• 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 22 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 3 with 4 being of interest.
Of the 42 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 9 and opposition of 4 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	SB451	relative to an expedited track for certain applications to the site evaluation committee.	Science, Technology and Energy	Mon 3/25	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes an alternative procedure and timelines for an expedited track for changes to existing energy facilities meeting certain criteria.
Of Interest	HB645	relative to the establishment of decentralized autonomous organizations as legal entities within the state.	Commerce	Tue 3/26	10:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes decentralized autonomous organizations within the state.
Oppose	HB182	prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment.	Commerce	Tue 3/26	10:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits an employer from discharging or disciplining an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician and whose failure to report for work was due to such employee responding to an emergency.
Support	SB374	relative to the licensing of part-time teachers.	Education	Tue 3/26	11:30 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill defines “part-time teacher.”
Support	SB339	relative to repealing the graduation requirement regarding Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) applications.	Education	Tue 3/26	2:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill removes the requirement that students file a free application for federal student aid form (FAFSA) or a waiver for such form prior to graduation.
Support	HB1696	(New Title) relative to local records retention.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 3/26	10:20 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill funds and equips the local government record manager with online storage of records that are available for public access.
Support	HB1116	relative to certain firearms to be used for taking of game.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 3/26	9:15 AM	SH Room 103	This bill allows for the use of rifles and certain pistols for the taking of game.
Oppose	HB194	(New Title) requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 3/26	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill requires the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.
Support	HB1237	relative to the use of unmarked or stealth police vehicles for traffic enforcement.	Judiciary	Tue 3/26	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes a requirement that any police vehicle purchased after January 1, 2025 must be clearly marked and labeled as a police vehicle in order for it to be used in traffic law enforcement, subject to certain exceptions.
Support	HB1412	relative to court reporters.	Judiciary	Tue 3/26	2:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill repeals the requirements for licensure and regulation of court reporters.
Of Interest	2024-1005h	Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1005h to HB 1583-FN-A, relative to the per pupil cost of an opportunity for an adequate education.	Finance	Tue 3/26	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill increases the base annual cost of providing an opportunity for an adequate education, establishes relief aid funding and fiscal disparity aid, and requires municipalities to remit excess SWEPT payments to the department of revenue administration.
Of Interest	2024-1214h	Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1214h to HB 1633-FN-A, relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor	Finance	Tue 3/26	11:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropiations therefor.
Oppose	SB217	establishing a rural and underserved area educator incentive program for higher education and making an appropriation therefor.	Education	Wed 3/27	9:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes the rural and underserved area educator incentive program and makes an appropriation therefor.
Support	CACR13	relating to slavery and involuntary servitude. Providing that slavery and involuntary servitude shall be prohibited in the state of New Hampshire.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 3/27	9:45 AM	SH Room 103	This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution adds an article that prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude.
Support	HB1042	(New Title) repealing the requirement that each pharmacy establish a continuous quality improvement program.	Health and Human Services	Wed 3/27	9:20 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill repeals the requirement that each licensed pharmacy shall establish a continuous quality improvement program.
Oppose	HB1203	relative to prohibiting the charging of rent to charities by charitable gaming facilities.	Ways and Means	Wed 3/27	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits the charging of rent for facilities or equipment to charities by primary game operators.
Support	HB185	(New Title) relative to the determination of parental rights and responsibilities based on shared parenting.	Judiciary	Thu 3/28	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that it is a state policy to support approximately equal parenting time between a child and parent unless such an arrangement is clearly detrimental to the child. The bill also provides that if the court concludes that approximately equal parenting time is not in the best interest of the child, the court shall make findings supporting its order.
Support	HB1111	relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families.	Judiciary	Thu 3/28	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and that a report made maliciously or with the intent to cause harm may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. The bill also provides that a person who in their professional capacity is a mandatory reporter of suspected abuse and neglect may be subject to civil liability for the failure to report.
Support	HB1220	(New Title) abolishing the collection of racial and educational data for use in a marital application worksheet.	Judiciary	Thu 3/28	10:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill abolishes the collection of racial and educational data for use in a marital application worksheet.
Oppose	HB1169	creating a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity.	Judiciary	Thu 3/28	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill creates a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity. This bill also exempts such causes of action from the jurisdiction of the human rights commission.
Oppose	SB418	(New Title) relative to refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration and penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 3/29	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill modifies periods of suspension under different circumstances stemming from a refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration. This bill further modifies the penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated.
Of Interest	SB425	relative to bail commissioner fees.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 3/29	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the bail commissioner fee to $60.
Oppose	SB464	to prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of synthetic sexual images.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 3/29	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill expands the prohibition on the nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to include synthetic images that are digitally created and altered to falsely depict the sexual conduct of targeted victims.

