Great. Got it. Baby Huey Sununu makes national news but not exactly for the right reason. The Epoch Times has a lengthy article on how Sununu is trying to “cancel” those that stand up for the Constitutions and Conservative values.

They questioned him and his actions – and yet he wants “unity” even as he’s bringing fire and brimstone against those that DARE to challenge him. His Dad would never have stooped to this level, but again, he’s not even half the politician his Dad is.

Related: A Look at Who is Paying the Sununu-Supporting Super PAC to Attack NH House Republicans

You know, Chris used to say, “Hey, I’ll talk to anyone, anywhere, at any time.” Heck, at an NH GOP Annual Meeting, he sat down with GraniteGrok for an extended conversation.  However, as he climbed “the Ladder,” that willingness dissipated just like the early fall fog is now.  He wouldn’t talk to us (GrokGauntlet) and refused to even participate in a debate. No, he is now “above” the littler people, and how DARE they challenge him?

Take a read.  Emphasis mine

Republican PAC That Backs Sununu Targets New Hampshire Republicans

A mass campaign mailer attacking anti-establishment Republican candidates running in New Hampshire’s upcoming primaries was sent out by a political action committee formed to support party Gov. Chris Sununu as its purpose.

“This is an outrageous and unprecedented attempt to purge as many constitutional conservative Republicans from the state house delegation as possible,” State Rep. Paul Terry, one of the Republican candidates targeted by the mailers, told The Epoch Times, “He wants us replaced with Rhinos [sic] or Democrats.”

Terry is running for re-election to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

At least six Republicans are known to have been targeted by the mailers. All of them are running in contested Republican primaries and are called out in the mailers for supporting such Republican initiatives as impeaching Sununu and seceding from the U.S.

Alex Stanford, chairman and treasurer of Granite PAC, which sent out the mailers, told The Epoch Times that Sununu had nothing to do with the mailers, that neither the governor nor his campaign knew about them, and that his committee chose the targeted candidates on their own.

Related: Sununu-Supporting Super PAC Spends Over $25,000.00 Attacking NH Republicans in House Races

Sure thing, pal.

While Stanford would not disclose his ties to Sununu, The Epoch Times learned he was a former intern for Sununu’s father, John Sununu, a former NH governor who went on to serve as chief of staff for George Bush Sr.

Stanford also counts Paul Collins, Sununu’s campaign advisor, among his followers and his social media pages, which are riddled with personal posts promoting Sununu.

“We chose these candidates because they don’t represent Republican values and have taken actions that are not in the best interest of New Hampshire,” said Stanford, who refused to elaborate on his political credentials, “this has nothing to do with the governor’s elections.”

Er, their House Republican Alliance and NH Liberty Alliance scores say otherwise.  In this, Stanford sounds NO different than the Democrat-founded, led, strategized, and funded Citizens for Balknap PAC.

Sununu’s campaign did not respond to inquiries about the mailers.

On Stanford’s political committee registration filed with the office of New Hampshire Secretary of State on May 12, 2021, the stated purpose of the PAC is “To Support Governor Chris Sununu.”

The document also lists Sununu on its statement of independent expenditures as the candidate it would be spending its money on. According to its most recent financial filings with the SOS, the PAC spent $27,000 on the mailings.

While denying that Sununu’s campaign has anything to do with the mailers, Stanford said that his PAC did not send out mailers on any other race, local or federal.

Just a PURE coincidence, folks.  Nothing to see here, nothing to question here, no colluding here.  So, just move along…

“It is so obvious that this is Sununu that it is insulting to say otherwise,” State Rep. Norman Silber, another Republican state House representative targeted by Stanford’s mailers told The Epoch Times.

The mailer targeting Silber depicts the New Hampshire state flag being shredded with the warning to voters: “Don’t Let New Hampshire Become Undone by Norm Silber’s Divisive Leadership.”

Silber, who led party challenges against Sununu for various actions, including his excessive use of his executive powers during COVID, filed a complaint with the NH Attorney General’s office about the mailers. Silber’s specific complaint was about the amounts of contributions made to Granite PAC.

According to the PAC’S financial statements filed with the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s office, three of its donors made contributions in excess of $50,000. Silver says the donations violate a state law that limits donations to political action committees at $10,000.

I have known Norm for a few years now – and one of his greatest assets and attributes is an adherence to the Rule of Law.  If it ain’t legal, he doesn’t do it.  He’s OBSESSIVE about that.

Related: State Rep. Melissa Blasek Must be Doing it Right – The GOPe is Attacking Her with Negative Mail

And silly me, thinking that was a Republican value.  Neither Stanford nor Sununu cares much at all about that.

The donors include an electrical contractor whose owners appear in pictures posted on social media presenting Sununu with a $25,000 check for a food bank in 2020.

Another $50,000 contribution came from the owner of dozens of McDonald’s restaurants in the state. The owner appears in pictures on social media presenting Sununu with a $50,000 check for the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police.

State Rep. Josh Yokela, another Republican targeted by the mailers, told The Epoch Times that he feels Sununu should be investigated for violating the ethical rules of the party.

“What Sununu is doing is hurting his own party with the potential of putting Democrats in office over Republicans,” said Yokela, “this whole mailer thing he has done is so short-sighted and is just obviously personal.”

In this, Sununu/Stanford are joined at the hip with the Citizens for Belknap PAC whose real purpose is EXACTLY that (besides serving the purposes of, IMHO, the monied people that used to be part of and associated with Gunstock Area Commission).  Has Sununu ever bothered to look into the “hotel monkey business”?

Mike Sylvia, another Republican House member targeted by the mailers, was involved in a recent controversy that Sununu inserted himself into even though it had nothing to do with state affairs.

Sylvia and Silber are members of an all-Republican delegation that oversees the Gunstock Mountain Resort, owned by Belknap County, which Sylvia and Silber represent.

The delegation, which Sylvia chairs, makes appointments to the Gunstock Area Commission, which oversees the resort’s finances.

The commission at the time was led by Tom Day, a former general manager of the Waterville Valley Resort, which Sununus own.

Actually, the Epoch Times got this part wrong. Tom Day was and is the General Manager of Gunstock Mountain Resort which is overseen by the Gunstock Area Commission and has connections with Sununu, former GAC Commissioners Gary Kiedaisch and Rusty McLear, and another connection Alex Ray (where the latter two are big real estate/restaurant developers here in NH.

