As a follow on to my recent essay, Israel: The Lesson of Sudenteland Applies – Granite Grok, I want to highlight more statements and other information to point out the dangers of radical Islam, in many cases as voiced by their own preachers or ex-Muslims.

Understand two things before I begin:

First, I take no joy in this.  I don’t want to be screaming about any group of people willy nilly.  Believe it or not, despite multiple essays like Grid Teetering – Coming Sooner Than You Think? – Granite Grok and Cultural Rot: More examples – Granite Grok and Depopulation Speculations – Granite Grok (and I’m glad to say that we seem to – for now – have escaped this though the excess death situation appears to be still ongoing and I’m still worried about genetic consequences), I don’t want to be crying Danger, danger! continuously, especially on so many topics; it’s overwhelming, actually.  It’s costing me time and mental health to be on edge like this all the time, let alone a lot of money to try and prep as best I can.  But for good or ill, Hashem has seen fit to have me “awake” to what I see as clear and present dangers to our stable civilization and country.  Having given me these insights, I believe it would be criminal negligence, at the least, to not try and share this information with others.

Oh Lord, don’t lighten by burdens.  Broaden my shoulders.

Yiddish Proverb

Second, I believe fully that there are, in fact, “moderate Muslims”.  My wife for one.  Recently, somehow, we were discussing Gaza and she said that if she were in charge she’d carpet bomb the place; she said “Send me there and I’ll shoot them all”!  During our trip to visit her all-Muslim family, everyone was welcoming and extraordinarily hospitable despite knowing I’m Jewish.  In fact, while there, I visited the local Chabad – smack in the middle of a Muslim-majority country.  My guess, given the admission by the Rabbi of the small size of the congregation contrasted with the very nice, free-standing building with grounds and all, that there’s government funding.  Assuming this is true, consider it well: a Muslim government funding a Jewish place of worship.

As a warm up in the spirit of my prior post, ask yourself this:  Just what does Israel have to do with this Muslim attack on a bus of Hindu worshippers?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/hindu-bus-attacked.mp4

 

 

IN THEIR OWN WORDS – TAKEOVER AND SLAVERY

In that prior topical essay I showed multiple examples – links and videos – of Islamic doctrine highlighting the supremacist nature of Islam.  There can be no “misinterpretation” of this video with translation by MEMRI (incredible resource, as is the ME Forum):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/only-infidels-may-be-enslaved.mp4

 

Also available on my Rumble channel.  They talk about takeovers when they think they’re private:

Undercover Mosque exposes the planned secret takeover of Britain and the implementation of Sharia Law

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/undercover-mosque.mp4

 

“In 10 Years Europe Will Be Completely Muslim” (youtube.com)

Video, 10 minutes.  And about Britain:

A World-Historical Transformation is Taking Place in Britain | Frontpage Mag

Lawrence Fox continued: “Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England. There are over 130 sharia courts. There are more than 50 Sharia Councils. 78 percent of Muslim women do not work, receive state support + free accommodation. 63 percent of Muslims do not work, receive state support + free housing. State-supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam. Has anyone ever been given an opportunity to vote for this?”

From here (formatting in the original):

Ask Hamas, the West is next
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A map of Italy was found at the house of a high-ranking Hamas commander in Gaza.

An Islamic flag sits atop the Vatican. The inscription reveals their ultimate plan:

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“The reason you fight them and kill them is because they are Christians and Jews” (barenakedislam.com)

Nor does Israel have anything to do with this scene from Pakistan where Muslims are shouting ALLAHU AKHBAR! while tearing down a cross from a church.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/muslims-in-pakistan-tear-down-cross.mp4

 

Speaking of that war cry, understand what it really means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

Remember sex slavery of kaffir women, and the “rationalization” of it.  Here:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/interview-on-islamic-sex-slavery.mp4

 

How, hearing the below, does any woman possibly consider converting to Islam, or even supporting it?  Or looking at the images of gruesomely damaged women in “honor attacks” below the video (link only – content warning).

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islamic-view-of-women.mp4

 

Women grievously injured in honor attacks

Islam has rules for beating your wife:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/islam-beating-rules.mp4

 

How does ANY woman that values womanhood think this is acceptable?  Or this:

Women eating under Sharia (rumble.com)

 

 

And pedo is alive and well… and officially sanctioned:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/pedo-in-islam.mp4

 

Same question of women also applies to the pro-Gaza Rainbow Coalition.

 

 

The Hamas Role in the Worst Massacre of Gay People in America | Frontpage Mag

Reality Check for ‘Queers for Palestine’ Delivered Directly From Palestinian Leaders-“Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Head First From The Rooftop Of The Tallest Building:” | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

Useful idiots everywhere, aiding jihad:

 

Woke Useful Idiots HELPED Islamists Take Power – Apostate Prophet (4K) | heretics. 65

 

 

 

CLARION WARNINGS FROM EX-MUSLIMS

‘Wake Up! The Global Existential Fight Against Radicalism’ Mosab Hassan Yousef #shorts (youtube.com)

Mosab Hassan Yousef, the “Green Prince”, is the author of this book, among others.  He was the son of a Hamas leader.  He knows, intimately and well, what Hamas specifically, and Islam generally, is about.  Others have written books too:

Why We Left Islam: Former Muslims Speak Out by Joel Richardson | Goodreads

One day, an American on the verge of converting to Islam said to one of the editors, Please, I fear I am about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Please give me one solid reason not to convert. This is the book Joel Richardson wishes he had at that moment. Powerful, often shocking but always heartfelt, these essays from over a dozen individuals who have left Islam — often in fear for their lives — are remarkable for their honesty. The stories of how these men and women freed themselves from this repressive and brutal religion are not just inspirational, but present a searing challenge to those Westerners determined to perpetuate the Islam is a religion of peace myth at all costs.

