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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One of the very human things that happens when you evolve beyond ideas about the divine (God) is the heady rush to replace that with something else—cults of personality, hobby obsessions, substance abuse, Scientism, even the god King without God, or climate change—where you are god.

The idea that puny humans are altering the planet is a great way to scare the small-minded and launder money, but it also creates a false god. You. You are unmaking a world, you stud. Now stop it – as if the world couldn’t shake you off faster than a bad habit. But they have a plan. It’s a pantheon arrangement where some gods are better than others (they have all the stuff and power). It’ll be great for them, and all we have to do is not think about what we had to give up to save the world and, every now and again, to thank them. They might expect bowing or kneeling at some point down the road.

That’s the current arc. The climate revolution is a journey to a world with oligarchic god-kings whose splendor is an example to the rest of us disarmed on subsistence living in our walkable open-air prisons – and a recent pronouncement by the International Union of Geological Sciences commission isn’t likely to change that, but it does put some gum in the works. Everything climate change is based on the idea that human beings are more powerful than 4.5 billion years of Earth doing what it did for 99.999% of the time, without us. And that with a little more of your money (just like public education), they can fix it.

You’d have to have a god complex to think like this, and that’s been the justification for the Anthropocene, the human era—the geological age of modern man-made climate narratives.

Not so fast.

The highest governing body in geology has upheld a contested vote by scientists against adding the Anthropocene, or human age, to the official timeline of Earth’s history.

The vote, which a committee of around two dozen scholars held in February, brought an end to nearly 15 years of debate about whether to declare that our species had transformed the natural world so thoroughly since the 1950s as to have sent the planet into a new epoch of geologic time.”

Nope.

We’re still in the Holocene, which began 11,700 years ago with the melting of the ice sheets. Bad news for the Climate Cult. It suggests that melting ice sheets and warming are normal (they are). It also erases the geologic human era, which means that the International Union of Geological Sciences is in desperate need of infiltration and subjugation.  We can’t have a bunch of scientists messing with The Concensus. That just won’t do.

Related: Must Watch: Climate the Movie – The Cold Truth

I’m sure there is a movement afoot to address this. Perhaps the Union of Concerned Scientists—which is mostly a bunch of partisan progressive political hacks carrying bags of cash out of the climate laundromat—will publish a report on why we ARE in the Anthropocene. It’ll be as inaccurate as every other report they’ve published, but that’s not the point. Saturating the human world with the correct sound bites is what matters – while labeling everything contrary (like Geologists implying there’s no evidence of human geologic influence) disinformation.

They’ll fix this; just wait.

Until then, enjoy the moment. It’s not likely to last.

 

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Representative Lorie Ball is currently proposing legislation that targets improving reading education for all students in New Hampshire. I urge you to watch her presentation before the House Education Committee on March 5th, 2024. She explains the problems with reading instruction in our public schools, and then how some changes could positively impact reading proficiency for students.

What’s even more disturbing is those who speak after her who oppose a bi-partisan effort to improve reading literacy in our schools.

Start at the beginning:

Here are the facts: according to NH DOE 2023 statistics, 48% of NH students scored below proficiency in English Language Arts, 58% scored below proficiency in math, and 62% scored below proficiency in science. In addition, according to the 2022 NH DOE Statewide Census by Disability, of the 30,917 students identified with a disability, 10,077 are identified with a Specific Learning Disability (SLD) in English Language Arts and/or Mathematics. Clearly, this data shows that NH needs to do more than address reading proficiency. NH needs to address all aspects of foundational skills needed to set the path for future educational success and lifelong learning.

Using federal expectations for ruling out students with SLD, HB 1015-1106h meets that criteria. This bill goes beyond addressing the five components reading literacy (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension), by requiring public and charter schools teach spelling, grammar, and writing mechanics. This bill assures students are provided the instruction they need to learn the specific skills used to determine if a student needs specialized instruction, rather than being identified as a student with SLD because they were never taught the skills.