When the delegation and Day got into a very public tangle over allegations by the delegation against the commission, Sununu, who, again, has nothing to do with the Gunstock ski resort, released a letter, siding with Day and calling for Silber and Sylvia to be “removed from their positions” for what he called making “bad decisions.” Sununu also offered Day, who resigned over the dispute, a job with the state Parks department.

Shortly later, a $500 check written out to Sununu’s campaign by the commission surfaced. It was signed by Day. Sylvia released the check to the public with a statement that it was discovered in an audit.

One of the Republican candidates running against Silber was a member of the Gunstock commission that signed off on the donation to Sununu’s campaign in 2020.

And I did an RSA91A Right To Know demand and have the General Ledger account transaction information that underlies that second check, rumored to be $1,000, drawn on a Gunstock bank account, tweeted out by the Union Leader’s Kevin Landrigan that was, again, sent to Sununu’s campaign.

Sununu has turned into a revenge-filled, petty little tyrant. There, I said it.

Note: although not mentioned in the article, NH State Rep Melissa Blasek has also come under fire by Sununu and Stanford for the same reasons as those listed above.  While we have only talked on a few occasions, it’s clear that she’s of the same mindset as the others…

…I see no problem with their Republican value chops.

Sununu, on the other hand…

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In February, we reported on a Green Group that had placed a pin in Maine’s Lobster Industry. “The California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program is considering which species to add to its “red list,” and North American lobster from both the US and Canadian fisheries is a candidate.”

Well, they did it. Last week Seafood Watch Red Listed Maine Lobster.

Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week it has added the American and Canadian lobster fisheries to its “red list” of species to avoid. The organization, based at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, said in a report that the fishing industry is a danger to North Atlantic right whales because “current management measures do not go far enough to mitigate entanglement risks and promote recovery of the species.”

I know it’s sacrilegious to live in New England and not love Lobstah, but I’m not that into it. I am, however, into poking goofy California Green Groups.

This ‘non-profit’ may be sitting on 432 million dollars in assets. There appears to be an associated Trust with another 1.9 million, a research institute (133.8 million), and a Support Service (26.7 million).

Maine has a seafood watch of its own. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (29 million). No red listing from them, just the folks from California.

So, what to do?

I’m sure the Right Whale, the object of the red list, deserves a chance but human beings, a lot of them, rely on Maine lobster to make a living. The US lobster industry is worth about 900 million. And the industry itself (naturally) claims the red listing is unwarranted.

Members of the lobster fishing industry, which is also coping with increased federal fishing restrictions to protect the whales, pushed back against the Seafood Watch rating. The lobster industry in Maine, where most of the U.S.’s lobster comes to land, has not had a documented interaction with a right whale in almost two decades, said Patrice McCarron, executive director of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association.

“Lobster is one of the most sustainable fisheries in the world due to the effective stewardship practices handed down through generations of lobstermen. These include strict protections for both the lobster resource and right whales,” McCarron said.

I can’t speak to those details, but when asked to choose between the fishing industry and some well-heeled California green group, that’s an easy choice.

We’re red listing “Seafood Watch.” (/snicker.)

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The Citizens for Belknap PAC, a Democrat birthed, run, strategized, and funded, is endorsing Republicans on one and only one basis: Gunstock.  And making sure that the monied people behind the Brian Beihl campaigns get control of it back.

I, on the other hand, endorse for fidelity to the UN and NH Constitutions, conservative Principles – and the willingness to Follow The Law.  While there are some others, I just don’t know them well enough to endorse.  These folks, however, I do and ask for your vote on their behalf:

• Alton/Barnstead: Paul Terry, Barbara Comtois
• Belmont: Mike Sylvia
• Gilford: Norm Silber, Glen Adrich
• Laconia: Dawn Johnson

They have proven to me, over and over again, that Principles MATTER above all else, and that as lawmakers, they hold themselves accountable to the Rule of Law and go out of their way in doing the right things in the right, legally proscribed manner.  I don’t have to worry about their votes and their House Republican Alliance and NH Liberty Alliance scores over the last two years back up my observations of them.

Remember – Primary Day is today; please go to your polling place in Gilford, in Laconia Ward 2, Gilmanton, Alton, Barnstead, and Belmont.

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So, to those who care, the home crisis seems to have passed for the better.  I am hopeful this will continue.  Certain fundamental issues have not been fully resolved – but given what seems to be coming, and right soon, I’ll take what I can get for as long as I can.  The world is uncertain and getting more squirrely; I cannot prep to any ability with the home also in chaos, or worse my being in a divorce court.

I pray with all my heart that people with 1776 in their hearts can unite, under Ronaldus Maximus’ dictum, to set aside what differences we may have against the common Left / Globalist enemy.  For if we continue to circular-firing-squad over our differences, our in-lockstep enemies win for sure.  To cite a Klingon proverb:

(Image source)

So let us unite.  We may not worship the same deity, we may differ on some topics, but we revere LIBERTY.  We want to preserve America as a Republic, and more broadly save Western Civilization.  And our faiths, insofar as the Ten Commandments and many other things, share similar traits.

Join me in fighting our common enemy: the Socialist Globalists.  For, as the sage Franklin noted:

(Link to AZQuotes per their policy)

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I’ve know Kimberly for a while now and worked with her on the “Defend Our Kids” project in which we tried to organize to get traditional American valued folks onto School Boards. For a first time effort, the results weren’t bad (let’s see what happens next time).

I can’t think of a harder working, smart, driven and Liberty/Freedom breathing person.  Business owner, wife, mother (and now, having nothing else better to do, newspaper owner), her proclivities are wide ranging – and she is an information sponge!  And once a topic gets on her radar, it WILL get attention and the job will get finished. Better – she’s grounded (or as I’m told the new word is for that, “based”) as a Conservatarian. And I can say that she meets my high standard for a lawmaker: I will NEVER have to worry about her votes or the legislation she puts forward.

She has my endorsement and I ask you folks in Pelham

So, take a quick look!  And this:

Full disclosure – she’s also a supporter of GraniteGrok for which Steve and I are grateful.

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New Hampshire elections are RIGGED. The NH-Democrats have a giant super-PAC on their side. Its name is WMUR. This super-PAC has a MONOPOLY on television “news.” The NH-Democrats have numerous other PACs posing as media doing their bidding: NHPR, Concord Monitor, etc. etc. etc..