And they speak out:

Ex-Muslims: They left Islam and now tour the US to talk about it (bbc.com)

“There was one guy in particular,” says Muhammad. “I knew him through high school.

“We were in the same college. We were similar people – he was liberal like me. Then he grew this foot-and-a-half long beard.”

…

“I wanted to show my friend his perspective was wrong. But when I went through it, it was very clear that his perspective was actually the Islamic perspective.

“He was right and I was wrong.”

Another is:

Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam: 9781999240509: Mohammed, Yasmine: Books

Supported by more:

Infidel

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law

But Sharia isn’t staying in majority Muslim nations. Darwish now lives in the West and brings a warning; the goal of radical Islam is to bring Sharia law to your country. If that happens, the fabric of Western law and liberty will be ripped in two. Under Sharia law:

• A woman can be beaten for talking to men who are not her relatives and flogged for not wearing a headdress
• Daughters, sisters, and wives can be legally killed by the men in their family
• Non-Muslims can be beheaded, and their Muslim killers will not receive the death penalty
• Certain kinds of child molestation are allowed
• The husband of a “rebellious” wife can deny her medical care or place her under house arrest

Another book by her:

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

And a Muslim woman converted to Judaism:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rebekah-converted-from-islam-to-judaism.mp4

 

Which has earned her the death penalty for being an apostate.  And a late addition, a 1 hour, 45 minute conversation with an ex-Muslim women’s rights activist by Tommy Robinson:

Episode 37 – SILENCED with Tommy Robinson – Nuriyah Khan (rumble.com)

 

 

PLUS WARNINGS BY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM

Robert Spencer, founder of Jihad Watch:

Fairy-tale Islam: Deceptions Masking a Dark Reality

Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t

Confessions of an Islamophobe

The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims

The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS

Among many other books he’s written.

Dr. Bill Warner of Political Islam / CSPI has also written extensively.

And another, among legions:

Raymond Ibrahim – Middle East and Islam Specialist

Clarion call after clarion call about the dangers of Islam and Jihad.

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis

Londonistan

While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

And the rabbit hole goes very deep if you start looking.

 

 

WAR IS DECEIT

 

 

So said Mohammed himself.  Deception of the infidel is hard-coded into their beliefs, to the point where they actually classify different types (above graphic, below link):

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Bill Warner has two excellent short videos about taqiyya and tawriya (respectively):

Bill Warner, PhD: Sacred Deception — Taqiyya (youtube.com)

Bill Warner, PhD: Deception in Political Islam (youtube.com)

So consider this essay, written by one of the above noted scholars – and note the clear intent to deceive and divide the infidels.  Eliminate Israel, Eliminate Islamic Terrorism? (raymondibrahim.com) (bolding added, formatting preserved as best I can, links in the original, italics in the original replaced by underlining):

Back in 2009, Bin Laden said:

You [Americans] should ask yourselves whether your security, your blood, your sons, your money, your jobs, your homes, your economy, and your reputation are more dear to you than the security and economy of the Israelis….  Let me say that we have declared many times, over more than two and a half decades, that the reason for our conflict with you is your support for your Israeli allies, who are occupying our land of Palestine [emphasis added].

Translation: Feed Israel to us and we’ll stop attacking you.

Needless to say, this message was (and continues to be) swallowed hook line and sinker by many Western analysts—even as bin Laden was stressing to fellow Muslims (in Arabic) the “real reason for our conflict”:

Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue — one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice — and it is: Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually?  Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: [1] either willing submission [conversion]; [2] or payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; [3] or the sword — for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die [The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 42].

More emboldened jihadis have of late dropped the façade.  In an article unambiguously titled, “Why We Hate You & Why We Fight You,” the Islamic State confessed that “We hate you, first and foremost, because you are disbelievers.”  As for any and all political “grievances,” these are “secondary” reasons for the jihad:

What’s important to understand here is that although some might argue that your foreign policies are the extent of what drives our hatred, this particular reason for hating you is secondary, hence the reason we addressed it at the end of the above list. […]  The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam. Even if you were to pay jizyah and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you [emphasis added].

This threefold choice, then—conversion, subjugation/jizya, or the sword—is the ultimate source of conflict between Islam and everyone else; it’s why prudent non-Muslims have always found the question of achieving permanent peace with the Islamic world an unsolvable problem.

RTWT.  A recent example of Pallywood (or specific to the situation, Gazawood) – deceptive stuff for the useful idiots:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/An_Israeli_airstrike_hit_a_family_home_and_injured_an_elderly_woman.mp4

 

The Pallywood Oscars:

The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool

And don’t forget this excellent piece:

 

Pallywood

 

 

About that “famine”, from here:

Ahmed and Mahmoud take us for a tour around the wartime markets of Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip.
Uploaded to YouTube on 9 June 2024.
English subtitles.
Fake nation, fake genocide and fake hunger!

Also:

Market pictures

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/june-2024-food-in-gaza.mp4

 

With two more videos.

#gazawood #pallywood Deir El Balah market, June 20th, 2020 (rumble.com)

#gazawood #pallywood Shawarma in gaza (rumble.com)

The Gaza famine that’s been found to be… wanting:

 

 

There is no Gaza famine, but the pro-Hamas crowd is silent about this great news (nypost.com)

And all those “uninvolved Gazan civilians”:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/uninvolved-gazan-civilians.mp4

 

This is an interesting tidbit of international law (Geneva Convention) regarding “civilians” who actively get involved in the conflict:

Customary IHL – Practice relating to rule 6 Civilians’ Loss of Protection from Attack (icrc.org)

You do not have a tunnel in your home and not know about it:

Gaza’s Rafah is filled with tunnels, top IDF commander tells ‘Post’ – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

And one last, the Gazawood / Pallywood prop department.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gazwood-prop-department.mp4

 

My view of the problem is this: So many “useful idiots” want to believe it, because they can’t believe that little brown people could be so deceptive as to fool their uber-educated superior intellects.  I.e., racism.

