Saturday • May 11 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
Nashua residents and defenders of liberty are encouraged to attend Nashua Code Week, May 6-10. Nashua is a member of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI).
This cheerful, sustainable “environmental” organization is globalist in scale and nature, with over 2,500+ local governments as its members.
A global agenda with high-level events? Like… Davos perhaps?
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Code Week will generate manufactured consent for globalist agendas like “inclusionary zoning” and smart cities and codify these sustainable development goals into Nashua’s zoning ordinance. ICLEI encourages municipal governments to take their directives from un-elected, unaccountable foreign consortiums rather than their own taxpayers.
The first session is Monday, May 6, 7- 8:30 p.m., at City Hall’s 3rd-floor auditorium. Doors open at 6:30. Come learn what’s coming down the pipeline from the UN. The week-long series will conclude on Friday, May 10th.
One may wonder how Nashua is going to co-create a new zoning code in collaboration with the public in the span of 6.5 hours over four days. If what is being discussed is actually new, why is there already a new zoning map ready to be presented on Friday?
Nashua residents are encouraged to attend these public sessions and learn what is going to be done to their city. Grok readers are encouraged to support efforts to withdraw the United States from the United Nations.
Schedule and details for Nashua Code Week can be found here: https://www.nashuarecode.com/
Editor: The author’s identity has been confirmed, but they have asked to remain anonymous.
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I recently spent an evening watching videos and reading news articles about a problem I hadn’t known existed: Squatters are moving into houses that are temporarily empty and then using the courts to delay their removal, using laws designed to protect renters from unfair treatment by landlords.
In a typical story, a homeowner returns from vacation, finds people living in his home who claim to have a lease, calls the police to get them out, and ends up getting arrested himself.
The squatters have learned—and shared on social media—that since the police can’t determine the validity of a lease on the spot, everything has to go through the courts. That takes months, which is exactly what the squatters are relying on. The renter-protection laws require the courts to treat the leases as valid until they can be proven to be invalid.
But one video in particular caught my attention. In this case, a guy was alerted to the presence of squatters on a property that he owns. He showed up to throw them out. One squatter pointed a BB gun at him, which he didn’t know wasn’t a real gun. So the owner shot the squatter.
I don’t know how this will all play out in the criminal justice system. But when the news station was interviewing residents of the neighborhood where this happened, their attitude seemed to be: Man, you break into someone’s house like that, you deserve what you get.
And it occurred to me that there would be at least one person like that on any randomly selected jury — that is, a jury that hasn’t been diluted in order to prevent it from fulfilling its primary obligation, which is to represent a cross-section of views in the community.
That is, a judge is perfectly competent to decide what facts are relevant and allowable and to come to a conclusion about whether a defendant broke the law. We have juries to find out whether some reasonable number of people in a community, put in the same position as the defendant, would conclude: Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy, because I would have done the damn same thing.
Look at how long it took to seat a jury for Trump’s current Manhattan show trial. Jury selection was essentially a process designed to remove people who would have this reaction: Hell, I’m not going to convict this guy because I would have done the damn same thing.
Which is to say, a process designed to suppress the views of a significant part of the community. Next time you hear about the outcome of any criminal trial, keep this in mind.
Some day you might be the one on trial for doing something that any perfectly normal person would have done in your position. In that case, what kind of jury would you want?
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Despite the collapse of the market, rising costs and prices, and the threat to wildlife, the powers that be are moving forward with offshore wind development off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.
Related: Wind and Whales
Part of that process involves a public comment period before offshore leases will be sold for development. If you have questions or comments, this is the time.
During the 60-day public comment period (May 1 – July 1, 2024) on the Proposed Sale Notice (PSN), BOEM will hold a series of in-person and virtual public meetings to describe the different elements of the PSN, answer questions, and collect public comments.
Agendas will be posted in the coming weeks
In-Person Meetings
Open House Meetings: BOEM will host three “open-house” style meetings to allow the public to talk with BOEM’s scientists and other personnel. This informal format allows people to ask questions and share information directly with BOEM employees on the Proposed Sale Notice.
At the meetings, there will also be official presentations followed by an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. While the meeting will not be recorded, the Q&A session will be summarized thematically and later entered as a meeting summary on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov. The majority of the meeting time will be focused on providing the public with opportunities to engage directly with BOEM subject matter experts at poster stations.
Attendees can submit official public comments for Regulations.gov, either in writing or via oral recording and transcription at a Comment Station
Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting: BOEM will host the fourth Gulf of Maine Task Force in Plymouth, MA. This meeting will be in-person and also livestreamed; however, virtual attendees will only be able to watch and listen, and not actively participate.
As with prior Task Force Meetings, agenda sessions will include time for facilitated dialog among Task Force members, both in plenary and table discussions. Members of the public are invited to observe all plenary discussions. The agenda will include significant time for public input. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov.
Members of the public interested in submitting individual public comments on the Regulations.gov docket will have the opportunity to do so (in writing or via oral recording and transcription) at a Comment Station.
Virtual Meetings
BOEM will host a series of virtual meetings for various target audiences, ranging from the general public to specific ocean user and stakeholder groups. Members of the public are welcome to attend any of the meetings below, however, user specific meetings will focus conversation on the stated topics and prioritize participation by those from the sector of focus. All virtual meetings will be recorded, with recordings later posted on this web page. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers focused on the Proposed Sale Notice. Comments or questions during public input opportunities will be captured in a high-level meeting summary that is entered on the Proposed Sale Notice docket on Regulations.gov; however, we will not be transcribing individual comments during virtual meetings.
Governor Sununu has long been in favor of developing wind off the coast of New Hampshire, and his commission can’t be expected to do anything but nod its collective head.
If you object, or think you do, it’s up to you.
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Gardening to poop? Sounds about right in this week’s edition of Manch Talk. We sing the praises of the volunteers helping to clean our parks, and talk about other crap (literally). Want to improve your health? Start here!
Editor: Lost track of these, with apologies – we’ll get back on our schedule this week.
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I have had my driver’s license ready when I go to the polls to cast my vote for some time now. Longer than it has been required in New Hampshire to vote in any election. I have always believed that the opportunity to vote is one of the most significant rights afforded to citizens in America.
I am proud to present my ID to ensure that my vote is cast by me. It takes so little effort to secure the integrity of my vote.
For generations, there were few options to vote. You showed up in person on Election Day, or if there were extenuating circumstances, you cast an absentee ballot. No electronic voting. Just paper ballots and black pencils. In those days, we felt confident in the election process and knew that only in Chicago did dead people vote!
Voting has become so casual in recent years and only exacerbated by COVID. Absentee ballots are now available for people away from home and anyone who doesn’t want to wait in line on Election Day. Election Day has morphed into Election Week or Month for no significant reason but just because you can. You don’t need to turn your early ballot in at town hall when there are drop boxes all over some towns, like mailboxes. If filling out and delivering your ballot is too taxing, you can call a party worker to help you vote and deliver your ballot for you. This procedure is called ballot harvesting and helps to ruin the election’s credibility.
Many of these voting modifications arose during COVID when people’s mobility was restricted. With COVID in our rearview mirror, there is no need to ease the voting process; ballot harvesting should be stopped, and access to absentee ballots should be rolled back. We need controls on our election system, not rampant opportunities for fraud and abuse.
