The Manchester Free Press

Saturday • April 18 • 2026

Vol.XVIII • No.XVI

Manchester, N.H.

Sign Up Now – FREE Training for Republican Candidates for the NH House

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 19:00 +0000

If you’re thinking about running for State Rep, we encourage you to attend one of our upcoming candidate training sessions.  These trainings are FREE, and advance registration is required.  We’re offering three separate options this year:

Saturday, April 27th in Manchester, 8:30 AM to 5 PM

Saturday, May 18th in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM

Saturday, June 22nd in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM

These trainings are FREE. Space is limited, so don’t wait to choose which free one-day class you’d like to attend. Advance registration is required.  To sign up, please send us an email at info@603alliance.org.

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Can Trump Win Massachusetts in November?

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 18:00 +0000

The Democrats must have an oversized amount of whatever passes for faith in their ability to “win” in November because their open-door illegal alien invasion policy is so well past pissing off their own base that Trump winning Massachusetts has to be a consideration.

Nationwide “immigration,” the polite media word (like migrant) for the Biden administration’s third-world invasion policy (them invading us), is becoming THE biggest issue for Democrats. Democrat states chocked full of Democrat voters are saying it is more important than climate change or grooming, which has to come as a shock to the party leadership.

Complaints by mayors of Democrat toilets doing business as cities have tricked down to the peasants who are increasingly put out by wave after wave of unvetted, non-English-speaking invaders, many of whom are allegedly being flown in directly and ferried to shelters, community centers, hotels, and motels, where they are collecting in every crevice like sand during a dessert storm. But it might be worse than that (if you can imagine such a thing. Voters in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states on the electoral map, were recently polled, and none of their top concerns are issues Democrats typically give a damn about.

A plurality of Massachusetts residents, 21%, said that immigration and migrants are the biggest issues facing the Bay State, with housing coming in second at 15%. Taxes, government spending, and welfare came in as the third biggest issue facing the state at 12%. Inflation and the cost of living, meanwhile, tied government spending in third place at 12%.

What happened to promoting abortion (dba: women’s health care), grooming (Public Education), and Marxism (climate justice, social justice, blah blah blah)? Were those not even options? They were, sort of, but in the bluest of blue-blood locales, Climate and ‘Social Issues” as pressing concerns came in dead last.

 

That might explain why the Bidenistas are so keen on a regional Middle Eastern Conflict, but I’m not sure that’ll be the distraction they’re looking for. China, which backs Russia over Ukraine. Russia is an ally of Iran. Iran (and its proxies), along with China, have been using Biden’s invasion of America to move operatives into the domestic US. And you can argue that this is unverified, but if you were them looking at us, would you sit on your hands or use it to your strategic advantage?

Trust me; there are trained interlopers all across the increasingly fruitless plain waiting to impose as much inconvenience and harm as they can manage and we’re backing their geographic enemies on both conflicts.

Vegas odds, given that Biden and the Democrats have done almost everything they projected on Trump, that they will also try to prevent the election or its results? The odds are getting better every day if the Blue States start to become less-than-reliable electoral gimmes as we creep closer to November.

 

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Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 16:00 +0000

To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Many, many good ones!  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  And Saturday will be the Israel post, if that interests you.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Will that be in the language you “voluntarily” sign to get your CBDC card – which will be offered as your only choice as they remove cash from the economy?  Doubtless.

 

 

 

Now, imagine the police doing the same for any other religion.

 

 

 

Don’t buy Canadian.

 

 

Square this circle.  Please.

 

 

Some kind of -ist, or -phobe…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m seeing Persian voice after Persian voice, whether inside Iran or out, supporting Israel and wanting freedom from the Mullahs.  How can we help them?

I remember Iran, albeit being “knee high to a grasshopper” at the time.  Warm and wonderful people that we met.

 

 

 

On pretty much anything the Left proposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, so who?  If he’s predicting the end of humanity’s domination, who replaces humanity?  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

 

 

Remember my two essays “It was the best of times, it was the end of times”…

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 1

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 2

 

 

 

My older kid will, soon, be entering the workforce.  And will soon be seeing, with their own eyes, the effects of TAXATION IS THEFT.

 

 

It’s painful to me in particular: so many Jews who, among all peoples, should distrust government – so mindlessly servile to “If the government / news say it, it must be true”.

 

 

My brain hurts thinking someone actually believes this!

 

 

 

Interesting metric.

 

 

Celebrating the murder of your child.  A pity they didn’t tie her tubes while they were in there.  How far we’ve fallen – gone back to the old times!

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Dr. McCullough is the most published cardiologist IN HISTORY.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mccollough-on-oncogenesis.mp4

 

The Jabbed, especially those who have had it multiple times, are in great danger.  Also see links section, below, for other info on this.

 

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Presented to show the Mobius-strip mentality of the Left.

 

 

 

One of the single greatest crimes of 20th century Democrats was the destruction of the black family.  Or any family that was pushed onto the “Great Society” and its welfare requirements.

 

 

 

 

Echoing 2020.  And I fear the results will echo it too.

 

 

 

Can we spell C O N F L I C T  O F  I N T E R E S T boys and girls?