 

 

A CULTURE OF DEATH & DEPRAVITY

So take a look at this video from here.  Content warning (hence the link-only):

Kid shoots tied up man and screams Allahu Akbar

This short snip is seen in this preview:

Kids: Chasing Paradise – The Clarion Project

Another charming kid (note, video starts off somewhat blurry – it’s not your eyes!):

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/baby-isis-and-teddy-bear.mp4

 

How old is that kid?  And this kid, below, can’t be 10 years old, pressing the button to blow up a car filled with execution victims.

Muslim child – can’t be 10 – presses button to blow up prisoners (rumble.com)

Understand what ALLAHU ACKBAR means:

Allahu Akbar is Why Muslims Kill – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

School punishment in a Madrassa:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/madrassa-beating.mp4

 

Brutalized from birth.  Embracing death in jihad.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/they-love-death.mp4

 

Take a look at this girl wanting her brother to be a martyr:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/child-wants-her-brother-to-be-a-martyr.mp4

 

Again, the rabbit hole goes deep here.  But only when you grasp – to your core – that they are eager for death in war against the infidel will you start to understand what they do.  Their eyes are set on the eternal, whose highest reward is to be found in combat against the House of War.  No wonder they love death.

 

 

SHARIA LAW

People talk about Sharia Law as though it’s just another form of jurisprudence, like a Hebrew Beit Din, a religious court.  My two experiences with that are when my kids were converted to Judaism.  Here’s a Sharia guide on stoning adulterers:

 

 

Lest you think the above is a fluke:

Green lane mosque Birmingham UK.
Cleric explains the correct way to stone women to death, totally legal under Sharia

@No_More_Islam

To chit chat join here:
@ISLAMNOMORE

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/correct-way-to-stone-a-woman.mp4

 

Wonderful folks.  Let’s admit them to the West by the metric f*ckton.

 

 

CONCLUDING

Bill Warner in a 44 minute video:

 

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner

 

 

I was recently accused of “Islamophophia”.  Hah.  To quote Bare Naked Islam:

It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you.

As a coda, Islamic migration to Sweden is not a case of “diversity is a strength”:

The Warning From Sweden : The Other McCain

As just one of myriad examples.  Remember, these are the people whom the Left is embracing.  And know your enemy.  Because Left and Islam are allied.

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left (2006-02-17) [Paperback]

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror

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If an enterprising teacher looked at their District’s cost per student and then created their own micro-school with even 20 students, they’d be earning far more than at their static union wage ladder.

Seeing that those “negotiated” wages are sticking to the newly minted teachers, I offer my unsolicited advice to work a couple of years “inside the system,” find out how you can improve on the teaching methodology demanded “by the system,” and strike out on your own. Why?

The Democrats’ only solution to the fact that our public schools are awful is to spend more money on them. But that is precisely the policy we have been following for decades, with terrible results. This chart, from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, tells the story. In constant dollars, spending on education has skyrocketed, while student achievement has stagnated.

You can capture some of that rise in the cost of that system for yourself.

Sure, a coupla/few years to provision your classroom and then it’s more for you – reaping more of the rewards of your labor.

For Parents – would you accept the same results for your child with only higher costs eating at your bank account? I have two great questions for you to ask your elected School Board representatives:

1. What is the overall rise in spending for the District over the last 10 years, including all Warrant Articles (stuff not in the regular budget)?
2. Why aren’t our childrens’ achievement levels increasing at the same rate?
3. What percentage of each class, K-12, is at the Proficient level or above?

Now, GOOD school boards will try to get an answer back to you. BAD school board members will ignore you under the rubric of “we only wanted your votes but keep your questions and comments to yourselves, you rubes”. Vote those kind of school board members out.

Oh, as to #3 –  flip that percentage around to see how many children are being failed in the government school system. Then starting asking them REAL hard questions.

The post Why Aren’t School Boards Besieged By Parents Over Flat Student Achievement But Rising Costs? appeared first on Granite Grok.

In one of my favorite movies, The Shawshank Redemption, an innocent man who is wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for many years is ultimately vindicated after patiently and methodically pursuing justice.

I can’t help but see similarities between this film and what happened to me as an employee of the Dudley-Tucker Library in Raymond, New Hampshire, over the past year and a half. While the activity that I was persecuted for was much different, and the length of time it has taken for me to be vindicated has been much shorter (although it has seemed like an eternity), both stories offer the redeeming message that justice will ultimately prevail and that, as Shakespeare wrote, “the truth will out.”

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Well over a year ago, on April 5, 2023, I was fired from my job as the Assistant Director of the Dudley-Tucker Library in Raymond where I had only been working since the previous December. Like all new employees, I was still within my probationary six-month period. As far as I knew, I was performing all of my job duties in a satisfactory manner. On this particular morning, however, the library director, Kirsten Rundquist Corbett, informed me that she and the library trustees, Jill Galus, Sabrina Maltby, and Valerie Moore, had decided to fire me. I was presented with a termination letter signed by Corbett, Galus, Maltby, Moore and then-town manager Ernest Creveling. This letter claimed that I had “not fulfilled the conditions of employment because of [my] lack of separation of personal/political values and agendas from DTL policies, procedures, and occurrences.” In a sudden state of shock and confusion, I could hardly process the words contained in this document.