HB1015-1106h provides a proven pathway to effectively addressing NH’s low proficiency scores in all areas of English Language Arts. In addition, it addresses the low proficiency scores in mathematics reasoning and mathematics calculation (including fluency) by providing explicit, systematic instruction through grade five. More importantly, as amended, this bill allows districts to maintain local control to choose the program that best meets the needs of their district and students.

School districts will have three years to pilot programs, budget, and train staff for full implementation of new programs by July 1, 2027. While, at first glance, this mandated start date seems far away, it is a reasonable amount of time for districts to make the change. In fact, many NH school districts are already well underway in the process of moving in the direction this bill specifies.

Now is not the time for legislators to ignore the needs of NH students and use the mandated start date as an excuse to vote against this bill. Doing so only kicks the can further down the road, leaving our students’ academic needs unmet. Experienced educators know that explicit, systematic instruction is a proven method that benefits all students and assures all students in public and charter schools will be able to access the general education environment. Given the time it takes to pilot new programs, budget, and train staff, I encourage our legislature to pass NH1015-1106h so districts can have programs in place no later than July 1, 12027.

This Bill came out of the House Education Committee 10-10 with democrats supporting and republicans opposed. I believe the Republicans are making a big mistake and need to reverse their opposition to support HB1015-FN.

FIND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES HERE, AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT HB1015-FN

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Chuck Morse, candidate for Governor and past NH Senate President, was the guest speaker several nights ago at the regular meeting of the Tri-County Republicans.

The Tri-County Republicans group, which meets monthly in Alton, typically draws hard-core conservatives (“real” Republicans) from Belknap, Strafford & Carroll counties, which come together at the NE corner of Belknap. If attendees were prepared to be lulled asleep because they had heard some of the opposition political patter to the effect that Morse was unexciting and actually boring, they were in for a big surprise.

As is typical, Morse opened with an abbreviated version of his life story and then proceeded to discuss his accomplishments from his many years in state government, followed by extensive questions and answers. Morse clearly demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of our state government, how it works, and its problems. He was candid about aspects of our state government and what needs to be fixed, mentioning some state departments by name.

He explained his key role in crafting several state budgets and his role in reducing our taxes, including both business taxes and personal taxes, such as the tax on interest and dividend income. He explained his early endorsement of President Trump, his strong stands for local control of our schools and land use regulation, and his promise to oppose any state income tax and any broad-based sales tax.

He did not hesitate, even for a moment, nor did he seek to avoid answering any questions, including some from the “hard graders” in the room. He was articulate and very polished. All in all, it was a very impressive performance, especially meaningful to those who had not previously heard from him.

It should be noted that there should be little doubt by voters that a vote for either of the Dem candidates for governor is a vote for making New Hampshire over in the mold of Massachusetts. Thus, one of those Dem candidates has actually been endorsed by the failed governor of Massachusetts. And that same candidate essentially promises to do for and to our entire state what she has done as the failed mayor of, and for, Manchester- with a dangerous, homeless-infested downtown, with many assorted unsolved problems across that city.

The bottom line is that our voters will be in the enviable position of having two very strong Republican candidates for governor, and the choice between them may be difficult. What should not be difficult is the postulate that New Hampshire cannot afford to have as its governor either of the Dem candidates now running for that office. If you want to be notified of upcoming meetings of the Tri-County Republicans, email this writer at njs@silbersnh.com to be added to the list.

 

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Comrade Volinsky got some bad news this week. A judge has ruled that his clients, Mary Lee Sargent and Arnold Alpert, do not have standing to sue the state for removing a historical marker honoring Communist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.  I have to wonder if he knew that and just took their money.

Kissinger determined that Alpert and Sargent and others in the group lacked standing and therefore said he did not need to go further on the state’s other arguments.

Citing Avery v. Comm’r NH Dept of Corr. “in evaluating whether a party has standing to sue (the court) focus(es) on whether the party suffered a legal injury against which the law was designed to protect.”