Chris Pappas is a special darling of the New Hampshire fake-news. They look at him as the Governor-in-waiting. They will pull out all the stops to make sure he is reelected in 2022, so he can springboard to the corner office in 2024 when the Sun-King rides off to his gig on MSNBC.

In other words, the CD-1 race is a race not just against Pappas and Pelosi’s machine, but every bit as much a race against the New Hampshire fake-news.

There is ONLY one candidate who knows how to run against the fake-news. That candidate is Karoline Leavitt. If you want to beat Pappas … and in the process impede Pappas’ coronation as Governor in 2024 … then make Leavitt the nominee.

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Joe Biden says he’s engaged in a battle for the soul of the nation. But everything he’s done throughout his administration suggests he’s not fighting for America’s soul at all. The destructive policies that he’s implemented tell us that his mission is to destroy America as we know it.

Biden’s open border policies have virtually eliminated our national sovereignty and continue to allow literally millions of unscreened, potentially dangerous foreign citizens and tons of deadly drugs to flow into our country unimpeded.

His relentless attacks on our oil and gas industries, and arbitrary medical lockdowns have given us epic inflation and crippled our economy. His “benevolent” government handouts are transforming our nation into a welfare state, now facing an insurmountable national debt.

And while he cleverly tries to distance himself from the “defund the police” movement, his vacillating and contradictory position on law enforcement undoubtedly allowed the Democrat anti-police hysteria to metastasize. It resulted in an explosion in crime across the country.

Then, in the wake of the recent SCOTUS decision, Biden and the Democrats used deception and propaganda to rally millions of their allies behind another inhumane, un-American cause – the absolute right to dispose of unborn babies at will. They call it a right guaranteed by the Constitution.

Through his whole-hearted embrace of the LGBQT movement, Biden seems determined to normalize what has traditionally been considered abnormal, and worse, to instill those norms into impressionable young minds through our education system, with or without parental approval.

Maybe we should have paid closer attention when Biden told us that he planned to fundamentally transform America.

But arguably the worst damage he’s inflicted on our country is the deep division and hatred that he regularly cultivates.

That was never more apparent than during his September 1st speech in Philadelphia. Ironically, he chose to deliver his personal message of hate in the city of brotherly love.

After a few perfunctory words about our founding documents, he began to spew his bile. He warned us about a threat to our democracy, but he wasn’t talking about Islamic terrorists, Communism, socialism, or attacks by geopolitical adversaries. He was talking about patriotic Americans who happen to oppose his policies.

Most people have heard or read the speech by now. Democrats generally praised it as optimistic and inspiring. More objective, grounded Americans heard nothing but distortions and hyperbole, projection and outright lies.

Biden made perhaps two observations during the speech that made sense to everyone:

1. “Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal.”
2. “…it is within our power, it’s in our hands — yours and mine — to stop the assault on American democracy.”

Everyone agrees that what’s happening in our country is not normal. Raging inflation is not normal in this country. It’s not normal in America to silence free speech or to turn citizens against the police. Racial discrimination, whether it targets blacks or whites, is not normal. It’s not normal to use our law enforcement agencies to target political opponents. And the historic crime wave gripping our nation is anything but normal.

And yes, it is in our power to stop this assault on democracy, but we have to understand where the assault is coming from.

It’s not coming from President Trump or his MAGA followers. The threats we’re facing today came to us exclusively through Biden’s policies. For he, not Donald Trump, has occupied the White House for the past two years.

And it’s Biden who has proven time and again his lack of leadership. The polls show it. Everyone knows it. He’s a man frequently befuddled by everyday tasks. And he has apparently become a tool of the radical left. He may even be a victim of blackmail, now under the influence of America’s enemies.

But even with the enormous power of the presidency, he could not have inflicted such destruction on America without the backing of Democrats.

Throughout his administration, Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress. And like loyal soldiers, they have uniformly fallen in line to support his agenda. They will continue that support if they retain control of Congress.

It’s Biden and the Democrats who are laying siege to our democracy. And our elections do give us the power to stop their assault. But it can’t be done unless voters first recognize just how radical Biden has become, and how he perceives this country and its future.

He offered a clue at the close of his speech – at the close of virtually all his speeches. Perhaps it’s just a meaningless observation, but nearly every American President in recent times has ended major address with these words: “God bless America.” For some reason, Biden seems unable to utter those three simple words.

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Society is really starting to get to an inflection point – a bad one. When most Americans no longer trust the institutions around them, either by seeing once trusted institutions becoming corrupted or have already been corrupted and using their position of power to lord it over the rest of us, there is trouble ahead.  When that distrust is worst expressed towards those that are supposed to govern and make laws that we must follow?

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Yeah, that. Congress is at the bottom yet instead of realizing it, the UniParty just keeps doubling down in telling us how we are to live according to THEIR wishes, beliefs, and ideology.  It’s what’s the “best for you” mentality as if we are all children instead of the adults that put them in those seats. Yeah, so the problem is ours.

Today is the day before the Primaries here in NH.  Want to fix that low rating?  Change the people in Congress, both the House and Senate.  Tomorrow, vote these people in:

• US Senate: Don Bolduc
• US House from NH First Congressional District: Karoline Leavitt
• US House from NH’s Second Congressional District: Lily Tang Williams

To a person, they won’t tell us how to live our lives – they will be that bulwark that will keep the others from trying to do so.  Trust me – they are all GraniteGrok approved and endorsed. We grilled the heck out of them.

Note: and if you don’t care for Leavitt, I’ll be truthful here – I’d be happy with Tim Baxter.

(H/T: Powerline)

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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. Since August 2021 I have proposed a principled Republican platform with specific objectives.

I have told you time and again that I truly care about you, your progeny, the future of America, and the human race.

When you vote for me, you are saying “Yes” to my platform of Individual Rights, State Sovereignty, and continued U.S. Unity and Independence. You are saying “Yes” to what I promise to deliver. You are saying “Yes” to free will, peace, local relationships, and agency.

• Repeal the 16th amendment, and end Federal Income taxes.
• Bring back commodity-based currency (gold, silver, time, etc) to compete with fiat currency.
• End Federal over-regulation, and return power to the States and their people.
• Stop the immigration invasion by calling forth the militia.
• Recognize that Rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are absolute restraints on the Federal Government, not privileges!
• Have immigrants go to, and live in, the States that sponsor them.
• Increase production and provision of American goods and services to build wealth.
• Hold vaccine companies liable for their products, and insure medical decisions that are informed, freely given, unambiguous, specific, explicit, and revocable.
• Investigate the Covid scenario for potential crimes against humanity.
• Ensure that only citizens vote.
• Audit and lawfully and peacefully correct, if necessary, the 2020 elections immediately!
• Put a stop to the “insurrection” narrative, and its’ dangerous extrapolations.
• Keep education in the hands of the States and their People.
• Challenge the scientific legitimacy of the man made climate change narrative via science supporting an Electric Universe.
• Stop the Great Reset!
• Prevent the Chinese Colonization of America.

