New Hampshire has a Human Rights Commission, and a recent audit revealed that it is not terribly good at its job.
The report examines the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights and highlights ongoing administrative and logistical challenges that have created a backlog of hundreds of cases.
According to the audit, 259 unresolved cases had piled up in 2023. It took an average of more than two years to finish each case.
Disband it.
While you are at it, our poorly written “anti-discrimination laws” are ripe for abuse, and this is not the solution.
Several members of the Legislative Fiscal Committee called for additional staff to offer more frequent oversight so that the [Human Rights Commission] can work to clear a backlog of 237 cases, some of which date back 40 years.
Nay, says I, and with good reason. While ours may not yet have become a star chamber to intimidate free speakers to self-censorship, that destination is inevitable. These social constructs attract the sort of oversight required to ensure that they devolve into rights-destroying machines. Canada, Colorado, and the worst offenders in Europe have used “human Rights Commissions” to stamp out opposing speech that challenges policies favored by elites.
Disband New Hampshire’s (obviously) useless Human Rights Commission. Forward any cases to local prosecutors or police departments for disposition based on geographic origin (assuming that’s possible and if not, why not?). If there is no actual evidence of an actual crime, dismiss them (hate crimes as an idea are another social construct to stack additional charges on suspects; crime is crime, motive is simply a way to secure a case against a suspect. If there is a crime, investigate it and, if possible, prosecute it. If existing law interferes with this simple solution, change it.
Human rights, as a turn of phrase, is overworked and, for the most part, unnecessary virtue signaling. Human Rights are Natural rights protected from government (and Human Rights Commissions) by the Constitution and among the general public—from each other—through sensible, non-encumbering statutes.
Don’t reward an incompetent ‘agency’ with more resources. Do not breathe life into its misleading purpose with added staff and tax dollars. Put the county attorneys to work on this stuff, and when it takes longer than the next election to clear a case, voters can replace them at the ballot box (as well as the county commissioners and delegation who vote on their budget).
The audit is proof of the commission’s incontinence. It is an ineffective waste of time and resources. Put it to sleep, grieve for a heartbeat, and then move along.