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We can never again say that Jeanne Shaheen didn’t try to cut Federal Spending. Her Senate office slipped a last-minute addition into the 1,000+ page “keep the government open or the world will end (again)” budget bill that would cut 50 million in spending. Fifty million. It was a hiccup, to be sure.

That sum isn’t even a corroded penny under a couch cushion on the government porch compared to the generational debt she’s helped accumulate (roughly 24 trillion, so far, on her watch), but it’s a small price to pay to keep her corporate donors happy (subscriber wall).

Shaheen aides slipped the budget-cutting provision into a must-pass 1,050-page bill to keep the government open. The language would strip the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division of nearly $50 million, or roughly 18 percent of its resources.

The proposed cut comes out of a Shaheen-chaired Senate appropriations subcommittee, which issued a summary of the bill that failed to mention the controversial provision. 

“There’s going to be a bunch of companies that would have been sued for monopolization that will no longer be sued for monopolization,” said Matt Stoller, director of research for the American Economic Liberties Project. “And there’s going to be a bunch of mergers that are going to go through that shouldn’t go through because there aren’t the resources.” [emphasis mine]

The move runs counter to a push by her ideological boss, Joe Biden. The White House has been making a lot of noise about cracking down on big business.

Shaheen’s staff inserted the language just days before Biden announced a new “strike force” of officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division “to crack down on unfair and illegal pricing.”

“This strike force will strengthen interagency efforts to root out and stop illegal corporate behavior that hikes prices on American families through anti-competitive, unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent business practices,” the White House announced on March 5.

The spending deal to slash regulators’ enforcement budget would overturn a 35-year-old rule that outlines the way the Antitrust Division gets money.

It’s all noise. Smoke and mirrors. Misdirection. Joe needs someone else to blame for his crappy economy. You need to decide whether to eat or pay rent and Joe’s bitching about fewer chips in a bag which – if that’s dinner is a problem, but one he created with the help of Democrats like Jeanne (her real first name is Cynthia by the way) Shaheen.

But Shaheen’s fifty-million dollar haircut to the DOJ anti-trust division is her’s and nothing to sneeze at – it’s 15-20% of their budget. Add the provision to end how they get funded, and that’s an even bigger slice of a now diminished pie. The correct question to ask from someone who has signed off on government spending that added 24 trillion in new debt is, why? Who benefits?

Jeanne Shaheen and the industries that have so generously funded her political tenure over the fiscally deplorable abuse and debt slavery of future generations.

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Anytime a student is seen by a school social worker, school psychologist, or clinical mental health counselor, and services are billed to Medicare or Medicaid by the school, a medical diagnosis code is applied. The medical diagnosis code is referred to as a CPT code, which is a procedure code. This refers to the services being performed. An example would be counseling or therapy.

The DX codes are referred to as ICD-10 diagnosis codes. Those with medical coding and billing would be familiar with all of this.

All of this information is included in the student’s medical chart, which follows them to high school, and into any record that is requested by the military later on in life. This also includes anyone who wants to pursue law enforcement as a career. See: https://icdcodelookup.com/icd-10/common-codes/mental-behavioral-health

It’s also important to know that President Biden wants to remove parental consent on Medicaid billing. Democrats on the House Education Committee also voted against HB1616, which would require parental consent for Medicaid billing. This could mean that you may never know what mental or medical services your child received at school.

Anita Hoge warned about some this years ago when she wrote: The Medicalization of Schools.

Now that we see schools hiring counselors, social workers, and school psychologists at an alarming rate, just check your school roster to see who’s been hired over the past few years. Parents need to understand their rights under the law and what this can do to a child long-term.

Federal law requires written consent from parents when their children are assessed or receive mental health services. But we know many schools do not obtain consent from parents when their children participate in Social and Emotional Learning, and their child’s personal mental health data has been shared without their knowledge or consent too.

While I want every child to receive mental health help if they truly need it, it’s important to know that something as simple as a trip to the school counselor for a bad day can have life-long consequences.

