Articles tagged as
Liberty
Northern Pass: Still Ignoring the Overarching Reason for Opposition
“The only people who support the use of eminent domain for private development are cities that use it, developers and businesses that benefit from it and planners who plan it. Everyone else hates it.” – Dana Berliner, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice Yesterday’s Union Leader featured, Another View of Why New Hampshire should be open … Read more
Local Fish Wrapper Concord Monitor Editorial On Asylums And Witch Hunts
When assertions come to the forefront accusing the government and the courts of corruption, misconduct and oppression…and those assertions are made by those who might be well-considered, “conservative,” those people are wing nuts…nut jobs, extremists, fascists and, as the Concord Monitor characterizes them, “Witch Hunters.”
And, when accusations of government of corruption, court misconduct and oppression are made by those who of a liberal progressive bent, suddenly the conversation devolves into the plight of the poor oppressed and persecuted individuals and their plight before a corrupt right wing government consisting of the, “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Oligarchy,”…usually followed by the requisite hue and cry, “We must rise up and stick it to, ‘the man.'”
How an issue is couched depends largely on one’s world view. But to read the Concord Monitor editorial, accepting what is written at face value, one might easily opine that the actions of Representatives Itse, Ingbretson, Baldasaro and Seidel are patently without merit. But in typical liberal fashion, the editorial staff at CM banks its assertions on the notion that people are not going to critically think about what is being done in the name of justice and accept their notion that this is nothing more than a witch hunt.
The Weare Secret Police
Officers of the Weare Police Department do not like to be video-recorded, audio-recorded or photographed. In fact if recorded, they will arrest those who do without permission.
Since October of 2010, three people have been arrested by the Weare Police on felony wiretapping charges because individuals did not obtain consent from officers being videotaped. Do people ever ask for permission? Yes, in fact they do. Do police officers consent? I know of no instance. 
Police Cruisers, Booking Areas and the appurtenances of Police buildings often have video equipment installed and operating. Irony. Looking at 570-A:2, II (j), there is a legal exception for a, “uniformed law enforcement officer to make an audio recording in conjunction with a video recording of a routine stop performed in the ordinary course of patrol duties on any way as defined by RSA 259:125, provided that the officer shall first give notification of such recording to the party to the communication.”
So, the law states that police can video traffic stops and no consent is required, but a mere giving of notice to the person being stopped. But, it seems that some discretion is afforded as to video or not to video.
A call for violence: Jump on it, all you lefties!
The political left is anti-freedom. That much is clear. It also thrives on violence and threats of violence.
But as any scary, dangerous, wild-eyed, right-wing, extremist, believer-in-the-Constitution can explain, the only time that violence is philosophically justifiable is in defense of life, rights, and property.
The political left, on the other hand—including so-called liberals, activist Democrats, union thugs, and other fellow-traveling fascists—always seems to feature anti-liberty scabs using intimidation and threats of violence.
And it seem to work just fine! For instance….
Liberty Bills this week!
This from the the new RLCNH Report: The RLCNH Report Subscribe to the RLCNH Report at our website at RLCNH.org! SPECIAL ALERT! It came to our attention over the weekend that there are three important liberty bills in committee this week. Republican legislators are working hard for our liberty—we ask your support for these bills. … Read more
Why Liberty Sucks
Published the day after Christmas, a young journalist named Christopher Beam explains it all in an article in New York magazine (fitting, that) called The Trouble With Liberty. You see, "Libertarians, of both left and right, haven’t been this close to power since 1776. But do we want to live in their world?"
The answer unfolds below….
“Faster than we can find honest people…”
Guest-post from Dan Kanna, New Hampshire’s new Tenth Amendment Center Director….an editorial to the Union Leader. Dear Editor,The question has been asked “Who are you taking your country back from?”; this is a very reasonable question, and deserves to be answered. When you look at government from the lens of sovereignty the answer becomes clear. … Read more
Ten Minutes Of Your Day
Courtesy of Dave Carney on Facebook. Ten minutes with Bob McEwen, who does an exemplary job of boiling down the differences between people who want and need big government, and those who do not.
No Gambling
In the smoldering ruin of SB 489–this years gambling bill, even after a massive campaign by Millennium gaming and its big-money FixItNow NH campaign quarter-backed by their Public relations goo-roo Richard Killion, (whom I suspect is this guy), we get comments like this, from this morning’s Union Leader.
“What’s clear is that today’s vote runs contrary to the will of the people, who, overwhelmingly support expanded gaming and see it as the only acceptable new revenue option,” he said. “The people do not want higher taxes.”
The people do not want higher taxes. But nothing else he says makes any sense unless he means the will of "the minority of" people who overwhelmingly support expanded gaming, and see it as the only acceptable option." Isn’t language fun?
Richard really should have been around New England long enough to know that the one thing you can count on in New Hampshire is for voters to contact their state reps and let them know how they feel about an issue. So from square one this statement is at the very least disingenuous. Before we even get to square two we know that that is exactly what the people did, and the product of that opinion (how the House voted) is clearly represented in the roll call. Consider the following.
Light A Candle
Here in New Hampshire we’ve been at what Erik Erikson at Red State calls Tea Party 2.0 since day one. Not a week goes by when the message from any one of the dozens of groups around the state who support the anti-tax rallies that define the Tea Party Movement is to get involved. Learn … Read more
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Liberty is a preexisting condition.