According to this headline, “As More N.H. Businesses Violate Emergency Orders, Sununu Cautions Against ‘Snitching.‘ “It’s a good headline. I clicked on it. Then I read it. And it’s accurate as far as it goes, but it never goes very far.
Related: The AG’s Office is Issuing Sealed Secret Search Warrants to Spy on NH Citizens
As with most press pieces, there’s some four-play before the money shot. Press conference. Very few businesses are violating his orders. We don’t want you to call the police to report non-compliance.
Why is the governor saying don’t call the cops? I can think of a few reasons. They have better things to do than appease whiney leftists. Or maybe he just doesn’t need their help.
“Look, we are not asking consumers to pick up the phone and we don’t have snitch lines and all that, I don’t believe in all that,” said Sununu. “If there are businesses that are kind of thwarting the guidance, we usually hear about it one way or the other, I’ll say that. And we respond to it appropriately.”
Did you catch that? “We usually hear about it one way or the other, I’ll say that.” Really? That’s not spooky or creepy or Orwellian sounding. But it got me thinking. The NH AG’s office has issued sealed secret online search warrants and hid them in thousands of pages of discovery.
The NH AG issued a Warrant and received permission to spy on Janet’s social media as well as through Google/YouTube. All of which was requested (and approved) to be sealed and hidden from Janet and anyone she was in contact with, buried in 2000 pages of discovery. As if they never wanted anyone to know.
I’m sure that’s not what he meant, and the Sununu Homers will be on me about it as usual. Whether the governor knows this or not, the State of New Hampshire HAS used secret sealed search warrants to engage in digital surveillance of its citizens. Innocent civilians.
How the AG’s secret spying relates (if at all) to the reopening or individuals or business owners yearning to be free from their political prisons is unclear. But if you think the cited incident was a one-time thing, you’re an idiot.
Just how often they use them remains a mystery at which the legislature might want to take a look.