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Act Now: ask your reps to vote YES on the reconsideration motion and vote NO on the Ought to Pass (OTP) motion for HB 1283.

Shockingly, this past Thursday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives, including many or the Republicans, ignored the concerns of the disabled community, veterans, and concerned New Hampshire citizens of all ages and cast its vote to legalize state-sanctioned suicide. Surprisingly, many representatives were not even present to vote. You can see the full roll call here: 33 Democrats voted against state-sanctioned suicide, 39 Republicans voted in favor.

HB 1283, relative to end of life options passed by the closest of margins in the NH House, 179-177, after lengthy debate. However, we are grateful to report there has been a request for a reconsideration vote, and so the bill will be going back to the full House again this coming Thursday, March 28 with the potential for a revote.

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First, the House will vote on whether to reconsider. If the vote for reconsideration is successful, then the bill will again be voted on. If the reconsideration motion fails, the previously passed bill would move directly to the Senate.

The reconsideration vote is a true gift and our last chance to kill the bill in the House before it goes any further. Through the combined efforts of so many, we are so close to success. With one last push we can defeat this bill before it gets any closer to becoming law in New Hampshire.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We urge you to contact your representatives to be present at the House session on Thursday, March 28 and to vote YES on the reconsideration vote and then NO on HB 1238 should the reconsideration motion pass.

Contact Your Representative

Rally on Thursday
There will be a rally in the Statehouse at 7:20 AM on Thursday, March 28, prior to the vote. Please attend if you are able. We especially encourage young people to be there to highlight the harmfulness of a bill that undermines the suicide prevention efforts that are so needed for young New Hampshire citizens. For more information on the bill, its risks, and the vital reasons why it must be killed, check out @nhcornerstone on X/Twitter. Please retweet Cornerstone media to spread critical awareness to kill this bill.

Signs will be provided but feel free to bring your own. Just remember, no signs with wooden or metal posts or frames are allowed in the State House. You can find more information about the rally here.

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As a young law student in Washington, D.C., I experienced Watergate through the eyes of the Washington Post. I frequently mailed their articles to my Dad. He was convinced the Watergate break-in was a hoax in an attempt to remove President Nixon from office, one of the greatest international strategic thinkers of the 20th century.

Nixon had just been elected in a 49-state landslide over the hapless George McGovern, for whom I cast my first vote in the 1972 Presidential election. While few may know it, history has revealed Deep Throat (W. Mark Felt) leaked classified information to Woodward and Bernstein because he was passed over for the Director of the FBI.

Demolition-crat-gate (DCG) makes Watergate look like a “Child’s Birthday Party.” DCG is a relentless malicious criminal assault on former President Donald Trump and now candidate Trump to prevent the American voters from re-electing him for the second time, having stolen Trump’s re-election in 2020.

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The barrage of vicious and unfounded political attacks by the mainstream media has been endless, beginning with Spygate and the Russian Hoax, continuing with the Zelensky phone call, an invasion of Mara-Lago by the FBI, the peaceful J6 demonstration infested with FBI, CIA, and ANTIFA agitators, and now malicious persecution dressed up as Lawfare in Georgia, Florida, New York State, NYC and Washington, D.C. by persecutors who were elected promising “to get Trump.”

Anyone watching President Trump’s re-election rallies held across the country will see massive crowds of thousands of patriotic Americans, proving most Americans have opened their eyes and realize the Demolitioncrats have conducted a persecution and defamation campaign against Donald Trump. They stole the 2020 election and intend to steal 2024.

For the sake of our nation, Donald Trump needs to be reelected as our 47th President!

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No matter how despicable you believe Jeannie Shaheenie and Mags Hassan are … it’s not anywhere near as despicable as these two actually are. The latest minibus (as opposed to omnibus) contains a special earmark for late-term abortions in New Hampshire.

Perhaps every bit as despicable as Shaheenie and Mags are the NHGOP “leaders” who are too cowardly to call out these two witches and Dartmouth-Hitchcock.

I know. I know. New Hampshire Advantage. Focus on the fiscal issues. Workforce housing! (What a lovely euphemism for apartment complexes to bring urban density.) Education Freedom Accounts! (A relatively minuscule part of the overall education budget … but it allows the NHGOP to avoid directly taking on the education bureaucracy.)  Legal marijuana! Slava Ukraine! New Hampshire Advantage! Slava Ukraine!

Thank you, @senatorlankford for speaking out against the $ 2.5 million in minibus earmarks for two hospitals that perform late-term abortions.