“Neither an abstract interest in ensuring that the state Constitution is observed nor an injury is indistinguishable from a generalized wrong allegedly suffered by the public at-large is insufficient to constitute a personal, concrete interest.”

“Rather the party must show that its own rights have been or will be directly affected,” the judge wrote.

While they consider an appeal, let’s revisit what this all means in the context of progressive whining about history and statues and feelings and racism.

Few, if any, of those leaning left oppose the removal or destruction of statues to American History to how it is taught. It may not be long for this world if it hurts someone’s feelings or can be linked to some human rights violation or injustice (actual or alleged). But if Mary Lee Sargent is correct [that the marker was removed based entirely on political ideology], don’t those all need to go back?

And [if so] does that open us up to honoring every slave owner, racist, fascist, or white supremacist of historical interest or influence [Democrat or otherwise] who was born or lived in New Hampshire. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s ideological passion, after all, resulted in the ethnic and political persecution, cleansing, and deaths of many millions of people.

Communist regimes murdered blacks, Jews, Women, Children, Christians, and homosexuals, but that does not begin to plumb the depths of incarceration, abuse, discrimination, and intolerance credited to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s preferred ideology.

As if that is not enough to chew on, shortly after the marker came back down (and we missed this when it happened), someone printed up replicas of the marker as yard signs.

“Like most people, I was not very aware of the historical marker when it was first placed but when they started talking about removing it, I was alarmed,” said Poinier, a former school board member. “It’s been really heartening to see how much support the community has given to this really interesting ‘Rebel Girl’ and the signs have been met with great enthusiasm.”

I hope you put them up next to your ‘In my America’ Yard sign. Talk about a tone-deaf echo chamber. In their America, they … honor a woman who defended a political ideology that “murdered blacks, Jews, Women, Children, Christians, and homosexuals.”

If that’s worth celebrating, and why wouldn’t Democrats want that – it is, after all, the promise of their political ambitions; perhaps the answer is to put the marker back. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn represents not just Concord’s past but its future. A movement disguised as pro-labor and pro-democracy destined to use and undermine the people it claims to defend to erect a violent, intolerant, despotic one-party state.

Can we get a Marxist equivalent of an Amen?

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As an education researcher, I’ve been hearing about wasteful spending on teacher professional development for decades. Teachers do value quality professional development, but some will privately tell you that it can be a waste of their time, and taxpayer dollars.

It wasn’t that long ago that SAU21 brought the far-left political group Seacoast Outright to train teachers. What could have helped teachers in the classroom, instead time was spent indoctrinating the staff with a one-sided view of transgender issues. There is a debate going on politically on whether a child should receive hormone therapy or even receive drastic mutilation by removing their sex organs. I asked that the presentation to the teachers at least include other medical viewpoints, but Superintendent Nadeau refused my request.

De-transitioners are blowing the whistle on the severe trauma they are now dealing with because, as children, they wanted to transition to the opposite gender. Some of the de-transitioners are suing their medical providers for agreeing to these barbaric surgical procedures now that they are adults.

Professional Development (PD) can support teachers in the classroom by making sure teachers know the academic subject, and the best way to deliver the instruction to students. But when PD becomes a lesson in political biases, not only are you wasting valuable tax dollars, you are missing an opportunity to help teachers succeed in the classroom.

Recently, the Sanborn staff was subjected to a dose of biased information during a professional development day at school. Several staff members were bothered that the information provided was politically biased and possibly violated their civil rights. After requesting information on the presentation, I decided to speak up on their behalf with this email to the Superintendent and School Board Members.  I thought you should know about it:
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Superintendent Ambrose and members of the Sanborn School Board:

Thank you for providing the information from the recent professional development offered to the school staff.

One of the biggest complaints I hear from teachers is that sometimes professional development is a waste of money. It’s also interesting to note that when Massachusetts drove their academic achievement to where their students were finishing at the top nationally, they focused on PD. But focused on academic content during PD.

Massachusetts students were able to compete with students at the top on international tests of math and science. They focused on improving their academic standards, tests, and made sure PD was academic based. This helped teachers in the classroom, and it helped their students academically. Parents could see that their public schools were the best in the country, and they supported them.

