Dear Goffstown voters: you don’t get to elect an extremist like Kelly Boyer to the Board of Selectman (whoopsie; so sorry; you changed Board of Selectmen to “Select Board”), and then complain about Goffstown having a problem with extremists: Does Hate Really Have No Home In Goffstown.

What’s that, you say? Boyer is not an extremist? While Boyer may be much more careful about what she posts to social media than other extremists in the New HampshireDemocratCommunist Party, she is an extremist nonetheless.

The LGBTQ+ flag represents the chemical castration of children, biological males playing on girls’ school sports teams, and teachers supplanting parents. So, yeah, I would call Boyer extreme. If you don’t, maybe it’s because the abnormal …the chemical castration of children, biological males playing on girls’ school sports teams, and teachers supplanting parents … has become normal in New Hampshire.

Credit where credit is due. Boyer is an actual political activist. And a good one. Not someone, like me, who just runs his mouth. Someone who actually puts in the long hours and hard work to effect change … of course, that “change” is the transformation of Goffstown into Wokestown.

Boyer uses your values against you … let’s make Goffstown a loving, inclusive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah place. And it works … you elect her to that institution known in the bad, old patriarchal days as the Board of Selectmen, WHERE SHE CURRENTLY SITS AS VICE “CHAIR”, which emboldens extremists. From the recent post mentioned above:

Two conservatives recently ran for Library Board of Trustees in our local election. This really bothered and triggered another extreme leftist, who happens to be our Select Board Vice Chair’s wife, and she requested the candidates’ actual library cards from the library. After receiving them from the Library Director, she proceeded to display them (including their patron codes) publicly online in order to intimidate and call them out.

You cannot have it both ways, voters of GoffstownWokestown … you cannot elect a Woke-Communist to lead your town and then complain about Woke-Communism in your town. If you want to see the root of the problem, look in the mirror.

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We’ve gone silent for the last few weeks while we’ve worked on collecting audio/video authorization forms from four different District Courts in New Hampshire.  Four courts have allowed Joa to film anonymously while the Hillsborough District Court had him arrested for doing it.  These documents and requests are still pending.

Joa has filed a Motion To Compel the Release of Criminal Records to have the Court order the State to release his criminal records for trial preparation as the prosecutor was reluctant to do so.  This is a normal procedure as there are very strict rules governing the release of these records.

I’d like to mention that the prosecutor has been nothing but a gentleman and actually helpful to me personally in explaining some lawyerly procedures to me that I wasn’t too familiar with.  I believe he represents the community of Hillsborough very professionally.  I unfortunately don’t have years of law school and mock trial preparation like he and other lawyers do, so I am most grateful to him.

The trial date is presently scheduled for May 21st at 1:00PM.

The United States of America is currently experiencing a total psychological takeover from a foreign country. That country is Russia.

Nowhere is this more clear than in the halls of the federal institutions in Washington, DC. US federal officials are obsessed with Russia. They cannot stop blaming everything on the Asian country. These US officials think it is a good idea to commit such ideological obsession. Nothing good can come of such a silly infatuation.

This was blatantly put on display last week when US federal lawmakers in Congress collectively waved small Ukrainian flags in a show of support for passing legislature aimed to continue funding for financial aid to the beleaguered European country. Many of these same lawmakers decry waving their own country’s flag. These people are totally corrupted and have sold out their own country.

In fact, Ukraine today is no longer a fully functioning state. It is an extension of the US government. In a twisted expression of geopolitical power, this is in no way in the real interests of US citizens. Yet, it is US citizens’ wealth that is being squeezed away and drained.

How is this happening? It is solely due to the deeply corrupted and compromised Biden cabal, which took power in 2020 in a coup that was given cover by the US election cycle. The Biden cabal utilized biomedical and race warfare to inflame national sentiment and distract the citizenry so that it could conduct an entirely corrupt and illegal electioneering campaign.

This was all smoke and mirrors to distract US citizens and the world from one stark reality: the Biden cabal, which is essentially the US Democrat Party, is fully controlled and operated by non-US interests. Mainly, it is controlled by Chinese, British, and European military intelligence forces.

This has increasingly become apparent over the years since Biden took office. His cabal’s use of the US intelligence, media, and federal legal apparatus to destroy political opposition and censure public conversations has been entirely totalitarian. Nothing about the Biden White House’s governing style is democratic whatsoever.

Ukraine is one of the most corrupt states on the planet. What does this mean? Simply put, there is vast criminality, mostly in the forms of nepotism, embezzlement, bribery, and money laundering. For example, Ukrainian officials will take large portions of international aid money for themselves. Through various schemes and mechanisms, some of this money will be returned to the very politicians in the USA who provided the aid in the first place.

