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New Hampshire state Constitution:

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

https://www.nh.gov/constitutio...

Revolution is part of our system of checks and balances. It may be the last of them and the most dangerous to execute, but it is a part of our system. Denying that is to deny the history of how our nation began. Hillary was a prime example of perverting the ends of government and placing power arbitrarily in the hands of political elites. You may find 2A talk repugnant, but it has its place as a discussion point because ultimately, if enough of the people feel that this government does not serve the public and cannot be repaired, we must revolt. Anything less at that point is surrender.

I first heard about the Free State Project from a slashdot story in October 2003, when they announced that New Hampshire was the target state. At the time I was on a 1-year work contract in Australia, and all I knew was that when I returned to the USA, I did not want to return to the high taxes, high population density and (comparatively) bad air quality of the Bay Area. As a libertarian myself, it was a no-brainer, especially after I read the "101 Reasons to choose New Hampshire" document (which has subsequently been turned into a video documentary). So I went back to California just long enough to make arrangements. I moved to NH in June 2005, making me mover #107.

In the time I have been here, some 1,900 other "early movers" have also come. We have gone from electing a few Free-Staters to local city councils and planning boards, to our first State Representative, to now having some two dozen Free-Stater State Reps, and having pulled many of the existing State Reps and Senators (especially the Republican ones) in a much more libertarian direction. I will never forget the ex-Marine State Rep who in 2006 told me he would "never, ever in his life" allow "legal dope", to that same Rep now voting for full marijuana legalization every single time it comes up. We were the first state to pass same-sex marriage via a legislative process (not popular referendum). We passed medical marijuana. We have no adult seat belt law, no helmet law, open carry and shall-issue concealed carry (and are likely to pass constitutional carry next session). We have eliminated all state knife laws, absolutely rejected Real-ID ("and any de-facto national identity system that may follow therefrom"), forbidden the State to use automated license plate scanners, and passed a law affirming a defendant's right to explain Nullification to the jury.

We don't need all 20,000 to show up. Another 4-5K people, if they do the same things as the first 2K, and NH will bear very little resemblance to the police-states/welfare-states of the rest of the USA... and much more resemblance to the society described in the New Hampshire Constitution, which is summed up well by Article 10:

Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

"Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."

https://www.nh.gov/constitutio...

http://www.nh.gov/safety/divis...

YA RLY

1) MPG, not MPH.

2) Straw man. The alternative suggested was rail, not Priuses. If you're ignorant of the efficiency advantages of rail, do some googling; long haul trucking is flat out stupid by comparison.

3) Since the discussion is relative to axle weight, you might use those terms, and calculate 17,000-22,000 lbs per axle, and taking note that (per the GP's referenced GAO report) overloading of tractor-trailers is a pretty common thing.

I don't think you can really compare the two. One, in the case of a right-to-know law, the government ignoring it is most likely not the will of the people; in the second case, it sounds like it is doing the exact opposite, following the will of the majority of the people. Two, again in the case of an RTK law, the government ignoring it sounds like pretty blatant self-serving corruption---what kinds of abuse of the citizenry are they hiding by not responding to FOIA requests served upon police departments?---whereas in the second case, this sounds like wilful civil disobedience by a large portion of the citizenry, and their representatives and law enforcement officials, who feel the law is unjust.

There's probably also a constitutional argument to be made in the case of the IIRIRA. Practically every policy the Federal Government tries to force on the states now is an unconstitutional overreach of their explicitly enumerated powers. New Hampshire, and I think this is virtually unique among the 50 state constitutions, has an explicit sovereignty clause: Part I, Art. 7. It's the complement to the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and says that New Hampshire has only ceded sovereignty where explicitly consented to by its people or their legislature. So if this IIRIRA thing wasn't explicitly consented to by New Hampshire's people or its legislature, it's not a "law" here regardless of what the Feds think.

...but lawyers say as one of a series it confirms there is no longer any debate about the benefits of the vaccine.

No, it doesn't. The question of the benefits of the vaccine is a scientific question best left up to science, not lawyers, to decide. What this series of cases confirms is simply that people no longer have a right to opt out of vaccination.