 

What you presented during PD did not sit well with some who attended this presentation. I can’t blame them. It was one-sided.

For instance, there was no balance to anything that was presented based on what you sent me.

In Dr. Parker’s bio, it says:

Dr. Don Parker is a transformational keynote speaker and professional development provider. He specializes in SEL, supporting teachers to build trusting relationships with students, restorative practices, trauma-informed practices, and improving the culture and climate of schools to enhance students’ and teachers’ feeling of belonging.

How is Dr. Parker a specialist in SEL? SEL programs tend to be developed by individuals who have a mental health background. These programs are now group therapy in the classroom. This is why I have teachers privately expressing concerns that they are not qualified to subjectively grade their students’ behaviors. They are not qualified, and they are concerned about where this sensitive data is shared. SEL is now a product to sell, and vendors profit off of this latest fad.

There are no privacy protections when SEL data is uploaded to a database, they are considered as part of the “exceptions” in the FERPA law. SEL Vendors do not have foolproof privacy protections for your students. I was told that Dr. Parker didn’t mention any of that, and I didn’t see that in the materials you sent.

Restorative practices have been criticized as unethical, and they have no place in the classroom. https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/restorative-circles-are-unethical-and-have-no-place-schools

EXCERPT:
In the past decade, the role of the teacher in schools has slowly shifted from pedagogue to therapist. Perhaps the most glaring example of this shift is the practice called “circle conversations.” These circles are cousins of the non-punitive approach to discipline called restorative justice, and are intended to be community-building prophylactics.

While the ritual—I mean classroom practice—can vary from school to school, it has a few common characteristics: students sit in a circle, pass around a talking piece, and discuss open-ended questions, often deeply personal ones….

From what I was told, Dr. Parker didn’t mention any critical thought on this latest fad.

Trauma informed practices should come directly from a student’s therapist or mental health provider. Dr. Parker has no background in the field of Child Psychology. Why are you looking to an educator for this information?

Based on some of the books that are now available to children to read in the school library, many children are reliving trauma. It’s one of the worst things you can do to a child who has experienced abuse.

Improving culture and climate can be handled by exit interviews with families who are removing their children from the public schools. I don’t believe he mentioned that in his presentation. I do understand that the federal government has prioritized culture and climate, but one of the most important discoveries to make is why families choose other education options for their children. I just provided you with free advice; hopefully, you will act upon it.

I was told that research from this author was included. Zaretta Hammond is focused on implicit racial bias. Is racism a problem among the Sanborn staff? Implicit racial bias means that everyone is inherently racist. Is this a message important for the Sanborn staff to hear? Would this kind of message be considered a violation of their civil rights? Would this violate their rights under the anti-discrimination law in New Hampshire?

Feeling of belonging is certainly a worthwhile goal. How are you helping your religious families feel welcome? One of the biggest complaints among religious families today is, the public schools have made it a hostile environment for their children.

I wanted to take this opportunity to offer you some critical analysis on this chosen speaker. I did not see any documentation on how this would result in improving literacy in the core academic subjects.

The self esteem movement has been tried, and there wasn’t much success with it back in the 80’s. Teachers and public school supporters are desperate to get back to academics.

Successful leaders look at the good and bad in order to make an informed decision. They do not just surround themselves with “yes-men.” Those who are successful want to know ahead of time if what they are doing will have positive or negative consequences. I think your staff deserves that.

They were subjected to a slick salesman selling them the latest fads in education, and many people in the audience saw right through it.

Sincerely,
Ann Marie Banfield

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The New Hampshire House passed HB1283, also known as Assisted Suicide or Medical Aid in Dying, by a 179-176 vote this afternoon[0]. New Hampshire Right to Life (NHRTL) and a broad coalition of other organizations[1], staunchly oppose this legislation and call on the NH Senate and Governor to reject it.