Under Joseph Biden’s administration, the USA has joined Ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. No internationally published corruption index will show this because most of them favor the US Democrats and the Washington establishment. They are not sophisticated enough to fully understand the corruption taking place.

In whose interest is is that the USA continues to fund Ukraine? Internationally, several groups have direct interests. Firstly, the European Union, especially the western countries like Spain, France, and Germany, benefit from creating a stronger political and economic divide between Russia and the EU. It allows the countries of the EU to compete economically within the single market with less external economic pressure, because Russians have less interest and ability to attempt to compete economically in the EU.

This divergence between Europe and Russia is enforced by the US military, which is providing most of the aid in the form of military equipment and personnel support. The entire US military economy is able to continue to generate profits because this conflict with Ukraine exists. They are too myopic to see any other potential avenue for profits. The US military and its economies gain at the expense of US citizens.

China and the entire group of countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, politically known as BRICS, gained as well. They gain because the US is invested and distracted by the Ukraine war. The US cannot focus on so many things simultaneously, even though it pretends to. This gives enormous leeway for China and many other countries to operate. Politically, it also allows China to play neutral and take the most morally superior position while the USA sinks into a clearly amoral position of funding war— an unpopular notion.

Russia gains because this is a war that it can only win. On nearly every level, it is impossible for Russia to lose. It is too large to be defeated by Ukraine. It is too easy for Russia to control the conflict. And despite Washington’s propaganda, Russia does not need to or want to entirely annex all of Ukraine. Russia gains as long as the conflict persists because its military economies also benefit from war. Furthermore, the entire conflict puts Russia in a favorable international situation, as many countries around the world see that NATO has bullied Russia into the situation. Only the Western political elite have convinced themselves of Russia’s malfeasance. Most other intelligent people around the world can see the real role of NATO and the logic of Russia’s actions.

US citizens are the only ones who lose. US citizens’ wealth decreases every time the US government sends funds to Ukraine. Thst wealth is transferred to Ukranian oligarchs, which is in turn spread over the Eastern European region and the Mediterraneans where those individuals operate. The wealth is transferred to the US military economy, where US defense corporations and military community members gain. The wealth is transferred through inflation when the money is created rather than drawn from the tax base, and US citizens lose their purchasing power. Finally, US citizen’s voice is squelched, as any attempt to alter the situation is nullified by an oppressive and totalitarian federal government.

It is a disgusting situation. The Biden cabal is committing many crimes against its own people in order to enrich itself, even while taking government salaries for the positions its members fill during the administration.

These people in the US Democratic party and in the US Washington establishment who are enforcing this reality on the planet and in the USA are despicable people. They are totally ideologically corrupt, and they are protected by the forces of all of the people who benefit— essentially almost everyone else on the planet.

There are better ways to manage and check the growth of the USA, which is the goal in attempting to build a multipolar world. This is not the best way. It is far from the best way. The people who are complicit in allowing the situation to persist are deserving of a great punishment and a great reckoning.

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Psychology is a “science” that studies human behavior but is itself morally bankrupt.  That is, psychology is unable to scientifically define normality.  It can’t.  “Normal” depends on what the society (through “norms”) or the patient views as morally correct.

This limitation of psychological study is apparent when addressing transgenderism, until recently labeled a mental illness (“gender dysphoria”) by psychology.  Modern textbooks on transgender (and other paraphilic) disorders observe that they arise from “adverse childhood experiences” (ACEs): “Any event sufficiently stressful to threaten a fragile ego” (Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, 8th edition, Mary C. Townsend, 2015, p. 615).  But here we face a conundrum: the textbook relates that such people are “unable to use coping mechanisms effectively” and become either “adaptive” (“urges are suppressed and not acted upon”) or “maladaptive” (“urges or behaviors cause significant distress or interfere with social, occupational or other important areas of functioning”).  But if society alters its mores such that a person is rewarded for his paraphilic condition in self, occupation, or even a run for public office, then this textbook is reversed, and what was viewed as adaptive becomes toxic, and what was termed maladaptive is healthy.

Drug addiction also is linked directly to ACEs.  Is the “cure” for the disease of addiction found in affirmation or in “correction”?  In encouraging more heroin abuse or in helping people into recovery?  We must ask this question of transgenderism with the utmost compassion and introspection.  If the behavior is “normal,” there is no “condition” to address.  America’s Left has imposed the conclusion of normalcy without critically considering the effect on the patient or others.