The Left claims that Voter ID is racist and election interference. These are two separate situations, but both are bogus. There is no foundation that minority groups have more difficult access to legal ID. The Left goes so far as to say that Black people have to travel further to obtain an ID. That is a ridiculous stretch. Adults need ID in America for a plethora of situations. Driving, buying alcohol or tobacco products, cashing a check, and traveling by air are but a few. Blacks use these services as much as their White counterparts. Stop the lousy excuses and get the ID.
The argument for election interference is even a bigger stretch. The number of Black and Brown voters has been increasing exponentially over the last few election cycles. There is no evidence to support that Voter ID inhibits minority voting. None. But there is plenty of evidence supporting voter fraud because of states that do not require IDs to cast your vote.
How about we coalesce and spend our energy on legitimate elections, not ways to bend the rules? If your candidates and policies are strong, you have no need to attack attempts to ensure a fair outcome.
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By the time this reaches the readers, most people will have already known that Jeb announced his retirement, so calling this piece “Jeb’s Senate” is appropriate. Adam Sexton called Jeb the Architect of Medicaid expansion, which is NOT a moniker to be proud of, and the senate voted 24-0 for 2023’s SB 263, a Uniparty item, and Jeb is known for pushing their agenda.
Never forget 2022’s SB 400, that housing bill that got shoved into the parking garage House bill. Jeb said the Damn Emperor requested SB 400. Jeb also loves his CMS money, and it’s sacred, as we know from 2022’s HB 1210 debate on 5/5/22. There’s plenty of material on such things for readers to see, both as Grok pieces and internet search results, so let’s move on.
Mr Sylvia, a former rep from the “Impeachment 7,” told some Florida radio show host that the Senate is a place where good House bills go to die. He also said something like, “The senate, yeah, they’re a problem.” JJ Valera, a former rep, called the senate the “country club.” Because I have no representation in the House, I won’t apologize for being extra demanding on the Senate, and the Senate let me down—Jeb’s Senate. I’ve written plenty of stuff on the RTK Tax(HB 1002), so anyone late for dinner is encouraged to read it, as well as many fine pieces by RTK guru and martyr Laurie Ortolano and various others. Please talk to current and former reps if you would like examples of the Senate being a place where good House bills go to die. I want to add that the Senate is a rubber stamp for instead of firewall protection from BAD House bills, such as HB 1002.
Another thing the Senate is known to do is transform House bills, pervert them, denature them, and make them nongermane to the original agenda the sponsor sought to accomplish. Just ask several reps and election security reform activists about their anger against Senator Gray, the Election Law committee chair, and what happened to a bill that was supposed to address covid tyranny at the local level.
Going back to 2021, during the Damn Emperor’s Mask Madness and when “Jeb’s Senate” was “Chuck’s Senate,” the budget bills (HB 1&2) were being crafted. Many incoming freshmen reps had some desperately needed contributions that could only get past the Damn Emperor if shoved into an omnibus bill such as the budget. A few of them included but were not limited to ending COVID-related tyranny, and State of Emergency reform was the one I remember best. When HB 2 entered “Chuck’s Senate,” they gutted it and watered it down.
I complained to my Senator, whom I voted for, about my extreme disapproval of what his peers were doing. Though he’s not a Finance Committee member, he defended the whole body’s reputation against my attack and said something like, “The House always gets stuff wrong, and we have to fix it.” Note that I said “something like” because I am unable to quote him word for word, but you get the picture. During our brief phone call, which was a return call from my text to him, he was definitely more interested in talking about how pleased he was with inserting anti-choice language into HB 2 as well as EFAs and banning CRT. I won’t say that I don’t care about addressing the hot mess that Gov-Ed is, but my central issue(reason for texting him) was that the Damn Emperor needed to be hog-tied, and the rare window of opportunity wasn’t being taken seriously by the senate.
Someone made a comment in a private group that was an analytical observation. The comment was that Jeb’s retirement might not be in the best interest due to his constituency being a purple district and concerns related to that. Such concern does merit some practical discussion on who is to replace Jeb in Seat #3, but not at the podium. Unfortunately, the harsh reality-based prognostication (mine, at least) is that “Sharon’s Senate” will carry on the bidding of Jeb’s Senate. Don’t expect any accomplishments of significance next year, but many great minds preach to us to have an attitude of gratitude. At least Sharon’s Senate is still better than that abomination against Granite State values known as “Donna Soucy’s Senate.”
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We have some good news for once from the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office! After a long legal battle and multiple federal lawsuits, the FBI agreed to return our church property that was illegally seized on March 20, 2016. For those of you not familiar with the backstory, FBI Agents arrived at 73 Leverett Street on that day at 0600 hours and executed search warrant 16-MJ-36-01-06 against the Shire Free Church Monadnock. This raid occurred only two weeks after Minister Mark Edgington on Free Talk Live condemned the FBI for their strategy of running a website that resulted in the distribution of hundreds of thousands of pieces of child pornography to thousands of IP addresses while only making ten arrests. The sealed search warrant was presented in redacted form to the members of the church present for the raid, i.e. Minister Ian Freeman, Parishioner TJ The Spy, and Parishioner James “Robinhood” Cleveland. The warrant alleged that on or about February 20, 2015, someone using the IP address at 73 Leverett Street had accessed the website that was part of the FBI’s vast child pornography distribution network, in violation of 18 USC 2252.
The returned electronic items. Christmas came early!
TJ The Spy confronted the FBI Agents while naked to avoid being shot and immediately informed Scott Bailey, the lead investigating FBI Agent, that all three members of the church were invoking their right to remain silent and asking for legal counsel to be present. See the FBI raid and how to invoke your rights while naked here. When you invoke your right to an attorney, law enforcement is prohibited from trying to question you until your attorney is present. Despite asking for counsel, one FBI Agent attempted to question the church members by calling them “pedophiles” and asking “You know what they like to do to kiddie-diddlers in prison, don’t you?” TJ responded that all three church members enjoyed the presumption of innocence under law and that a federal judge might think his question was a veiled threat designed to pressure, intimidate, or coerce a subject into waiving their constitutionally protected rights to counsel and silence. In other words, the Agent’s question would taint the voluntariness of any admission and rule the confession inadmissible. TJ then called the Agent an “unprofessional fucking asshole” for attempting to break the law with regards to the Miranda decision. The FBI proceeded to seize all the church members’ computers, cell phones, digital storage media, and cameras.
Fast forward to 2019. After multiple requests to the FBI for the property’s return were ignored, TJ The Spy filed a federal lawsuit pro se (without a lawyer) against the FBI alleging that the search warrant was technically defective under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 41(b). Since the First Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled the warrant invalid in another similar case, TJ asked the court for a judicial writ compelling the FBI to return his stolen computers. Faced with the prospect of having to defend an invalid search warrant in open court, the FBI agreed to return the computers belonging to TJ and Robinhood in exchange for dropping the lawsuit. The four computer items were returned unsearched and sealed in their original evidence bags.
A problem occurred when Ian Freeman attempted to get the rest of the church’s property back. Since the remainder of the seized items were owned wholly by the Shire Free Church Monadnock, only a licensed attorney could represent the church before the court. Bonnie Freeman retained Attorney Jared Bedrick from the Champions Law firm in Portsmouth who filed a lawsuit on behalf of the church. Since the first search warrant was ruled invalid, the FBI applied for and was granted a second search warrant to purge the church’s property of any digital contraband. After much waiting, the FBI finally returned all but two of the seized items to the church. The FBI considers this case closed and no criminal charges will be pursued. Yet the possible goal the FBI might have had in this case, of tainting the reputation of Free Talk Live, the Shire Free Church and certain members, was likely accomplished in many people’s minds. So it is important to remember the fact that the allegations were never proven and no evidence was ever produced.
https://forum.shiresociety.com/t/free-talk-live-sponsor-roger-ver-arrested-in-spain-on-u-s-tax-evasion-charges/13808
Parents and taxpayers in SAU16 have been engaged in many battles in the last few years. Much of it started during COVID when they were one of the last districts to reopen. It actually took the Governor to step in and force the reopening. Then, parents were frustrated that they forced every child to wear a mask without any regard for students who had mental or physical challenges.