Unable to identify any negative actions on the job that could have justified my dismissal, I asked if my termination had anything to do with my recent political activity in my hometown of Atkinson, New Hampshire, which I represent in the State Legislature. A couple of months earlier, I had recruited two conservative candidates to run for the board of library trustees in Atkinson, and I had continued to support them in their campaigns. This activity included writing an endorsement letter to a local newspaper that highlighted how these candidates believed in “protecting our children from the increasing amount of inappropriate material available both in print and online without sacrificing the intellectual freedom that has always characterized public libraries.” To my disbelief, Corbett affirmed my suspicions. Understandably upset, I succumbed to the natural “fight or flight” response by opting for the latter choice; I wanted to get out of that library immediately. Completely blindsided, I signed the termination letter and left. Only later would feelings of indignation motivate me to fight back.

Suddenly finding myself without a job, I reflected back on the weeks preceding my termination. I recalled the very politically charged environment I surprisingly found myself in. Some concerned Raymond residents had drafted warrant articles pertaining to the library that were to be voted on during that town’s upcoming election in March. One of these articles called for the removal from the children’s room of inappropriate material while the other pertained to the Dudley-Tucker Library ending its membership with the American Library Association, an organization which has been increasingly called out for promoting inappropriate material to children. In the weeks leading up to this election, many patrons commented to staff about these warrant articles when they came into the library both in support and in opposition. I tried to maintain an appropriately neutral position throughout this time even though other staff members freely expressed their opinions. The trustees even made a video that was posted on the library’s Facebook page by the director advising citizens to vote against the warrant articles, a situation that eventually led to the New Hampshire Attorney General sending a “cease and desist” letter to the director and trustees in response to this clear violation of electioneering laws.

In the days that followed my termination, I thought about this double standard, and I began to realize that a great wrong had been done to me. The trustees and director had egregiously violated my First Amendment right to free speech by terminating me for recruiting, supporting, and endorsing conservative library trustee candidates. I was fired for voicing my opinion about candidates outside of work time and even outside of the town I worked in. I began to wonder if I would have been fired if I had supported candidates who espoused beliefs more congruent with the ALA agenda.

I realized that, while new employees on probation can be fired for just about any reason, they cannot be fired for a reason protected by the Constitution. My right to support any candidate is ensured by the First Amendment. As permitted by state law (NH RSA 202-A:17), I requested a public hearing to discuss the circumstances related to my termination. While waiting for a response to this request, I also obtained a copy of my personnel file. This file included a copy of my published letter-to-the-editor mentioned above. The phrase “protecting our children from the increasing amount of inappropriate material available both in print and online” was highlighted, apparently because it was a section that was considered controversial. My endorsement obviously implied that I held the same belief, and this was the belief that the trustees and director objected to me speaking out against. To my utter astonishment, I also found a copy of a private e-mail message in my employee file. This message had been sent to the chair of my local Republican club and was only intended to be distributed to members of that group with the purpose of recruiting conservative library trustee candidates.

When I did not receive a response to my request for a public hearing after a week, I sent another request, this time threatening legal action. Two days later, on Friday, April 21st, I was surprised to receive a termination rescindment letter. Obviously, my adversaries had realized that they had done something wrong and didn’t want to get in trouble, so they attempted to brush their error under the rug. Returning to work three weeks after my dismissal, I felt like I had entered some sort of “twilight zone” in which I had never left, had never been fired, and had never been gone. There was no recognition that something egregious had happened, no apology, and no mention of my termination.

Despite being rehired and even being paid for the time I had been away, this ignoring of a great wrongdoing was troubling to me. Where was the justice and the certitude that such a violation would not ever happen again? Although I was re-hired with back pay, I was left feeling that justice had not been adequately served. I found it particularly troubling that the library trustees had violated my rights because, like all elected officials, they take an oath of office in which they swear allegiance to the Constitution. By wrongfully terminating me, these trustees had violated their oaths by infringing on one of the most important rights in the Constitution—freedom of speech. My reinstatement alone did not achieve adequate justice because the crime that the trustees and director committed had gone unrecognized.

In search of a more satisfactory resolution to this situation, I sought a legal remedy. I spent the next few months seeking legal representation from a number of nationally recognized organizations, but these groups, unfortunately, declined my case because it didn’t quite fit in with their missions. My final attempt at securing justice was a plea to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). I assumed that my request for legal representation would be denied until I heard back from ACLJ attorney Nathan Moelker. Speaking with Mr. Moelker at length one afternoon last August, I felt that someone finally understood what I was fighting for – not money or revenge, but simple justice.

Over the next couple of months, I frequently communicated with Mr. Moelker and the lawsuit was officially filed on October 27, 2023. In the months that followed as Mr. Moelker and his associate Ben Sisney negotiated with the defendants’ counsel, I found it extremely awkward and difficult to go into work every day having to interact with a supervisor who I was suing as well as the other defendants who frequently came into the library.

While this lawsuit initially demanded a jury trial, I was concerned about the amount of time such a trial would take and the emotional distress that it would cause. During negotiations between the lawyers on both sides, a financial offer was made in exchange for my resignation. Such a settlement, however, did not feel right to me because it would give the defendants exactly what they had wanted when they committed their original crime – my departure. I ultimately rejected this offer and remained at my job, difficult as it was to do so. Since my goal was to simply secure some recognition of wrongdoing and the assurance that such wrongdoing would never happen again, I ultimately agreed to a settlement that would achieve these ends in the form of a “consent decree.”