What of people who suffer from delusions of grandeur, a common presentation of which is the quite sincere belief that they are Jesus Christ?  Shall we address them as Messiah or instead gently correct them to bring them back down to earth (reality), under the care of a talented professional?  Crucifixion would seem a harsh therapy (however affirming).  Yet the surgeries being performed on people with species or gender dysphoria are quite horrifying in their mutilation of the human body.

In Vermont, those surgeries are now available to schoolchildren!

Those affirmed in species dysphoria (the belief that one is of a different species) will become parents and cause ACEs for their children — doubtless, it is traumatizing for children to grow up with a father who “identifies” as a lizard or a mother who “feels” she is a wolf trapped in a womanly form.  This guarantees an expanding pool of victims, perpetuating the vicious cycle of child victimization that causes these emotional traumas.

Additional child victims of transgender “reorientation” by society are the girls who have brought a complaint regarding the unfair advantage gained by male high school athletes.  There are numerous effects on others from “affirming” dysphorias.

The rush to enable these mental illnesses and to instruct children that they can surgically alter their physiology at whim (“liberating” them?) is indeed dramatically altering what is normal.  The next step is to normalize species dysphoria and allow children to be surgically altered in any and all manifestations of physicality they demand.  By what logic can gender dysphoria be approved and species dysphoria rejected?

In a Georgia school, a young man was outraged that the school “singled him out” in the cafeteria and removed him…for wearing a penguin costume.  In a video, he states:

Have you seen the Georgia laws for discrimination?  You can’t discriminate against someone by who they are.  I identify as a penguin, and this is me as a penguin.  This isn’t a hood.  This is my penguin head.  You can’t tell me not to be a penguin, cause, I mean, I was born a penguin and honestly that’s against the law to discriminate and if you go through with this I will let the ACLU know and they will send their people[.]

Teachers and administrators are trying to cope with the increasing permutations of mental illness in young students.  Meanwhile, progressive hospitals are quick to offer medical, pharmaceutical, therapeutic, and other surgeries to encourage these same children.  At the University of Vermont Medical Center Transgender Youth Program, “a multi-disciplinary team of physicians and mental health providers” explains that gender identity for children is not a choice but that radically and irrevocably altering their genitals and hormones is a “normal” option:

At the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital, we believe that all people, including children and teens, should be allowed to live their lives in their preferred gender.  Gender identity is not a choice, and it cannot be changed through treatment[.] …

We provide the full spectrum of care, from simple observation and guidance to hormone suppression and gender-affirming hormonal therapy for children of all ages[.] …

We require that all our patients are in active mental health therapy as we feel this is a vital part of any gender exploration journey[.] …

We can provide a referral to the reproductive endocrinology team at the UVM Medical Center to discuss fertility preservation options if it is desired by the patient and family, and if the patient is at pubertal age[.] …

When the right time comes, planning for having children is a part of life.  Like everyone else, a transgender person has choices.  Once on pubertal suppressive treatment and/or gender affirming hormones, the likelihood of being able to have biological offspring decreases significantly or is not possible at all.  It’s good to plan ahead.

Just as suboxone is offered as the lifetime cure-all for substance abuse, the pharmaceutical industry offers lifetime drug therapies for these children at government expense.  Most people do not become dependent on suboxone until adulthood.  In Vermont, the progressives are connecting pharmaceutical companies to their customers at a much earlier age through lifetime hormone therapies, sometimes without parental consent.

History will reflect that this transgender experiment on Vermont’s children is as insane as the eugenics movement, which in Vermont led to the sterilization of people “for the public good.”  Or perhaps the better parallel was the period when lobotomies were in vogue, before society realized how ridiculous that acclaimed “solution” was.  America champions the cause of women from foreign cultures who endure societal genital mutilation but somehow fails to see the reflection of that mutilation in today’s U.S. hospitals.

Mutilating the genitals of young children will surely one day lead to a cascade of lawsuits against the State of Vermont.  These sex surgeries are as irreversible as lobotomies.  In a time when municipalities may hesitate to install new playground equipment for fears of liability, these hospitals are unconcerned with future reimbursement of these children when they regret these rash procedures in the future — or when society reverts to the old normal.  Perhaps these hospitals and government agencies should set aside a financial reserve, just in case some of these young boys regret permitting physicians to alter their “penis tissue” “to construct a vaginal cavity between the rectum and urethra … with the depth and appearance of a biologically developed vagina.”

That just does not sound normal at any age.