Jason Hennessey, President of NHRTL, emphasized, “As a society, we should promote a culture that values and safeguards all human life, rather than using death as a solution. Legalized assisted suicide with HB1283 undermines our efforts to prevent suicide and support those who are suffering with compassion, care, and dignity. Furthermore, it opens the door to elder abuse, to devaluing the lives of those with disabilities, and allows insurers to prioritize death over coverage for costly care, creating a horrific conflict of interest. NHRTL urges the NH Senate and Gov Sununu to uphold the sanctity of life and oppose HB1283.”

NHRTL believes Rep Terry Roy summarized the issue best during the House floor debate when he asked the question “Are we a culture of life or a culture of death?” [1] at 5:15pm.

NHRTL also highlights that in other states, patients have been denied potentially life-saving healthcare and instead given information on Assisted Suicide[2,3]. Assisted suicides have also taken place in other states for mental health issues like anorexia[4].

A 2015 study examining states that had legalized Assisted Suicide found an increase of 6.3% in the overall suicide rate, and a 14.5% increase among individuals over the age of 65 [5].

NH Right to Life is New Hampshire’s largest and longest-standing organization dedicated to the pro-life cause.

0: Bill: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=1136&inflect=2 House Debate: https://youtu.be/UgVBgogUdDI @ 4:15pm
1: Some other organizations opposing HB1283 include: the many members of the NH Coalition For Suicide Prevention (including Disabled American Veterans of New Hampshire, State Veterans Advisory Committee, United Spinal Association New Hampshire Chapter, Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire, ABLE New Hampshire, and Not Dead Yet) NH Cornerstone, American Academy of Medical Ethics, Catholic Diocese of Manchester, and Americans United for Life.
2: https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/365326-how-assisted-suicide-laws-are-creating-a-duty-to-die-medical-culture/
3: https://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/some-oregon-assisted-suicide-abuses-and-complications/
4: https://coloradosun.com/2022/03/14/denver-doctor-gaudiani-aid-in-dying-aneroexia-patients/
5: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26437189/ [full paper]

Contact:
Jason Hennessey
President, New Hampshire Right to Life

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In 2020, during what passed as the Democrat primary, Joe Biden pledged that he would open the border. If … IF … you really cared about protecting America from an illegal immigrant invasion, you would have gotten 100 percent behind Trump. Did Ayotte? Did Sununu? Did Mikey Graham? NO, NO and NO. Just the opposite.

They stealth-supported Biden.

These three and their ilk are such phonies. Their sudden interest in and opposition to illegal immigration is because they see illegal immigration as the magic carpet that will transport Ayotte into the Governor’s office. This is the same Ayotte who supported AMNESTY as a U.S. Senator: Will History Repeat Itself … How Ayotte Flipped On Illegal Immigration After Being Elected Senator.

Sadly and tragically, Republicans as a Party have sat on their hands for three years. Our country has already been transformed … 10 MILLION ILLEGALS have invaded under the Biden-Regime. One-Party rule isn’t coming. It’s here. Some clarity from Tucker:

Tucker in Texas: "I don't understand how you can be Governor of a state in 2020 and all of the sudden the border opens up and you get invaded and you don't do anything about it. I don't understand that as a man and I don't understand that as a father. The leadership model is the… pic.twitter.com/MCxiRZbL2b

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 20, 2024

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve had occasion to watch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. give testimony before Congress.  Most recently, he was trying to explain why a hearing on censorship should not itself be subject to censorship.

That’s worth watching for the content alone. But in addition, it’s been so long since we’ve had a presidential candidate who could accurately be described as ‘presidential’ that it’s good to be reminded of what one looks and sounds like.

Although we disagree on some policies, I think he and I share one of our deepest beliefs:  If we’re ever going to get anywhere worth going, we need to start having better conversations.

Towards that end, I tend to focus on things like making sure we agree on the meanings of the words we’re using, avoiding common logical fallacies, agreeing ahead of time on what kind of discussion (moral or cost-benefit) we’re going to have, and so on.

He tends to focus on things like mutual respect and freedom from censorship.