 

 

 

Marry that up with the info apparently being distributed in the pre-border staging areas telling people to vote for Biden… and how to do it.

 

 

That’s the thing.  That department DID NOT EXIST until Carter, and the American education system was the envy of the world.  See this Bill Whittle video:

THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY (youtube.com)

And note the paragraph that sixth grade students were reading and analyzing, which is the centerpiece of Bill’s discussion.

 

 

 

You have to wonder when so many people make the same gesture.  Is it just “Hey, me too!” or is there something more?  Up until a few years ago I’d have said “Just me too” but now…

 

 

Chops to Kirstie.

 

 

 

Words mean things.  That’s why the Left spends so much time working to corrupt the language.

 

 

We care about borders, national and cultural security, and the safety and security of our children too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a real shirt!

 

 

See prior comment about Conflict of Interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen quite a number of articles and videos that don’t convince me to repeal the 19th instanter… but do convince me that a case can be made for it.

 

 

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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

No Oaths of Office in the Federal Government (madmaxworld.tv)

When I worked for the US Army as a civilian (intern!), I still had to take an oath.  I can’t fathom how – not one, but many – of these people are functioning at the highest level without an oath.  Speaking of oaths and impeachment:

On The Mayorkas Impeachment in [Market-Ticker] (formatting removed):

The impeachment of Mayorkas has nothing to do with “policy disagreements”; it is first, last and only about a Cabinet official’s deliberate refusal to enforce laws as written, including 8 USC §1324.

A Millennial Conflict – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

An ageless conflict, actually.

Camera Catches Biden’s Cheat Sheet for Meeting with Iraq PM, Shows Embarrassing Directions to Guide Him | The Gateway Pundit | by Jack Davis, The Western Journal

National embarrassment.  At least, to anyone with three brain cells that work with each other.

Borepatch: How do you find “Global Warming” when there’s no actual warming?

The upward warming trend from 1970 to the present day is not due to the data as read, but rather to the (made up) adjustments to the data.

Bayou Renaissance Man: Put not your trust in bureaucracies – Second Amendment edition

 

 

Related:

Defense against robots – Gun Free Zone

I agree.  More on guns:

Unlicensed Dealers Account for fewer than 1 of 10,000 Firearms Sold in USA (jpfo.org)

Closed-Loop Fission Energy? in [Market-Ticker]

Interesting about nuclear energy.  A civilization like ours needs reliable and consistent energy.

Biden WH Weighs Invoking Climate Emergency To Hamper Oil Production, Garner Youth Votes – Climate Change Dispatch

War on Oil: Biden Has Taken More than 200 Actions Against U.S. Oil Industry – The Lid (lidblog.com)

And broadly on climate:

Net Zero? Oops, Never Mind | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Bill Gates Patent Gives Him ‘Exclusive Rights’ to ‘Computerize’ Humans – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

More and more, I view this as a not-merely-theoretical threat.  Kind of related, at least to me:

‘Terrifying’: FISA Bill Set to Include ‘Vast’ New Surveillance Powers Forcing Businesses to ‘Become NSA Spies’ (infowars.com)

Technology is, increasingly, changing from a tool of liberation and information to a tool of oppression.  And related to technology:

Video: Boston Dynamics unveils stronger, more capable electric Atlas robot (newatlas.com)

AI-powered robots can now autonomously repair other bots (newatlas.com)

Why do the above NOT give me warm fuzzy feelings?  Or this:

AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air | The War Zone (twz.com)

From a purely military standpoint, this makes sense.  The downside potential for this, however, is enormous.

7 of 12 Trump Jurors Have Been Picked. Here’s What We Know About Them… (thenationalpulse.com)

Can we spell FIX?

This Is What Your Neighbor Might Already Know About You – Ask a Prepper

Never Throw These Away! – Ask a Prepper

Prep.  Prep.  Prep.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  No, you can’t be 100 sure or completely prepared for any possibility, but even something is better than nothing.  Related to spicy time:

Video: Robert Spencer on How the Left Is Trying to Foment a Civil War (jihadwatch.org)

Researchers Warn of Mutant Monkeypox Strain with ‘Pandemic Potential’, Discovered in Congo Village (legalinsurrection.com)

Spread by sexual contact.  And you know they want pedo too:

New York Democrats Want Law to Allow Little Kids to undergo Sex Change without Parental Consent – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Just what kind of monster would, possibly, permit this.  Or this:

California Democrats Oppose Bill Making Child Prostitution a Felony – The Lid (lidblog.com)

German Peasants Warned They Could Be Restricted From Driving On The Weekends To Meet Net Zero – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Consequences of Green policies.  Benefits unknown.

Oriane Filhol (left-wing politician who campaigned for the rights of migrants) and Pippa Bacca (hitchhiker in Turkey who tried to promote world peace), both attacked & killed by islamic 6th century (substack.com)

I want-want-want to feel sorry for them; I’m sure their friends and family are grieving.  I can’t scrape up a shred, sorry.

South American ‘Burglary tourists’ strike again: Now foreign armed gangs are targeting wealthy San Diego neighborhoods after flying in to America on Visa Waiver Program | Daily Mail Online

Videos: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don’t Learn African Languages – modernity

Wait, wait, wait… you come to a new country and then demand that people in the new country learn YOUR language?