(September 16, 2019)

Postscript:

“A new systematic review of international clinical guidelines for children with gender dysphoria found a “lack of evidence” for transition treatments for minors and also accused the medical authorities who recommend such treatments of engaging in “circular referencing,” or exclusively citing one another’s recommendations to create an artificial expert consensus, according to reporting from Christina Buttons. The study, commissioned by Dr. Hilary Cass as part of her evidence review for the U.K. National Health Service, found that the main organizations that have endorsed “gender-affirming care” for children—including the Endocrine Society, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Pediatrics—consistently cited one another’s guidelines and conclusions without conducting any independent research, thus creating the illusion of widespread professional and scientific agreement on the safety and efficacy of these treatments.”

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A. J. Kierstead and Dexter Tarbox discuss Defend the Guard and NH HB229, which the New Hampshire Senate might send to Interim Study. People like NH Rep. Tom Mannion, and other liberty lovers are, doing their part to make sure this gets done!

‘Grok More Podcasts here!

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The Internet has eroded  institutional control over what ordinary people see as “news.” Corporate media are still thieves, but not as they used to be, while locals have been obliterated in print and online. Many struggle to keep the dream alive, but with significantly reduced staff and declining coverage, and now wealthy progressive foundations have come to the rescue.

The problem?

Since 2005, approximately 2,200 local newspapers have closed, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.

The Solution?

A coalition of 22 donors today announced Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information with an infusion of more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local news as a force for community cohesion; support new models and solutions that are ready to scale; and close longstanding inequities in journalism coverage and practice.

The funding.

Initial Press Forward partners are The Archewell Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln, Democracy Fund, Ford Foundation, Mary W. Graham, Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group, Heising-Simons Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Joyce Foundation, KFF, Knight Foundation, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Lumina Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Outrider Foundation, Rita Allen Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Skyline Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

These groups have promised 500 million in grants to start (for which outlets like InDepth NH, among others, will apply) to prop up favorable venues that can fill search engine results with echoes from the correct chamber. It sounds like the David Brock thing – fake local news/public interest websites peddling news, sports, and “opinion” that press the progressive message. If those are still around, maybe they can apply too.

And it is, of course, about preserving Democracy and countering misinformation.

Under the cover of supporting news gathering and reporting by underserved populations, most of whom will suffer from the success of the reporting.

And yes, I wish we had easy access to similar grants to push back from our “side.” One of the Grok’s missions, when my job disappeared last year, was to do more day-to-day reporting, which is constricted by raising donations, for which I am forever grateful, but I’m not good at it, so it hasn’t freed me up to do any of that. I still have to work part-time elsewhere, which is fine. I like working, but it keeps us from pressing forward (hee hee) with some of our goals.

We lose a step here and there, while deep pockets on the Left fund portals labeled as local news to leverage people’s better opinion of “local news'” to push the progressive agenda.

Press Forward, indeed!

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Comparisons only capture the ears of the curious. Amid all this social, economic, and cultural turmoil, it would surely be beneficial if curiosity could return. This quality is very much in demand since America is being attacked with the enemy’s new weapons of equality and equity.

This new warfare astounds simply from the aspect of its ease and successful implementation, and now without any injury or loss of life! Such success was likely dependent upon the prelim of a patient conditioning program. Without getting too detailed, all this roughly began around the dawning of the twentieth century. The central distribution point was academia with its purpose to infiltrate nationally. Graduating the like minded, many remained in the education field while others dispersed throughout the many sectors of our economy and yes, governments!

Not to get political, but it’s a necessary element that fuels today’s affecting headlines. Trump’s 2015 entry upset their long march through the institutions,’ as the Red Chinese say. At first, his entry was comical, but suddenly, Trump became President. All their laughter ceased. What has happened since, most notably in 2020 and now during this campaign season, or should I say ‘attack season,’ has been to protect their slow grind through all that is still America but, most importantly, to keep Trump from obtaining Presidential power ever again, for he is their only credible threat!

This confrontation is very much a psychological affair in that all these drastic societal and cultural reversals and/or eliminations are being played out so as to keep the masses unbalanced and misdirected while the brunt of their efforts centers upon their last obstacle!

For whatever reason, they might have erred by refocusing America’s attention on one issue that also acts as a reliable public safeguard: our unalienable Second Amendment. Incredibly, Biden’s insistence that our Constitutional rights, listed as The Bill of Rights, “are not absolute” might be an overstep, or in this case, an attention-getter when connecting with one uncomfortable fact: Red China!

This may only point to a possibility rather than a probability yet throughout Biden’s entire time in public service, his record is at least murky and with many question marks. Thus, it may not surprise as recent information has revealed to the public about unknown business dealings of our President, his family, and associates with our foreign adversaries. At the very least, this should cause some serious questioning concerning Biden’s real motives and overall allegiance to our Country. So, when he decides to attack everyone’s unalienable right to self-defense, it’s not a far reach to wonder just how Red China would welcome the knowing that no longer would there be “a gun behind every blade of grass.” This Constitutional right of the people, to be armed, acted as a deterrent causing that response from Admiral Yamamoto when asked why he didn’t continue on to our West Coast after attacking Pearl Harbor.

