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Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

NH GOP Executive Board Meeting – Monday, April 15th – Part II

Well, it seem that what I wrote here about last night’s NH GOP E-board meeting pretty much happened as expected – and worse.  I’ve had a number of little birdies flying overhead and dropping little packets all day long – a seed here, another one here.  Might as well read it here, ’cause I guess those seeds may run out soon…but I digress.

Long meeting – good thing I ended up with a customer as I hate wasting time twiddling thumbs – and the meeting didn’t go short.  Those that are “merely” State Committee Members had to cool their heels for quite some time as the E-Board declared that they were out of the executive privileged session.  I guess the E-Board wasn’t too Trusting of the Members;  there was a policeman in the lobby to prevent them from entering the elevator to take them up to the conference room.  Oh, and because this was in Executive Privilege – you can’t ask for any meeting minutes (can’t have the proles knowing the goings on of their own Party, eh?).

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Belknap County Conservative Republicans!

Hear ye! Hear Ye! Calling All Conservatives! Belknap County is now home to a new political group in town, the Belknap County Conservative Republicans. This political grassroots organization is dedicated to offering conservative solutions for contemporary issues. Don Walker, one of the BCCR founders, says: “We believe that progressivism, in all of its forms, has corrupted … Read more

New Hampshire Young Republicans – Joe Barton for Chair

Voting is on April 20.  Now, I can’t vote (smirk – ageism!) but I have known Joe for a number of years.  There is one thing that I admire about Joe that makes him the perfect anti-politician: you ask him a question and you will know exactly where he stands.  No shading, no equivocation, no … Read more

Kelly Ayotte shoots down Manchin/Twoomey background check bill

Senator Kelly Ayotte Telling Andrea Mitchel she opposes a filibuster of the gun control bill
Senator Kelly Ayotte Telling Andrea Mitchel she opposes a filibuster of the gun control bill

Yeah, I couldn’t help but notice that it seems that Kelly, even though she did vote to kill the gun control filibuster, has now signaled that the Manchin / Twoomey “compromise” background check gets the back of her hand.  With that, the M/T bill is now in worse shape than a spent 12 gauge shotgun shell laying on the ground.  Good riddance to it, as both of those senators said that their bill would not have stopped either Aurora or Sandy Hook.

Thus, in my mind, this is the perfect example of why sometimes the best thing is to do nothing instead of the knee jerk reaction “Hey, we’re supposed to be charge – WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!”  And then we get bills that impinge on people in a myriad of small, incremental ways – but don’t solve the actual problem.  Or worse, charge ahead to solve problems that extremely few have – or create solutions to which no problem exists.

And that is why before we give a thumbs up to Kelly on HER legislation, we need to see if it:

  • Actually keeps guns away from evil doers instead of just making it harder on law abiding folks
  • Actually starts to address the flip side – how to keep firearms out of the hands of the likes of Lanza and Holmes (Sandy Hook and Aurora, respectively) without it becoming a backdoor gun confiscation process (like declaring that returning vets have PTSD, so you loose your Constitutional Right).

And that is the main thing that most won’t bring up –

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Closing remarks by Jack Kimball and Jeff Chidester

The last video from yesterday’s Honor Your Oath Rally – which, er, isn’t much of a video.  It seems that the e-Gremlins decided to go nest in my camera for the last part of the rally – the files holding the closing remarks by Jack Kimball and Jeff Chidester got corrupted when I went to do the regular post-prodution processing.  I was able to (sorta) save them, but the video and the audio aren’t sync’d up at all.

So, I present for your listening pleasure:

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Clarification: the emails that have been going out from “OccupyNHGOP”? Nope, not me and not us

I really can’t believe I really gotta do this, but I guess I hafta:

We are NOT “OccupyNHGOP@gmail.com“

Since the details of the on-g0ing Battle for the NH GOP Bank Accounts were reported to me and I’ve been posting them, someone else has been sending out mass emails from an email address called “OccupyNHGOP@gmail.com” to what seems to be ALL of the State Committee Members.  Often, the emails have links back to posts that ARE on GraniteGrok.  I have read them and so have the other Groksters who are also State Committee Members.  A guessing game has ensued as to who OccupyNHGOP really is (just like we do with our prodigious, and sometimes grammar stretching, commenter C.dog.e.dog).  We still don’t know in either case.

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New York Times Nicholas Kristoff, big Lefty, already goes partisan attack dog and blames Republicans for tragedy

And of course, the Lefty Progressives were the first to blame Republicans – NYT’s Nick Kristoff was the first to go all-in-nuclear-partisan: tweeted out ”explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment“.  Uncool and he has since recalled it as EVERYONE went after him.  But again, NOTHING … Read more

If you are familiar with Boston…

  (H/T: The Corner – seems to be a rolling update post as well) Makes this personal, in a way – I put in the red triangle on this map from The Corner – I used to work in a hi-rise building there.