At another point in the hearing migrants began complaining about the free food and housing they have been provided, saying it isn’t good enough.

And you come here, getting free room and board, often clothes, medical care, etc., also free – and you’re complaining still?

Student suspended for using term ‘illegal alien’ in English class (carolinajournal.com)

Before my wife got her US citizenship, she was a RESIDENT ALIEN.  Someone here illegally is an ILLEGAL ALIEN.

Period.

We’re All Paying A Deadly Price For Obama’s Foreign Policy (thefederalist.com)

Go past the Israel focus of the article.  Barackus’ influence has been calamitous generally.  And he’s still got his hand in the mix.

Confirmed: Researchers Reveal COVID mRNA Vaccines Contain Component that Suppresses Immune Response and Stimulates Cancer Growth | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

See video in PSA above.  Scary stuff.  More:

BREAKING–New Manuscript Concludes 100% Pseudouridinated mRNA is Potentially Cancer-Promoting (substack.com)

From the same site:

Why is Academic Medicine Stonewalling on the COVID-19 Vaccine Debacle? (substack.com)

Two from Surak – always insightful:

STATIN DRUGS laid the groundwork for COVID (substack.com)

Who takes statins?  Primarily older people.  Whose health care is more expensive.  See the “Pick of the Post”…

Changing the Constitution to save America (substack.com)

Congressional Spending Goes Full Weimar – American Thinker

Death spiral approaching!

Mainstream Media Issues Joint Statement to Pressure Biden – Morning Report News

As I understand, Trump has publicly said YES, repeatly.  It’s The Potato (or more precisely, his shepherds) that refuse.  Speaking of the enemedia:

Let’s Play ‘Spot the Missing Word’ : The Other McCain

Control the information flow, control what people believe.  There’s a reason that word is missing.  For example, when you search for DEMOCRAT and CORRUPTION in a search, nothing comes up.  Generally:

Democrats Continue To Look For Ways To Regulate Free Speech – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (newatlas.com)

I just think this is cool!

Democrats One Step Closer to Mob Rule: Maine Joins Blue States To Abolishing Electoral College – Geller Report

Maine circling the drain.  IMHO, NH will not be more than 10 years in doing the same.

A fairly long video (almost 50 minutes) from October 2022 that lays out a fairly strong case for the Vatican being one of the powers behind “The Great Culling”, and how they are pulling a lot of financial strings to hasten the End Times.  The presenter says some pretty outlandish stuff, but he also has some good backup.  Definitely food for thought:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7eRf1t5gs6Gy/

More on “The Great Taking”.  Strongly suggest getting any cash you have OUT of the banks.  The FDIC insurance isn’t going to matter for squat if the government declares a “bank holiday” and locks everyone out of their accounts.  Start NOW, as amounts larger than $5000 or so will cause much push back (I know from personal experience):

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/07/whats-so-great-about-the-great-reset-great-taking-great-replacement-great-deflation-and-next-great-depression/

Also, understand that if you draw money routinely, sooner or later you will be accused of “structuring” – drawing money out in smaller amounts that is designed to evade that limit.

government commissioned report  has been released that shows causality (i.e. a direct link) between the mRNA “vaccines” and myocarditis.  Given this report, they can no longer claim ignorance of the damage caused by the “Jabs”, and they need to stop pushing the “vaccines” immediately (or at least put a HUGE warning on them).  Let the court battles begin:

Biden Admin-commissioned report concludes Pfizer & Moderna mRNA shots cause myocarditis (dossier.today)

Don’t forget this video – they knew, and knew in 2021:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/naomi-wolf-they-knew.mp4

 

The government is running experiments to create clouds and block the sun, all to combat “global warming”. They just had their first major experiment, but did not tell anyone until AFTER it was conducted, as they were concerned about public backlash.  You think?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/secretive-experiment-shoots-aerosols-into-sky-to-increase-cloud-cover-facts-matter-5624329

If they goof and put too much in, there goes photosynthesis.  And all life on earth.

Now that the R’s are getting into mail-in voting & ballot harvesting (where ever it’s legal), the D’s are getting concerned about how it may affect the election:

Democrats, Media Starting to Admit Some Mail-In Voting Problems Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election – Tennessee Star

Flyers found in Mexico, at a processing station for illegals are openly telling the “newcomers” to vote for Biden.  First:  These are NOT citizens of the USA, so they should not be allowed to vote at ALL!   2nd, this is out-and-out election interference, trying to dilute the vote of We The People:

GOP Slams ‘Vote Biden’ Flyers at Migrant Center (dailysignal.com)

Even the left is getting tired of the pro-Hamas protesters:

Whoa: Google Fires 28 Employees After Pro-Hamas Sit-In – HotAir

For anyone who owns a gun & wants to sell it someday, the ATF just dropped a new “rule” (466 pages worth), making it a crime to sell your gun at a profit unless you have an FFL:

The Feral Irishman: Bee Aye Tea Eff: Making It Up As We Go Along

This article has a strong argument that we are already a police state, but the police just haven’t gotten around to you yet.  To paraphase a friend “Every day the coils of the deep state snake squeeze a little harder”:

DAVID KRAYDEN: America is already a police state; it just hasn’t captured you yet | Human Events | humanevents.com

Saw this recently, and thought it was spot on:

The most oppressed people in America are the law-abiding individuals.”  