Also, such an airing of this Congressional investigation, which to the public may suggest the unthinkable, casts a dim shadow over Biden’s concern for public safety as his reason for disarming our people. Even the modern public fable that it was originally written for hunting purposes attempts to downplay the Founder’s concern for the public’s protection against governmental growth!

Today’s circus in the courts, no matter which side of the aisle one may prefer, is an outright threat to our Constitutional Republic. This abuse of our judicial system against a citizen’s right to run for office defines today’s new warfare. While this is temporarily viewed as a partisan effort, it never-the –less is an attack upon every American! The only catch is that this won’t become obvious until it’s too late! Biden’s overreach exemplifies Red China’s preference for a peaceful takeover. As stated, this is merely a possibility, but it’s eerie how it all connects with such a positive result for Red China. As this courtroom drama unfolds, the enemy has obviously gained influence within our prosecutorial and judicial arms of justice. Lady Justice is blind, but our people can ill afford to look away. And to borrow a quote, “This isn’t a joke!”

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The next generation of DemocratsCommunists are moving on up in New Hampshire. One such Communist is Angela Brennan, running to replace her comrade, Becky “The Red” Whitley, who is moving on up to run for Congress in the 2nd-CD.

It is pretty common knowledge that “Blaine Amendments” in State Constitutions (enacted by States in the late 19th century (when Protestantism was still being taught in public schools) to discriminate against Catholics)  violate the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and therefore are unenforceable. For example:

The first major blow to Blaine Amendments came in June 2020, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that the federal Constitution forbids states from excluding families and schools from educational choice programs based on their religious status. The U.S. Constitution, wrote Chief Justice Roberts for a majority of the Court, “condemns discrimination against religious schools and the families whose children attend them. They are members of the community too, and their exclusion from [Montana’s] scholarship program here is odious to our Constitution and cannot stand.” The Supreme Court’s holding was clear and unambiguous—and it applies to every state: While a “State need not subsidize private education[,] . . . once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

The second blow to Blaine Amendments came two years later when the Supreme Court ruled in Carson v. Makin that states may not prohibit families that participate in educational choice programs from selecting schools that provide religious instruction. The Court held that such programs must be neutral regarding religion and allow parents to pick the school that works best for their children. Chief Justice Roberts, again writing for the Court’s majority, held that Maine “violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment” when it prohibits parents from choosing religious educational options in a school choice program.

Yet here is Angela Brennan disseminating the FALSEHOOD that New Hampshire’s Blaine Amendment remains operative:

The question is: IS COMRADE BRENNAN A CONSTITUTIONAL KNOW-NOTHING OR A LIAR? The question that does not need to be asked is whether Comrade Brennan is a RELIGIOUS-BIGOT … she clearly is.

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Any day now, we’re going to hear about a new federal program to help younger kids become bilingual. This is so they’ll be able to understand what their illegal alien child rapist is saying while they are being abused.

They are already being groomed so that part is already paid for locally through the school budget. And we’re covering the cost to transport them, process them (when that happens), and for criminal justice to know who they are and release them into (or back into ) the homeland. While the children are paying a different price.

The moment of this alleged child rapist’s arrest while we were with ICE Boston. He was their fourth alleged child rapist arrest of the morning.
All had been released by local jurisdictions who refused to cooperate with ICE. pic.twitter.com/JYEVxWbchi

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) April 16, 2024

Given these are all known predators here illegally, handled by the system but left to roam free, I’m curious as to why they’ve been arrested (publicly). Did the open borders, sanctuary city state Dems need a photo-op (look we’re hard in illegal immigration!)? Did the predators exceed their bag limit? And how soon before they are out on the street to find new targets, possibly even closer to our homes here in New Hampshire?

Oh, and what about all the other criminals wandering around?

No wonder even Democrats are getting sick of this crap.

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The urgency for transparency in using Nashua taxpayers’ hard-earned money is not just important; it’s paramount. As a state that prides itself on transparency, New Hampshire citizens should demand openness and accountability, particularly for publicly funded discretionary projects.

For instance, Nashua City’s Performing Arts Center project has already surpassed its budget, making the need for transparency even more pressing. Where is the money going? How much is coming back to the City? Is there waste or fraud? Is everything on the up and up? These are questions that should concern us all.

When elected and appointed officials impede access to information about what is happening, something is amuck.