New Hampshire recognizes a right of conscience to opt out of vaccines. It's in statute as a religious exemption (RSA 141-C:20-c, II) and backed up by our state constitution, Part I, Arts. 4 and 5. There's a well-organized movement here to improve the law to allow people to opt out of vaccines without resorting to the "all-or-nothing" religious exemption, for example, with HB1555 (2010). Perhaps this family ought to immigrate here and seek asylum like that homeschooling family from Germany.

Now, you can of course break that contract and attempt to change the system by revolution ...

Fortunately I live in a state where their "social contract" explicitly allows for this:

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

1) Yes, appointed, by the Governor, and approved by the NH Executive Council (essentially 5 lieutenant governors - unique system we have to check and balance the Governor).

2) total NH budget for 2012: $5,244,850,965 ($5.24 billion)
IT share of that: $67.5 million (roughly)
http://www.nh.gov/transparentnh/where-the-money-goes/index.htm

http://www.nh.gov/doit/internet/
3) Yes, and they don't have to submit open source as a solution, for example, but the requirements of open data still apply, for one thing, and for another, the total cost analysis will still have to happen... so an proposal submitted that didn't use open data, and used a proprietary solution would have to show that it was the only answer, and why it was cost effective, and couldn't meet the open data requirements. Remember that the principles are listed, and more specific guidelines for RFP and the like will be generated, by the CIO.
4) I tried (as a non-legislator) to get even a study of open source through in previous years. Killed it each time. This time, I was ready, I knew the opposition's issues, and had answers... plus Open Source is no longer a geek thing. People know Linux, Android, Google, etc. Opposition hinged on FUD mostly... It wasn't anything beyond that... So being able to address the usual FUD, and do education the entire time for non-geeks was the biggest factors needed.

comments: The Open Data elements are the key piece here. 3rd party vendors who fail to meet those are unlikely to get the business anyway. And no, this isn't perfect, nor will it guarantee open source is always the answer. Because it isn't. But it should put it on a level field for the first time.

And my website is SO outdated... I need to update hundreds of votes since. But thanks.

1) Yes, appointed, by the Governor, and approved by the NH Executive Council (essentially 5 lieutenant governors - unique system we have to check and balance the Governor).

2) total NH budget for 2012: $5,244,850,965 ($5.24 billion)
IT share of that: $67.5 million (roughly)
http://www.nh.gov/transparentnh/where-the-money-goes/index.htm

http://www.nh.gov/doit/internet/
3) Yes, and they don't have to submit open source as a solution, for example, but the requirements of open data still apply, for one thing, and for another, the total cost analysis will still have to happen... so an proposal submitted that didn't use open data, and used a proprietary solution would have to show that it was the only answer, and why it was cost effective, and couldn't meet the open data requirements. Remember that the principles are listed, and more specific guidelines for RFP and the like will be generated, by the CIO.
4) I tried (as a non-legislator) to get even a study of open source through in previous years. Killed it each time. This time, I was ready, I knew the opposition's issues, and had answers... plus Open Source is no longer a geek thing. People know Linux, Android, Google, etc. Opposition hinged on FUD mostly... It wasn't anything beyond that... So being able to address the usual FUD, and do education the entire time for non-geeks was the biggest factors needed.

comments: The Open Data elements are the key piece here. 3rd party vendors who fail to meet those are unlikely to get the business anyway. And no, this isn't perfect, nor will it guarantee open source is always the answer. Because it isn't. But it should put it on a level field for the first time.

And my website is SO outdated... I need to update hundreds of votes since. But thanks.

I thought you had to have a permit to film in public anyway, short of a home video of course.

While it appears NH doesn't require a permit to film, you do need to apply to film on state property. http://www.nh.gov/film/faq.htm

Looks like Bigfoot is in the wrong.

Who said anything about voting? Not me.

And yes, if you're not a member of any org, you can infringe all you like. Problem is, nobody is defending you from infringement.

This is the basis that American governments were founded on, but those principles have been totally lost. "When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void."