And so much more! Please read my platform overview and letters.

Know this, the time for positive and peaceful change is now. The responsibility is yours, and we are in very confusing times. Yet, when you vote for me you are voting for freedom, empowerment, and prosperity. You are voting for free will, local relationships, and agency of the people.

You are voting for a vision of domestic tranquility and principle that is only offered right here.
Our future is in your hands!

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The Left claims that transitioning children with or without parental consent is compassionate. But Trans-kids and those on the gender spectrum – even in supportive communities – are 40% more likely to attempt suicide. So is it about empathy or depopulation?

They aren’t preventing suicide; they are amping up the odds it will happen.

Progressives are obsessed with social engineering and population control. It’s been on their bucket list for over a century and a fashion among elites for as long as there have been people.

Abortion isn’t a “health choice.” It is a means of culling the press of humanity on what the Left has long claimed is an overcrowded globe. But teeming masses stressing natural resources have nothing to do with it, and the Climate faction is just another means to the desired end. Fewer of us (someone still has to do their landscaping) and mostly just them.

The recent pedal-to-the-medal effort to transition kids is not about empathy. Compassion has nothing to do with it. No one is trying to save lives.

Puberty blockers can kill kids before they ever “transition.”

A recent Heritage study found that states that approve so-called gender-affirming care have experienced higher rates of teen suicide.

And I’m sure more than a few progressives think this tortured journey toward early death is compassionate.

These are the same folks who think that Jabbing them with an mRNA vaccine they didn’t need was necessary for good public health. An injection that turned them into a vector for transmission when previously they were not. An invasive treatment with dangerous side effects, including death.

Or, it may just make them infertile.

Whatever the outcome, there would be fewer of us, and we are, after all, the carbon they are trying to reduce.

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BUMPED from Sept 7 and 10, 2022.  Thank you, Citizens for Belknap PAC, for making it easier for our readers to see who ALL THE RINOs are in Belknap County. That would have taken me quite a bit of time (not a lot of effort as they’ve already outed themselves in aligning themselves with you – a Democrat-run, guided, and funded Political Action Committee) to replicate in my own fashion.  Couldn’t have really done much better, either! Every single one of your endorsed candidates is all in for your brand of politics! And that makes them RINOs.

I dryly note, however, that while you call yourselves “non-partisan” but why are you playing in only Belknap County Republican Primaries?  Why is this PAC Chaired by a Democrat, funded with dark money, and only playing in the Republican primary? That kinda says “partisan”, eh?

And if your supporters, or your endorsed candidates, sputter, meltdown, rent their clothes like sackcloth and cast dust into the air to cover their heads, wail, or moan, ask yourselves one question:

Who should I believe – Republicans endorsed by Democrats or GraniteGrok that is merely pointing it all out?

This chart makes it really easy (and we thank CoB for helping GraniteGrok in doing so – you know, just like how Mike Bordes, one of your endorsed candidates, tried to turn my LtE against me in claiming I was endorsing him.  Hardly, but since he made this New Rule of Behavior, I just thought I’d adopt them, too!).  Each RINO is identified with a purple check mark and the Conservatives are marked with red (you know, as in Red, White, and Blue Patriots??).

So in each race, dear readers (if you live in Belknap County or, like Democrats “from away and not from heah”, just want to come up for a day trip to see all of the lovely ballots starting to turn Red on the trees), just look at this chart. Each and every purple checked are folks aligned with the Democrats – these are the folks to avoid!  The only person not following this model is Greg Hough!  It seems that NONE of the factions like him much at all (not me, not GraniteGrok, not the Belknap County Republicans, the Democrats in Belknap, and now the Citizens for Belknap Democrat PAC).  That takes some real skill in achieving – you were the Democrats’ “useful idiot” and now that you’ve served your purpose, they’re throwing you away.

BRILLIANT!

On average, every candidate they are rejecting has better scores on legislating/voting in accordance with the NH GOP Platform (what it believes in) and in protecting and defending your Constitutional Freedom and Liberties when aggregated (as ascertained by the House Republican Alliance and the NH Liberty Alliance).  But heck, what do Democrats care about that silliness (snort!) anyways?

And lest I forget, don’t let me forget the two Republicans who aren’t on the ballot but who have done most the public-facing dirty work for the Citizens of Belknap: Commissioners Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial) and Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice-Chair – an elected Republican within the NH GOP!).  They set the stage to make sure that good Conservatives ousted from elected office and paving the way for these RINOs, and sadly, Democrats with their totalitarian ways, to take over.  This was the “top prize” plan all along (hey CoB are DEMOCRATS, right?).

Here’s the chart:

This Democrat started, funded, led, and strategized Citizens for Belknap PAC that has roiled Republican politics here in Belknap County since the beginning of the year.  I’m so glad that they have let all of us know who their political allies in the Republican Party are.

Just ask yourself:

If they are willing to align themselves with Democrats (and make no mistake, they have for months), what will they do to YOU if they get into office in expressing their Democrat-aligned views?

(H/T: The Laconia Daily Sun, Page 8-9))

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Another week and more Monday memes than you can shake an F-15 at (or should I say, at which you can shake an F-15). Sometimes we pretend to care about the grammar.

Make sure you scroll down to the bottom for the three short videos at the end.

But proceed at your own risk. There be ridicule ahead!

Glenn Beck

Feminism, gender agenda, and stereotypes

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Biden Speech – Palpatine

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The primary election that will be held in Windham, NH, tomorrow (9/13/22) has the rare and dubious distinction of having a state-appointed election monitor to ensure all election laws and procedures are properly followed by Windham election officials.

This extraordinary intervention by the Secretary of State (SOS) & Attorney General (AG) is mandated by law after more than 130 election laws, and procedures were discovered regarding Windham’s mismanagement of the November 3, 2020, General Election.

One of those violations was the improper folding of absentee ballots through candidate ovals. Hundreds of them – that caused Windham’s voting machines to malfunction and miscount over a thousand votes.