Under the leadership of Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess, a disturbing trend of misrepresentations and obfuscation has emerged among the mayor and other top City officials. This is not just a matter of miscommunication; it’s a betrayal of citizens’ trust in certain of their elected representatives and appointed officials.  The pattern is particularly troubling regarding the peculiar routing of millions of taxpayer dollars diverted from infrastructure and public safety projects to fund the discretionary Performing Arts Center, which appears to be the mayor’s pet project.

Mayor Donchess’  director of economic development, Tim Cummings, orchestrated secretive meetings to keep the public in the dark about the project’s complex financial structure, which has taken on the characteristics of a “shell game.” Suppose the funding for the Performing Arts project was transparent and accountable. Wouldn’t you expect the responsible officials to invite public inspection and not hinder public access and commentary by trickery?

It’s not just a matter of trust but of our collective responsibility as citizens to ensure that our tax dollars are used wisely and transparently. We have the power to demand answers, and we must use it.

Now, the NH Court must decide if this project’s meeting and records generated in the shadows can be seen in the sun. Should hearings on the expenditure of public funds be open to the public? It came to that!

On April 10-12, 2024, Nashua Superior Court held the last three days of a six-day Right to Know (RTK) Trial, Laurie Ortolano v City of Nashua and the 201 Main St. Corps. The Trial was all about public meetings and records contained within Director Cumming’s Economic Development Office (EDO).

The lawsuit challenged Director Cummings’s denial of noticing meetings and posting minutes per the law for the various commissions, committees, and boards under his office’s responsibility. While under oath, Mr. Cummings hesitantly acknowledged that his office oversees several City Committees and boards.  However, when questioned on the two shell corporations (201 Main Street Corps) formed to accept federal money for the Performing Arts Center, Mr. Cummings claimed the 201 Main Street Corps were not under his department’s oversight. His statement proved to be false.

The City paid the legal expenses and fees to create these nonprofit public corporations to accept federal money. Because these corporations were pitched to the Board of Aldermen as public nonprofits, there is cause to believe that they were subject to the right-to-know NH RSA 91-A law. The structure presented by the City Attorney did not depict these Corporations as autonomous entities, separate from the City.

Mayor Donchess and his Corporation Counsel, Steven Bolton, failed to clarify the function of the corporations, and they appear to have done so to evade NH RSA 91-A. This pattern of denial continued for almost a year until Ortolano filed a right-to-know lawsuit, asking that the “City” manufactured agencies to advance the Performing Arts Center identify their public body/public agency status and produce the records they contain. She argued all of these meetings and records should be public.

I, Laurie Ortolano, have been to Court with the City too many times, seeking the truth and leaving without it. The April Trial reached a pinnacle of deception, and when the dust settled, so didn’t some of the deceptions.

I wanted to understand the City’s process for handling my right-to-know requests. I could not get a consistent and clear answer from Nashua City Attorney Leonard or Director of Administration Cummings. Attorney Leonard applied this blanket statement to many of my questions, “We comply with RSA 91-A.” You can see Leonard’s repeated statement as an overgeneralized and misleading response. Her actions seemed to diverge from compliance as prescribed by law.

Director Cummings and Attorney Leonard expounded on the stand that the 201 Main St. Corps created by the City as public corporations were not public bodies or agencies of the City. Therefore, the City was not responsible under the RTK law for noticing meetings for public attendance and posting their minutes. So, why did the City officials create them?

Because Mayor Donchess acted as if the 201 Main Street Corps were not City Corporations, his counsel argued that Corporations needed separate legal representation at the Trial. The City Attorney objected to questioning how these corporations involved with the Performance Art Center were structured, who structured them, and the purpose for this entangled condition. Now, five defense attorneys opposed one self-represented person.

Counsel for the Corporations specified that the City did not guide its hand-picked Board of Directors regarding governance or municipal law requirements, even though these Board members would be responsible for more than $25 million in taxpayer money to build the Performing Arts Center. So, we have a statement from a paid attorney that a non-taxpayer enterprise can run a taxpayer-funded entity without accountability and spend taxpayer money. The difficulty with the argument was that there was no evidence that the entities were untethered from the city.

Most people have seen how the blame game plays out. If someone is caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they blame someone else for making the cookies tempting. In roughly this way, the Trial became a finger-pointing game of villainizing the victims harmed by the Mayor’s non-disclosure practices. For example, for 20 months, the City, under Mayor Donchess, would not budge on a refusal to disclose who was responsible for notices and records for meetings and records and financial decisions recorded in documents relevant to the Performing Arts Center. As I raised questions, the mayor’s entourage villainized me and made themselves sound like the victims of their indiscretions and fiction.