Federal taxpayer dollars should never be used to facilitate the taking of innocent unborn life. pic.twitter.com/BMGDN7FXqS

— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) March 22, 2024

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The scope of damage caused by mRNA and lipid-nanoparticle technology might take years to unravel, but the data to date is not good. Many, including those who rolled a sleeve or two during The Scare are looking side-eyed at the blood supply, and yes, some have risen to meet that need.

Since the pandemic began, there has been a growing trend of people rejecting blood transfusions when their doctors can’t or won’t assure them the blood they are to receive would be from someone who hasn’t been vaccinated for the virus, no matter the risk of morbidity and mortality.

Now, grassroots efforts are revolutionizing blood donation by connecting Covid-19 unvaccinated blood donors with those in their own communities who need safe blood transfusions.

There is no guarantee that blood from the usual suspects like the American Red Cross is not contaminated (they don’t test for it) so if this is something that matters to you, there are resources available to consider now before you need blood and there’s no time to waste.

• SafeBlood Donation (Need a donor)
• Pure Blood Registry
• Blessed By His Blood Cooperative
• My True Blood

We have not checked or vetted these. This is just information. You’ll need to do the legwork.

And here’s a video with Del Bigtree from Highwire and the director of media relations for safeblood.com discussing Safeblood and the availability of blood from people who did not get the mRNA injections.

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Social and Emotional Learning is the latest fad in public education. SEL is considered Tier 1 in a three-tiered mental health framework for students attending public schools. Money for this initiative came through a federal grant several years ago, but as those funds dried up guess who is left to fund these initiatives? The local taxpayers.

SEL is taking valuable time out of the day to teach children about mental health problems. This might be valuable information for children who experience anxiety, but this is covered by a teacher, not a Child Psychologist. SEL is also causing some children to become anxious at the suggestion. Parents are reporting that their children are coming home believing they are depressed because they learned it in school. SEL doesn’t just target some of the children who need extra support, it’s for all children in the school. Where some children were fine, they are now believing something is wrong with them.

The Multi-Tiered System of Support for Behavior (MTSS-B) has already come under scrutiny because student personal mental health data that has been shared in some New Hampshire schools. These mental health data have been shared without parental knowledge or consent. This is not only a violation of the School Counselor’s Code of Ethics, it violates a child’s right to privacy enshrined in The New Hampshire Constitution. We are uncovering all kinds of problems with SEL and the MTSS-B framework in our public schools.

Parents in Merrimack are now looking at the SEL costs to taxpayers. The cost shift to local communities is staggering, and it will go higher.

The district may be able to bill Medicaid for some of the mental health counseling. But parents should know that President Biden is trying to remove parental consent from Medicaid billing. Biden has claimed that the government needs to streamline the billing process, so they want to cut parents out of it. Schools have been charged with Medicaid fraud in the past. Parental consent is one way to ensure that the billing is accurate.

Parents also need to see what services have been provided to their children. By removing their consent, it’s possible that their children could receive services without their knowledge or consent.

Currently, there is proposed legislation in New Hampshire that would require parental notification for every service provided in schools that are billed to Medicaid. HB1616 . 

Schools are implementing health-based clinics for physical and mental health. Manchester has already contracted with Amoskeag Health to provide school based health services for students.  I’m still trying to figure out how they managed to adopt the CDC Centers for Disease Control Community School Model without legislative approval.

The way this is going, don’t be surprised when your child receives these services, then bills Medicaid, but you are never notified.

The Vote in Education on HB1616 was 10-10. All of the Democrats on the Committee voted against parental notification on Medicaid billing. HB1616 will soon go before the full house for a vote. It’s critical that everyone contact their elected representatives and ask them to support it when it goes to the House floor.

A child’s mental health is important, but turning local schools into mental health facilities will cost more money, and the results are not always positive. If your child needs extra support, then parents need to seek assistance outside the school system. This can be done with someone who is an expert in the field of child psychology,  who understands the importance of involving parents and keeping your child’s personal information private.

When schools bill Medicaid, you should know that there is NO code for normal. Your child will be labeled, and that information will then be sent to the federal govt.

The federal student privacy law (FERPA) was gutted during the Obama administration, which means that government agencies can share personal information without parental knowledge or consent. The change to FERPA included adding EXCEPTIONS so that some people can access your child’s personal data.

