 10 and opposition of 3 with 6 being of interest.
Of the 15 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	CACR19	relating to redistricting. Providing that an independent redistricting commission shall be established to draw boundaries for state and federal offices.	Election Law	Tue 2/20	9:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes an independent redistricting commission to draw the boundaries for state and federal elections.
Of Interest	HB1098	relative to ballots delivered to elder care facilities.	Election Law	Tue 2/20	9:25 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill enables ballot clerks, assistant clerks, or clerks pro tem to deliver ballots to elder care facilities. This bill is a request of the secretary of state.
Oppose	SB538	relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 2/20	9:15 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill establishes a tax relief program for office conversion to residences; enables municipalities to allow its governing body to adopt certain zoning ordinance changes; and adds additional authority in zoning powers for parking requirements and lot size requirements related to sewer infrastructure.
Of Interest	SB594	defining state approved processing facility and regulating on farm slaughter of amenable animals.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 2/20	9:15 AM	SH Room 103	This bill defines state approved processing facility for slaughtering and processing amenable animals and makes regulations regarding the on-farm slaughter of amenable animals.
Oppose	HB1351	prohibiting the sale and use of adhesive-based rodent traps.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 2/20	1:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits the sale and use of adhesive-based rodent traps.
Support	HB1325	relative to allowing private ownership of small tailed monkeys, raccoons, foxes, otters, skunks, and kangaroos.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 2/20	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows the private ownership of small tailed monkeys, raccoons, foxes, otters, skunks, and kangaroos.
Oppose	HB1505	establishing an animal abuse offender registry.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 2/20	2:45 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill establishes an animal abuse offender registry.
Of Interest	HB1190	relative to adopting the interstate social work licensure compact.	Executive Departments and Administration	Tue 2/20	11:30 AM	LOB Room 307	This bill adopts the social work licensure compact.
Support	HB1391	allowing new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase.	Ways and Means	Tue 2/20	10:15 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase.
Support	HB1278	relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis.	Ways and Means	Tue 2/20	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis.
Of Interest	HB1204	relative to government agent entries into secured premises.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/21	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes requirements for when a government agent may enter a secured premises without a warrant.
Support	HB1276	relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/21	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill amends the prohibition against carrying or selling a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles to prohibit sale to or possession of the said items by those under 18 years of age.
Support	HB1539	relative to annulling, resentencing, or discontinuing prosecution of certain cannabis offenses.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 2/21	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows for additional annulments, resentencings, or discontinuations of prosecutions for certain cannabis offenses.
Oppose	HB1173	relative to the disposition of vicious dogs.	Environment and Agriculture	Wed 2/21	1:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill provides for the euthanizing of dogs that attack humans or domestic animals 2 or more times in a 12 month period.
Support	HB1501	repealing the requirement to register dogs annually.	Environment and Agriculture	Wed 2/21	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill repeals the requirement that cats and dogs be registered annually.
Support	HB1556	relative to exemptions from the rabies vaccine.	Environment and Agriculture	Wed 2/21	2:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill removes the requirement that dogs exempt from the rabies vaccine be muzzled.
Of Interest	HB1328	relative to public safety providers defined as essential services.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 2/21	10:00 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill deems all first responders as providing essential services.
Support	HB1174	relative to plumbing apprentices.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 2/21	11:15 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill permits a licensed plumber to employ 3 apprentices.
Of Interest	HB1335	removing Columbus Day as a holiday.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 2/21	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill removes Columbus Day as a holiday.
Support	HB1506	relative to required votes to approve issuance of bonds.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 2/21	1:20 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill requires that the approval of bonds issuance, if petitioned by at least 50 registered voters, shall be authorized only by a vote by ballot of 2/3 of all the voters present and voting at an annual or special meeting of the town, district, or city called for the purpose.
Support	HB1053	relative to permissible residential units in a commercial zone.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 2/21	2:30 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill requires that for new or rehabilitated buildings in commercial zoned districts in a municipality residential uses shall be allowed as a matter of right.

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On Friday, New Hampshire State Representative Mike Belcher (R-Wakefield) posted a press release to X regarding violations of free speech by government-run colleges in New Hampshire. A bill proposed in this session by eight Representatives and three Senators would address the issue by prohibiting the college administrators from discriminating against political speech they oppose. 

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Mother convicted of manslaughter for murders committed by her son; Daniel from UK on the King’s medical issues and conspiracy theories; is the Taylor Swift/Kelce relationship a psyop? How many millennials believe the moon landing was faked? The fiasco of the border bill; the U.S. sec’y of state trying to meet with the Israeli military chief of staff with no one else present; Is Milei (in Argentina) backing down at all?

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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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