This was dubbed “The Windham Incident” after it made national – and even worldwide news because it produced the largest unexplained numerical discrepancy in the history of NH between election day and a recount. It led to an audit of the machines and ballots, as well as a year-long investigation by the AG and SOS.

The audit concluded that during the 2020 General Election, Windham election officials ignored the indented fold lines on each absentee ballot that identify the correct fold location that avoids a fold being made through an oval.

After the AG/SOS’s year-long investigation, every Windham election official was put on notice. On January 7, 2022, a joint letter from the Secretary of State and NH Attorney General was sent to Windham’s town attorney, the Board of Selectmen, Town Moderator Peter Griffin, Assistant Moderator Betty Dunn, and Town Clerk Nicole Merrill to provide their findings.

That letter concluded, “Windham’s election night results were not just imprecise, they were fundamentally flawed … Simply put, town election officials cut corners.”

After the “Windham Incident” debacle, it is reasonable to expect that Windham’s election officials would take extra care and caution to ensure all election laws and procedures are followed. Especially that no fold would be made through an oval on any absentee ballot that could cause the voting machines to malfunction and miscount votes again.

Sadly, the absentee ballot below was sent to a Windham voter for the 2022 primary election. It was folded through two ovals. History is repeating – and the results of Windham’s primary election are already in doubt before the first vote is even counted.

In the image below, the fold goes through the oval for Gubernatorial candidate Julian M. Acciard and the write-in candidate for County Commissioner.

The back of the ballot (below) clearly shows the pre-indented fold line where the ballot is supposed to be folded – and the fold that was made by a Windham election official that goes through two candidate ovals (on the other side). It is not close.

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The latest disaster waiting to unfold will now take place in Illinois. Chiraq, helmed by the horribly inept and clueless Lori Lightfoot, has long dominated the list of deadliest cities in America. Still, this wasn’t enough for state legislators and bat-s*** crazy governor J.B. Pritzker.

Back in 2021, they signed the inane SAFE-T Act to enshrine and codify leniency for the vilest thugs living amongst us – and threatening everyone else with mayhem and murder.

Capitol News Illinois sounded off the alarm with its admittedly banal description of this far-reaching, dangerous legislation, poised to become law of Lincoln’s Land come 2023:

The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, known as the SAFE-T Act, passed with the backing of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus in the early hours of Jan. 13, 2021.

The broad-ranging measure abolishes cash bail beginning in January 2023, reforms police training, certification and use-of-force standards, expands detainee rights, and requires body cameras at all departments by 2025.

Since its passage, the measure has been amended twice to accommodate concerns of law enforcement groups, pushing back certain effective dates and changing some of the initial use-of-force language.

Reading that doesn’t do the SAFE-T act justice, pun not intended. For a real glimpse into the terrifying realities being wrought by lunatic leftists, it is worth listening to every second of Illinois’s Orland Park Mayor Keith Pakau.

Get out of Illinois.
It is way too dangerous to live or work there.

The state legislature and Governor are insane to have passed this.

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— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 8, 2022

There is so much packed into this one-minute snippet that it’s hard to assimilate all of the terrible things happening the first time listening. Below is a transcript of what Mayor Pakau said:

As of January 1st, 2023, the following things will go into effect. And people need to be aware of this.

It abolishes cash bail for almost every offense. This includes, but isn’t limited to, kidnapping, armed robbery, second degree murder, drug-induce homicide, aggarvated DUI, threatening a public official, and aggraveted fleeing and looting.

Offenders released on electronic monitoring have to be in violation for 48 hours before law enforcement can act. They could almost drive to Alaska before we can even look for them.

It denies victims their constitutional rights. And keep this in mind, businesses and homeowners. Officers will no longer be able to remove trespassers from your residence or your businesses. Someone could decide to live in your shed and all we can do is give them a ticket.

You have to decide what level of force is required to remove them, and whether or not it’s legal.

This is a massive threat to the residents of Orland Park, Cook County, and Illinois.

“Yikes’ hardly begins to capture the truly awful components of this legislation. It is not hard – indeed, it is quite simple – to envision how this will play out. As with everything offered by leftism, this is a reminder that leftism hates humanity and it doesn’t hold precious the sanctity of life, liberty, and property. It is an evil ideology that produces nothing but carnage.

You voted for this, Illinois. Now live with the consequences.

Hailey Sanibel writes at The Blue State Conservative

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One of the most obvious forgone conclusions is: “If we have no farmers, we have no food.” Deep State friends of tyranny today arrogantly work to bring their dream of no farmers and the starving and famine this will create.

The Dutch farmers, the most prosperous in Europe, are a priority on the list, fighting for their livelihood and lives, for their government is following in lockstep with the “insider planned tyranny” of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the European Union and don’t forget the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Green policies only duplicate red Communist policies of decades gone by. Yes, we now have these corporate “watermelon Marxists”  zeroing in to control the world food supply under the banner of protecting the environment and land globally.

We want to thank Russ Payne for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

The highest productive farms are targeted to maximize the world food shortage.

Farms produce natural fertilizer and ammonia from the manure pile, but it doesn’t stink as bad as the mandate to cut cattle herds by as much as 25 to 95 percent.

The “nitrogen emissions” that all farm production depends on to produce life-giving food are made the enemy. Specifically, today in Holland, tomorrow: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Ireland, and Belgium. These criminal policies then will grow to control the whole world.

Think about the entire last half of the twentieth century, we fought cold wars and no-win hot unconstitutional wars to contain “communism.” These “Insiders” have changed their tactics from the red menace of communism. Now they want to control us by limiting the food supply to their choosing because  “fear and food shortages”  create dependency on big brother’s care.

Check out the 9/12/22 issue of The New American https://thenewamerican.com/magazine/tna3817/ for powerful documentation.

Today Citizens of our nation must face reality, we must fight the root of those problems yesterday, “continuous wars,” the same root today now that attacks our life, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness with environmental treason against humanity. We must contain them, for their arrogant audacity in many ways, financed communism. Today, their game plan lusts to enslave the world.

Their latest plan of action ultimately includes every human being on the planet, which includes you. First, the free world, specifically the United States. It is called the Great Reset that will implement Agenda 21 and 30. Klaus Schwab and his comrade criminals plan a New World Order for you. They even brag, “no one will own anything. Agenda 21 and 30 are not healthy for your environment.