• 12 legislators is nearly all we need. We have an active caucus in the legislature, not of FSP newbies, but of these 12 + some seasoned veteran legislators. If you look at the roll call votes for hot issues, very often the spread is less than 12.
• Anti-police state stuff? We got it. NH House passed a "record the cops" bill (now in the Senate), the NH House now passes medical marijuana & MJ decrim bills every session (we need 2 more votes in the Senate to override the Governor's veto). An NH legislator (Dan Itse) informs me he's submitted a 4th amendment assertion bill for the coming session, in response to recent incidents.
• Sunshine law? Hell yes, one of the best in the country: NH RSA 91-A. But for even more fun, read the NH Constitution, Part I Art. 3.
• IIRC, NH was the first to submit an anti-TSA-invasion bill. It's passed the House, currently in the Senate.
• Warrantless wiretaps? I dunno. have to check. There's certainly plenty of "protect us from the feds" sentiment.

I was not one of the reps in question -- though one of the two (Seth) has posted on this thread.

And the NH Constitution is pretty amazing. Among other things, they hard-coded the elected legislators' salary at $200/biennium. So it would take a constitutional amendment to raise the politician's salary. Ain't gonna happen. I love it!!

Infected Laptop Leads to Data Breach at Pentagon Federal Credit Union, SoftPedia, January 6 2011

Notification to the NH Attorney General's Office, December 30, 2010.

There may be even earlier public reports.

This is not news to affected PFCU members either. I was notified that my data might have been compromised and issued a new credit card and offered free monitoring services weeks ago.

As a member-owned credit union PFCU is accountable to its members. They, or should I say as a proud member, we, take our responsibilities to our fellow members very seriously.

I've spent several hundred hours researching this issue. Frankly, you're wron.g

>>1/Nuclear energy does not make economic sense. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50308 (translation: it is expensive)

The actual cost of the plants they're building in the south are half this. And a lot of the cost has to do with NIMBYs and (ironically enough) environmentalists, who ought to all be very pro-nuclear. The actual cost of nuclear per KWH is the only source comparable to coal. Dirty coal. CC Coal Plants are 2x to 3x the cost per KWH of dirty coal.

You want to know what doesn't make economic sense? Anything that costs more than double or triple the current cost of energy. Guess what that includes? All green technologies. Solar costs roughly 6x to 150x the cost of coal.

Look up the costs yourself, and become educated. This is a mix of government, industry, and hippie cost estimates:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/electricity.html
http://bravenewclimate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/eiaenergy2016.png
http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nuclear-costs-2009.pdf
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-200-2007-011/CEC-200-2007-011-SD.PDF
http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/wmb/coastal/ocean_policy/documents/te_workshop_cost_compare.pdf

>>2/Having to store waste for over 100000 years is not what someone with any common sense would call 'green'.

The waste problem is a social construct, not a technical one.

>>3/limited liability. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Indemnity_Act

It's a good thing. Because of idiot movies like the China Syndrome, people think that nuclear power is dangerous, when nuclear plants are actually quite safe. Even left-wing France produces the lion's share of its power through nuclear, and has done so very safely for the last 30 years. Compare this with the huge numbers of people killed every year in coal mining accidents and indirectly through the radiation released into the atmosphere by coal.

>>4/fuel-dependency

There's plenty.

Crap. Botched my link.

http://www.nh.gov/constitution/billofrights.html

Links to credible information on that. In particular, I will bet 20 right now that hydropower is CHEAPER than coal or nukes. Hell, if you use a LITTLE bit of intelligence, you would realize that hydropower will be cheaper than either coal or nukes. Why? Because it is STILL cheaper to put in a dam than either coal, gas, or nuke plant (assuming suitable location). In addition, you have free energy after that. And geo-thermal has already been shown to be cheaper than nukes (but there are few locations for shallow geo-thermal).

You'd lose your bet. Unless you're talking about the amortized price. The CEC was primarily interested into the 10-year amortized wholesale cost of building a new plant, which hydro is not especially cost-efficient at. Of course, it gives you flood control and other benefits as well.

Here's some links to get you started. Enjoy:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/aeo/electricity.html
http://bravenewclimate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/eiaenergy2016.png
http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/nuclear-costs-2009.pdf
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-200-2007-011/CEC-200-2007-011-SD.PDF
http://des.nh.gov/organization/divisions/water/wmb/coastal/ocean_policy/documents/te_workshop_cost_compare.pdf

According to Wikipedia, the planned monument will actually "include five huge stones that, viewed from a raised platform, merge into a form that recreates the profile outline". There's even a website about it, which lends a bit of credibility to that version as it's part of nh.gov.

That glass thing is just one artist's concept.