— sloanmagnum5009

Concluding:

Paris 2024 Games flame lit in ancient Olympia – Insider Paper

Notice what’s not there?

“Diversity”.

And related to Greece:

Must be “The Climate Change”: Greece’s Population Plummets as Sudden Deaths Soar (substack.com)

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Remember these words:

Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.

Cases Of Medical Murder Explode In America (allnewspipeline.com) (bolding added):

Taking a longer view, Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the country’s most influential bioethicists and a prime architect of Obamacare, wrote as far back as 1996 that health care “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”

What did the first excerpt say?  If you’re not productive / participating, you’re on the chopping block.

In a possible “predictive programming” moment, there was a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode centering around a planetary civilization that had The Resolution where it was your social duty to commit suicide before you became a burden.  Given the enormous push for euthanasia around the world – at least in western societies – that seems prophetic.

And then, of course, there’s Logan’s Run.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

 

I’ll show myself out.  TGIF!

 

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If Your NH Public School Is Coercing Students to Identify as the Opposite Sex, Contact Me

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 14:00 +0000

HILLIARD, Ohio (WCMH) — Several central Ohio parents suing Hilliard City Schools allege a student suffering from “severe emotional trauma” was pressured by teachers to adopt “a new name and identity as the opposite sex.”

Nine Hilliard parents say school officials “treated the child as the opposite sex” without parental consent after “diagnosing” the student with gender dysphoria, according to the filing in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio. The complaint claims the district deceived the student’s parents while the child’s “condition spiraled out of control” and led to a suicide attempt.

Hilliard student coerced to ‘identify as opposite sex,’ anti-LGBTQ+ lawsuit says

If Your NH Public School Is Coercing Students to Identify as the Opposite Sex, Contact Me

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Speaker Mike Johnson … A Self-Righteous, Self-Serving, Unprincipled, Empty Nut-Sack

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 12:00 +0000

Speaker Mike Johnson is a one-person-wrecking ball. But what he is wrecking is the GOP that he supposedly leads. He is single-handedly wrecking the GOP’s electoral prospects … vote GOP, so we can play the role of controlled opposition while fully-funding the Left’s anti-America, globalist agenda. 

But remember bitter-clingers, he’s not the problem … it’s Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Chip Roy who won’t go along with the charade who are the real problem. Yeah, just keep telling yourself that.

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Bringing A Dad’s Worst Nightmare To Life

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 10:00 +0000

A Texas father is left powerless as he fights his ex-wife in a California court over her insistence to start their son on puberty blockers.

The terrifying saga facing Jeff Younger is a cautionary tale about how the U.S. court system is weaponized against parents who do not go along with the transgender cult. For years, Younger and his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, have fought over custody of their children, with the highlight of their fight being about one of their sons, who she believes is transgender.

Georgulas moved their children, including their 11-year-old son, to California against the wishes of their father. The move was protected after Younger lost his petition in the Texas Supreme Court to force her to return the children to Texas. (ROOKE: Blue State Dems Soundly Lost Debate On Radical Trans Bill — So Now They Want To Sneak It Past You)

The Texas Supreme Court denied his petition, claiming that Younger misinterpreted SB 107 and that the current Texas court order preventing Georgulas from giving their son these medical treatments would be honored in California. California currently has a transgender child trafficking law on the books, SB 107, which allows the state to refuse lawful extradition orders from other states over issues related to so-called gender-affirming care.

“I concur in the Court’s denial of the petition because Father is already in possession of a court order prohibiting Mother from doing precisely what he fears she will do with his son. In October 2021, the district court—with Mother’s full agreement, and indeed at her request—ordered that: neither parent may treat a child with hormonal suppression therapy, puberty blockers, and/or transgender reassignment surgery (if any) without the consent of the parents or court order,” the Court stated.

Proponents of the law claim SB 107 makes California a “refuge for trans kids and their families.” Law experts have long warned that these bills strip parental rights away from concerned parents, preventing any opposition to these medical treatments. This means that for Younger and his family, it will allow the mother to start harmful medical treatments on his child without his permission. (ROOKE: Democratic Lawmaker Who Destroyed Own Family Wants To Come For Yours Next)

Despite the Texas order supposedly preventing this from happening, Younger’s family has an upcoming pro forma hearing on April 25 that will ultimately decide whether Georgulas will be allowed to start their son down a path that will eventually turn him into a medical patient for the rest of his life.

A bombshell U.K. review, the Cass Report, of the usage of puberty blockers for minor patients found alarming problems when children are given these drugs to pause or delay puberty.

“A further concern … is that adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function (i.e. maturation of the part of the brain concerned with planning, decision making and judgement). If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by the use of puberty blockers, which could have a significant impact on the young person’s ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as having possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences,” the report found.

The research shows that male children put on puberty blockers from an early age suffer from “inadequate penile growth,” and both male and female minor patients suffer from compromised bone density and growth issues.