When your district uses an SEL tech vendor, they upload your child’s personal mental health information into the database. That SEL VENDOR is considered an EXCEPTION who can avoid obtaining parental consent for accessing your child’s personal information.

Now that the SEL vendor has collected your child’s personal mental health information, that vendor can share this sensitive personal information with anyone else who fits in the EXCEPTION category. In other words, your child has NO privacy protections when it comes to the security of their personal mental health information. Your child’s records can be shared over and over, and you will have no idea it’s happening.

Student personal mental health data has already been shared with Keene State- BHII. The students and parents were never consulted, and they never approved. Keene State-BHII would be considered an EXCEPTION to the FERPA law. Does this violate a child’s right to privacy? I believe so, but that would mean a parent would have to sue their local school for violating their child’s right to privacy. A judge would then have to determine if their constitutional right to privacy was violated.

In this video, you can listen to some of the staff in our local schools talk about how they want to manipulate consent forms to keep parents in the dark when they are administering mental health services to their children,

Everyone should REFUSE SEL for their children. If your children need mental health services, use a private provider who will keep your child’s records secure and private.

 

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MSNBC (NBC), CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. want you to hear from Republicans … FAUX-Republicans whose role is to attack real Republicans. Stated somewhat differently, a real Republican would never get a gig on the Regime-media because the Regime-media is advocacy not journalism and their role is to advocate for the Regime and against the opposition.

What should get real Republicans concerned … IRATE, actually … is NOT that Ronna is going to MSNBC, but that Ronna was the head of the RNC for so long. How can you expect to win elections when the person in charge of winning elections despises most of the candidates that she is supposed to get elected?

The donor class controls the GOP; they would rather control the GOP than have the wrong Republicans … i.e., real Republicans … control Congress or the Presidency. Just yesterday I watched Trey Gowdy bloviating like a lunatic on Faux News not about the latest minibus betrayal of Republican voters, but about the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.

The NHGOP is a caricature. GOP voters renominated as their gubernatorial candidate a FAUX-Republican who despises actual Republican principles THREE TIMES. But … I know, I know … “he’s good on guns and taxes.”

The current NHGOP gubernatorial primary involves a former U.S. Senator who became a mini-me Jeannie-Shaheenie over the course of her term and supported AMNESTY for illegals versus a State Senator who voted to codify Obamacare into State law. But the NHGOP’s “leaders” tell us they are “solid conservatives” who will protect the “New Hampshire Advantage.”

New Hampshire Advantage! Slava Ukraine! New Hampshire Advantage! Slava Ukraine!

 

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What could possibly be causing an uptick in marine deaths related to Offshore Wind farms? Many factors may disrupt marine life, including noise, vibration, sonar, and more, many of which we are not aware of. Let’s scratch the surface of some of the data.

Observations on structural and operational issues that may cause problems with this technology;

1. Offshore wind farms look like a sea of lightning rods! And yes, they are often hit by lightning, and even mitigating factors are not deterrent enough to stop Mother Nature’s force. According to the updated National Fire Protection Association handbook, “While physical blade damage is the most expensive and disruptive damage caused by lightning, by far the most common is damage to the control and damage to electronics.”
2. Nor’easters and hurricanes. The eastern seaboard has its’ share of Cat 1-5 hurricanes and nor’easters. Offshore Wind will be a disastrous hazmat situation. I saw the full power of a Nor’easter in 1978 when the ocean pummeled Hampton Beach, where I lived. Steel girders at the sea wall were standing straight up, twisted like butter. Boulders the size of cars littered where Route 1A once was. This was onshore, and out to sea was much worse. A Cat 2 hurricane can have winds up to 115 mph, and a Cat 5 157 mph and higher. The wind turbines cannot handle anything above 55 mph when they shut down. Plus, they are vulnerable to storms. A study done by a pro-green group admits this out loud in an extensive paper done in 2012. Failure modes can include loss of blades and buckling of the supporting tower.
3. Anyone who has stood in water and touched an electric fence knows that water is a conductor of electricity! What if a shark bites into a cable? And how will a team get even close to the scene to fix it? I’m not sure they have protocols for these. The cables becoming exposed on the ocean floor are an issue. Never mind the high voltage cables under beaches that eventually end up at a transfer plant, where humans congregate, especially in the summer.
4. The technology is primarily coming from countries where we have no control over how the technology is fabricated, labor laws, and environmental laws.
5. This technology has a short life span and huge environmental challenges for disposal, but I doubt the foreign installers will come back to retrieve the blades, turbines, towers, and cables once they are rendered useless.