Parents and taxpayers have been engaged in additional battles to get the administrators to focus on academics.
It was just announced that the DEIJ Director, who is also the Vice Chair of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, was resigning. This is welcome news to many parents and residents who didn’t see any benefit from a political activist working in their school. In the announcement by the Superintendent, Esther Asbell, she indicates that they will be looking for another DEIJ Director. Clearly, the Administrators are good with flushing tax dollars down the toilet.
Let’s look at ways this money could be spent that would actually help students succeed. (Or, God Forbid, returned to taxpayers)
1) Hire additional tutors for kids who are struggling
2) Quality professional development for teachers to support them in the classroom. (Focused on academics and pedagogy)
3) Bonuses or raises for teachers and paras. The ones who are doing the most to educate children in the school.
4) Lower the school budget which will help taxpayers who may be struggling during this period of high inflation.
The DEIJ Director was hired, making more money than many of the teachers in the district. Wasn’t that a slap in the face to the ones who are there doing the important job of teaching children?
Seabrook school board members have been discussing a withdrawal from SAU21. They even put a warrant article on the ballot asking residents if they should study withdrawing from the SAU. The voters said YES.
What do you get for your money by paying the SAU?
1) Inflated administrative salaries. The SAU16 Superintendent is making close to $200,000.00.
2) Dues paid to lobbying organizations that lobby against parental rights. Don’t forget that Superintendent Esther Asbell is the Director for The New Hampshire School Administrators Association.(NHSAA) SAU16 funnels money to the NHSAA through dues paid out of the budget. Talk about a scam on taxpayers.
3) Administrators instead of educators
It was a lobbyist from the NHSAA, who testified before state legislators, and opposed prohibiting schools from making pornographic content available to children. Providing pornography to children would get you arrested, but the NHSAA says it’s ok for schools to provide obscene books to your children.
The materials now provided to children in schools also include information to connect students with child sexual predators.You can listen to that here. (1:08:00) You can also read more about that here and here.
Maybe the taxpayers in Exeter do not mind offering their children up to child sexual predators. Maybe they don’t mind wasting their money on a DEIJ director who is more about dividing children versus teaching children how to read. But the parents in the other schools may have a different opinion on all of this.
If so, maybe it’s time to look at removing your school from SAU16. There is absolutely no reason any school has to be part of an SAU, especially one that continues to turn a deaf ear to the residents, and wastes a lot of taxpayer money.
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Of the 8 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 33 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 1 with 5 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1400-2024-1658s) | Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1658s, relative to residential parking spaces and the removal of unauthorized occupants of residential real property, to HB 1400, relative to residential parking spaces. |
Commerce | Tue 5/7 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | I. Provides that zoning and planning regulations shall not require more than one residential parking space per unit.
II. Allows property owners or their authorized agents to request the immediate removal of unauthorized occupants by submitting a verified complaint to the sheriff of the county where the property is located. |
| Support | HB1291 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Commerce | Tue 5/7 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, adds definitions, and increases the maximum square footage. It also gives municipalities the right to require accessory units meet the definition for workforce housing. |
| Of Interest | HB1124 | (New Title) relative to limiting conflicts of interest for municipal board and committee members. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. |
| Of Interest | HB1215-2024-1493s | Hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1493s, Housing Appeals Board RSA 679:5 IV, to HB 1215, relative to development approvals and appeals. |
Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill extends the existing 5-year exemption for subdivision plats to 10 years, and increases the preliminary step from 2 years to 5 years. The bill also changes the building code and fire code appeals process, limiting the jurisdiction of the local building code board of appeals to hearing decisions made under local amendments to those codes. |
| Of Interest | HB1628 | relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 5/7 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals certain regulatory statutes that have been preempted by the federal government and moves regulatory authority for apples, cider, and lumber to the chapter relative to standards for farm products. This bill is a request of the committee to study the New Hampshire law relative to standards for farm products and marketing and grading commodities established in 2023, 12:1. |
| Support | HB1121 | relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 5/7 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event. |
| Oppose | SB503 | relative to requiring a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 5/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. |
| Of Interest | HB1118 | relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill further delineates requirements regarding issuance of nonresident alien drivers’ licenses. |
| Support | HB1127 | relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles. |
| Support | HB1204 | relative to government agent entries into secured premises. | Judiciary | Tue 5/7 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes requirements for when a government agent may enter a secured premises without a warrant. |
| Support | HB1391 | allowing new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. | Transportation | Tue 5/7 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. |
| Oppose | HB1394 | (New Title) relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further directs the office of professional licensure and certification, for the biennium ending June 30, 2027, to increase their annual budget by $3,000 for the purpose of hiring temporary or part-time staff, or overtime costs, to help with licensing and administration of the music therapists governing board. |
| Support | SB302 | adding an additional exemption from the regulation of physicians and surgeons. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill exempts from application of the chapter a physician licensed in another state providing care to a patient in New Hampshire when there is a physician-patient relationship in the physician’s home state of licensing with in-person examinations conducted by the physician at intervals appropriate for the patient and the patient’s medical condition, but not less than annually. |
| Of Interest | SB371-2024-1671h | Public Hearing on non-germane amendment #2024-1671h to SB 371, relative to the licensing of resident physicians. |
Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 5/8 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes various changes regarding the licensing of and regulation of physicians, including transferring certain authority from the board of medicine to the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Support | SB505-2024-1739h | Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2024-1739h to SB 505, relative to the prohibition on the sale of hemp products containing certain levels of THC. |
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 5/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the prospective repeal of the prohibition on the sale of hemp products containing certain levels of THC and defines and regulates intoxicating hemp products. |
| Support | HB1222 | relative to physician assistant scope of practice. | Health and Human Services | Wed 5/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill eliminates the collaboration agreement requirement for physician assistants, except physician assistants who have completed fewer than 8,000 hours of clinical practice and work in a health care setting that does not employ a physician. |
| Support | HB1584 | relative to home day care licensing requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 5/8 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill exempts from child day care licensing requirements private homes in which care is provided for up to 4 children in addition to the provider’s own children. Current law permits care for 3 additional children. |
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On May 2nd, a bunch of GOP Reps failed to show up for work. On the day that Kelly Ayotte’s signature issue, illegal immigration, was up for a vote. The bill, HB 563 LOST by eleven votes. Eight “GOP” Reps voted with the DemocratsWoke-Communists to allow sanctuary-cities, while eleven GOP failed to show up (versus seven DemocratWoke-Communist no-shows).
File it under, you-have-no-shame or you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up … NHGOP “Leader” Jason Osborne then issued a statement blaming the DemocratsWoke-Communists for the bill’s failure.
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Constitutional Rights Attorney Kyle Mothershead is our guest. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Local constitutional rights attorney Kyle Mothershead joins Levi Ismail on OpenLine to advocate for people who struggle with still being registered as a sex offender - even years after conviction.
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
Note that I’m going to take a break from these for a week. The demands on my time are overwhelming me. Back in two, maybe three weeks.