“Puberty suppression was never intended to continue for extended periods, so the complex circumstances in which young people may remain on puberty blockers into adulthood is of concern,” the report stated.

Georgulas promised Texas courts that she was not intent on sending their son to a gender clinic to receive irreversible treatments for his supposed gender dysphoria, but if that were the case, why would she be in a California court attempting to allow it to happen? Now that Texas ruled against Younger, there is little legal protection left for him to protect his son. He is not even allowed to argue against these treatments in the pro forma hearing on April 25, according to the National File. (ROOKE: Meet Celebrities’ Favorite LA School Turning Their Kids Trans)

SB 107 proponents swore this wouldn’t happen when their bill was signed into law, yet here it is occurring in broad daylight. The Younger case is the realization of what these transgender cultists ultimately wanted. They demonized concerned parents, calling them right-wing conspiracy theorists. The slippery slope is not only real but worse; it’s more like an uncontrollable water slide.

 

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Night Cap: From Inherited Peace to Another War in the Middle East

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 02:00 +0000

Victor David Hanson is a smart guy. A historian, he pays attention to past and present and seems to be neither a deep-state neocon nor some feckless progressive academic interested in politics before facts or science.

He shared some thoughts about the Biden Admininstrations “footing” when it comes to global and regional conflicts that paint a less than flattering picture of Uncle Joe than we may remember.

We should remember, so I felt like this was worth sharing. Joe isn’t just bad with unity at home, which is why traditional antagonists are so emboldened.

Peace through weakness is a tested strategy. It ends badly.

Unrolled.

“Don’t!”— Or Ten Ways to Guarantee a Theater-wide War

On the eve of the October 7 massacres, National Security Advisor bragged in an essay that his Mideast portfolio was “quieter than it has been for decades”. Now we are on the verge of a multifront Middle East war. How did Joe Biden inherit a decades-long regional calm and turn it into a precursor to a gargantuan war?

1. Talk loudly and carry a twig. Issue hollow Obama-like “redlines” or serial Biden threats to aggressive enemies like the vapid “Don’t!” Witness a U.S. President who works a 3-day week, struggles to read a teleprompter, and shouts more at conservative Americans than at America’s enemies.

2. Destroy hard-won deterrence. Abruptly pull out of Afghanistan. Abandon $50 billion in weapons to terrorists. Abandon a new $1 billion embassy. Abandon a $300 refitted air base. Abandon thousands of NATO allies, thousands of U.S. contractors, and thousands of Afghan allies. Lose 13 Marines in a horrific scramble to get out, while killing collateral Afghan civilians in a supposedly “righteous strike”. Call the entire American humiliation an impressive withdrawal.

3. Sit passively while a Chinese spy balloon traverses the continental U.S. Shoot it down only after days of escalating public outrage. Be afraid to call the Chinese out for the Wuhan-lab-generated, gain-of-function Covid-19 virus. Let Chinese diplomats dress down our silent and stunned secretary of state and national security advisor on American soil in Anchorage.

4. Assure Vladimir Putin that the U.S. reaction to a preemptive invasion of Ukraine would hinge on whether it was a major or “minor” invasion. Delay $100 million in military aid to Ukraine as Putin massed on Ukraine’s borders in hopes such forbearance would be reciprocated. Implore Putin to be more selective in his cyber targeting of U.S. infrastructure and institutions.

5. Coddle terrorist Iran. Seem eager to resume the Iran Deal. Lift sanctions. Allow $100 billion in oil profits to flow into Iranian coffers. Restore aid to the terrorist Palestinian authority and Hamas. Ignore Hezbollah’s terrorism. Remove the terrorist designation of the Houthis. Mostly ignore over 120 Iranian attacks on American installations. Transfer suspended funds to Iran at the rate of $1.2 billion for each American hostage it took.

6. Pressure Israel not to destroy Hamas—and not to reply to missile and drone attacks on the Israeli homeland. Threaten to cut off military aid to the only democratic government and longest U.S. ally in the Middle East should it finish off Hamas. Signal the Middle East that there is growing distance between Israel and America. Try to subvert if not overthrow the elected government of Israel. Transfer U.S. weapons stocks from Israel to Ukraine. Ignore thousands of missiles launched by Hamas and Hezbollah, and 100,000 Israelis internally displaced from their homes.

7. Run up the U.S deficit by $1 trillion every 100 days through reckless spending for entitlements, massive green subsidies, and DEI initiatives—while neglecting American shortages of munition stocks, arms, ships, and planes.

8. Recalibrate the U.S. military by substituting DEI criteria for past meritocracy. Accuse white males of being suspect white supremacists, then investigate them, then find no such evidence—and then suffer a shortage of a record 41,000 recruits. Lose the confidence of the American people in the military, so that less than half the population polls high confidence in the armed forces. Render the Uniform Code of Military Justice a mere construct.

9. Destroy the U.S. border for rank political purposes. Cancel all prior border enforcement. Abandon construction of the border wall. Allow in 10-million illegal aliens, among them thousands from hostile nations and some with terrorist ties. Provide generous subsidies, exemptions, and entitlements to immigrant lawbreakers, not always accorded to the U.S. poor.