Finally, the defendants agreed to this decree. Basically, this document acknowledges that the “Dudley Tucker Library regrets its conduct toward [me] and the violation of [my] constitutional rights.” The decree loudly and clearly declares that terminating me for my political activity “constituted a violation of [my] First Amendment rights”! It further assures that the library and the town “will take any other actions reasonably necessary to ensure this type of constitutional violation does not occur again.” The decree recognizes the right of town employees to engage in political activities when not at work. It even stipulates that the town employee handbook must be revised to include a section acknowledging the right of employees to participate in political activism outside of work.

I have since left my job as Assistant Director of the Dudley-Tucker Library, but my resignation was offered in order that I can pursue a new opportunity, not because I would receive financial compensation in exchange for acquiescing to the demands of those who wronged me. Once an acknowledgement of their wrongdoing was finally made and a promise that such a transgression could never happen again, I left my job. This recognition is all that I had ever wanted during the many months that followed their egregious violation of the First Amendment. Such a violation seemed especially hypocritical since it happened in a public library, an institution that is supposed to be a shrine to free speech and intellectual freedom. I consider the resolution of my case, thanks to the hard work of the American Center for Law and Justice, to have ensured the redemption of one such institution, and I hope that it serves as an example to every public library not only in New Hampshire but throughout the entire country.

I would like to acknowledge the ACLJ for representing me pro bono. Such representation is made possible through the generosity of donors who truly support justice. Please consider financially supporting the ACLJ!

Originally published on Arlene’s Substack newsletter: “No Shushing Now: Exposing Today’s Woke Libraries”

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Here is James Roesener sermonizing about how her “community” is “marginalized.” (Due to the lag between submission and posting, a post I previously submitted about Roesener has not yet been posted as of when I am writing this – 6/19.)  Here is the LINK to Roesener’s sermon.

Halfway through #PrideMonth, hear from Rep. James Roesener (D-Concord) on what it means to be an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/Vcw8uSYI92

— NH House Democrats (@NHHouseDems) June 17, 2024

If Roesener actually believes what she is spewing, she is DELUSIONAL. The entire month of June is now devoted to her “community.” That is the OPPOSITE of being marginalized … that is being acclaimed, celebrated, elevated, promoted.

Virtually every institution in America, not just in June but year round … the federal government, State government, local government, Big-Tech, the media, Hollywood, professional sports, major corporations (e.g., Disney), etc. … acclaim, celebrate, elevate and promote LGBT (and whatever other additional initials are de rigueur). That is the OPPOSITE of being marginalized … James’ “community” is virtually everywhere and virtually all the time being acclaimed, celebrated, elevated, and promoted.

For example, here is the Vice President’s official residence turned into a set for Queer Eye:

The people who are actually marginalized are everyday Americans who resist the Woke-Commie hive-mind. They get visits from the FBI for wrong-think. How many times do you think the FBI has shown up at James’ door?

To paraphrase Khabib … Roesener’s sermon is number-one-bullshit.

 

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My name is Ted Lloyd and I’m running for State Rep in Kingston and East Kingston to be your eyes, ears and voice in Concord.

When elected, I will work with our legislative delegation to:

• keep the NH economy strong and lower our tax burden
• restore the security of the Northern and Southern borders
• ensure that our elections are secure
• bring back excellence to education.

And, I will fight to ensure that NH legislation is always within the boundaries set by our New Hampshire and U.S. Federal constitutions.

Our two towns are fortunate to have a strong delegation to the to the State House:

• Bill Gannon of Sandown represents us in Senate District 23;
• Mark Pearson of Hampstead represents us in Rockingham House District 34;
• Ken Wyler of Kingston and Deb Hobson of East Kingston represent us in Rockingham House District 14.

I know each of them very well — I’ve worked with them, and I’ve campaigned with them.

Rep. Hobson has decided not to run for re-election.

I’ve been encouraged by Rep. Wyler and Rep. Pearson to run for her seat, and I’m working with former Rep. David Welch to become more familiar with the details of the job and the people in the House.

Even as a newcomer to our legislative team, I am well-prepared to work with Ken, Mark, and Bill to listen to you and to work for you in Concord. I will work closely with them to serve the people of Kingston and East Kingston.

My Background

I was born in 1946, an early member of the “baby boom” generation. My father was the son of an immigrant father and a Yankee mother. My mother was the daughter of an immigrant father and a native-born mother. My wife Gisela is a German immigrant and naturalized citizen.

I was raised in a small suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, and have a liberal arts Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

I joined the Gillette Company in St. Paul in 1979, was transferred to the Boston area in 1989, rose to the ranks of senior management, and retired at the end of 2001.

My values and priorities come from three areas that form the basis of my personal philosophy: God and Church, Family and Community, and our State and Nation:

God & Church

I am a Christian and an active member of Trinity Church in Kingston.

I believe that God and His Church are the fundamental sources of moral standards and virtue in the world.

Family & Community

Gisela and I were married on January 1st, 1997, and our blended family includes two sons, two daughters, and 14 grandchildren.

I believe that the family is the elemental organizing unit of humanity and that the community is the basic building block of civilization.

Gisela and I moved to East Kingston in 2004, and over the past 20 years have made it our adopted “home town.”

I have served on:

• East Kingston’s New Library Building Committee, which built our new Library
• the Library Board of Trustees for 10 years
• the Planning Board
• the Salary Review Committee
• the Co-op School Board, and
• the Trustees of the Trust Funds for the past 11 years, for which I am the chair.

I believe that marriage and the family are the elemental organizing factors for humanity and that the community is the basic building block of civilization.

I firmly believe in giving back to our community.

State & Nation

My father fought in World War II with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theater. I am a Vietnam-era veteran, having also served in the Navy from 1968 to 1972.

I am currently the Chair of the East Kingston Republican Town Committee.

Previously, I served for five years as the Treasurer and then 1 year as Chair of the 4-town Republican Town Committee, of which East Kingston was a part.