I'm usually very against government intervention/regulation, but when these natural monopoly situations occur, that seems to be the point for some reasonable involvement.

Yeah, my State's government is specifically limited to intervention in the case of monopolies, collusion, and fictitious capitalization:

Free and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of t he people and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy it. The size and functions of all corporations should be so limited and regulated as to prohibit fictitious capitalization and provision should be made for the supervision and government thereof. Therefore, all just power possessed by the state is hereby granted to the general court to enact laws to prevent the operations within the state of all persons and associations, and all trusts and corporations, foreign or domestic, and the officers thereof, who endeavor to raise the price of any article of commerce or to destroy free and fair competition in the trades and industries through combination, conspiracy, monopoly, or any other unfair means; to control and regulate the acts of all such persons, associations, corporations, trusts, and officials doing business within the state; to prevent fictitious capitalization; and to authorize civil and criminal proceedings in respect to all the wrongs herein declared against.

Not much has really changed in 200+ years, so I think the guys who wrote this pretty much nailed it.

Its probably not fraud, but it defiantly did self cancel.
On http://www.sos.nh.gov/recounthills.htm
In Nashua Ward 5 Clinton gained 71 votes (out of a about a thousand, a 7% difference)
In Manchester Ward 10 Clinton lost 10 votes (of out about a 900)
Anyways in total of all precients in which she gained votes she gained 163 votes (this is just one county in the state)
In total of all precient in which she lost votes she lost 103.
Leading to a net change of 59 votes.

It's pretty easy when you look at the vote tallies for your county and see that the candidate you voted for is showing zero votes. That makes it obvious that the original count is wrong.

Uncertainty is when you vote is being counted by black box machines made by a company that employs know felons in key management areas.

Uncertainty is when 56% of the population doesn't even show up to vote, because they do not feel represented by either of the two available choices.

People will argue that because there is a paper trail that it would be totally foolish to hack the optical scanner because it can always be challenged. Well, is anybody challenging the results now? Is there a verification happening in New Hampshire right now? Doesn't seem to be. I believe one of the participants of the election has to challenge the results, Barack won't be doing that because he'd look like a sore loser... but there were plenty of other people on that ballot that could.. here is the ballot

http://www.sos.nh.gov/Dem%20ballot.pdf

I didn't realize there were THAT many people running for president in the democrat party, unreal. And here is the problem for the optical scanner, assuming nobody will challenge the voter because it rarely happens (sometimes recounts are forbidden by law unless the margin of victory is within 2%) then the optical scanner can be hacked.. lets say, give Hillary Clinton an extra vote every 30 scans, or maybe it was programmed to not count one of Obama's votes every 15 ... simple stuff like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkKdJoWG3qQ

There's one of the blackboxvoting videos that shows the optical scanner in question and how easily these machines can fuck up a simple counting of 8 or 10 votes (skip ahead to about minute 3:45)

New Hampshire doesn't have an income tax on wages, but they do have income taxes in the form of an interest and dividends tax, a business profits tax, a business enterprise tax, a timber tax, a gravel tax, etc. And a fair number of people who live in NH work in MA or ME where they do have an income tax on wages. http://www.nh.gov/revenue/gti-rev.htm

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This won't work. Here in NH each town used to be resposible for the education of their population. The city of Claremont, NH had lost all of its jobs and most of its tax base. The people of the town, in the name of the town, then sued the people of the state in the name of the state to get more funding for education. Just funding, no further interference. When they won, the first thing they did with their money was build a new bandstand. In effect, the people of Claremont, NH stole money from me in Northwood, NH ("For the children!!!") so they could build a fucking gazebo.

http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/nh/lit_nh.php 3
http://www.nh.gov/judiciary/supreme/opinions/1999/ clarmnt3.htm

And for the other side:
http://www.claremontlawsuit.org/

http://www.egov.nh.gov/governor/goveforms/comments .asp

Tell the governor you are boycotting New Hampshire Tourism and products because these abusive and bullying tactics being used by the police are unacceptable in a state that use's the slogan "Live Free or Die."

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Sounds like it's time for some more propaganda posters like these
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Would have helped New Hampsire save face.

>Wrong.

I'm not saying it is very practical, but the Bill of Rights of the New Hampshire State Constitution does provide for this.

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.