10. Lose control of the world’s maritime commercial corridors. Allow the Chinese to harass allies in the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea. Allow the Houthis to shut down the Red Sea. Allow Iran to hijack ships in the Straits of the Hormuz. Witness the Black Sea become off-limits to maritime traffic. 

• • •

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Baksheesh (Bribery) in New Hampshire – from James F. McLaughlin to Peter Heed, Cinde Warmington, Kelly Ayotte, Chris Sununu

Granite Grok - Fri, 2024-04-19 00:00 +0000

How do you get immunity in New Hampshire as a public official for being a pervert, a drunk, dishonest, a rapist, a murderer, or a thug?  Pay off the right people to not probe into what you’ve been up to. Political donations or kickbacks on deals.

Think how Police Officer/Rep. Jonathan Stone was covered up all these years, and about why James F. McLaughlin is still covered up despite his dirty past.

640:2 Bribery in Official and Political Matters. –
    I. A person is guilty of a class B felony if:
       (a) He promises, offers, or gives any pecuniary benefit to another with the purpose of influencing the other’s action, decision, opinion, recommendation, vote, nomination, or other exercise of discretion as a public servant, party official, or voter; or
       (b) Being a public servant, party official, candidate for electoral office, or voter, he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any pecuniary benefit from another knowing or believing the other’s purpose to be as described in subparagraph I(a), or fails to report to a law enforcement officer that he has been offered or promised a pecuniary benefit in violation of subparagraph I(a).
    II. As used in this section and other sections of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
       (a) “Public servant” means any officer or employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof, including judges, legislators, consultants, jurors, and persons otherwise performing a governmental function. A person is considered a public servant upon his election, appointment or other designation as such, although he may not yet officially occupy that position. A person is a candidate for electoral office upon his public announcement of his candidacy.
       (b) “Party official” means any person holding any post in a political party whether by election, appointment or otherwise.
       (c) “Pecuniary benefit” means any advantage in the form of money, property, commercial interest or anything else, the primary significance of which is economic gain; it does not include economic advantage applicable to the public generally, such as tax reduction or increased prosperity generally.

Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.

Peter Heed is the attorney to whom Laurie List, corrupt police officer James F McLaughlin, referred his “clients” in the late 1980s. At least, this is the case with Robert LaMontagne and Father Gordon MacRae, both of whom claim, among many others, to be victims of James F McLaughlin’s corrupt practices, with significant and irrefutable documentation to prove it.

Robert LaMontagne’s child lived with Peter Heed (who was also the child’s counsel) for a while. LaMontagne, meanwhile, was incarcerated in Keene jail. James McLaughlin charged him with sexually assaulting his three young children out of the blue while LaMontagne was serving a sentence for driving without a license after a DUI. (meanwhile, Peter Heed pled guilty to a DUI in 2013). LaMontagne was never shown the polygraph test he offered to take. He was just told he’d failed it. The state never gave him due process, but James F McLaughlin would have been rewarded, Keene Police would have got money, and Peter Heed did nicely.

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Peter Heed’s friends at the Union Leader appear to have deleted the inconvenient links to Peter Heed’s own misconduct. That’s how it rolls in New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is guilty of doing the same – censorship of articles inconvenient to those who are in “the club”. Even Congresswoman Ann Kuster (an attorney in the same club as Heed) has had her Wikipedia page edited to remove references that are inconvenient to her frontage as a victim’s rights and women’s rights advocate. She doesn’t want people to remember that she lobbied for date rape drug Rohypnol and ignored the pleas of women who’d been gang raped under its influence.

Peter Heed went on to become DA of Cheshire County and then AG of New Hampshire. In 1994, he resigned after being accused of sexually groping two social workers at a conference sponsored by the State on DV & SA. James F McLaughlin and his eager-beaver corrupt police officer friends in the New Hampshire Sexual Assault Unit left Heed alone. It looks like that would have been a deal due to McLaughlin being allowed to continue after his atrocious record of misconduct.

Did Peter Heed or James McLaughlin ever declare these kinds of quid pro quo (“ad honorarium”) deals? No. And neither did anyone who got paid or had their spouses or AG Gordon MacDonald do media for Marsy’s Law. Gordon MacDonald endorsed Marsy’s Law for Amanda Grady Sexton, who was ED for it. In return, she endorsed him to become NH Supreme Court Chief Justice.  RSA 15, RSA 15B has also been thrown out the window.

You wonder how Rep. Jonathan Stone’s police misconduct was covered up all these years? Baksheesh is why – Bribery. RSA 640.2. And if you don’t do something about it, you continue to put children and families in New Hampshire in extreme mortal harm’s way. It is not as if there haven’t been disappearances of children, adults, unsolved murders. Why is that? The same reason.

James F McLaughlin had a documented history of dishonesty and malfeasance for which he’d been suspended in the 1980s when Peter Heed was in private practice in Keene.  In 1998, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Government had engaged in federal entrapment against a man from Maine: Paul Gamache.