Amongst many news sources that I peruse, are these selected ones among many from which I pull. While I’m taking a break, please do visit these regularly:
BARE NAKED ISLAM – It isn’t Islamophobia when they really ARE trying to kill you
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out
Home – Geller Report
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion (legalinsurrection.com)
Gates of Vienna
Israellycool: Radical Truthtelling – Israellycool
Among a cast of many…
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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
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Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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TOP OF THE FOLD
Muslim Bedouin ambushed and used for bait on Oct. 7
Dr. Tariq Abu Erar, a Bedouin Muslim Israeli, has a harrowing tale of being ambushed, shot, and used as bait by Hamas on October 7. He stopped to help what he thought was a wounded man, only to be tricked and trapped by the terrorists.
When he told them he was a Muslim, they spoke to him in Arabic. “They asked me verses in the Koran. What are the people of the Prophet Muhammad? Then they said: ‘Shut up, you traitor, you are working with Jews.’”
He then witnessed multiple murders, in case anyone wanted more testimony from the massacre. “They are very barbaric. Not people! They shoot without hesitation, without emotion, they had a clear goal and knew what they were doing.”
Fortunately, he was rescued by the IDF. He’s a living testament to beautiful coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Israel.
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U. Wisconsin Anti-Israel Protesters Chant ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jewish Students (legalinsurrection.com)
Seething with hate.
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
Peter Beinart vs. Israel and the Jews – American Thinker
It certainly won’t end with Plopping Jews like this taking, essentially, the enemy’s side.
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Is Peace Possible in the Middle East? – American Thinker
Diplomacy is the art of the possible. The enemy of the possible is always the ever-elusive perfect solution. We either realize that or continue down the rabbit hole.
Peace is possible, but IMHO only truly possible when Islam’s anti-Semitism and violence has, somehow, been reformed out.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Poll finds overwhelming support from Americans for Israel to completely decimate Hamas (barenakedislam.com)
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Palestinian math lesson:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/pali-math.mp4
But they’re totally responsible and good neighbors, right?
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
The truth about Arab population in “Palestine” before Israel’s establishment!
1785: Constantine Francois Volney paints a bleak picture of Jerusalem, describing it as “ruined” and “desolate,” with a tiny population estimated at only 12,000 to 14,000 people struggling in what barely resembled a city.
1843: Alexander Keith reflects on Volney’s observations, noting that even in Volney’s time, the land had not yet reached its ultimate state of prophetic desolation and depopulation, implying even greater emptiness was to come.
1816: J.S. Buckingham’s travels reveal Jaffa as little more than a “poor village,” and Ramleh as mostly ruins, indicative of the broader state of decay and abandonment that characterized much of Palestine.
1835: Alphonse de Lamartine recounts his stark encounter with Jerusalem, comparing its desolate state to the dead cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, experiencing an eerie silence and a complete absence of life both inside and outside its gates.
1857: James Finn, the British consul, reports back to England about the extensive emptiness of the land, emphasizing a dire need for a population to fill the vast, uninhabited spaces of Palestine.
1867: Mark Twain documents his journey in “The Innocents Abroad,” encountering no villages for thirty miles in any direction around the valley, describing Galilee, Judea, and the area around Jerusalem as barren deserts, devoid of any population and lamenting over a land that seemed cursed and hopelessly desolate.
1881: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, mapping the region, notes that miles and miles of Judea appeared completely devoid of life or habitation, reinforcing the narrative of an overwhelmingly vacant landscape.
By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, comprising both Arabs and Jews, amounted to only 400,000, less than 3% of today’s population, highlighting the dramatic transformation and revival led by the establishment of Israel.
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Palestinian Jamil Ziyada says the quiet part out loud.
When someone, especially someone with money, power, and influence, says they want to kill you, believe them.
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“Radical islam has cleansed so many minorities around the world”
Remember what Islam is:
The Greatest Murder Machine in History – American Thinker
ATROCITIES
From here (video on my Rumble channel):
Screams Before Silence
A must-watch documentary. #ScreamsBeforeSilence (https://m.youtube.com/hashtag/screamsbeforesilence) sheds light on the unspeakable sexual violence committed on October 7. As heartbreaking as these stories in the documentary are, we cannot afford to look away.
@CherokeeOwl
Movie: Screams Before Silence (rumble.com)
About 55 minutes.
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Bolding added:
Shani Gabay, 25, was a law school graduate who loved dogs, traveling, and singing. She lived in my neighboring town, Yokne’am. On October 7th, she escaped the Nova Music festival and took shelter in a bomb shelter nearby. After Hamas terrorists threw grenades into the shelter, she was severely injured but managed to escape. After being treated by a medic, she tried to take cover inside an ambulance with other festival-goers, but terrorists launched an RPG and burnt the ambulance down, killing everyone inside. Shani was initially considered missing, and her brother Aviel said “She knows everyone. We keep meeting people at the rallies who see her photo and know her from Costa Rica, or the army, or their studies. She cleans beaches and saves cats and dogs. I want to believe she’ll continue doing all of that.” However, 48 days after October 7th, her DNA was found at another girl’s grave, as their bodies had melted together. The remains were separated as much as possible so she could be buried alone and in dignity.
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Never forget. From here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gazans-celebrate-oct-7-collage.mp4
Innocent Gazans my ass.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
Un-Informed Anti-Israel Protestors Have No Idea Gays are Routinely Killed in Palestine. Just Listen… | The Gateway Pundit | by Grant Stinchfield
Absolutely no clue. It’s just “the latest and most current thing”.
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To all the Jews protesting and wanting to help the Islamists win, here’s what you’re in for:
What Do You Know? Dhimmi, Jewish Legal Status under Muslim Rule | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (upenn.edu)
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MASSACHUSETTS: ‘Fatties for Palestine’ join forces with ‘Faggots for Palestine’ calling for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israel (barenakedislam.com)
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here – remember, they’re really good at recycling:
This girl’s name is Ghufran Ahmed Awny Naim.
I contacted Mohammed Fayq from Gaza who took the original video. He confirmed that Ghufran has Ichthyosis (genetic), a skin disorder that lead to dry, itchy skin that appears scaly, rough, and red.
I contacted two Israeli dermatologists who confirmed, by looking at the video, that it appears to be Ichthyosis and that she needs topical emollients.
So why there’s a woman whose name is Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis who shows a picture of Ghufran and writes “Israel burns children alive.”?
Garnered hundreds of thousands of views and is being circulated all over.
(Matan Uziel)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/skin-condition-video.mp4
As stated in the pulled text, this is being presented as a case of Israeli attacks.
Except it’s not. Pallywood is a whole industry.
The 2019 Pallywood Oscars – Israellycool
Pallywood Reporting – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
Ridiculous Pallywood of the Day – Israellycool
And don’t forget this one:
Pallywood
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From here:
Palestinian kids throwing rocks at Egyptian bus driver bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza through the border crossing at Rafah
Proof the Palestinians are the same as terrorists! They train their children from birth to hate all who aren’t one of them! Therefore there are no innocents in Gaza.
X (https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1785283823497793715?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pal-kids-throw-stones-at-trucks.mp4
So let me see if I have this right. You’re desperate, there’s no food, no medicine, little power, little water… but you’re throwing stones at the trucks bringing these things to you?
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Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News: Search results for apartheid posters
Lots of posters across multiple posts showing the utter absurdity of the Apartheid charge.
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? (ezrafoundation.org)
Short answer: no.
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Raquella Raiz on LinkedIn: When you read sensationalized headlines with “Settlers” I want you to…
I remember reading, a few years ago, about this – how the kids were primed, organized, with photographers ready.