I believe that the people are sovereign and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.

I believe that governments are established by the people to secure those rights.

I believe that our Federal Constitutional Republic was formed to perform certain delegated but limited functions of government.

It is under these terms that we owe allegiance to our Nation.

I Need Your Support

I humbly ask for your support in my campaign and for your vote in the September 10th Primary Election. Here are some ways you can help:

• Tell your friends and neighbors about my campaign
• Sign up for my e-mail list to get updates on my campaign
• Allow me to place a yard sign on your property
• Volunteer to help with my campaign. I need people to
• write letters
• to hold signs for me at events
• to help me go for-to-door meeting voters, or
• to make phone calls for me
• If you can, I need donors to help defray my campaign costs. $25, $50, $100 or more would be a significant help
• Finally, and most importantly, please VOTE FOR ME in the Primary Election on September 10th!

 

To join my team, please contact me at:
email: TedLloyd4StateRep@icloud.com
text:(603) 479-7073
facebook: Ted Lloyd for State Rep

Thank you!

 

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Not everyone has been able to take advantage of the gobs of taxpayer money pouring between the seams to encourage the adoption of so-called green technologies. And it’s not because they aren’t truly green. Joe’s Build Back Better has beaten back business.

Inflation and demand have made surviving in this “environment” challenging.

Electric vehicle maker Fisker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second electric startup to do so in the last year as even industry leaders struggle to lure more buyers beyond the early adapters of the technology. …

“Like other companies in the electric vehicle industry, we have faced various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to operate efficiently,” the company said in a prepared statement late Monday. “After evaluating all options for our business, we determined that proceeding with a sale of our assets under Chapter 11 is the most viable path forward for the company.”

It’s too expensive, even with government-backstopped bailouts or incentives. The free money doesn’t make up for the devalued currency and the rising cost of doing business. And Fisker is based in California, where Gov Nuisance has promised an EV in every driveway by 2035 or some such thing with the caveat that you, thanks to rain taxes, might not be able to afford (or want) a driveway either.

The not-so-sunny economic picture has also claimed one of the nation’s largest solar installers.

Titan Solar, which installed thousands of systems across the U.S., informed its employees June 13 that it was “closing its doors,” having failed to secure a buyer for the company, according to an email obtained by TIME. In the email, Titan said that it had helped over 100,000 households go solar.

Titan is not the only solar installer to close up shop lately. The company, which could not be reached for comment for this story—its website has shut down—is one of 16 major solar outfits that have filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and 2024, according to Solar Insure, which offers warranties and monitoring for homeowners who have solar. They include Pink Energy and Vision Solar, which like other operators in the industry faced regulatory action and numerous consumer complaints. Customers are left with solar panels on their homes that they may or may not want. Some are working with lenders to find another company to take over the maintenance of their panels; others are just trying to get out of the loans.

Residential installs peaked as fly-by-night “startups” appeared magically to line up at another taxpayer-fed feeding trough. However, relying on government handouts to incentivize private market sales is not a sustainable future, especially in a high-inflation economy. Sure, you can find cheap solar panels from China made with slave labor and dirty coal, but it doesn’t help with all the other fixed costs.

Related: Night Cap: Solar Panels Are Getting Exponentially Less Green By Leaps and Bounds

The cost of doing business climbed like Joe, out of the basement and into the heart of DC police making. Thining margins and price pressures on customers erase any incentive benefits, and if you can’t afford to feed your family, a solar install is probably not even on your radar.

The wind isn’t faring much better, not from a lack of trying—and they are still trying, and why not? Sure, it blows electricity prices into the stratosphere, but Companies that embrace wind get a huge tax credit.

“For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett

This is driving Offshore wind as misguided environs, opportunistic politicos, and energy companies align despite the threat to consumers’ pockets and whales. Politicians want the green street cred, and Energy companies want the green tax credits, and no one cares who else has to pay. The scam is literally the very thing the keep it in the ground folks mean when they claim Big Oil gets all sorts of taxpayer support as if that would end if we stopped using Fossil Fuels.

Dopes. Every incentive or inducement is a product of politicians giving in to lobbying as if that would stop or isn’t in play. It very much is with a difference. Big Oil could stay in business without it – and provide abundant on-demand electricity. Green tech can’t and won’t even with the inducements, and the price for ratepayers is an economy-killing drag on everything else.

All lies and promises – the wind industry has finally been rumbled in Germany and is about to be shown the door in Australia.

The wind industry and its parasites have been guilty of more than just a little hubris.  Claiming to be able to deliver cheap, reliable sparks was always going to be their undoing. Gradually, Europeans are waking up to the unassailable fact that wind power is based on a technology that was redundant before it began.

No modern economy can run with electricity delivered at crazy, random intervals.  To compensate for that meteorological fact, Germany is flat out building more coal fired power stations – not less.  Around the globe the wind industry promises to displace “dirty” coal fired power and Germany is no exception. But the reality is very different: the facts have finally caught up with them – wind power will never replace fossil fuel generators and the cost of having capacity to back up wind power is astronomical.

German industry is bailing out and heading to the US – where power is a third of the cost that it is in Germany – and some 800,000 German homes have been disconnected from the grid – victims of what is euphemistically called “fuel poverty”. For Germans the attraction to wind power is fading fast – funny about that.

Less but still more than it should be.

We need to stop this progressive madness. The goal was to make electricity too expensive so we’d use less. What they seem to have forgotten is that making energy cost more makes EVERYTHING cost more. The combined rise in the cost of everything has an exponential impact on daily budgets and not just lifestyles but lives.

This deliberate assault has fueled inflation, already exacerbated by Democrat-Party-led DC policy.