In Holland, their prototype “trial balloon” advocates replacing the 11,200 farms they will destroy and reduce the production of another 17,600 farmers. With corporate mega-farms operating under the name of the Food Action Alliance, created by the World Economic Forum and all their globalist billionaires, they will perfect the process of creating food shortages that Joseph Stalin used to starve 7 million people in 1932 with his planned famine in Ukraine.

But this “war on liberty is not new.” You might say it goes back to the “Garden of Eden.” But, let’s just go back to when the 200-year war on God and the Constitution really got into high gear during the 1930s Depression. The same Insiders reproduce their “treason” from one generation to another. One generation of evil stands on the shoulders of the next. I call it “generational treason.”

Let’s just take one example.

Here, sticking to the same issue of government-mandated food shortages, picture in your mind how hungry-dependent people will do anything to get a bowl of soup. Much of what follows is from a book I read some 50 years ago that left a lasting impact on my mind of just how “morally depraved” criminal government can reach into the depths of hell when men and women lust to seek total power.

The name of the book is, “Ill Fares The Land.”

One of President Roosevelt’s first major accomplishments, The Agriculture Adjustment Act, began the socialist war on farmers by paying farmers not to grow crops. It’s not surprising that this farm plan came out of the Soviet Union, where it failed to produce food but starved a lot of people, so it was a success for Lenin.

It’s not shocking that this happened or that the first Communist Party Cell called the Harold Ware Cell was in the Agriculture Department with Communist members: Alger Hiss, later in the 40’s, a convicted Soviet Agent who co-authored the UN Charter along with his Soviet counterpart and became the first Secretary General of the United Nations. While people were close to starving in our nation, Hiss, along with his Communist comrades in the Agriculture Department: Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, John Abt, and Communist Henry H. Collins Jr., Harry Dexter White, and  Lauchlin Currie, were teachers as well as students at Harvard.

On page 35 of the book, I quote:

“Despite the fact that the number of hogs on our farms had been declining steadily from an all-time peak of 970 per 1,000 total population in 1872 …. to only 475 in 1932, Secretary Wallace buckled on his official armor in 1933 and set his face resolutely to battle against the porcine hosts which threatened our nation. When the conflict ended, and Secretary Wallace hung up his sword, 6,188,717 little pigs and 223,247 brood sows to farrow had been slain—- much of the total made into fertilizer and inedible grease.” Mind you, this idiocy was done with the purpose to control prices. It took place while tens of thousands were standing in soup lines in our large cities. Makes about as much sense as today choking  Dutch farmers with “nitrogen reduction idiocy.”

Socialism is always a failure for the people, while it is a success for the elite. It’s planned that way. It reminds me of a great quote from John Stuart Mill that describes why we have been so easy to exploit: “He who lets the world or his own portion of it choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.” This has been the mysterious thief that has been stealing our liberty. All we have to do to get to the root of the problem is first look into the mirror. May God forgive us and motivate us to action!

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A time for choosing. First, pick the best and brightest candidates who will restrain government size/spending/taxation, and who can beat the democrats. Here’s my recommendations:

• Governor – No recommendation. Sununu will probably win the primary.
• Senate – General Don Bolduc. Endorsed by our team; understands the Constitution.
• Congress (CD2) – Lily Tang Williams. Endorsed by our team; Understands the Constitution, and where socialism leads us.
• Executive Council – Dave Wheeler. Local businessman and a good conservative record.
• NH Senate (12) – Kevin Avard – A reliable conservative voting record and very accessible.
• Hillsboro 35 – Sue Homola, a reliable conservative and Liz Barbour, well known businesswoman in Hollis, with a great deal of common sense.
• Hillsboro 45 redistricted flotarial seat for Hollis, Brookline, Mason, Greenville – Jack Flanagan, a reliable legislator, former Republican Majority leader, and very good at providing feedback to his constituents.
• Registrar of Deeds – Dennis Hogan, who previously provided able representation as County Attorney.

  (We still love Keith Ammon, but he doesn’t represent this town any more – if you’re in his district, he’s your best bet!)
  
   

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  US Senate – General Don BolducDon Bolduc
  What can I say? A hero, an outsider, not owned by anybody inside or outside the party, endorsed by a large majority of the Grok team, and ready to take on Maggie Hassan AND the “swamp.” See our endorsement and a recent debate. And finally his Outsider advert.
  
   

  Congressional District 2 – Lily Tang WilliamsLily Tang Williams
  Lily has been impressing voters, and especially parents across the Granite State for a few years now. A student of Law in Shanghai, Lily realized that liberty and Justice were impossible in Communist China, where the law and the party are one and the same thing. She is “American by choice.”
  She has been a scathing critic of Woke culture, Cancel culture, Critical Race Theory, and especially the creeping “Social Credit” system in this country. She wants to make a difference before the country she loves turns into the country she left – we need her! See the Granite Grok Endorsement.
  
   

  Executive Council District 5 – Dave WheelerDave Wheeler
  A local businessman, a great guy, a reliable voting record – stick with the man who has represented this corner of NH well for five terms on the Executive Council.

  Dave Wheeler lives in Milford and is running for his sixth term for Executive Council. He previously served from 2001-2005, 2011-2013, 2015-2019, and 2021-2022; served as a District 11 State Senator 1992-98; and served as Milford State Representative 1988-92. He and his wife Joy have four children and two foster children. He is the owner of Maranatha Carpet and Miracle Acres Farm where he grows Christmas Trees and produces Maple Syrup.

   

  NH Senate District 12 – Kevin AvardKevin Avard
  A reliable conservative voting record and very accessible.

  Kevin Avard is a small business owner who will protect our rights and hold the line on taxes and spending and create new jobs. While liberals like Melanie Levesque want to grow government and increase burdensome rules and regulations, Kevin has worked to lessen the weight on New Hampshire’s small businesses.

   

  Hillsboro 35 – Hollis Reps
  Sue for HollisSue Homola – Fighting the good fight for our liberties in Concord: “Giving government back to the people.” Sue has proven to be an effective legislator and a fighter on our behalf – let’s make sure we send her to Concord again this term.
  
   
   

  Liz and Ted BarbourLiz Barbour – 23 year resident, gardener, businesswoman, celebrity chef, frequent volunteer on various town committees. Liz would like to bring that same sense of service to Concord to fight for our constitutional rights and liberties.
  
   
   

  Hillsborough 45 Flotarial – Hollis, Brookline, Mason, Greenville

  Jack FlanaganJack Flanagan – reliable 4 term state legislator, and good at keeping his constituents informed.
  At the State House, Jack Flanagan has served as Majority Leader and on the House Labor Committee, the Legislative Administration Committee, House Rules Committee, and the Joint Committee on Legislative Facilities.
  