“Honor Your Oath” Rally – Master of Ceremonies, Jeff Chidester

Jeff Chidester: former soldier, former policeman, software guy, radio host – everything he touches turns to gold.  A political activist on the Right, he is par excellence!  As he does with a number of events held by Liberty and Freedom groups, he served as the Master of Ceremonies for the the Honor Your Oath rally … Read more

“Honor Your Oath” Rally – NH State Reps John Hikel and Dan Itse

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

At the rally yesterday, the next speaker was NH State Rep. John Hikel.  As the above line (and link) shows, he along with Jack Kimball signed the complaint that was delivered to the correct authorities on Thursday. The reason?  If you swear an oath, there is the expectation that you will keep your promise as there is still great emphasis put on the phrase “A man’s word is his bond”.  I have been writing about Trust lately and in the case of our elected leaders, we do expect some semblance of acknowledgement of the purpose of their service and that is “we will not violate the Constitution and its values”.  That, of all things, should be the minimum of expectations of actions by them.

Why should we not keep folks accountable?  For if you break your bond, what good are you?  If you cannot keep your promises (and yes, we can excuse and forgive the ocassional “Oopsies!”), what good are you?  And if you are merely mouthing the words and your imaginary fingers crossed behind your back as you do this, why shouldn’t we give you a collective (um, one of the few times that word makes sense) “SCREW YOU” and have you suffer the consequence of LYING?  If you CANNOT or WILL, then we should remove you, yes?  This is not a partisan thing – for I believe there are both Republicans AND Democrats who have failed to uphold the basics!

And yes, WMUR’s Jimmie Pindell, this is also part of the answer to your question!

Here is John Hikel explaining why he signed and delivered his Complaint and NH State Rep Dan Itse fulfilling his role, once again, on the importance of part of the Constitution:

  

NH State Rep John Hikel                                                     NH State Rep Dan Itse

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“Honor Your Oath” Rally – Skip Murphy, co-founder GraniteGrok

Yeah, they let me speak as well and I was asked to speak on “self-responsibility” in terms of “Honoring Your Oath”.  Unlike most that spoke, I gave mine as a locally elected official in my town – and yes, I paid attention to it twice and I still do today.  I tried to do what I did mindful of that Oath, for once a promise is given, it should be kept.  Given that it was handling other peoples’ money as a Budget Committee member, I often thought of these (“It is not mine to give”: here, here, here, and here).

WMURNo, Jimmie Pindell of WMUR, this was not a gun rally (even as TMEW reported that WMUR called it one; I guess they really didn’t listen to what Jeff Chidester said it WAS and what it was NOT.  Simply, they either didn’t REALLY cover the rally, only bothered to show up for a snippet of the rally, or just plain made it up.

Let me ‘splain what the rally was a bit more:

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Wayne Peabody, Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell, Laurie Pettingill

Continuing on with the speakers at the “Honor Your Oath” rally, we have:

  • Wayne Peabody, musician “Don’t Tread on Me; Live Free or Die”
  • Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell of the Wounded Warrior Project
  • former NH State Rep Laurie Pettingill

  

Wayne Peabody                                                                  Chief Warrant Officer Jon Worrell

Hon. Laurie Pettingill

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Andrew Hemingway, NH State Rep Jane Cormier, Jim Hazard (Oath Keepers)

Honoring your oath – at least on the Right, it is a recurring and important element that seems to be rather out of style with many.  Oh sure, we see the lip service, but how DARE we actually hold them to their word!  Their word, their bond – something that should be so basic, but so old fashion in today’s political environment.  After all, it seems that the Progressive way is “the means justifies the end”.  After all, go READ Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – the Bible for folks like Obama – he is quite honest in saying that Morals are of no consequence in the obtaining in Power.

And when we bring it up and condemn the Left for believing in it, they simply resort to ad hominem attacks – for there is NO logical or intellectual argument that can be made for prostituting your name for some political advantage.  We on the Right see this behavior as disgusting; the Left seems to take it as a badge of honor (er, “I did not have sex with that woman” hasn’t had a deletorius effect on one man’s political correr, right?).

Here we listen to Andrew Hemingway (conservative political activist, entrepreneur, and former Chair of the RLCNH), NH State Rep Jane Cormier, and Jim Hazard of Oath Keepers

  

Andrew Hemingway                                                         NH State Rep Jane Cormier

Jim Hazard (Oath Keepers)

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“Honor Your Oath” rally – Donna Murphy, NH State Reps. Dan Dumaine and Al Baldasaro

We first met Donna Murphy at the .223 Day of Resistance; she surprised me AFTER she said “One Million Moms” because I thought I knew what was coming next – and got floored with “against Gun Control” – you can see the micro-interview we did here.  Her goal was to have actually had the chance to speak at THAT rally but the speaker list had already been completed.  I have to hand it to her – if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  And she did – a really big pink sign will most likely get you noticed and it worked with Jeff Chidester!