The ocean is our last Wild West. We do not understand it enough to know all the problems that could happen to marine life and plants, not to mention human pollution.

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Challenges and possible problems for marine life but not limited to:

Wind: Today’s wind blades can turn up to 180mph, with an average speed of about 100mph. They can only sustain wind speeds from at least a nine mph wind with minimum and maximum wind of 55mph. The sheer velocity causing vibration and noise can cause disruptions on the ocean surface and below.

Light flicker: On land, many domestic and wild animals are afraid of the light flicker caused by the blades. When the light flicker hits the ocean, it can be disruptive to marine life below.

Vibration: Wind Energy turbines are a fast-growing source of anthropogenic vibrational noise that can affect soil and animals sensitive to vibrations and thereby alter soil community functioning. Animals rely on different sensory stimuli to acquire and process information from their environment. The ability to acquire this information is essential for an animal’s reproductive success and survival. If this can cause problems for earthworms, what about ocean life?

Noise: The reported sound pressure levels of an operating turbine are 105–125 dB re 1 μPa measured at 100 m distance and –54 dB re 1 m s–2 sound particle acceleration at 20 m distance with most energy below 1,000 Hz. Most fish species can detect these pressure levels.

Electricity comes from cables carrying up to 690,000 volts of Electrical and Magnetic Field (EMF) traveling along the ocean floor, under beaches and roads. 12,000km of cable are needed to bring power to the shore off Long Island and NJ, which is the distance from NY to Tiapie.

Sonar is used to map locations for wind farms. It is used extensively in NJ and other states. Germany uses active sonar transponders to warn submarines. 3D sonar is being tested off Block Island on a wind farm there.

Excavation: the massive amount of drilling, pile driving, and rock involved in the excavation of offshore wind is directly affecting marine animals.

Hot Water into the Ocean: The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Is releasing heated water back into the ocean. This sounds like insanity. I thought the goal was to curtail ocean warming, not make it worse. This is to cool the High Voltage Direct Current Cooling (HVDC). Only two offshore wind projects are using AC current because of its proximity to the shore. The design is much worse and details are in their report, see link below. “The most effective way to cool large HVDC systems is by using deionized water in a closed system. The deionized water is then cooled by seawater pumped through a heat exchanger, absorbing heat from the deionized water. This open loop cooling process allows continual operation of the HVDC converter. Sea water is filtered to remove small particles, sand, and other elements to about 500 microns. Chemicals, such as sodium hypochlorite, may be added to prevent growth in the system, with an estimated concentration of 10-200 parts per million as proposed for the Mayflower Wind project (Mayflower Wind Energy, LLC, 2021). The filtered, heated water is then discharged back into the ocean (Figure 1).”

Then there are problems like turbines exploding, oil leaks, waste from the blades in landfills since they are not recyclable and will last forever, disruption to fish migration and fishermen, the lifespan of the mechanics, servicing the windmills, and more we don’t even know about.

This is the short, most obvious list.

The following letter was sent from someone within the Army Corp of Engineers posted on a New Jersey ground zero for offshore wind farms whale deaths grassroots page. Virginia, NY, and Carolinas have grassroots groups to save their shores, as well.

https://protectourcoastnj.com/

“So you think Ocean Wind turbines will have NO IMPACT on the ocean?

They require carpet bombing the seafloor with sonar non-stop. Who uses sonar? Whales & dolphins.

Punch thousands of holes, 60′ wide by 100-150′ deep. (sorry scallops, shrimp, clams, mussels, crabs, etc.)

Then, build caisons of steel and concrete. A caisson is a watertight structure which is used as an “anchor” for a foundation

Next: erect 1,000 ft wind turbines, with blades 180′ long, spinning at 180 mph. Turbine blades will slice up anything that happens to fly by.

The down draft from blades will impact the sea and waves below. Ever see a helicopter hover over water? Imagine that 24-7. The non-stop sound they emit won’t cause any problems-Right?

How Do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey? Animals that hide on the seafloor are often masters of disguise. But even the most evasive of prey cannot hide from hungry sharks and stingrays. These predators can detect tiny electric currents radiating from animals like shrimp and small fish. Without using their ears, nose, or eyes stingrays can locate and devour their prey.

Next: Dredge a trough 6 feet deep by 10 miles long back to the shore.