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
From here:
Students chant “Kill the Jews” at the Northeastern University campus last night.
This Is Happening In America
X (https://x.com/olilondontv/status/1784320906866610344?s=46)
@CherokeeOwl
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/northeastern-kill-the-jews.mp4
Related:
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Here is what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves inside the building. Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. These are not the tools of students protesting, these are the tools of agitators, of people who were working on something nefarious.They have training; it’s clear from the uniformity of stonewalling, of tactics, and lots of funding. These people are serious.
Why is the Pro-Palestinian Encampment Craze Sweeping Our Colleges? | Frontpage Mag
‘Somebody Is Radicalizing Our Students’: NYPD Finds Weapons, ‘Death to America’ Poster in Pro-Terror Encampment – Geller Report
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
The Neo-Nazi Left | Frontpage Mag
The Neo-Nazi Left cannot be negotiated with. There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America.
RTWT. More:
Biden Launches Investigation of Columbia U for Discriminating Against… Hamas Supporters | Frontpage Mag
How Hamas Bought Joe Biden | Frontpage Mag
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Moonbattery Democrats Plan to Bring Gaza to USA – Moonbattery
And WHO will they be angry at?
MISCELLANEOUS
Glazov Gang: Miracles that Saved Israel in War | Frontpage Mag
Hashem is great.
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
U.S. Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way? | Frontpage Mag (link in original):
It took just 50 terrorists to infiltrate the Tribe of Nova music festival, an Israeli music festival attended by young adults about the same age, or a bit older than, the young adults on America’s college campuses. In one day, they terrorized the event, killed 260, and took hostages. This hostage-taking brought Israel into a bloody war that has destroyed its prestige internationally; brought about the deaths of thousands upon thousands of Gazans (more than 34,000, according to AP) and more than 1200 Israelis; and that has not ended yet.
Now imagine just 100 terrorists in the US. At a signal, they can take hostages among the naive young adults who are in the campus encampments. At a signal, ten campuses can turn into a hostage situation.
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This attack on our nation’s campuses could be followed by a second internal strike, against other targets — strategic targets such as airports, food processing plants and energy grid operations — by terrorists who are now embedded in these many barracks-type housing locations that have been distributed throughout our nation.
Western Civilization stands on the edge of a knife. One misstep and it could fall, calamitously.
We Dare Not Tempt Them With Weakness | Frontpage Mag
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It seemed like a good time to laugh, and I stumbled across a few minutes from Comedian Brad Upton, who always makes me laugh. I thought of you. You could probably use a laugh, too.
Millennials, Old People, good times.
Nothing triggers a Gen-Z snowflakes like a boomer with a lot to say, and trust us, Brad Upton has a lot to say!
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Looking at a recent installment in Judy Aron’s series of posts about ‘What we learned from this week’s House session’, it occurs to me that it would be nice if instead of trying to make sure the gun is pointed in ‘the right direction,’ Republicans would focus on unloading it, and even disassembling it.
That is if they would live up to their claim to be the party of smaller government instead of the party of righter government.
To take just two of many examples from the post:
(1) Why is the state involved in marriage at all? Anything that can be accomplished with marriage (sharing of assets and custody, power of attorney over medical decisions, and so on) can be accomplished without it, with one exception: There are situations that involve taking money from some people (who are judged to have a surplus) to give it to other people (who are judged to have a need, or just an entitlement) that can’t be exploited without marriage.
In other words, we have made marriage a gateway to participation in certain Marxist redistribution schemes. When you get married, you commit taxpayers to your future support in various situations. So suddenly, they have to be concerned about who can or can’t line up at the trough.
If we just eliminate the schemes themselves, there would be no reason to fight over marriage. It would be a completely private affair, a commitment that two (or more) people make to each other, and no one’s business but their own.
(2) Why is the state involved in sports at all? It’s because sports are one more thing that we drag under the umbrella labeled ‘school’, so that parents can have their children’s hobbies subsidized by everyone else. That means taxes are involved, and that turns sports into a branch of politics.
Get sports out of schools, and who plays on what teams is no longer a subject for politics, but something that is determined by the choices of individual athletes and their parents.
This seems to be the GOP playbook: Set up state control over an institution or activity where it is inappropriate to begin with, and then spend eternity fighting over whose ideology should be imposed on that one-size-must-now-fit-all situation.
That’s what we learn at every week’s House session.
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Watching enormous crowds of Americans shouting blatantly racist chants in support of an agenda that is unapologetically genocidal, and backed by internationally recognized terrorist organizations – met with at best indifference and at worst the active support of our elite institutions of government, news media, education, and entertainment — I can’t help but think, this is what it must have been like in the 1920s when 30,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan proudly marched through Washington and everyone was like, okay!
Yes, Covid masks and keffiyehs have replaced pointy white hoods and robes as the face-hiding fashion signal of the day, and this generation of disruptive bigots is primarily out to get the Jews, not African Americans (so I guess in that sense more akin to Nazis than Klansmen), but the psychology behind their statements are pretty much the same.
They say they just want peace, but… yeah… no. If they really wanted peace, they wouldn’t just be calling for Israel to cease fire, but also for Hamas to cease fire, maybe return the 130 remaining hostages they took in their October 7 massacre (or at least the ones they haven’t murdered yet), stop using Gaza as a launch pad for sending missiles into Tel Aviv, and how about recognizing Israeli Jews’ right to, you know, exist.
They say they support the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination, but… yeah… no. If that’s really what they cared about they would be cheering on Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas – the terrorist organization that was elected to rule Gaza in 2005, has refused to hold another democratic election since, and absconded with billions in foreign aid, leaving the Palestinian people living in poverty and oppression under an anti-women’s- rights, anti-gay-rights, openly racist, violent, theocratic tyranny.
They say they’re horrified by war crimes against civilians taking place, but… yeah… no. Targeting civilians for murder by rape like Hamas did; that’s an actual war crime. Using civilians as human shields as Hamas does; that’s an actual war crime. Conducting military operations out of hospitals and schools as Hamas does; also an actual war crime. Shooting your own people when they try to heed advanced warnings by Israel to evacuate targeted areas; not 100% sure on this one, but probably an actual war crime.
They say they’re opposed genocide, but… yeah… no. If you’re chanting “from the river to the sea…” and sporting a “final solution” sign (see photo below from DC, credit New York Post), you’re advocating FOR genocide. Actual genocide. Nazi-style, kill-all-the-Jews genocide. Not the tragic collateral damage inevitable in war, but as-defined-by-the-UN “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” genocide.
You students setting up tents at Middlebury and UVM are not on the right side of history. You’re on the same side of history as the folks the world executed for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg, and the one who beat us to it by blowing his own brains out in a bunker in April 1945.
This kind of pathogenic societal behavior is what we were supposed to never forget. Not only have we forgotten, but the adults in our classrooms are TEACHING our children and young adults to think and act this way. Many of our elected officials are encouraging it. Others are kowtowing to it. (Looking at you, Bernie, Peter and Becca!) And, frighteningly, it seems they have succeeded to such a degree that this kind of activity is now considered respectably normal.
Which gets me back to my opening thought about the Klan in the 1920s, and an interesting article from NPR (ironically now on board with the “from the river to the sea” crowd) back in 2015 titled, “When The KKK Was Mainstream.” It describes the scene,
In the 1920s, membership in the KKK reached several million people…. And in communities where the KKK really took root, “this meant that a very sizable part of the eligible population was in the Klan.” The KKK was even successful at “block recruiting” of whole clubs or congregations at one time.
