LTE's from Undergrounders

[KBCraig]

I can't imagine a world without sarcasm.



Kevin

[LiveFreeOrDie]

VARRIN SWEARINGEN

Great LTE!  And I love your name!   

[erich]

Hilarious!

[Dave Ridley]

woo hoo nice job varrin!  I'm going to start calling you Varrin "andy rooney" Sweringen!

[Dave Ridley]

I wrote this for the Concord Monitor:

Dear folks at the Monitor:

In response to your coverage of New Hampshire's "outlaw manicurist" Mike
Fisher, who chose to perform an unlicensed manicure in front of the licensing board
office in Concord...

Mike has done his job...he has brought attention to the issue of state licensing
and forced us all to ask whether people should really have to get the government's permission before
starting a business.   Now it is time for our elected representatives to do *their* job.

Business license requirements, at least the ones that hinder competition, violate Article 83 of the New Hampshire Constitution, which states:   "Free and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of the people and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy it."

If you are in the House or Senate, I urge you bring forward
bills that will move us toward an elimination of licensing on at least some of the
100-plus industries which currently require it.    New Hampshire de-licensed many
industries under the Sununu administration; no reason we can't de-license more. 

One option would be a shutdown of funding for the Board of Barbering, since they
have just jailed a man who should instead get a medal for moral courage.

[Michael Fisher]

That's awesome Dave!  Thanks!  Also thank you VERY much for the thing I received in the mail today!        

I also want to thank Alan for his letter to the editor.  It was great!!! 

[AlanM]

Thanks Mike. You did the tough part.

[Dave Ridley]

Dave Mincin LTE for Monitor

Dear folks at the Monitor:

Thanks much for the guest editorial you ran about "outlaw manicurist" Mike Fisher.  It's always fun to see how freedom lovers you never heard of come flying out of the woodwork when someone takes a stand for liberty.

As you may know, Fisher's public defiance of the state's unconstitutional cosmetology laws is not an isolated act but rather the tip of a spear.  It has thus far inspired two similar events which will be happening over the next four weeks.   Though not targeting the same bureaucracy, each follow-up protest will defy an unjust law using the Gandhi model of nonviolent resistance...the same model that worked so well for Fisher.

The first of these two protests will be more serious, more risky and more controversial.  Russell Kanning, a Keene accountant, will endeavor to board his June 11 commercial flight from Manchester to Philadelphia - without an I.D.  If prevented from doing so, he will peacefully persist in his efforts to board until arrested.   This is not going to win Russell many popularity contests at first, and he is likely to suffer.  But the jovial 35-year-old has promised authorities he will not interfere with the operation of the airport and has already succeeded in his quest to open a new debate:  Should people really have to have government "papers" before they are allowed to travel by commercial aircraft? 

The second follow-up protest is expected to be around July 2 and is actually in Kentucky.   Some Free Staters who live there heard about the manicure protest and decided to try something similar against liquor laws there.  They will give free beer to an underage Iraq war vet - but not before informing the authorities where and when it will happen, so as to ensure they are arrested.   I suspect these guys will be fun to have in New Hampshire when they get here...

What's the purpose of these demonstrations?  To make visible the infringements upon our liberties and ensure that they are no longer suffered in silence.   Gandhi said that is the first step to ensuring that someday they are not suffered at all.

[Michael Fisher]

Wow, Dave.? That's a great LTE!!!

...thinking you must not always write in riddles if you wrote this well??

[Dave Ridley]

I have an LTE prepped for the Union leader but haven't sent it yet; it's in another computer I won't be able to get to till Saturday.

[cathleeninnh]

Wow, Dave.? That's a great LTE!!!

...thinking you must not always write in riddles if you wrote this well??

Thinking Dave has a ghost writer.

Cathleen

[Russell Kanning]

Wow, Dave.? That's a great LTE!!!

...thinking you must not always write in riddles if you wrote this well??

Thinking Dave has a ghost writer.

Cathleen

Are you saying Dave M isn't a good writer?....I have like all of his LTE's......that might cost you 2 hugs at the next meeting.

[Pat K]

Wow, Dave.? That's a great LTE!!!

...thinking you must not always write in riddles if you wrote this well??

Thinking Dave has a ghost writer.

Cathleen

Are you saying Dave M isn't a good writer?....I have like all of his LTE's......that might cost you 2 hugs at the next meeting.

Hell 12 cigarettes, six beers and a few hugs and Dave can hold forth in a manner to make Shakespeare cry tears of joy.

[Dave Ridley]

I'm sending this to the Union Leader

For Union Leader:

In your article regarding the new state law requiring people to register swim rafts
on N.H. lakes...there was only one part I was happy to hear...this part:

"Wachsmuth (president of a Wolfeboro diving shop) said he knows of people who
are aware but are not registering their rafts"

Hats off to the folks who are not not going along with this Nanny Law.  As one of
our state reps once said, when you make an unnecessary law...you reduce respect
for the good laws.  I don't like it any more than the next guy when people violate
laws that really protect people from violence or fraud.   But folks who refuse to
accept nonsense laws like "raft regulation" aren't criminals, they're just good old fashioned
freedom lovers.  I urge police to go easy on these "violators."

[John]

Kat's LTE on licensure is in today's NH Sunday News  -  2nd on a full page of LTEs, page 16 of the Employment section.

(They don't print many from out-of-state, but on the same page is one by Anasazi James of Austin, Texas talking about NH being a free state.)