NH State Reps Dan Dumaine and Al Baldasaro both spoke as well.  As prior Marines, they are not too happy with folks that break their bond as they know that in the situations that faced, someone breaking their word can mean someone losing their life.  Promises made are to be held sacrosanct – they lived or died by that.  So if you think you detect just a smidge (er, boatload?) of scorn for the NH House Reps that violate their Oaths to be faithful to the Law of the Land, THE social contracts that we agree to – the Constitution of the US (and NH).

  

 Donna Murphy (1MMAGC.org)                                          NH State Rep. Dan Dumaine

NH State Rep.Al Baldasaro

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“Honor Your Oath” rally at the State House in Concord, NH

Yesterday in at State Capital Building, the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC (GSPLPAC) held its “Honor Your Oath” rally.  It was meant to reawaken the understanding that when those in military, those in law enforcement, and those elected officials, that the words they stay in taking the Oath that they did, they swore an Oath … Read more

So, why did WMUR have its parent, the Hearst Corp., have a First Amendment Fellow send me a letter?

Hearst Corp LogoDear Ms. Dietrick,

I am in receipt of your email and, as of yesterday, your snail mail letter.  In order to show good faith in this matter, I have a question for you.  From your hard copy letter (I took the liberty of scanning it in as the quality of the PDF attachment to your email was of such low quality, I scarcely took it seriously; given the size of the Hearst Corporation, it must simply have been an off day for the poor IT tech you called in for rectification), I would ask that you would turn your attention to this snippet:

Hearst WMUR Logo On Grok Flye rAllegation

I am but a simple man (you may ask my critics for confirmation of this fact) so I wish to address one thing from your letter at a time.  If you would, Ms. Dietrick, please forward to me one or more examples of the flyers you have singled out for infringement for my inspection.  I have no problem in reworking them so as to remove any WMUR logo (presented here for illustration only to ensure we are both communicating  and being precise concerning the artwork of your letter)   that may be present; I only wish to careful and accurate:

WMUR

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MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry – If you thought getting my rifle out of my cold, dead hands was hard enough…

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children; your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children…We Have to Break Through This Idea ‘That Kids Belong to Their Parents‘“

If my kids were still young, Dr. Harris-Perry, you’d get a blast of “cold, dead hands” from me!  Wait until you come to my house still thinking MY kids are YOUR kids.  With antics like this, I no longer have to wonder where the Village Idiot went.  Problem is, there are lots of folks, especially those in Education and the rest of Government do believe exactly what she is saying – these other Village Idiots believe children belong to us all rather than to the Parents that gave birth to them.  Sure, we who have kids want to do everything possible for them – that called ‘being responsible’.  If you make the decision to have them (or, made the decision to engage in an action that would result in a child, intended or not), that is the natural outcome – you put their best interests well in front of your own.  To me, this is the essence of traditional marriage – yes, I and my wife loved each when we said “I Do’s” but we also realized that when the time to have children came, our needs were a far, far second compared to theirs.  NEVER did I believe that ANYONE else was responsible for them.

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Honoring your Oath? Others seem to believe your oath to the Constitution is not mere words. Here’s another one: Accountability

Accountability – a most hated word in politics.  Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power).  But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism are now card carrying members of the Political Class).  Oh to be sure, we hear the high minded platitudes about “elections are when voters hold us accountable”  – but some don’t like it when we do.  However, what to do during the “in-between” times when recalls are not an option and you think that someone has violated their promise to voters?  Hmm, this seems to be novel (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

Emergency Verified Complaint

Against

1) Stephen Shurtleff – (see Exhibit “A” – HB135)
2) 12 members of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
3) 189 members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (see Exhibit “B” – March 27th, 2013 Yea Votes)

For

Breach of Oath of Office

and
Violation of 18 USC § 241 – Conspiracy against Rights

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson 1820

I, ________________________ one of the People of New Hampshire, come forward to complain against Stephen Shurtleff and 188 other members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Breaching their Oaths of Office and Conspiring against My Rights. I hereby present facts known and unknown to you in support of this complaint.

1. Stephen Shurtleff, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, for the purpose of “accepting the trust” according to Article 84 of the New Hampshire Constitution, has sworn or affirmed the following Oaths.

More of the document after the jump.  So, why SHOULDN’T we hold our elected and appointed officials accountable for the words they utter as the first action of their terms, and to use those solemn words against which to measure their future actions?  Shouldn’t they ALWAYS be mindful of what they have promised?

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