LTE's from Undergrounders

[John]

Interesting.  Have you compared/shared note on this with the JBS?

[Dave Ridley]

Thanks Rex!  Welcome to NHfree.com!

[Kat Kanning]

Awesome Rex!  I've gotten some real pissy looks from people for refusing to pledge to the flag.

Glad to have you here!

[Michael Fisher]

Awesome Rex!? I've gotten some real pissy looks from people for refusing to pledge to the flag.

Glad to have you here!

You should see the looks I get in large social business events when I refuse to pledge or even face the flag.? ?

EXCELLENT letter, RexCurry.net!

[Dave Ridley]

Dear folks at the Monitor:

Thanks for your column discussing the recent uptick in civil disobedience activity
by NHfree.com activists in-state.  In regard to your assertion that they would
be better off working within the system, Thoreau had this to say:

"As for adopting the ways of the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone."

By the way, you point out that Thoreau was fighting slavery, the evil of his time.
Yes he was, and the NHfree.com folks are fighting excessive government, the evil
of *our* time.   Agree with them or not, they are the ones taking action and putting
their freedoms on the line.

[John]

I saw this week:
Michael Pelletier (Merrimack) LTE to the UL was published (I think it was Tuesday) re. barbering - cops got cuts from unlicensed barbers . . . , at fundraiser . . . nice job MP.

MP also has the first LTE on the Opininion Page of today's New Hampshire Sunday News (UL) re. "nanny-state" speed limits on lakes.? Again, very nice!


For those who may not know, the Union Leader is so interested in readers points of veiw that they continue to publish them into the Employment section on Sunday (2 full pages).
On page 4 there, today, we find (above the fold) one by Dave Ridley re. swim raft law.

[John]

Jane Aitken (Bedford) barbering/police/charity LTE on Opinion page of today's Union Leader.

[John]

Great Dave Mincin (Dover) LTE on Opinion Page of the Union Leader today re. Kat's tax protest at 10:00 a.m. on June 30.  . . .
Includes "NHfree.com activist", an invitation to all, and a contact # for more info and directions.

[Dave Ridley]

Dave Mincin LTE which appeared in Union Leader around the 21st:

Response your "Great Shell Game" editorial

I'm glad many members of the state legislature are patiently trying to end the statewide
property tax.   I assume it is difficult to work within the government-bloating
dictates of the state Supreme Court as they are doing. 

Fortunately, some average New Hampshire residents are not as enthralled with Supreme
Court edicts as our legislators seem to be.  One of them, 38-year-old Kat Dillon
of Keene, has taken matters into her own hands.   At 10 a.m. On June 30, one day
before Property Tax Deadline, the NHfree.com activist will show up at Keene City
Hall to deliver a check for only 42% of what the city says she owes.  She will refuse
to pay the part that would have gone to the statewide property tax *and* the local
school tax, in protest against the very idea that a government school system may
take her money by force.

Agree with her or not, she is taking action while most just talk.  Not some complicated
group effort to make property taxes slightly less unbearable or judicial power grabs
less expensive.  Just a peaceful act of open defiance which either will or will
not be repeated by others.   Consider your reporters and readers invited; if you
need directions or more information call Dave at 721-1490.

[Dreepa]

June 22nd Concord Monitor

http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050622/REPOSITORY/506220323/1029/OPINION03

Evil of our time, DAVE RIDLEY, Keene - Letter 

June 22. 2005 8:00AM

hanks for your column discussing the recent uptick in civil disobedience activity by NHfree.com activists in-state. In regard to your assertion that they would be better off working within the system, Thoreau had this to say:

"As for adopting the ways of the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone."

By the way, you point out that Thoreau was fighting slavery, the evil of his time. Yes he was, and the NHfree.com folks are fighting excessive government, the evil of our time. Agree with them or not, they are the ones taking action and putting their freedoms on the line.

DAVE RIDLEY

Keene

[Dave Ridley]

I sent this to the Union Leader today:

This is exclusive to the Leader and you have permission to run it if you wish.

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Civil disobedience spreading

Dear folks at the Union Leader:

Over the last six weeks, limited-government activists in New Hampshire have put their own freedoms on the line in defiance against ever-expanding government control of our lives.
First it was "Outlaw Manicurist" Mike Fisher and his civil disobedience against the state licensing board.  Then it was "Unidentified Flying Objector" Russell Kanning, who peacefully defied TSA regulations at Manchester Airport.   There is also a planned defiance of liquor laws...two Free Staters in Kentucky will serve beer to an underage Iraq war vet. 

And now there is a new refusenik stepping forward:  Kat Dillon of Keene.  She will appear at Keene's city hall on June 30 and defy what is perhaps the most hated tax
in the state.   She will present property tax collectors with a check for only 42%  of what they say she owes, refusing to pay the 58% which would have
gone toward government schools.   She expects retaliation which may last for years.  But she's no longer interested in being forced to fund a system she disagrees with and does not use.

Agree with their methods or not, these individuals are risking their liberty and property that all of us might one day have more of both.

[Dave Ridley]

From me to Union Leader

Thanks for your coverage on the arrest of Robert Saulnier for daring to enter his
own property after the Londonderry bureaucrats decided they own it.   I don't know
enough about him to know if he is an out-and-out hero or not, but it's great that
someone is standing up to the out-of-control taxes and acts of confiscation that
local petty tyrants are forcing on New Hampshirites in almost every city now.   
Although in his case I understand he was initially trying to comply with the law,
and they tore his house down anyway.

The root of this evil is what it always has been...greedy government.  Their confiscation
of wealth has got to stop.  They force people to pay excessive property taxes, most
of it going to school districts that spend 8 or 10 grand per student to miseducate
the next generation.   Private schools cost more like 3 grand per student, by the
way.   

If people have to "break into" their own property to make the point, then
more power to them.  By the way, I see Saulnier has a website that shows pictures
of the city's attack on his property:  londonderrydidthis.com

[Ron Helwig]

Not a LTE exactly, but...

In today's Seacoast Scene, complete with errors 

Ron Helwig, formerly of Michigan (sic), said: "Admittedly, I'm new here -- actually, a couple of months (from Minnesota); and, what I'm seeing, as to how the government is working here, is worse than most of the despotic city councils from overly socialistic Minnesota. It seems like Hampton Beach is being treated like the colonies were in that Hampton Beach is being overtaxed; and, yet, we're not enjoying the benefits that are accruing to the town. They are ignoring the citizens; and, it appears that secession is as viable a strategy now as it was for our founding fathers."

[Dave Ridley]

Cool RH... What was the context in which your quote got in?

[hamptoninsider]

RH and Otis got hooked up with some "Aliens" in Hampton.  Wild sightings, conspiracies and hidden agendas reported everywhere in the press.  Watch for the Wire which got released yesterday. 

Still in shock from tragic drownings here Monday evening.  Nature or mother earth herself is not good or evil.  The strength and will of men and women to survive and help each other survive in freedom is devine.  God bless the two men who perished helping save a son.  11 other people went in to save that boy and got in trouble.  A lifeguard saved three including the boy on his own.  9 lifeguards were in the water for over an hour trying to find the last person---knowing full well they were recovering a body.   New Hampshire is a pretty special place.  Most people are not afraid to get involved----even placing themselves in danger---to help someone in need of rescue.