The “Government” was James F McLaughlin under the guise of “Francis”, a 31 year old single mom who put an ad in a newspaper seeking a man to have fun with and “mentor” her three children under age 12. When questioned by Paul Gamache, who’d responded to the ad, what was entailed in mentoring, “Francis” wanted him to have sex with her three young children.  He casually went along with her solicitation for this in correspondence because he was really interested in her. He drove to Keene to meet her, only to be greeted by police officers who arrested him.  It was a tale of deceit from start to finish but Keene Sentinel newspaper was in James McLaughlin’s pocket as well. Reports indicate he’d worked with Paul Montgomery at the Sentinel to use media to help provide “probable cause” for charges. The practice is customary with the Concord Monitor, NH AP, NHPR, Union Leader, WMUR as well.  There are multiple cases to prove this.

Peter Heed would have or should have known about the ruling of federal entrapment in 1998 but he protected James F McLaughlin – one can only assume this is because he’d had good business out of him when he was in private practice. This looks to be the case with AG Gordon MacDonald as well who hired McLaughlin in 2017 and then argued to keep the Laurie list private in 2018 after he knew McLaughlin’s name had been added. MacDonald had great business with McLaughlin when he was at Nixon Peabody representing the Diocese. So had David Vicinanzo – another one who has failed to call him out.

A look at who Peter Heed and other prominent NH attorneys donate to appears to be an indication as to what’s really going on in New Hampshire and why there have been so many cover-ups, behind-closed-doors conferences on McLaughlin and other corrupt police officers:

Is Peter Heed paying people off to look after his own reputation and, in turn, James F McLaughlin’s?  One of those people is Kelly Ayotte (she had an aide who was in a prostitution ring), who conveniently stated about him:

“Deputy Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, whom Benson said will take over for Heed, said the county attorney’s office is investigating the allegations. She said the harassment allegation is the first time against Heed since he took office.”

“I’ve worked with Peter for over a year. I have respect for him. It’s been a privilege to serve with him,” she said. “And I’ve never seen him act inappropriately.”

Another person Peter Heed has donated to is Cinde Warmington, who is currently running for Governor.  He’s also donated to Chris Sununu.

Have you noticed a single one of these demanding to know what’s going on with James F McLaughlin and why Attorneys General have protected him? No.

(I’m copying Cinde Warmington and Debra Altshiller on this because they need to think very seriously about their own ignorance of the Bribery and Lobbying Statutes and what the consequences of that can lead to. It’s not OK to ignore the Statutes when you are in a position of power as an elected official to represent the interests of the public and the Constitution). 

Is Baksheesh just the New Hampshire way of doing business in the Law Enforcement/DA/AG/Governor incestuous swamp? Is that how James F McLaughlin, Rep. Jonathan Stone, and others have gotten away for so long? Not a single Attorney General will call out the misconduct of their predecessors.

They are not adhering to their professional codes of conduct, not their oath of office, nor the mission statements on the NH DOJ site. They are adhering to a secret code in a closed-door club to prevent the real truth from coming out—DECADES OF HORRIFIC CORRUPTION that has acted as a cancer through every hallway of law enforcement, the AG’s office, law firms, agencies, and NGOs. These are the “stakeholders” mentioned by members of the various “Governor’s commissions.”

“At trial the detective testified that the use of the word “mentor” in the advertisement was purposeful in order to draw out only persons who were interested in “inter-generational sexual interaction between adults and children.”   Appellant testified, however, that after looking the term “mentor” up in the dictionary, he concluded that it meant “like role model,” that “it was just another gal looking for somebody to take care of her kids like they do nowadays all over the country ․ [f]inancially, take them fishing, hunting, whatever.”

What does the term “mentor” mean in New Hampshire Law Enforcement? Exactly? James F McLaughlin has dozens of qualifications in child sexual assault and related. He teaches other police officers and he is an “expert witness”. 

What does “expert witness” mean in New Hampshire Courts?  In the case of James F McLaughlin, it means someone who knows how to federally entrap and who is themselves a pervert – a danger to society.

A YDC rape victim testified yesterday that “he knew he wouldn’t be believed.” If you look at the number of organizations, qualifications, publications, and training sessions on child abuse James F McLaughlin has been involved with. Why has the Attorney General’s office protected him for being a sexual pervert, a thug, a liar, but victims of YDC abuse were ignored? He was the expert in signs of child sex abuse….<

Chairman Ray Buckley has somehow avoided scrutiny for what appears to be his own sexually perverse misconduct with teenagers, which appears in this YouTube video.  Why is nobody in the NH State House bothered by it? Is it the same reason nobody was bothered about Stacey Laughton, Jonathan Stone, Timothy Siekmann? Or do people just pay off the right people to carry on?

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Edited (gently) from an original  email to:

DOJ: Invest Info<investinfo@doj.nh.gov>John Formella<john.m.formella@doj.nh.gov>Sharon Carson<Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us>Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.uslwmcv@comcast.netLeah Cushman<leah4nh@gmail.com>Kelley Potenza<Kelley.Potenza@leg.state.nh.us>Governor’s Commission<nhdvcommission@gmail.com>James Kofalt<jim@jimkofalt.com>Glenn Cordelli<glenn.cordelli@leg.state.nh.us>debra.altschiller@leg.state.nh.uscinde.warmington@state.nh.usWendy Thomas<Wendy.Thomas@leg.state.nh.us>Timothy Horrigan<timothy.horrigan@leg.state.nh.us>John Scippa<John.V.Scippa@pst.nh.gov>

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While Maine Works to Protect Child Traffickers, Tennessee Moves to Punish Them

Granite Grok - Thu, 2024-04-18 22:00 +0000

LD227 would permit the state of Maine to hold those in other states liable for violating it; violating what? The law allows human trafficking and protects adults from charges of kidnapping and transporting minors across state lines for gender surgeries. Tennessee pushed back, but not just against the unconstitutionality of LD227.