And the Klan insinuated itself into otherwise polite society. There were KKK public initiations in many states — including California, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas — and KKK public parades in Florida, Oregon, Tennessee and other states.
The article gives example after example of how openly proud Klan members were elected to public office, held pageants, sponsored youth baseball teams, and engaged in everything from sewing clubs to agricultural societies, all while “their main leaders promoted expulsion and economic retribution against their ‘enemies.” Of course, what made this grotesque facet of our history possible was the fact that the morality behind it was sadly generally accepted. If you weren’t a member of the KKK, at least you tolerated what they were doing. Or, if you were opposed, you were probably too intimidated to speak out.
The author of the article concluded, “How strange and scary and dangerous those times must have been, when large numbers of Klanspeople paraded around, draped in white robes and sinister ideology,” and too often resorting to violence and intimidation to get their way. Strange, scary, and dangerous indeed. Kinda like what we’re seeing on campuses today, and on blocked roads leading to major airports and bridges, ringed outside politicians’ homes, etc. Let’s not let it happen again.
Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.
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Now comes Appellant Daniel Richard pro se in his sur-reply to the supplemental briefs of Respondents, the Town of Auburn, and the state of NH.
THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT
No. 2023-0097
Daniel Richard v. Christopher Sununu, et al.
Federal Issues
The Defendants have chosen not to answer or deny Appellants claims that the enactment and enforcement of the state statutory scheme violated his rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment as raised at the start. Therefore, at law they are presumed true and admitted as fact.
It is un-disputed fact that the statutory scheme (Count II – Count VI) controls the local, State, and Federal elections; Therefore, federal laws apply to this case. The United States Supreme Court (hereinafter “SCOTUS”) established precedent in (Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, (1932), recently reinforced and cited by Moore v. Harper et al. (2023).) previously detailed in late authorities (filed Aug. 14, 2023) and Memorandum of law (filed April 24, 2024).
Smiley had taxpayer standing as a “citizen, elector and taxpayer of the state” under Article 1. Section 4 to challenge the due process violations of the Minnesota legislature’s redistricting efforts. Based on an Act of Congress June 18, 1929, Mr. Smiley appealed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, and he ultimately prevailed on appeal to SCOTUS in 1932. Quoting Mr. Chief Justice Hughes:
“This suit was brought by the petitioner as a “citizen, elector and taxpayer of the state” to obtain a judgment declaring invalid all fillings for nomination for the office of representative in Congress, which should designate a subdivision of the state as a congressional district, and to enjoin the Secretary of State from giving notice of the holding of elections for that office in such subdivisions.” (1932)
Smiley v. Holm Court reaffirmed the constitutional fact that a citizen, elector and taxpayer of a state has constitutional standing under Article 1. Section 4 of the U.S. Const. to bring suit in State and Federal Court to obtain a judgment declaring an Act of a state legislature affecting the time, place and manner of federal elections contrary and repugnant to the State or Federal constitutions and void ab initio.
The Moore court and the line of decisions SCOTUS relied upon, all deal with the enactment of law and procedural due process violations by state legislatures. In all cases the question for review is: Did the state legislature act within the scope of its delegated powers when performing its law-making duties under Article 1. Section 4 Time, Place and Manner for conducting federal elections?
Smiley and Moore decisions are about redistricting. Like gerrymandering, the present claim of vote dilution is also labeled “speculative” but it is speculative only as to potential fraud operations, and not dissimilar from the effect of gerrymandering – which occurs for the purpose of altering election results. For example, the tally of all absentee ballots – if not properly verified (by the local official assigned to that task in the state constitution) means that illegally deposited votes will be included and counted. That process of counting any and all votes in the machine constitutes ‘legalized’ ballot box stuffing. But Smiley and Moore, et.al. confirm the umbrella of standing to be “all acting within the scope of delegated power while performing ….”. It is no more reason to deny judicial review in this case, than a courts review of the legislative process enabling gerrymandering.
The Moore Court defined states’ legislative duties to include other legislature responsibilities besides redistricting. Moore citing Smiley:
“By fulfilling their constitutional duty to craft the rules governing federal elections, state legislatures do not consent, ratify, or elect—they make laws. Elections are complex affairs, demanding rules that dictate everything from the date on which voters will go to the polls to the dimensions and font of individual ballots. Legislatures must “provide a complete code for congressional elections,” including regulations “relati[ng] to notices, registration, supervision of voting, protection of voters, prevention of fraud and corrupt practices, counting of votes, duties of inspectors and canvassers, and making and publication of election returns.” (Emphasis Added).
Under Smiley, the following duties of the state legislature are subject to judicial scrutiny by this Court and fall within the enumerated categories such as “dimensions and font of individual ballots,” “registration,” “supervision of voting,” “protection of voters,” “prevention of fraud and corrupt practices,” “counting votes,” “duties of inspectors,” and “making and publication of election returns.”
Constitutional Limits
Defendants failed to establish any valid constitutional power or lawful authority to exercise un-delegated powers. This is strictly political statutory tactic, for the new election ballot-counting schemes. The N.H. Constitution is a social contract enacted in 1784. See State v. Express Co., 60 N.H. 219, (1880), cited 69 times in state law, including the Clairmont decision, it provides:
The bill of rights is a bill of their equal, private rights, reserved by the grantors of public power. The reservation precedes the grant. Before they create the power of proportional taxation in the fifth article, and the supreme legislative first article, they lay the foundation, and therein reserve those personal liberties, which, upon the evidence of history and their own experience, they think cannot safely be surrendered to government. The definition of taxation, given in the foundation, is taken from books with which the leading statesmen of the Revolution were familiar. …
Government, says the bill of rights, is “instituted for the general good,” “for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community.” Arts. 1, 10. “Every member of the community has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property. He is therefore bound to contribute his share in the expense of such protection.” Art. 12. Upon every member of the community is laid a constitutional obligation to contribute his share of public expense. ” … The reason is given. He is entitled to the common benefit, protection, and security for which government is instituted; he has a right to be protected in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property: “he is therefore bound to contribute his share” of the expense. The right of benefit and protection, and the duty of contribution are reciprocal. The former is the consideration for the latter. The latter is the price of the former.
In other words, this constitutional language about taxation means the people have reserved unto themselves “all government of right originates from the people, founded in consent,” (namely, the amendment process) …; and Part I, art. 8 provide “all power residing originally in, and being derived from the people,” cannot be repealed or altered without the consent of the inhabitants (Part II, art. 100.). The last sentence of the N.H. Const. of 1784 reads: “provided that no alteration shall be made in this constitution before the same shall be laid before the towns and unincorporated places, and approved by two-thirds of the qualified voters present, and voting on the question.”
Part I, art. 1 and Part II, art. 100. (amendment process) are some of the protections guaranteed by the N.H. Const. Part I, art. 12, Taxation and Protection are reciprocal. In exchange for paying your fair share of the expense for such protection. Some of the consideration guaranteed to the inhabitants for paying taxes is detailed in these two clauses… First:
“But no part of a man’s property shall be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his consent, or that of the representative body of the people.”
The second part of the sentence restricts the manner in which state taxes can be levied. Part I, art. 12. Second: “and Part 1, Article 12 which forbids any tax statute which requires any taxpayer to pay more than his fair share of the tax burden?” Allene V. City of Portsmouth No. 6949. 114 N.H. 573 (1974)
This essential taxpayer element of the state constitution making privileges reciprocal duties, cannot be overruled or ignored by a series of new slippery-slope legislative voting statutes. See, Boody v. Watson, decided in December, 1886:
“The public right of enforcing a taxpayer’s obligation to contribute his share of public expense is created by a legislative division of the common burden in execution of the social contract, and not by a judicial assessment.”