 

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Back in February, Steve posted, “As Pistol Brace Rule Teeters on Doom, ATF Defense Shifts To … You Can’t Sue Us.” He led up to that with this, and Ian had one of his own concerning Pistol Braces and the ATF bending to the Democrat “popular demand.

Let’s make it illegal to own this even if you purchased a brace when the ATF  (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) said it was legal.

As opposed to the recent SCOTUS decision on bump stocks, in which the ATF tried to claim that a bump stock makes an AR-15 pattern firearm a machinegun by redefining Congress’ clear writing and definition of what a machinegun (a fully-automatic firearm whereby a single pull of the trigger results in multiple rounds being fired) is.

SCOTUS slapped them upside their heads with a stock of their own; this was the ATF trying to do an agency sidestep of the Administrative Procedures Act, which lays out a specific methodology by which a government agency can make regulations that have the Force of Law.

Sidenote: passed in 1946, the Administrative Procedures Act was a great move forward of the Progressive philosophy that the Constitution was outmoded and that we, the citizens, should not be governed by elected Representatives but ruled by “experts” that “know what’s better for you than you do yourself”. It set the stage for the explosion of regulations and in Congress basically giving up its Constitutional mandate to be the only entity that makes Law. Nowadays, it is the Executive Branch (housing all these agencies) that makes the vast majority of Law as Congress merely throws their bills over the wall for government employees to do the grunge work of fixing what Legislators didn’t want to take the time to do things right.

What we are now seeing is that mere agencies are changing their “interpretations” of a law to make it fit what they want. For instance, the EPA changing MPG regulations such that only electric cars can meeting them (and the unelected CA CARB doing the same thing there). Imagine that – we’ve allowed ourselves to be ruled by a neo-Aristocracy / Nomenklatura and not by our representatives BECAUSE we don’t hold the latter sufficiently to account.

/rant

So, a US District Court, Judge Reed O’Connor, ruled that the ATF couldn’t even follow the APA well enough to make their new Rule legal. It was a case of “ideology over law” (something we’ve seen too much of in the Biden Administration these past few years). So, adding a pistol brace to an AR-15 pistol doesn’t turn it into a barreled Rifle as defined in the National Firearms Act of 1935 (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Federal Judge Overturns ATF ‘Pistol Brace’ Rule

A federal judge in Texas has overturned a rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) that targeted pistol attachments known as “stabilizing braces” or “pistol braces” and treated pistols fitted with such devices as short-barreled rifles, subjecting them to various restrictions.

In a 12-page decision issued on June 13, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the ATF’s rule that treated roughly 99 percent of pistols fitted with the braces as short-barreled rifles violated the Administrative Procedures Act’s procedural requirements because it was not a “logical outgrowth” of the proposed version of the rule.
“The Court finds that the adaptation of the Final Rule was arbitrary and capricious for two reasons,” Judge O’Connor wrote. “First, the Defendants did not provide a detailed justification for their reversal of the agency’s longstanding position. And second, the Final Rule’s standards are impermissibly vague.”

These braces were invented to help disabled veterans who wanted to continue to shoot guns as a sport but were unable to do so due to their injuries. The ATF has, on several occasions, said that such braces did not force such pistols into the SBR category, which requires the same kind of scrutiny (and payment of a tax) due to machine guns and suppressors. A

After telling folks it was OK to have and use, their “Final Rule” pulled the rug out from underneath millions of gun owners and instantly made them felons…how convenient to destroy their Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms!

So now that the Rule has been “vacated” (e.g., the ATF is not allowed to enforce it), it will most likely end up at SCOTUS.  I’m betting that they will slap it down (6-3) as well.

From the decision (emphasis mine, reformatted):

For close to a decade, the ATF concluded that “attaching the brace to a firearm does not alter the classification of the firearm or subject the firearm to NFA control.” The ATF changed course on this position for the first time in 2023, when it issued the Final Rule reversing the agency’s otherwise long-standing policy. “When an agency changes course, as [the ATF] did here, it must ‘be cognizant that longstanding policies may have engendered serious reliance interests that must be taken into account.’” Dep’t of Homeland Sec. v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal., 591 U.S. 1, 30 (2020) (quoting Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, 579 U. S. 211, 222 (2016)). “It would be arbitrary and capricious to ignore such matters” Id. But this is exactly what Defendants did when they inexplicably and fundamentally switched their position on stabilizing braces without providing sufficient explanations and notice.

Under the Final Rule, the ATF estimated about 99% of pistols with stabilizing braces would be reclassified as NFA rifles. The ATF contemporaneously issued approximately sixty adjudications pursuant to the Final Rule that reclassified different configurations of firearms with stabilizing braces as NFA rifles. The ATF provided no explanations for how the agency came to these classifications and there is no “meaningful clarity about what constitutes an impermissible stabilizing brace.” Mock, 75 F.4th at 585 (5th Cir. 2023). In fact, the Fifth Circuit “[could not] find a single given example of a pistol with a stabilizing brace that would constitute an NFA exempt braced pistol.” Id. at 575. Such “‘unexplained’ and ‘inconsistent’ positions” are arbitrary and capricious. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. v. FDA, 65 F.4th 182, 191 (5th Cir. 2023) (quoting Encino Motorcars, 579 U.S. at 222).

The Defendants’ [ATF] disregard for the principles of fair notice and consideration of reliance interests is further exacerbated by its failure to follow the APA’s procedural requirements for public notice and comment. As discussed above, Defendants failed to follow proper notice-and comment procedures because the Proposed Rule and the Final Rule differed in immense ways.

Essentially, the ATF pulled a “bait and switch” that if it were one of us, we’d end up in jail. How many of these evil government agents will suffer that consequence for this?

