LTE's from Undergrounders

[Atlas]

Nice one Dada.

[Dave Ridley]

Sent today to CV Spectator in Lebanon area

Dear folks at the Spectator:

I wanted to express my displeasure regarding the Federal arrest of Plainfield tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown in late May.  For ten years, the Browns have openheartedly refused to bankroll torture, welfare and IRS witch hunts.   They had even written the IRS itself, announcing what they were doing and why.

Now this universally reviled organization wants their money, so it can fund more abuses in Iraq, more disarmament of innocent hurricane victims and more costly gray compounds in our cities.

God bless the Browns for refusing to go along with that.   

But is it true that Lebanon P.D. and and state police assisted Federal agents in arresting them?  This allegation comes both from Brown himself and from newspaper accounts, though I was unable to obtain verification from State Police H.Q.   If they did aid and abet this unconscionable arrest, that is wrong.  Our police and troopers should search their souls before doing such a thing again.  They are supposed to serve us, not Washington bureaucrats.

[Dave Ridley]

sent the Monitor LTE june 7

[Dave Ridley]

Dear folks at the Sentinel:

With regard to your June 26 article "Drug deaths spike in N.H.," I have questions.   

The state bureaucrats you quote seem very eager to express to us the extent to which drug deaths are up since 1995.  But aren't they (and other government officials) the ones to whom we have expensively delegated the task of "stopping drugs?"  How good a job have they done with the millions they have taken from taxpayers? 

How does the per capita drug death rate today compare with that of 1900, when there were *no* drug-fighting bureaucracies, when heroin was a widely prescribed pain medication and soft drinks contained cocaine?    How many drug-related shootouts were there on our streets back then?   How many gang executions and baseball bat murders?   

Is it possible that the war on drugs has increased our nation's drug woes and those of our state?   Is it possible that curtailing the former may curtail the latter, as it has in Holland?   Is it likely that any of the reigning drug bureaucrats will admit this, when their jobs depend on continuing their war against our freedom to decide what does and doesn't go into our own bodies?

[Dave Ridley]

will be sending this to

letters@unionleader.com <mailto:letters@unionleader.com>.


Real ID:  Where are the Churches?

At the big Concord rally against Real ID this spring, all kinds of groups came together.  Liberals, libertarians and conservatives, all united in their desire to keep Washington from branding and tracking New Hampshirites with an Orwellian identity card.  But churches and religious organizations were not much in evidence at the rally, nor do they seem to be in the fight yet.   

This makes no sense. 

Devout Christians, and Bible-believing pastors in particular, are the natural enemy of Real ID.   Its people-tracking potential brings us even closer than we already are to a "Mark of the Beast" system.

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

Revelation 13:17

Good Christian people:  We are at least two thirds of the way to a fulfillment of this prophecy.  At the critical moment, will you watch from the Colosseum benches as libertarians lead this charge against the Beast, or will you join the fight? 

If the former, may your chains rest lightly upon you.  If the latter, call me at (603) 721-1490 or come to the NHfree.com forums and join us there as we organize, with or without you, our continuing opposition to this Mark precursor. 

[Atlas]

I am a little shocked to see the Christians sitting on the sidelines on this one. I swear, they only make a peep if the topics of abortion or gay rights get brought up. I wonder what God will have to say to these so-called christians (on judgement day) that allow their brethren to be given the mark of the beast (government) or those who do nothing to prevent their brothers from being enslaved (in all of its fashions). They can sit back and be a bunch of pussies with their thumbs up their a$$es, but they will have alot of explaining to do at some point. Like Dada says, may their chains rest lightly upon them.

[Dreepa]

First
http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060706/REPOSITORY/607060346&SearchID=73250231160403
then this
http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060710/REPOSITORY/607100319/1029/OPINION03

[KBCraig]

Good response, Dreepa!

[Pat McCotter]

Most pastors and preachers would make their churches lose their tax status if they were to show up at a rally like that.  Sorry to say that, but it is the truth.

Garrett Lear doesn't worry about that.

[Pat McCotter]

Others do, unfortunately Pat. 

Yep, I noticed that your post said "most pastors and preachers" but had to post about Garrett.

[Dave Ridley]

Will send this to the Monitor:

Thanks for your article about Independence Day and about the risks our Founders took to secure liberty.  However when we look at what has happened since, how much of that liberty remains?

Even in New Hampshire, we cannot legally choose what to put into our own bodies nor easily travel without identity cards which, if the Feds have their way, will soon become much harder to renew.   We can't fully participate in the economy without submitting a number by which Washington (and the occasional stalker) can track us.  We can't keep more than two thirds of our income without risk of punishment or demonstrate in public places near presidential motorcades.  We *can* be jailed for "crimes" that endanger no one, *can* have our land taken by authorities without having done wrong, and *can* face arrest for video/audiotaping police in our own homes.  Our Colonial ancestors, living under British rule, had more freedom than this!

People say it's radical to look at things that way.  But if the men you applauded in your article were alive today...John Adams, George Washington, they would not be writing "radical" letters to the editor.  They would be doing something much more radical than you or I will probably ever advocate.  They would be in the woods, fighting.

[Dave Ridley]

This goes to the sentinel next week as soon as my one month limit is up.

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With regard to your July 16, 2006 article  "Traffic is down at Manchester airport," well the folks who run the airport, and their masters in Washington, are lucky anyone flies at all in light of the continuing, costly police state approach plaguing every air hub now.  Manchester's terminal is less bad than most, but the "Freedom to Travel" is tenuous there as well if you want to maintain your privacy or refuse a government ID card.



