Two of the hardest working State Reps for Individual Freedom and Liberty were also there last night: JR Hoell and Mark Warden.  They have one way of looking at things: where there is a place for a limited government (a status that Progressive Democrats think is akin to anarchy) they always advocate that power removed from Government and handed back to the Individual.  I have never known either one to back down from a fight for that outlook either.  The word “back benchers” could never be applied to them; they lead from the front.

JR Hoell                                                             Mark Warden

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Last of the micro-interviews was a surprise – I had wandered around to find Mark Warden and found him talking to a few people that I had never seen before – but they certainly knew each other.  Of COURSE – FSPers from the Free State Project.  No, it is NOT as the NH Dems claim, a cause to take over the State of NH.  Rather, let them speak for themselves:

“Do you believe that adults have the right to make their own decisions about their own lives? Do you want to live in a place where adults are treated as adults? Where people take responsibility for their own actions, lives, and dealings with others? Where community is genuine and voluntary? Where your rights are fully respected, provided only that you equally respect the rights of others?”

“…have the right to make their own decisions about their own lives” – THAT’S why the Democrats hate them (and a few Progressive Republicans to boot)!  They refuse that silly Statist axiom that only the Collective can make the best decision for the serfs Individual.  So when I learned who was in front of me, I had to ask “would you spend a few minutes with GraniteGrok?”.  And Carla said yes!

Carla Gericke

President, Free State Project

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Mike Gill is naming names as he continues to seek accountability from those involved in New Hampshire’s  FRM banking scandal and beyond.  Elected officials, judges, members of the banking committee, friends and family of people in State Government, and the AG’s office, are all implicated by Mr. Gill in the scheme and its cover up.

We had Mike on GrokTALK! last week (I’ll post that individual segment up today) but you can listen to him here as well, in part one of two from an interview he did with Nashua Patch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KZrzgXQl0eg

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In this video, we finally get to meet the MC for the event – Susan Olsen who is the Second Amendment Sister’s Assistant to the Director of Legislative Affairs as well as being a Grokster of good standing!  Here, she is introducing Bear Cothran, a gentleman who, upon using his Second Amendment Right to defend himself when attacked at his place of employment, was fired by his employer (here or here).

“Citizen Shannon “Bear” Cothran presents to the crowd about his life experiences in protection of himself, others and rights under the United States Constitution. Bear became a victim of JOB LOSS while protecting the assets of his employer and protecting himself as an armed United States Citizen.

Gun Rights Across America New Hampshire is an organization in New Hampshire and across the United States. For more information follow this link; http://www.gunrightsacrossamerica.com/ …. For the New Hampshire Chapter, follow this link; https://www.facebook.com/GunRightsAcr…
This film production is filmed, edited and produced by Bill Wynne (Goffstown Today)… All Rights Reserved….
MUSIC in this film production “AMERICA” is authorized by Larry Bisso. Please visit Larry on line at http://www.LarryBisso.com”

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So, how’s that Brand working out fer ya, eh?  Not only what appears on the recording from last Wed night, but mostly what was said after I shut it down.  And yes, you will not see the person who didn’t want to be recorded nor hear their words; you see, I keep my word:

There was another person who wants to keep his Republicanism on the down low because “of what I do” – he was lurking in “the other room.   That’s their decision – but I can disagree with it.  Now, there was a more robust discussion of public / private after the camera shut off.  I dryly note that near the end of the  meeting, it was said by the Chair (paraphrased) “we need to be a bit more quiet as they may hear us in the public bar area” – which was “hidden by view” by a rather flimsy room separater. So much for being a “private meeting”, eh?  

Simple answer: F. A. Hayek came up with the idea of Fatal Conceit, that it is impossible for a few people to have sufficient knowledge to run an economy – at all.  There are just too many inputs for too many decisions for any central planners to know exactly what has to be done correctly.  It can only be done by the those in that economy acting upon their own best interest and cooperating with their “trading partners” for best value.  In short, a free marketplace.  A perfect example is this video from Fox News with the host asking Kirstin Powers this about Obamacare (Video after the jump – the question is around 2:26):

“The people that are backing this plan now versus back in the 1990s are saying the differences, that people care more about cost than they do about the amount of doctors and the number of facilities that they can go to – do you believe that to be true?”

The Conceit?  That the Obamacare planners have decided that consumers only have one important factor: cost.  Nothing else matters as much, so that’s how they’ve structured the entire takeover of the US’s healthcare system.  Yet, Kirstin Powers skewers that right away:

Some people care about that and some people don’t. I think everyone sort of makes that decision for themselves…Some people believe this decision has been taken away from them.

Unless one is rich enough to spend as they want, the choice to choose among alternatives HAS been taken away from us all – and

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I also learned one other thing last night – I realized how old my vidcam is given how fast the battery ran down in the cold – thus, the paucity of interviews from last night.  However, before it died, I did get the chance to ask a few folks two questions:

• What question would you ask Scott Brown?
• What would you tell Scott Brown if he came over?

Here is “Steve” whose sign caught my attention:

(Note to self – next time you interview someone with an interesting sign, please remember to at least take a pic of it, moron!)

In the mean time, a couple of other folks had something to say:

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