…Consequently, the Court finds that the Final Rule’s six factor test is so impermissibly vague that it “provides no meaningful clarity about what constitutes an impermissible stabilizing brace,” and, thus, that “it is nigh impossible for a regular citizen to determine what constitutes a braced pistol” that “requires NFA registration.” Id. at 584–85. Accordingly, Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment is GRANTED and Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment is DENIED as to this issue.

So, all of the People of the Gun can now bring themselves “out of the closet” without fear of retribution (my non-lawyerly opinion), so it seems.

However, until folks in ANY agency who act in similar ways are forced to suffer a large consequence (big personal fines, jail time, money to the plaintiffs), this will continue across the government spectrum. Until TEETH are added into the mix with which to punish the guilty within government, we are subject to Tyranny.

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ETH Gate is a conspiracy theory that Ethereum received a free pass from regulators. These critics reasonably claim that the Securities and Exchange Commission allowed Ethereum to move ahead while doling out harsher treatment to other rivals.

From the Aaron Day Show Page: YouTube



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Apparently, Louisiana has a new law that requires a copy of the Ten Commandments to be prominently displayed in each public school classroom in the state.

You might be thinking:  Hasn’t the US Supreme Court already ruled that this kind of thing is blatantly unconstitutional?

Of course, it has.  But you could say the same thing about the anti-gun laws that are being passed post-Bruen in states like New York, Illinois, and Hawaii. In fact, not too long ago, the Hawaii Supreme Court came right out and said what other states seem to be thinking:  They regard SCOTUS decisions as advisory rather than binding.

I’m not a big fan of putting religion in classrooms or taking guns away from citizens, but overall, I’m encouraged by this trend. It means that people may finally be figuring out that it is not, as John Marshall claimed back in 1803, ‘the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.’

For centuries, SCOTUS has — through a series of judicial opinions that are increasingly at odds with the plain words of the written Constitution — practically dared the states to start ignoring those decisions.  For a while now, I’ve wondered if it was even possible for the Court to go too far, and I’ve worried that it wasn’t.

But apparently it is.  I hope it’s not too late for the Court to go back to treating the document as something designed to be understood by fifth-graders rather than what it has become.  In Jefferson’s words: ‘A mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.’

You know, to go back to accepting that shall not doesn’t mean may sometimes.  That when limits on a right are not stated, they don’t exist.  That kind of thing.

As a good first step, we could require ISO 9000 training for judges.

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The US Democrat Party was founded in 1828 by Martin Van Buren and was pivotal in electing Andrew Jackson, a former member of the US Army and Congressman.

Today, the US Democrat Party has lost its mandate to exist as a political party in the United States of America.

This party has proven itself to be a party of liars, thieves, hoaxers, criminals, and amoral bigots, among others.

This party has been thoroughly taken over by foreign-controlled forces in its devious alliance with the globalists of the Communist International and the World Economic Forum.

This party has spent decades perpetuating racial and ideological strife where none should exist.

This party has prevented real civilizational progress in the USA for generations.

This party has effected the largest event of mass murder in over fifty years— the COVID project linked with the globalist/communist Agenda 21.

This party has supported and disseminated misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation intended to turn back the clock on political progress in the USA, specifically by embracing extremist racial ideologies in support of segregation and discrimination by race.

This party has engaged in extremist racial discrimination that has resulted in thousands of deaths of morally upstanding US citizens.

This party has created and forced widespread election fraud on the US citizenry in order to install a demented president as a puppet leader.

This party has undermined the US election system in ways that are severely compromising US national security.

This party has created an agenda based on transhumanist philosophies associated with the World Economic Forum and Communist International that have forced young children— US citizens— to believe that it is proper and correct to self-castrate and attempt to change their birth sex, resulting in lower life expectancy and compromising reproductive capability.

This party has weaponized the District of Columbia political infrastructure to imprison thousands of peaceful protesters after a staged event at the US Capitol reminiscent of the Reichstag Fire executed by the Nazi Party circa 1940 in Berlin.

This party has continuously and unabashedly undermined and destroyed US law that serves as the foundational bedrock of civil society in the USA.

This party has conspired to imprison and harass a former US President on charges that are flimsy at best and are realistically simply make-believe.

This party has vigorously and consistently undermined true democracy, malevolently warping the very idea of democracy itself.

There are many more incidents that may serve as further justification for the end of the US Democrat Party.

And so, it is hereby proposed that the US Democrat Party be shut down and replaced by the Independent Party, to which the majority of US citizens claim to belong.

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James Roesener is a State Representative who was elected in 2022 to represent Ward 8 of Concord. Perhaps you have never heard of Roesener, but her election was national news because she is an “out trans man.”

Let’s take a closer look at Roesener, bitter-clingers. When Israel began small-scale ground operations in Gaza (the full-scale invasion did not happen until October 27th), she posted in support of Hamas. Yeah, I know it says “Palestine,” but the military activity on October 13th involved small-scale raids against Hamas, so I would say the post must be interpreted as supporting Hamas, NOT civilian Palestinians.

And notice what’s on the wall, which apparently is Roesener’s place of work … “I MASTURBATE.” Gee, I wonder what they’re selling in that store (that was sarcasm, bitter-clingers). Here’s another look:

But there are more bitter clingers. Roesener, when she is not busy “transforming” America at the Statehouse, unwinds by performing in drag shows:

But not just any drag show. A drag show to fund “queer health care” … because in the dystopian world that Woke-Commies like Roesener live in you are simply a factor of your skin color, your sexual preference, etc., etc., etc..

Woke-Communism is the new “New Hampshire Advantage,” bitter-clingers. This State is “massed up” beyond repair. The name should be changed to mini-me-California.

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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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