Lay the electrified cable. (Sorry sharks and rays) Re-bury that trough. A great thing for the ocean and it’s inhabitants?

Oh yeah, the onshore existing energy grid and stations can’t handle the incoming power. So, this will require multiple off shore “islands” to be built for new power sub-stations.

Now multiply this from New England to the Carolinas and beyond.

Hope you don’t like seafood. Scallops, shrimp, clams, mussels and crabs will be depleted beyond recognition.

Generations of fisherman. You’ll be going broke.”

What we do know:

In July of 2016, a federal appeals court ruled that the US Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar in the nation’s oceans that could harm whales and other marine life.

Environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), filed a lawsuit in San Francisco in 2012, arguing the approval violated the Marine Mammal Protection Act. But why has this become an issue? Sonar has been around for years. Evolution of surface ship sonar from the end of World War I until the present time; surface ship echo-ran systems have evolved since WW1 with systems that have lower operating frequencies, high transmitted power, and longer pulse lengths. According to the Navy’s own studies, Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar generates sounds up to 140 decibels even more than 300 miles away from the sonar source. Many scientists believe that blasting such intense sounds over large expanses of the ocean could harm entire populations of whales, porpoises and fish. What the Navy learned from the effects of sonar on marine mammals is severe hemorrhaging; sonar has been linked to hearing loss, deadly mass strandings, and interference with whales. Interestingly enough, the NRDC is actively promoting offshore wind as a solution to “dangerous greenhouse gases”!

This is why the Navy was forced to stop! Why are Offshore Wind developers allowed to use this damaging technology now? If they discovered this problem and banned the Navy from using it and prove there is a connection between sonar, noise, vibration, and marine mammal deaths! Why is this so hard to understand? The Green New Deal and its money, is why.

How does this relate to Offshore Wind Farms? See the diagram (complete links following chart) that puts East Coast wind farms in proximity to reported deaths of marine animals. The chart from Northeast Ocean Data is over a 20-year period. The interactive map shows most of the strandings between 2019 and 2020 when exploration (high use of sonar and construction) began in earnest for the Offshore wind farms shown on the left map.

https://efifoundation.org/insights/siting-isnt-simple-for-offshore-wind/

https://www.northeastoceandata.org/maps-show-marine-mammal-strandings-from-maine-to-virginia-by-season-species-and-county/

Migratory birds are also taking a hit.

As reported by The Telegraph: “Data from German scientists looked at the number of red-throated loons in the North Sea before and after the installation of five offshore wind farms.

“Numbers of the birds were found to be up to 94 per cent lower within half a mile of the wind turbines, on average, after they were built.

For a decade, studies into “Wind Turbine Syndrome” have shown bone metabolism in farm animals. Who’s surprised it could be responsible for marine animal problems?

Competing Coastline Use: 

From the EIF foundation (EIF): “Another factor limiting offshore wind potential on the West Coast is that some coastline areas are already claimed for other uses, including military operations and environmental sanctuaries. The U.S. military has mostly blocked offshore wind development in southern California (except for Morro Bay and Diablo Canyon regions) over concerns that turbines may interfere with aerial and coastal training at military bases.

Wildlife sanctuaries (including Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary) occupy much of the central California coast and northern Washington, further limiting West Coast installation for offshore wind. There is potential for offshore wind farms to protect ocean ecosystems by preventing other maritime activity in the area, although scientists have yet to fully understand the impacts of offshore wind on ecosystems. Why are we jumping in with both feet on the East Coast? It sounds like if it is related to Green energy, we suddenly have blinders on! If the offshore wind is so harmful to wildlife sanctuaries, marine activities, and the military!

Why is it all over the East Coast and not the West Coast?

Source: https://efifoundation.org/insights/siting-isnt-simple-for-offshore-wind/

Two key landmark court decisions: 1. French Council of State annuls wind turbine permits, major impact on energy future

Paris, March 9, 2024 – In a landmark decision, the French Council of State has ruled that authorizations for onshore wind turbines and rules for the renewal of wind farms are illegal. The decision comes after a legal challenge brought by the Fédération Environnement Durable and 15 associations.

Consequences:

Projects under review or authorized but not yet built: These projects must imperatively undergo a complete environmental assessment.

Existing wind farms: All wind farms built on the basis of the now-illegal ministerial decrees should no longer be authorized to operate in their current state.

Reasons for the cancellation:

Lack of environmental assessment: The Council of State found that the ministerial decrees on noise measurement did not undergo an environmental assessment, which is a violation of the law.

