Big Brother Shurtleff Wants To Watch You - Granite Grok

Big Brother Shurtleff Wants To Watch You

“Big Brother is watching you.”  George Orwell

Rep. Steve Shurtleff, Democrat
Rep. Steve Shurtleff, Democrat

In January 2013 Rep. Stephen Shurtleff sponsored HB675 “Authorizing and regulating the use of license plate scanning devices.” on 11/25/13 the majority of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted, “Ought to Pass with Amendment #2013-2343h.

On Friday, January 3, Representative Mark Warden wrote in the Union Leader,

People have a right to travel freely without being monitored and surveilled by the state. Wholesale tracking of residents’ movements is wholly offensive in a free society. It’s time to push back against Big Brother and stand up for the freedoms that have so long been cherished in this state.

We live in a time when governmental intrusion is at its all time high. Despite that many people are either, “asleep at the wheel,” going about their daily business as if everything is just okay, or some simply explain it away as a sign of the times and what is needed in an ever changing world of technology and terrorism. I accept neither notion.

In the past year, we have born witness to government officials attempting to regulate everything from rain water to soda sizes. Here in the Granite State we had a discussion about a smoking ban in State parks.

Representative Stephen Shurtleff is a statist hack. He is part of the machinery that will make ours an authoritarian state and he will do his part to see to that end. Shurtleff wants to take away our guns. Don’t be fooled by his assertions that he supports the second amendment. He does not.

boot on throatTo adopt the use of license plate readers for use by law enforcement in the Granite State is not only offensive to liberty, but provides yet another gadget in the tool box of the warrior cop, where a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course with the values of a free society. We have all heard about Radley Balko’s Book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces.

We as a free society are slowly being conditioned to accept more intrusion from our government and it it now time to draw the line. It is time to vote reps out of office like Shurtleff, Republican and Democrat alike. Remember, when the boot of government is upon your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.

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