“The right of every citizen that his property shall not be taken by the state under the name of a tax except in pursuance of authorizing statutes is not only affirmed by the common law, but is secured to him by the express terms of the constitution. The bill of rights (Art. 28) declares that “no subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duty shall be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people or their representatives in the legislature, or authority derived from that body.”
Part I, art. 12 guarantees taxpayers due process of law in order to alter the manner in which the people are to be subject to taxes or laws. Such changes to taxes can only be altered in the by manner provided for by art. 12. in exchange for paying taxes. One way is to amend the Const. to grant more taxing power to the legislature, or by those powers already delegated to the legislature in Part I, art. 28. and Part II, art. 5 for paying taxes.
and the Second clause:
“Nor are the inhabitants of this State controllable by any other laws than those to which they, or their representative body, have given their consent.”
Under the recent SCOTUS precedent in Bruen, and Moore decisions, this Court must examine the plain text of art. 12 and its historical application established in 1784.
The first part states, “Nor are the inhabitants of this State controllable by any other laws than those to which they …”. Who? The inhabitants. (Part I, art. 11. Part II, art. 30) of this State.”
The second part is a command that establishes that the inhabitants of this State are not controllable by “any other laws” than those which they (again, the inhabitants) …
And the third part: or “their representative body (Part II, art. 100-the amendment process)” after the fourth part is completed
The fourth part: [inhabitants] “have given their consent.” Part I, art. 1. and Part II, art. 100. These four parts clarify that at stake in this case is the private right of the Appellant, not the public right of the state. Part I, art. 12 established taxpayer standing (1784), as the plain text prohibits Part II the government, from making any other laws (including election laws) not founded upon constitutional authority and from altering or amending the Const. of N.H. without the consent of the inhabitants, who have reserved this power to themselves. (Part I, art.1, Part II, art. 100). Such acts as Appellant complained (namely the statutory voting and vote counting schemes denying him equal protection and due process at law) are prohibited by, Part I, art. 12 and the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
Therefore, in exchange for an inhabitant’s paying a fair share of the expense of such protection, the legislature cannot enact any legislation that is contrary or repugnant to other provisions in the state constitution. Const. of N.H. Part II, art. 5 as such acts are also prohibited by Part II. Art. 5 as follows: “That clause, which confers upon the ‘general court’ the authority ‘to make laws’, provides at the same time that they must not be ‘repugnant or contrary to the constitution….’” Id. 210, Merrill v. Sherburne, (1818)
Defendants have exercised what they call “permissible legislative judgment” from the beginning of this case and repeatedly violated this constitutional restraint – that they believe they may act where they believe the Const. of N.H. is silent, while never establishing any history, custom or law that would permit such ultra vires actions. As such, those ultra vires acts are de facto repugnant and contrary to the state constitution.
Under our constitutional form of government, Part II the Form of Government can only exercise those powers specifically delegated to them by the Const. of N.H. The power to enact laws cannot be assumed or delegated or contrived by politicians and the legislature, (as Defendants repeatedly have done before and throughout this case as recently as weeks ago, pending appeal.) Until this court rules, state politicians continue to act in an ongoing attempt to manipulate the voting process to alter election outcomes in a manner that is repugnant to the Constitution. But all governmental powers (Part I, art. 1. art.8 art. 10. art. 12. Part II, art. 100) must be derived from the consent of the inhabitants of this State. Thus, the people retained their sovereignty in the face of even ongoing blatant political overreach to alter and control the election process. See Part I, art. 7.
The Appellant moves the Court to take judicial notice, that the state’s attorneys made material mis-representation of Appellant tax-payer standing status in this case, by repeatedly claiming Defendant lacks standing to raise the case. (pg. 19. Item II, Defend.’s Supplement Brief). Such a claim misleads and deflects accountability for repeated State Actor violations leading to present and future injury and harm.
The Appellant claimed Part I, Art. 12 as one of his rights from the beginning of this case, establishing constitutional standing as a citizen, as an inhabitant and as a tax-payer. Appellant cited these proper elements of standing from the beginning. See standing issues addressed at pages 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 33, 37, 40, 46, and in his Motion to Reconsider at page 9. Throughout the appeal process, Appellant cited the Const. of N.H. Part I. Art. 12 that taxation and protection are and have been reciprocal (since 1784) for constitutional standing.
Injuries
The Town of Auburn de facto deferred briefing any statutory schema issues throughout the pendency of this case in deference to the State’s Attorney’s until now.
Now, it submits a 2,911-word brief in response to the open solicitation for Amicus curie or memoranda. From the beginning, it failed to deny and answer all details of March 9, 2022 as detailed in Appellant’s Complaint (pg. 10, 11, 12, items 27—4), and it is right and fair that all facts plead by Appellant be accepted as fair and accurate descriptions of injury for purposes of this appeal.
As a result of this Court’s decision in Richard v. Speaker (2022) the legislature is now emboldened that it no longer has a constitutional duty to hear Appellant’s ‘petition’ or ‘remonstrance’ for relief (under Part I, art. 32) including a remonstrance filed regarding this new statutory scheme. See Remonstrance dated Feb. 24, 2022, @ complaint Exhibit B. (dismissed).
All Defendants were noticed, prior to the March 8, 2022 election day. It’s an undisputed fact the Town of Auburn claimed as their defense that the e-mail from the Secretary of State’s Office (Asst. Sec. of State Karen Ladd) (cited as exhibit D in the complaint), which instructed the Town to use voting machines. Atty. Tierney conceded the point that he told Town Election official to enforce the statutory scheme and use only voting machines, after notice.
Fundamentally Defendant’s brief confesses to the underlying issue. On March 9, 2022, the Town did not have a hand count policy and relied on the state’s statutory scheme to use voting machines to count all ballots. Appellant was deprived of his right to a constitutionally fair vote. The non and unconstitutional voting process, was not only illegal, but potentially fraudulent vote manipulation. The Town would only count Appellants ballot if he used the voting machine to count his ballot.
Defendant’s current position is to cure the injury. That the Town adopted a new hand count policy. This non-uniform, manner for sorting, verifying and counting all ballots is un-equal. The adaptation of a hand count policy provided a separate box in which to deposit his ballot. This adds further layers of safety, security, and equality questions about secrecy of his ballot or that his ballot was counted at all. Defective remedy is not adequate remedy to address any harm, injury, and other concerns raised in improper legislative usurpation of the constitutional process in this case. Why would the Town provide a remedy to the problem if the Appellant had no right to have his ballot properly counted by the moderator and not an electronic voting machine?
Relief
Appellant respectfully requests the following:
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel Richard
/s/ Daniel Richard
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It should be a maxim of our Constitutional Republic and inculcated into the collective consciousness that thou shalt not let legislators vote hastily on bills in response to current events. They almost always waste money, infringe on rights, or produce lousy laws, and the Antisemitism Awareness Act is an example of this bad idea.
Listen to the voiceover.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Antisemitism-awareness-act.mp3In response to the recent on-campus nonsense the U.S. House of Representatives has found something upon which a majority of them agree. The “unrest” is an opportunity to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act (H.R. 6090) passed 320-91, not because it is good law or necessary for public interest or safety, but because it gives the appearance of doing something. Doing what?
