Ah yes, that So, last post I decided to relay to you, readers, of the intent by politician (re: from the Latin “poly” meaning many and “tics” meaning blood sucking parasites only out for their own good) Dennis Senibaldi  to intimidate me to pull down the GraniteGrok posts that Grokster Kimberly had put up about the malfeasance done in Windham.  Certainly his supporters have come up to call what Kimberly put up as inaccurate and, in some cases, outright lies in the various posts here.  After all, they pouted, the Examiner.com pulled their posts down and they are a FAR better site than GraniteGrok.  Yet when challenged, NONE of them could actually point out a single data point that was in error.

Naw, it just means they did an almost instantaneous takedown after receiving the demands from Dennis Senibaldi and Al Letizio but extended no loyalty or due process for Kimberly and just caved.  Political and Journalistic courage be damned (and their First Amendment protections) so it seems.  And I have waited most patiently to hear back from Dennis Senibaldi who said that he would “contemplate” my offer over the weekend to write a rebuttal AND tell us where Kimberly was in error.  As Howie Carr oft says, however, when the phone don’t ring you know its for you.  No lovely phone call, no loving emails – I’m crushed.

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We seem to be losing all common sense these days. Our First Amendment Rights are clearly under attack. Not only are our public officials flouting Right to Know laws, they are using LAWFARE to shut down dissent, arresting citizens exercising their right to speak freely in public.

We all watched the drama unfold in Gilford when William Baer was arrested for making inquiries to the Gilford School Board which the board deemed inappropriate. (In his December decision, Judge James Carroll ruled that Baer was “impolite, but not criminal…the sequence of the arrest actions cause pause by the court as to the chilling, if not silencing, of a citizen by the state, for actions which do not warrant a criminal arrest nor conviction.”) This was one for the good guys.

And now, in the town of Alton, we are watching this drama once again unfold with the Feb. 3 arrest of Jeffrey Clay. Arrested for “defamatory” comments, Mr. Clay is quoted as saying, “Every time I show up here, it is with my fervent hope that I find you folks have resigned…But you continue to show an unwillingness to take responsibility for your actions as selectman and resign.” Hmmm…Defamatory? Not so much, I think.

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As Hillary marches, falls, stumbles, and waddles towards the Presidency of the United States , an office that no longer holds much luster anyway, you have to remember one thing about the Clintons – time is always on their side.

Back when Hillary hired Craig Livingstone to grab as many FBI files of Republican opponents as he could get away with she simply lied about it throughout the average time frame a Clinton scandal lasts, about 18 months.

They know this. They live this. It works for them.

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Once one is labeled as anti-government, which simply means you are opposed to waste and abuse of tax dollars, the lefties lock-step up and let their hair down.

At first it might be disturbing to people not familiar with moonbats but soon you can see the usual pattern.

Obama shoveled a dose of it to political opponents after he was elected. His pent-up chance to deliver came as something in the order of, “We won you lost.” Oh how long he must have pined to say that in public.

And here is an example of the same constipated condescension from the college town of Henniker, after their recent Town Meeting. It is one of three letters sent anonymously to three individuals who spoke at the Town Meeting:

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From Austrian economist, Ludig Von Mises:

Many people are still haunted by the idea, which dates back to the preliberal era, that a certain nobility and dignity attaches to the exercise of governmental functions.  Up to very recently public officials in Germany enjoyed, and indeed still enjoy even today, a prestige that has made the most highly respected career that of a civil servant.  The social esteem in which a young “assessor” or lieutenant is held far exceeds that of a businessman or an attorney grown old in honest labor.  Writers, scholars, and artists whose fame and glory have spread far beyond Germany enjoy in their own homeland only the respect corresponding to the often rather modest rank they occupied in the bureaucratic hierarchy.

There is no rational basis for this overestimation of the activities carried on in the offices of the administrative authorities.  It is a form of atavism, a vestige from the days when the burgher had to fear the prince and his knights because at any moment he might be spoliated by them.  In itself it is no finer, nobler, or more honorable to spend one’s days in a government office filling out documents than, for example, to work in the blueprint room of a machine factory.

After all, they work for us – although lately, many are thinking the opposite. 

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Today the New Hampshire House Education Committee the executive session was held on Senate Bill 101 (SB 101). It is a bill that will prohibit the state from requiring the implantation of Common Core. The bill is sponsored by Republicans in both the senate and the house. It was sought after by parents across the Granite State who are already experiencing the nightmare and lowered standards of Common Core.

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I almost feel a little sorry for Dennis Senibaldi. The first rule any public official should follow is to never use intimidation or bullying against a writer or blogger with a fairly decent-sized audience.

The second rule any public official should follow is to never comment on articles or blogs that show them in a negative light if they still cannot back themselves up.

Senibaldi and Letizio both broke rule #1. Senibaldi broke rule #2 today when he decided to comment on my blog showing his intimidation against my editors by demanding they take down my articles.

And of course I am going to share them here for all to see.

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