   

  Hillsborough Registry of Deeds – Dennis Hogan

  Dennis Hogan Dennis served us well previously as County Attorney, and believes that: “You need a government servant that will support your property interests, fight for the needs of our community and earn your respect.”

   
  
   
  
   

  Please don’t forget to vote 7am-7pm Tuesday the 13th at the Lawrence Barn (Hollis citizens) – see you there!

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In Progressive mythology, gun control does not mean a tight grouping on the target; it means disarming law-abiding citizens. A corollary to that is making it as difficult or expensive as possible for those who insist on protecting themselves. The stated goal is public safety but the reality is the inverse.

Chicago has more gun control laws than you can shake a pointy stick at (be careful with that; stick regulations might be next), which must make it the Safest Place On Earth.

It has to be. Every Democrat in every other state at every level wants, needs, or protects the same laws the Democrats in Chicago insist keep us safe. And how is that working out?

With four months left, 2,552 people have been shot in Common Sense Gun Law Chicago. Of those, 2,097 were wounded, and 455 were killed. The Windy City has had 502 murders so far in 2022 (on pace to set a new ‘safety*’ record).

There have been 1,144 carjackings and 35 mass shootings in Chicago in 2022, where four or more people are shot in the same event. They’ve had 52 incidents where three people were shot and 241 where two people were shot.

When Democrats tell their common sense gun law fairy tale Chicago is the realization of that dream. Crime, chaos, and murder. A dream they want to spread your city or town.

And they will if you let them.

Your job is to make sure people who’d rather not pay attention understand that their fairy tale is actually a nightmare and its name is Chicago.

HT | Hey Jackass

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Right after her rally with US Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday, she appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show (same venue as the rally just that everyone was gently shooed out of the yard including yours truly).  The topic was how NASTY the CD-1 race has become with lots of outside-the-state money coming in “to get her” and it hasn’t helped that The Slickster’s (that would be Matt Mowers) campaign has gone the same route. And yes, I have the mailers that have arrived.

Hey Matt?  Would you be willing to do and say the same things to your mother?  Your wife?  I’m betting your mom would be reaching for the nearest bar of soap and your wife would be reaching for her phone and dialing 1-800-DIVORCE (see, I can play this game, when provoked, as well). Not the mark of a “gentleman” that I can derive. And being plugged in, I’ve heard nothing from you concerning dissociating yourself from that sign nor the tactic by which it was placed.

But anyways, here is Karoline on with Tucker and while I am NOT suggesting that Mowers is behind the sign that is displayed at the top of this post and at the beginning of the Tucker piece (I HOPE that he is above that dark level of political mud-throwing); take a listen.

Leavitt on Matt Mowers: “Hand Picked Puppet”. She’s taking on the Establishment both here in NH and in DC.  Tuesday is two days away – I ask you for your vote for her!

Oh, and add this: New England’s “Radio Talker”, Howie Carr, has endorsed Karoline.  Like GraniteGrok, he endorses VERY few people – and now she’s one of them.

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On September 14, 2001, a mere three days after Americans were stunned by the destruction of the World Trade Center, President Bush asked for, and got, a joint resolution from Congress, enacted on September 18, as follows:

“That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11,  2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

That is known as the “AUMF” – the Authorization for the Use of Military Force. It has a sunset clause, but every year – 19 times so far — Congress has renewed it.  Congress is notably lax in enforcing Article, sec 8 of the United States Constitution, which gives the legislature exclusive authority to declare war. (See my lawsuit, Maxwell v Trump).

We want to thank Mary Maxwell for this Op-Ed Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

In plain English, the AUMF authorizes a presidential move against any person “he determines” to be a Nine-Elevener, including a US citizen, with no further due process needed. He can “use force.

I ask: can the president of the US legally instruct the military to US grab citizens, render them overseas to “black sites,” and interrogate them as enemy combatants? I will also look into the legal power to try a civilian by “military tribunal” and, if they are convicted, to execute them without the benefit of the judiciary.

There are different legal principles and laws involved in regard to the legality of the renditions and military tribunals. Four laws and four court cases will come into the discussion.  The first law is the AUMF of 2001, quoted above. The other three are: the Military Commissions Act of 2009, the NDAA of 2012, and the criminal law of treason.  The court cases are Hamdi of 2004, Hamdan of 2006, Hedges of 2013, and Ex parte Quirin of 1942.

Can persons be “rendered” to CIA black sites in Europe or to Gitmo? Basically, this article analyzes jurisdiction: Who has the authority to “bring to justice” persons who can be shown to have betrayed the nation?  But the subject of jurisdiction is boring. Let’s spice it up with the following question: Who has jurisdiction right now, today, to arrest any American who played a part on September 11, 2001, in attacking the New York WTC or the Pentagon?

Normally you would think that a US citizen cannot be removed from the country to be interrogated (or tortured) at a black site. But a civilian can be dealt with as an “enemy combatant” if he is fighting against the US (per Hamdi; see below).

Note: we are not talking about court-martialing under the UCMJ – the United Code of Military Justice.  That is a domestic law in the US that applies only to members of the US military, not civilians.

The UCMJ came about via Congress’ power in Article I, section 8, clause 14 “To make rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.”

Hamdi was a US citizen captured in Afghanistan and accused of aiding the enemy. The important point today from this 2004 SCOTUS ruling, is that a US citizen can be designated an enemy combatant. Under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, the decision as to whether he is a combatant can be made by an executive branch’s Combat Status Review Tribunal – CSRT’s.

Hamdi agreed to be freed at the expense of forfeiting his US citizenship. Another citizen, Jose Padilla, was included in the Hamdi case and was removed to the brig in South Carolina.

A man with a similar name, Hamdan, was not a US citizen. Nevertheless, he sought access to American courts from his location at Gitmo. This resulted, at US Supreme Court level, in such detainees being given at least some rights.

One of the court’s decisions was that a president cannot set up military commissions without legislation for it.  Thus, Congress enacted the Military Commissions Act, the MCA in 2006.

Following another SCOTUS ruling, in Boumediene, a new MCA was passed in 2009. It extended further rights to NON-citizen detainees, such as making information acquired by torture inadmissible.