I want people to stop having the wrong conversations. He wants people to start having the right ones.

But we’re after the same thing—making public discussions more like conversations and less like sporting events.

So, given that he’s currently one of the most censored people in the world, how can we get people to listen to him defend the importance of speech that is both free and collaborative, even on topics that people  are divided on?

A good ad can go a long way towards that.  Do you remember the famous 1984 ad that Apple ran during Super Bowl XVIII?  If you haven’t seen it, take a look now. (It’s hard to believe that it was made 40 years ago.)

What I’m imagining is a variation on this theme.

You start by seeing two groups instead of one, each facing away from the other, listening to two different demagogues rant on two giant screens about how the people facing the other way are ‘the biggest single threat to our way of life’ or something like that.

Both screens are plugged into a single outlet. You see a hand reaching towards the plugs and hear RFK Jr.’s voice saying, ‘This has to stop.’  The hand pulls out both plugs.

Cut back to the original view.  The screens are blank and quiet.  The people are looking around in a daze as if just awakened from a dream.

We hear RFK Jr. ‘s voice saying, ‘We have to start talking to each other as neighbors, treating each other as human beings, respecting each other as fellow Americans. We have to stop reflexively viewing each other as existential threats. We have to start talking to each other instead of about each other.’

And people start crossing the aisle warily at first, but shaking hands, introducing themselves, and easing into civil conversations with each other.

Because his voice is so distinctive, you wouldn’t even have to identify this as an ad for RFK Jr.  I mean, except for all those laws… made by Congress… abridging freedom of speech.

 

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The recent unfortunate event in New York City, which honored the promoted FDNY members, poses many questions about rights and decisions. As does the outburst by the Gold Star father who shouted down Joe Biden as he delivered the State of the Union address.

Freedom of Speech is paramount to a free society, as is decorum and respect for those around us. It is a balancing act, but Freedom of Speech is protected in the Constitution. I do not think decorum appears in that incredible document. The incidents at the NYFD honor ceremony and the Joe Biden State of the Union may be guilty of lacking decorum, but they should be protected speech.

The incident at the FDNY event would never have happened if anyone else had been at the microphone other than New York Attorney General Letitia James. You have to ask if she was on the program before or after the ruling in the Trump v. NYC fraud case. Either way, she had no connection or place at this ceremony. That is how the firefighters in the audience saw her appearance. As soon as James was introduced, the boos rang down from the rank and file. The boos quickly evolved to calls for Trump. The audience’s actions embarrassed James, and her ego will not allow that insult to her highness to go unchecked. There is an investigation into who was chanting with the threat of disciplinary action for anyone not coming forward to confess. The AG and the Fire Department are using the fact these folks were on the clock and, therefore, guilty of insubordination. That is pretty lame.

The gentleman with the loud voice at the SOTU was Gold Star Father Steve Nikoui, who lost one of his sons during the botched evacuation of Afghanistan in 2021. The heckling was a reference to an attack at the Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan that occurred during the evacuation. Nikoui was further devastated in 2022 when he lost another son to suicide. His son was unable to get over the loss of his brother. Life circumstances do not, and maybe should not, be an excuse for a person’s actions. But under the circumstances, most people feel that Nikoui should be given some leniency, for he has already paid a huge price that will continue for the rest of his life. For nearly two weeks, the charges remained on the books until Tuesday night, when the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia — which is under the direct supervision of Attorney General Merrick Garland, announced the charges against Nikoui had been dropped. This is a decision most people can support.

These are two examples of the existence of a microscope we all live under in this new world order. If what you say merely offends someone or a party, you are guilty, and we will find a charge to fit. Free Speech to Democrats is an inconvenient right that needs to be controlled. That control is in the form of political persecution. Other examples are people praying outside of abortion clinics, conservative speakers on American college campuses, or the practice of avoiding coverage of any Donald Trump speech, calling them all misinformation.

The rules have changed, and we no longer need debate or a vote to make those changes. The Democrats. who used to say they were the Party of the People, are now the Party of power and self-preservation.