Tennessee lawmakers in the state’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill on a 25-4 vote that would make it a felony for adults to aid minors in seeking gender transition procedures. It now heads to the GOP-led House, where it is expected to get additional Republican support.

State Sen. Janice Bowling, a Republican, sponsored SB 2782, which would penalize any “adult who recruits, harbors, or transports an unemancipated minor” in Tennessee “for the purpose of receiving a prohibited medical procedure that is for the purpose of enabling the minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex or treating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity, regardless of where the medical procedure is to be procured,” and make it classified as a felony.

Objections are without merit. It is about protecting children from a medical, industrial complex revenue machine that secretly admits the risks and failures of its alleged cures on one hand while cashing checks for its services on the other.

A practice that is rapidly losing support around the world (in just the past few weeks).

  • “Experts” Admit That Transitioning Kids Can Result in Cancer or Death
  • Night Cap: A Majority of Gender Research Lacks Rigour, Quality, or Evidence
  • New Study Confirms that If You Leave Gender-Confused Kids Alone … They Grow Out of It
  • UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Everyone Under 18 Years of Age
  • Woke Pope Comes Out … Against Trans-Surgery and Gender Theory

A growing institutional force recognizes how dangerous and ineffective this is for children’s mental health.

What About Rights?

Children have very limited rights, historically recognized across almost every culture. No one has a history of deliberately letting kids decide what they are ready for or when they can begin certain behaviors. Results may vary (rural kids are up working the family farm and using equipment many an urban youth would be unable to master without the time and training of their rural peers). Still, when it comes to smoking, driving, vaping, drinking alcohol, tattoos, firearms*, and, until recently – sex, the universal standard has been when the time is right. That time is commonly mid to late teens (these days) or later, which ought to include the elective surgical removal of healthy human body parts.

Every culture can debate when the best time is for marriage and firearms safety, but we don’t typically let adults chop off healthy body parts (theirs or someone else’s) unless it is for sexual reassignment surgery, which, when you consider it, is not the best policy. Recent research affirms that a majority of what gets labeled gender dysphoria in children is a different mental health issue that gender-bending does not address. It would explain why the quick-to-judge gender reassignment solution is failing so badly. Even in accepting communities, those lured into the LGBTQ lifestyle continue to embrace other unhealthy habits, including suicide, in statistically high numbers.

You are not addressing their mental health. You are using it to project your political will. Adults are free to make mistakes for which they must then pay some price (unless they are members of Congress). Children manipulated into those choices, contrary to the rising body of evidence against it, are being abused sexually, politically, and forever. You can’t undo the damage of gender surgery, and hormone treatments are dangerous, leading to disease, cancer, and even death.

Maine Democrats are not just fine with the risks. They would add human trafficking to the list. They are putting children in harm’s way. Tennesse is trying to protect them. More states should do the same.

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Categories: Blogs, New Hampshire

The Conservatarian Exchange Podcast #202

The Liberty Block - Thu, 2024-04-18 07:16 +0000

Iran’s attack on Israel; the Trump trial in NYC; should he have not bothered to show up to the trial at all to show his disdain? Would Biden pull Trump’s secret service to send him to prison? Should SCOTUS take so long to make decisions? Do oral arguments change minds? Speaker Johnson changing his mind on section 702; Senate refused to hold trial on Mayorkas impeachment.

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Alu Publishes Daily Journal For Liberty Inspiration!

The Liberty Block - Fri, 2024-04-12 04:04 +0000

After writing and publishing nine books about liberty, Alu has taken on some unique ventures related to writing. He has helped three other libertarians self-publish their own books, he’s translated his books into Spanish, and there are numerous other projects in the works. One of these projects simply involved compiling some of the best quotes about liberty, peace, and prosperity from the dawn of recorded time until 2024. 

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The Conservatarian Exchange Podcast #201

The Liberty Block - Thu, 2024-04-11 07:14 +0000

What is the alt-right? Trump judge refusing to acquiesce to the appeals court re: the bond he has to put up in order to appeal or did Letitia James say the insurance company that issued the bond is not qualified to do such business in NY. Abortion as national issue vs states right; what is Trump standing for in this election cycle? How much else could Trump be doing to spread a winning message and strengthen other GOP candidates?

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Video: House Committee Hears Two Secession Bills

NHexit.US - Thu, 2024-02-29 20:47 +0000

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.

Secession Airplane Banner Flying Over Merrimack Valley Saturday

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Thu, 2023-05-25 02:34 +0000

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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New Hampshire Survey Shows Disdain For DC, Support For Independence

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Fri, 2022-07-22 02:33 +0000

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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Top 100 Reasons New Hampshire Should Be Independent

Foundation for N.H. Independence - Sat, 2021-11-13 01:28 +0000

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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