The City claimed no responsibility for administrative oversight of the 201 Main Street Corps meetings where public funds were allocated and how they would be managed. Without realizing it, they declared themselves fiscally incompetent. The facts and evidence showed that the ” We know nothing (but control everything)” position was contradictory and fallacious but typical of  positions the City previously took on right-to-know issues, such as attorney Leonard’s redundant ambiguous  assertion, “We comply with RSA 91-A.”

 The following exposed the Big Lie:

• The 201 Corporations have the same Employer Identification Number as the City of Nashua (in IRS terms, the City owns the Corporations.) Therefore, the city’s claim of separation of fiscal authority is false.
• The Board of Aldermen approves the Board of Directors members for 201 Main Street Corporations. A private corporation chooses its board and would rightly reject governmental interference in determining who is selected to serve on a Board. (Would General Motors seat only government-approved Board members?)
• The Board of Aldermen must approve changes to the Corporation’s bylaws. The entity that determines the bylaws controls the agenda and the organization. That action by the Aldermanic board adds further evidence that the City controls the entities,
• The 201 Main Street Corporation’s business address is City Hall. (If you ran “Barts Bakery,” could you use City Hall as your mailing address?)
• The Corporations’ business contact is Nashua City Director of Administration Tim Cummings. If the entities were separate, such an arrangement could be rightly viewed as a cozy arrangement or conflict of interest, but the preponderance of evidence points to a fusion. They originated with the City and are aligned with the city.
• The City is responsible for the tax filings for the Corporations. An independent agency would file its taxes as a separate entity.
• The Corporation’s only revenue source is the City of Nashua, and taxpayers funded the Corporation with the $21 Million of sold bond proceeds to construct the Arts Center. An organizational director with hands in a municipality’s pockets cannot be considered autonomous.
• 201 Main Board of Directors realtor President Rich Lannan identified that an employee of Mr. Cummings’s office recorded the minutes for their Corporation meetings despite both corporations having their secretaries. This government control of the private organization’s recorded records is incomprehensible unless the private organization is a façade for the government.
• The Nashua Taxpayers paid the Attorneys representing the Corporations in this lawsuit. This arrangement demonstrated the extra costs associated with an organization’s pretense of autonomy requiring its counsel at a hearing and a governmental agency’s payment of such counsel. The statement that the Corporation was independent and needed its private counsel to be paid by the City is a skit for Saturday Night Live.

 City-orchestrated lies flowed free until mid-afternoon on the last day of the April trial. At that time, Mr. Cummings whistled a new tune. He seemed to understand that an avalanche of evidence against his false statements made it difficult to continue concealing the trickery and deceptions in the make-believe independent corporation game he and the mayor were playing.  The 201 Main Street Corps associated with the Performing Arts Center were the City’s alter ego in advancing the Performing Arts Center agenda.

Mr. Cummings made a 180-degree change and negated his denial by admitting that noticing and posting meetings/minutes was his responsibility. Why he wouldn’t admit to something likely in his job description bewilders.

Mr. Cummings did not acknowledge that the Corporations were under the City’s control and management but that the City was the third-party vendor to post notices and meeting records on the City’s website. Ms. Leonard identified under oath that the City entered into a third-party contract late last year to serve as their meeting website (this was not disclosed to the public).

The city took three years to write this contract. The pussyfooting had ended. Why all the deception? A Court decision that the Corporations are public bodies or public agencies of the City could open challenges to the legality of the Corporation’s structure and potential misuse of public funds.

No shenanigans were necessary in this matter. The Corporate structure would not have been up for review if the City had just owned its responsibility as a third party to notice and post meetings/minutes.  However, the easy way does not appear to be the Donchess way.  Once he starts on one track, he continues.

I’ve lost count of the prevarications and dissimulations from Nashua city officials and agents. I am surprised when I hear something truthful. That’s a sad testament to our times but one I hope will start changing.

Fairness is a prelude to truth and trust, which are preludes to cooperation. Transparency weaves through this process, as it must be for people to pull together and work together.  This basic human need is making a comeback. The 2023 word of the year is authenticity.  However, those who practice derision and promote discord are not to be underestimated. They are like “bad pennies that keep coming back.”

Does truth matter in Court? Not of you listened to days of testimony by Mr. Cummings.  The Courts provide an opportunity for a just result, but there are no guarantees. Exposing fiction and using some common sense, however, helps spur justice.

To all who read this, what do you think?

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A few years ago, Governor Sununu got a whiff of some Federal Wind Money up his skirt, and New Hampshire’s been fondling the idea ever since. But much bluer states with much bluer governors have decided that there’s no way to get there from here )and Bidenomics is partly to blame).