How about shutting down debate.
“Students,” – and there are credible claims of organized outside action using the campus environment to advance other aims – are saying mean things about Jews. Yes, there is some violence, but we already have laws to address that. Most colleges, college towns, cities, and states have laws elevating punishments for actual crimes if the prosecutor can prove someone was motivated by hate. Those are bad laws, but their proliferation has skewed law and lawmaking, and The Antisemitism Awareness Act is an example of this.
It requires the Department of Education to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The working definition says antisemitism is in-part “a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.” The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
Detractors take issue with narrowing the definition. I take issue with the entire exercise. Discriminatory speech in the public square is protected speech. The umbrella (regardless of size) under which any individual or group might label words or ideas as hate speech is still protected speech.
It is still protected First Amendment expression.
But It’s Mean!Saying mean things is not a crime; just check social media or go outside. People can be jerks; it’s annoying and distracting, sometimes amusing, and at other times an opportunity to make a point, but it is not a crime.
Mean+action is already a crime (depending on the action). Incitement to violence is a crime. Libel and Slander are crimes.
These restrictions are narrow to ensure the government does not infringe on protected speech or is encouraged to do so by any individual, group, 50.1% of a mob, or well-meaning legislators.
We’re not supposed to like it, but disagreeing is the point.
Shouting “From the River to the Sea” is loaded with sinister connotations, but it is protected speech. Calling for any “cleansing”-be it ethnic, religious, tribal, or ideological is offensive and evil, but unless you are organizing to do it or actually caught doing it (or trying to do it), that can be proven in a court of law, saying it is protected speech.
That will offend some, but the alternative is more offensive to human liberty. It opens the door to further meddling and redefining of things that inevitably protect government abuse and people in power at the expense of natural human rights.
Check Out Steve’s Substack Then There’s The Other Exception-alismWe hear talk, especially from the political right, about American Exceptionalism. Anyone anywhere, regardless of any demographic characteristic, can work hard and succeed. They can define what success means to them and feel content when they reach it. It can and is different for each of us, and as long as the opportunity to define your success is protected, anyone should be able to seek it. It has allowed the American experiment to lift more people out of poverty than any system of government yet known.
This is not the limit of what could be considered, but it is exceptional in these respects.
Along comes H.R. 6090. Let’s say it becomes law and survives Constitutional scrutiny. What happens when we elect a Jewish president? Are students no longer permitted to object based on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism (and that will change in response to the law at the behest of people looking to suppress speech)?
Will the imposition of this legislation affect students’ ability to object to Jewish members of Congress for fear of running afoul? What about its application at the local level?
Will or could The Federal Department of Education migrate these restrictions into the Public Schools, holding funding hostage in exchange for compliance?
Given that (theoretical) success, why would they stop at alleged Antisemitism? Doesn’t every other “group” deserve similar protection in the name of equity? And why are we restricting this to college campuses? Let’s let it roam free, a chilling silence following in its wake.
Lessons Not Learned?The oppressive response to COVID lingers, but humans are quick to forget. Given the opportunity, those in elected office at every level were quick to abuse their authority. Constitutionally protected rights were jabbed, masked, and distanced. Stuffed in the trunk and told to shut up. That was because we let it happen. Towns, Cities, Counties, and states had (over the years) crafted for themselves loopholes, none of which should have stood up to constitutional scrutiny when applied. When the time came, suppressing rights took precedence. People lost jobs, businesses, livelihoods, friends, and the right to speak and associate freely. Prohibitions of warrantless search were abridged.
The courts were not much help, and since they are part of the government, why should they?
In the Movie Field of Dreams, the voice whispers build it, and they will come. COVID taught us, shouted from every corner of our lives, that if the government can abuse it, it will. If we let them make it, they will beat us with it.
H.R. 6090 has been collecting dust since it was introduced last October, a few weeks after October 7th.
Not long after the ‘campus protests’ started – whose origin may not be entirely organic – it got fast-tracked.
You’d be right to question everything while you still can.
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My reps and two-time opponents, Comrades Mr & Mrs Newman, have a history of ignoring emails. Normally, I don’t email them, but my personal email history with them started in October 2021 following the executive council arrests. With them and the Damn Emperor being on opposite sides of the aisle (on paper, at least), I mistakenly thought conversation could be had about that incident.
I even followed up about a week or two later to no avail. Then several months later, my help was requested in a project to email reps about a secession-related bill. I pointed out to the presently embattled project manager how misrepresented I am in the House, but I was still encouraged to do so just the same in order to go on record. I agreed and was ignored by the Newmans though Comrade Mrs Newman has said “hi” to me in person a few times, both at the archives and the state house dining room.
Since the Parental Bill of Rights was/is a flagship issue in the legislature, I wanted to play the good soldier and do my part even though I don’t have kids. This issue, after all, is about my fellow teammates’ most precious commodity, their kids. “Kids are the future,” we all hear, and therefore everyone’s kids are MY future. Game on! However, I chose to retool my subject line. Instead of “vote yes on SB 272,” I crafted a title that didn’t include HB or SB or yes or no. I called it a civics message and sent it to all 3 of my reps. This was in the spring of last year and one of them, Linda Ryan, is a freshman. Linda was obviously not yet “schooled” by the Newmans on ignoring emails and replied-all rather promptly with a friendly though uncommitted answer. I’m sure Comrade Mrs. Newman was not pleased and later gave Linda a talking-to in private, but Mrs. Newman replied-all after Linda’s reply with a polite but useless answer. I replied all, thanking both of them for their answers and offering additional talking points, and pointing out that I hadn’t yet received a reply from Comrade Mr Newman. He has never replied to any of my emails, ever.
So here we are with the repackaged SB341 now in the House and I did my duty in emailing all 3 of them on 4/24 the following words:
As parents, you most certainly wouldn’t appreciate being lied to, especially by faculty and staff of schools your kids attended. And I give your kids the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn’t want that either with your grandchildren yet you voted the wrong way last year on both HB 10 and SB 272.
As your constituent and per Article 32 of the NH Constitution, I am giving you instructions to vote OTP on SB 341. Please do a good turn and vote in a manner that actually represents Ward 2 parents instead of the bidding of the NTU.
And I received a reply from Comrade Mrs Newman one week later, saying the following: Hi Julie – Thanks for the email. Looks like we’re going to have to agree to disagree on this bill, though. Sue
The Newmans are Bloomberg-funded staunch gun grabbers. He’s on the Criminal Justice committee, which receives all gun bills, and she’s on Public Works but attends all gun bill hearings, often speaking anti-gun rhetoric into the mic while her muzzled husband listens from the head table. If you look up their NH dot gov home pages, you will see that they’re family people; parents and grandparents. I will also add that one or both of them were on the school board before becoming reps. Another one of their constituents, Alderman Dowd, also came from that very same body. It’s a cultivating ground for higher office evil that ails Nashua.
Considering that many swamp rats everywhere in a variety of offices just stay there until death occurs, I sadly don’t see them returning to private citizenry anytime soon. So why repeat the same unproductive behavior (emailing them the ordinary way) and expect different results? Einstein wouldn’t. As Dinosaur D’Allesandro, a senate example of what I just noted, told the media about Defend the Guard, “It’s going to just keep on coming up, over and over again, in the future.” The same can be said about parental rights and guns, so both issues should be fused together when emailing Comrade Mrs. Newman, who is clearly the Ward 2 Alpha swamp rat. She needs to be asked, in your own words, if she would still support school secrecy to parents if their inquiries were gun-related.
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