Lack of public participation:

The Council of State also highlighted that the decisions approving the noise protocol were not subject to public participation, violating the principles of participation and transparency.

Reactions:

Environmental associations: Environmental associations welcome the decision of the Council of State, calling it a major victory for environmental protection, the health of local residents, and respect for the law. They point to the systematic disregard of these laws by the public authorities, whose sole objective was to impose the installation of wind turbines that are increasingly rejected by the population, especially in rural areas.

State: The State has been ordered to pay compensation to the plaintiff associations.

Impact on the French energy future:

The decision of the Council of State will have a crucial impact on the future of French energy. The development of onshore wind energy is now being slowed down, pending the implementation of new authorizations and rules that comply with the law. This decision also raises questions about the viability of ongoing projects and the future of existing wind farms.

https://environnementdurable.org/?fbclid=IwAR0pA6_yiOgStoKMzXTltnkZFsniAnRcN_PBPPpmgMTqjaEwEntCx1fiIiM

2. March 8, 2024, The Yurok Tribe posted the following announcement to its Facebook page Wednesday evening, just hours after news broke that Crowley Wind Energy plans to let its partnership agreement with the Harbor District expire without signing a lease to develop a heavy-lift marine terminal on the Samoa Peninsula:

[On Wednesday], the Yurok Tribal Council voted to formally oppose the development of floating offshore wind energy projects off the Yurok Coastline.

The Tribal Council opposes offshore wind for the following reasons:

The 900-foot-tall offshore wind turbines will indelibly tarnish sacred cultural sites from the coast to the high country.

There is insufficient scientific research on the adverse environmental impacts associated with the massive floating wind turbines and platforms.

The Tribe is gravely concerned about potential risks to the interlinked ecosystem extending from the deep ocean to the headwaters of the Klamath River.

The federal government has not recognized the Yurok Tribe’s unceded ocean territory or its sovereign authority to determine whether and how this territory should be developed.

Wind power has been with us for centuries. The Amish and remote farms still use wind for energy and wells. But on a grand scale, it just doesn’t make sense compared to natural gas, nuclear, and oil. I don’t believe wind power is without a carbon footprint like the propaganda says. But like everything “green energy” lately, not enough research is done before implementation. We hear about birds and bats confused on land, some end up victims to the blades. Whales “mysteriously” washing up on shores, no disease, propeller strikes or fishing nets.

We are told it is climate change, but let’s be real. I question the logic and testing and the potential harm to marine ecosystems. We need to get answers before more harm is done in the name of “green” energy and climate change. Where I get all bound up is the shift from the “Save the Whales” and Greenpeace activists who would literally throw themselves in front of ships to save whales too, “It’s green, so it must be ok”? The problem now is now that Biden has thrown millions into the Green New Deal just for offshore wind.

Companies are making bank, and the heck with a few whales… People get paid to shut up, the MSM machine starts pushing propaganda, and who’s the wiser? In Maine, one whale washed up due to entanglement, and the fishermen were attacked.

Ten mysteriously wash up on shore in 10 days, and the offshore wind is moving ahead at flank speed. The BOEM has just released the Gulf of Maine wind energy area that will directly impact Mass, NH, and Maine. Not one mention or study of impacts on the ecology! The impact area includes not only fishing areas but also whale migratory paths and Right Whale foraging areas.

Documented strandings on the east coast 2023:

This only lists whales washed onshore and not animals dead drifting or other marine life. Some data can be found on NOAA, but it is limited. Most reporting is from local news.

December 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023 summary: Dead Large whales, East Coast. 85

(“unknown” is when it was sighted, but never made it to land, and they could not confirm type) Maine-10: 8 minke, 1 humpback, 1 fin; MA-17: 8 minke, 6 humpback, 1 sperm whale, 2 unknown; RI-3: 2 humpback,1 fin; NY-18: 4 minke, 9 humpback, 2 sperm whale. 1 unknown; NJ-14: 2 minke, 11 humpback, 1 unknown; MD- 1:1 humpback; VA-10: 1 right whale, 2 minke, 6 humpback, 1 fin; NC-9: 1 right whale, 1 sei whale, 2 sperm whale, 5 humpback; FL-3: 3 sperm whales.

 

Save the Whales, No – Save The Wind!
Save the Whales, No – Save The Wind! Part 2: FOLLOW THE MONEY

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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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