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

Of the 26 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 4 being of interest.
Of the 29 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 4 with 3 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Oppose	SB588	relative to employer notice of veterans’ benefits and services.	Commerce	Tue 3/19	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill directs the labor commissioner, in consultation with the department of business and economic affairs, to create and distribute a veterans’ benefits and services poster for employers to display in the workplace.
Support	SB516	relative to prohibiting collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join a labor union.	Commerce	Tue 3/19	9:15 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join a labor union.
Support	HB1066	relative to the graduation requirement of filing a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).	Education	Tue 3/19	10:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill changes the requirement for school districts, public academies, and chartered public schools to provide information to students on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and repeals the reporting requirement on the number of students provided in-person school assistance on completing the FAFSA.
Support	HB1105	relative to application of a local tax cap.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 3/19	9:50 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap.
Of Interest	HB609	(New Title) relative to the site evaluation committee for energy facility siting.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 3/19	9:45 AM	SH Room 103	This bill revises the member of the site evaluation committee for energy facility siting and eliminates subcommittees.
Oppose	SB593	relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones.	Judiciary	Tue 3/19	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits carrying a firearm in a safe school zone.
Of Interest	HB1186	relative to firearm purchaser’s privacy.	Judiciary	Tue 3/19	1:30 PM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits the assigning of a specific merchant code to the sale of firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories. This bill further provides a mechanism for enforcement of this prohibition.
Of Interest	HB314	relative to the expectation of privacy in the collection and use of personal information.	Judiciary	Tue 3/19	1:45 PM	SH Room 100	This bill regulates the collection, retention, and use of personal information and establishes a cause of action for violations of an individual’s expectation of privacy in personal information.
Support	HB470	relative to fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment.	Judiciary	Tue 3/19	2:15 PM	SH Room 100	This bill amends the definition of drug paraphernalia to exclude drug checking equipment and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment.
Of Interest	SB303	relative to the use of renewable energy funds by the department of energy.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 3/19	9:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill adds battery storage projects to uses of the renewable energy fund, deletes a required renewable generation incentive program, and authorizes a political subdivision incentive, rebate, or grant program using the fund. The bill also modifies the reporting date by the department of energy concerning the renewable energy fund. This bill is a request of the department of energy.
Of Interest	SB391	relative to electric grid interconnection for certain customer generators.	Science, Technology and Energy	Tue 3/19	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires the department of energy to begin rulemaking for the purposes of setting uniform procedures for distributed energy resources that are proposed for interconnection to the electrical infrastructure.
Oppose	HB1217	relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.	Transportation	Tue 3/19	1:10 PM	LOB Room 101	This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.
Support	SB510	relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.	Transportation	Tue 3/19	2:00 PM	LOB Room 203	This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.
Of Interest	SB322	(New Title) relative to licenses to carry and immunity for law enforcement officers issuing certain firearms licenses.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 3/20	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires a license authorizing an individual to carry a loaded pistol or revolver in this state to include the name, title, and signature of the person issuing the license. This bill further provides immunity to law enforcement officers who in good faith issue licenses under RSA 159:6 or 159:8 from any liability arising from certain actions by the firearm licensee.
Oppose	SB414	relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Wed 3/20	1:30 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill sets a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting.
Oppose	HB1292	relative to coverage of children under the state retiree insurance plan.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 3/20	9:15 AM	SH Room 103	This bill removes the requirement that young adult children covered under a retired state employee’s insurance plan be full-time students.
Support	HB1140	relative to requirements for homeowner installations of septic systems.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 3/20	10:00 AM	SH Room 103	This bill enables a homeowner to install a new or replacement waste disposal system in their own domicile without a permit.
Of Interest	SB327	providing penalties for the assault or harassment of sports officials.	Judiciary	Wed 3/20	10:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill permits courts to impose a ban on individuals convicted of certain offenses against a sports official from participating in sports events in this state for a specified amount of time.

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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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