The Military Commissions Act of 2009 is “to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes.”  The phrase “and for other purposes” is very open-ended! (Note: The term “Military Tribunal” is not the same as Military Commission. A tribunal is part of the UCMJ for soldiers.)

Now let’s turn to, the NDAA of 2012. According to the US Constitution, Congress cannot fund an army for more than two years at a time.  Hence every two years it passes a new National Defense Authorization Act. The 2012 Act was signed by President Obama on December 31, 2011. It provides for indefinite detention of enemy combatants, whether or not they were caught on the battlefield.

In a memo, President Obama stated that AUMF apples to a person who “was part of the Taliban, or al-Qaida forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act, or has directly supported hostilities, in aid of such enemy armed forces…” [Emphasis added]

As the memo was dated March 13 those criteria are known as “the March 13 standard.”  Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder had said, in a speech at Northwestern University School of Law, on March 5, 2012:

“… there may be members of certain terrorist groups who fall outside the jurisdiction of military commissions because, for example, they lack ties to al Qaeda, and their conduct does not otherwise make them subject to prosecution in this forum. Additionally, by statute, military commissions cannot be used to try U.S. citizens….

“[In 2011], all three branches of the government weighed in to affirm the ongoing relevance of the 2001 AUMF and its application not only to those groups that perpetrated the 9/11 attacks or provided them safe haven but also to certain others who were associated with them.” Wow.

The NDAA 2012’s section on “associated” persons was challenged by Chris Hedges, a former New York Times writer, on the grounds of its ambiguity. He argued that journalists would have to cut back on their fieldwork, lest they be “associated” with, say, a Taliban member.

A district court agreed, but the Second Circuit overruled, and SCOTUS declined to hear the case.

Is dealing with treason by use of rendition and interrogation legal? So far, we looked at the AUMF of 2001, the MCA of 2009, and the NDAA of 2012. It is clear that there are military commissions for enemy combatants, per the MCA, and that the Hamdi ruling says that a US citizen can be an enemy combatant.  However, it appears that only aliens can be tried by a military commission:

The AUMF’s wording gives enormous discretion to the Executive branch: “… the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned or aided…[etc.].”

The NDAA of 2012 also has loose wording:

“or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States…, including any person who has committed a belligerent act, or has directly supported hostilities, in aid of such enemy armed forces.”

Next we ask: Does a 1942 precedent still hold?

In 1942, the US president, FDR, used a military tribunal to convict six German saboteurs. That is to say, the decision of a justice matter, normally held in a court, was taken by the executive branch. The saboteurs were enemies of the US, as Germany and the US were at war. On the battlefield, the president could order them killed.  But did he have the right to “tribunalize” the captives in the US?

FDR issued a Proclamation: “all persons who are subjects, citizens or residents of any nation at war with the United States… [and who enter the US] through coastal or boundary defenses, and are charged with committing or … sabotage, espionage [etc.] shall be subject to the law of war and to the jurisdiction of military tribunals”.

The US Supreme Court in Ex Parte Quirin, 1942, held:

“there is a class of unlawful belligerents not entitled to [POW] privilege… And by Article 15 of the Articles of War, Congress has made provision for their trial and punishment by military commission, according to ‘the law of war’.”

Quirin has never been specifically overruled.  FDR, on his own initiative, ran a tribunal that tried and indeed executed six German saboteurs. No US citizens was involved, however.

The crime of treason is spelled out in the US Constitution. The wording in federal law is at 18 USC 2381:

“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”

This law is almost never used, no matter how obvious the treachery of some Americans may be.  Note: The domestic War Crimes Act also goes begging.  See its easy-to-qualify-for provisions at 2441. Presumably, there is a blockage in the Attorney General’s office that makes it “impossible” to prosecute treason and war crimes!

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For years liability concerning harms resulting from the consumption of alcohol has been a subject of debate. Not liquor stores and spousal abuse, but bars and patrons. Homeowners and their guests.

If you “overserve” and allow them to leave, keys in hand, someone might come looking to milk you if harms result.

I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet, but I like these thought experiments. So, do those insisting on gun-free zones have any liability for harm if you can’t defend yourself?

In the Granite State, we protect your right to open or conceal-carry a firearm. Anyone who can legally buy, own or possess one can carry it in all but a very few places. It gives the progressive luminaries, and their ideological baggage train fits from politicians who want to defund the police while disarming you (because we have police) to shop-owners and even school administrators who can’t abide the notion of self-defense with a firearm.

The hoplophobes say, no guns, please (Dammit!).

The enumerated natural right to self-defense disturbs them. They’d be fine burning down a minority business in the name of black lives or watching Antifa shoot a black man for defending that property (especially if they happen to vote Republican), but not you, not on their holy ground ever.

But then that’s what concealed carry is all about, yes? The knowledge that someone might be armed and trained to shoot back almost anywhere you are allowed to be. And these gun-free-zone-sign folks still benefit from the perception because many law-abiding citizens ignore the sign. After all, criminals ignore the sign.

We’ll call that equity.

Absent a right to self-defense (or the perception of opposing force equal or greater than their own), criminals would seek to have their way with anyone who didn’t have Joe’s F-15s (or nukes), and that’d be a lot of folks. You just need to be bigger or more numerous than the target, and the success of your lawlessness increases (another term for this is Democracy).

But the hoplophobes have been programmed to fear individuals more than governments, so they post signs declaring some geographic space or location a gun-free zone. A sign (as previously noted) that no criminal will ever obey, so back to my thought experiment.

If you think we should be able to sue a homeowner or a restaurant for letting someone leave under the influence of alcohol which then causes damage to property or life, why not those who establish gun-free zones in a state or nation whose highest law enumerates the right you’ve denied?

Maybe even your local, county, or state government.

At least on paper, those Constitution things are the highest law of the land. And yes, I get the whole thing about private property and honoring the wishes of those who “own” it, but they don’t truly own it, do they? The government is letting them live there. The landlord who holds the lease owns it as long as they pay their taxes. You can transfer it to someone else and make some money, which the government will tax. And while you may have certain rights to your property on the property, if you don’t pay taxes, the government may try to take both, thus the need for a second amendment.

There is no criminal greater than the State and one of many reasons why the pro-government crowd wants you disarmed, but that’s not the point of this discussion. It’s a what-if kind of thing. What if people who posted gun-free zone signs in a state like New Hampshire could be legally liable for injuries resulting from an inability to carry and defend yourself?

If you did carry and you caused injury, damage, or death, you’d be responsible, so why not the other way around?

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