The next time some proglodyte tells you inflation isn’t as bad as “some people” say, don’t open with food prices or gas. Use wind. Inflation and material costs are making it impossible for the developers to move forward, but the deals they want would bankrupt ratepayers and cost billions in subsidies and tax credits. Even tax and spend states like New Jersey, and Maryland are shuddering at the price tag to move forward. A problem the wind idiots in New York have come to discover isn’t going away and cannot be justified.

 New York’s signature offshore wind projects meant to boost confidence in the industry are being scrapped, a major hit to the industry in the state and the nation.

The decision is another setback to New York’s aspirations to achieve 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and be a hub for the nascent industry in the United States. It will also be another challenge for President Joe Biden’s already likely out-of-reach 30 gigawatt goal for offshore wind by 2030.

Wind isn’t off the table, but as we reported previously, it’ll take some political capital, by which we mean politicians’ commitment to screwing ratepayers to get signature projects (intended to meet meaningless emissions reduction targets) back on track.

The newly-contracted projects are also expected to increase utility rates in the state. Residential electricity rates are expected to jump by $6.84 per month, commercial rates will increase by $58.73 per month, and monthly industrial rates will rise by $513.22, according to E&E News.

As I noted in the linked piece, these are lowball numbers. Given the trajectory of the economy, the industry, and global suppliers, these rates won’t survive construction, let alone completion. Ratepayers in Maryland (and New Jersey, where the Gov. is still trying to make wind happen) are going to get fiscally raped. It’s going to become difficult to impossible to do business there, which means price hikes to stay in business on top of the already rising prices.

The rising cost of offshore has had some positive effects.

In North Carolina, the latest long-term energy plan from Duke Energy drops offshore wind entirely in favor of nuclear, solar, and onshore wind. Furthermore, Duke has committed to only close any existing power plants once replacements are in operation, an idea that other states should follow. Two new offshore wind lease areas in the Gulf of Mexico failed to attract a bid. Vineyard Wind off Nantucket has begun construction but faces three unresolved lawsuits.

Nuclear has gained favor, but only because the not-so-green energy revolution has driven costs so high that it is not affordable by comparison. We could make Nuclear more affordable if the powers that want us to live in the dark rolled back some of the regulatory burdens enacted, not out of safety but to kneecap the industry, which they did.

It’s nuts how the all-electric-crazies could get a lot closer to their fantasy sooner, but that the easiest way to get there is a boogeyman (nuclear) they’ve been scaremongering for nearly fifty years. But here in New Hampshire, they are still chasing an offshore wind project that only becomes viable (to the vendor) if the states involved (ME, NH, Maybe MA) agree to rape ratepayers for the privilege.

I hope that’s not the plan because none of the factors causing Blue states to bail on Offshore wind are going away anytime soon.

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Apologies for the delayed announcement. I started it but then got sidetracked. It happens. But we posted the comments, and you voted, and this week’s winner is Ian Underwood.

Ian won the first week we began this way back in February, if I remember correctly (I know it was Ian, it’s the month I’m not sure about). He consistently provides excellent comments, so we sometimes have to exclude him from consideration because, as one commenter observed many months ago, he’d win every week. Well, you picked him this time, so congrats to Ian. I’m not sure what I sent you last time, but send me an email, and we’ll get you something different.

Collcat and Laura Condon tied for second.

Here’s Ian’s winning comment.

Ian Underwood
Rights, or Permissions?

How about consent — which essentially reduces to the Golden Rule — as a shared value upon which to base both society and government? According to the Declaration of Independence, that’s the ideal upon which the need to form a new country is based.

Here are the things I don’t want anyone else to be able to do to me. Therefore, I agree to be punished if I get caught trying to do them to anyone else.‘

That captures all of the things that should be crimes (like murder, assault, and theft), without including the things that shouldn’t be (like smoking pot or paying for sex or gambling). And it eliminates using government as a tool for redistributing wealth.

Or how about Bastiat’s description of government as ‘nothing more than organized self-defense’?
These are the opposite of chaos.

What we have nowis chaos — a situation where 51% of the voters can force their preferences on the other 49% at the point of a gun; where 51% of the voters can treat the other 49% as ATMs, and so on; where every election feels like it could spell the end of the world as we know it, because a handful of voters in the middle could turn everything upside-down overnight.

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It's Passover, so Steven was unavailable; Alu seizes the opportunity for a hostile takeover of the podcast and begins throwing AnCap bombs from the first moment! The crew gets into a heated debate about whether the government should ever interfere with private contracts and whether discrimination should ever be outlawed; four different opinions emerge, and many brilliant points are made; the Eds seem to argue that the government is necessarily a party to all contracts.

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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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