Yesterday, Governor Sununu signed HB 440, Rep. Jim Kofalt’s Civil Liberties Defense Act or CLDA, into law. New Hampshire now has a fundamental emergency powers reform in place that will assure our constitutional rights remain secure in declared states of emergency.
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Breaking: New Hampshire Governor Signs Law to Protect Civil Liberties During a State of Emergency
In New Hampshire, RSA 4-45 and 4-47 turned the governor into a King during a state of emergency (declared by that same governor). For the past two sessions, Republicans in the House have been trying to curtail the potential for abuse and the actual abuse we saw during the pandemic panic. And they did it.
Thank Your Senator for Protecting Your Civil Liberties
In its first session of the year, the NH State Senate voted to restore the core structure of HB 440, the Civil Liberties Defense Act.
A Sad Day of Setbacks in NH Senate on Civil Liberties
The Senate Judiciary Committee met in an executive session Tuesday to consider the Cornerstone-supported HB 440; to our disappointment, the Committee did not deliver the decision we had hoped for.
The ACLU Completes Its Journey to Dark Side – Sues Private Citizen to Keep Them from Obtaining Public Records.
The American Civil Liberties Union went off the rails years ago, but I think they’ve completed walking the path to the dark side. They are suing a private citizen to stop them from accessing public records relating to prison inmates.
“…$30 million dollars per person that died of covid-19…”
by Skip
A little context from Facebook (emphasis mine, reformatted): I don’t want to sound insensitive but with 2 trillion more in spending covering what was never really a national threat it’s going to cost 30 million dollars per person that died of covid-19 just in federal deficit spending. Has not anyone noticed we were not really … Read more
Treating Disease as a War?
Should we be treating a disease as a war? Any serious war suspends liberal society. This means freedoms are lost or face restriction. Is it advisable to have a war on poverty or a war on drugs? If we are fighting a war how is confinement to one’s home honorable? If we are fighting a war aren’t there things for people to do?
Where Glen Reynolds tries a Drudge technique – on the Police
by Skip
Which is to poke fun at someone declaring “Truth” by linking to their story and then linking to a story which, pretty much, destroy’s the first one:
So, we all have seen how well “armored up” our local police have become over the past few years, and the ACLU story even mentions a town in our state, Keene. Sleepy little Keene where the most drastic thing that seems to happen in that college town is either that the college goofy up or the local militant Libertarians decided to do yet another act of “I dare you to arrest me” civil disobedience.