What do we have to show for the billions of taxpayer dollars and centuries of human life wasted in ineffective, intrusive searches and security protocols?  Since 9/11 how much damage have we done to ourselves that the terrorists could never have dreamed of inflicting, simply by expending so much of our sustenance on the TSA?   Aren't those the same people who are making it so hard for our pilots to arm themselves?


If you want more traffic at Manchester, relax security there, but let every pilot bring a gun!   Okay, I realize that is not really going to happen.

But one simple thing airport boosters *could* do is advertise the little known fact that you do not technically have to have a government ID to board.  You just have to submit to a more rigorous screening, arrive very early and be ready to go to jail rather than take no for an answer!  This was what we learned when Keene resident Russell Kanning tried to board without an ID last year.  They stopped him but would have let him through if he had agreed to the super-search.


If Manchester Airport were to make known their understanding and recognition of a right to fly without ID, and make it easier to do, that would draw new customers away from Logan.  Manch could become the airport of choice for people without ID.

There are surely a thousand better ideas where this one came from, but most would probably violate the TSA's "secret laws."   We not in charge of our own facilities.  Washington is, and that place is hell-bent on finishing the job Al Qaeda started, the mission to punish every American traveler for the crimes of a few Saudi fanatics.

[Dave Ridley]

(final version, sent to monitor)

Dear folks at the Monitor:

Thanks for your coverage of the Legislature's Fiscal Committee and the attempt by its members to help Washington inflict an expensive "Real ID" card on every New Hampshire citizen.

If you like the idea of fumbling for identity papers you've never needed before, if you're cool with an extra hour of waiting at the DMV, if you have no problem parting with the privacy-friendly features of the New Hampshire driver's license or paying higher fees....you should be happy with their vote to accept the "Real ID sucker money."

You have to wonder what is going on here.  The only people in-state who seem to favor compliance with Real ID are a few dozen mid-level politicians and bureaucrats.   There are apparently no citizens groups or average people clamoring for it, none or near none have ever testified in its favor at any House or Senate hearing; hundreds have rallied and testified against it.

And yet some unseen force continues to slip Real ID compliance through the wall of citizen objections.   It is, presumably, a Federal force, since Real ID has almost no support from New Hampshire citizenry.  Does this force use threats or enticement to get its way?   How does it maintain such gravity, while remaining largely unseen?   What will this force do to us if it brushes our remaining defenders aside, or co-opts them?  How will it behave if it acquires the power, already authorized by Washington, to place radio transmitters into our licenses?

What would become of those of us who, abandoned by our state government, are compelled to fight on alone, resisting individually or in private groups the one threat our state officials really have the power to protect us from, that of Federal tyranny?

Fortunately there are several lines of defense Washington must still breach within our state government before it can loose itself against you and me in this context.   The next is the Governor, who has pledged to resist Real ID and has the power to do so by keeping the issue off the table at Executive Council meetings.   If he places the issue before the Council, that is a good sign he's cracking.   Let's pray Lynch does not flinch!

[Dave Ridley]

sent to union leader

In your Aug. 9 article on Real ID, you quoted DMV Director-Bureaucrat Virginia Beecher parroting the same old Federal threats against New Hampshire.   The Feds won't let our citizens on planes, she says.  They won't let us into their ugly gray compounds, she claims.  They'll treat us like a whole state full of outcasts if we don't bow before their attempt to destroy our relatively benign driver's license and replace it with their Orwellian, privacy-killing Real ID.

Why don't the Feds have the guts to make these threats themselves, publicly?  Why do they operate from the shadows, through local puppets?

It's because they fear what may happen if they threaten us directly, that it will generate further backlash in public opinion and end their chance at imposing Real ID on the state.   They also suspect that they must, to paraphrase Churchill, "defeat us in this island of freedom" or lose their shot at tracking the entire nation.

They certainly haven't defeated us yet.   To impose Real ID, they must first successfully intimidate Governor Lynch into placing their demands and bribes before the Executive Council.   Please give his office a ring at 271-2121 and urge him to keep Real ID off the Council agenda, that it may die of neglect before our freedoms do.

[Dave Ridley]

sent to keene state college paper

(Permission granted to publish)

Dear folks at the Equinox:

Some of your readers may be wondering about all the ruckus that has been going on at the post office / IRS office accross the street from KSC.

On July 27th a Keene resident, Russell Kanning, attempted to hand out leaflets to IRS officers working there, urging them to quit their jobs.  Russell believes, rightly, that most of the programs funded by the "Internal Robbery Squadron" are unconstitutional and harmful to New Hampshire.

Homeland Security officers told Russell they would arrest him if he attempted to enter the IRS office, which sits on the second floor, though it was open to the public that day.  They said he was free to hand out leaflets outside, but of course there are no IRS officers working outside.   

So Russell defied their orders, walked toward the stairs and was promptly handcuffed and driven away by the Feds.  Russell then refused to show up for his court hearing and on August 1 more Federal agents seized him from his Keene home.   He has been in jail ever since.   

So every Thursday at noon, demonstrators from NHfree.com and  KSC have been gathering in front of the Main Street post office, the spot where Russell was first carted off, destined for a concrete and steel box.   They carry signs which say things like "Free Russell Kanning" and "Hell Nay, We Won't Pay."   

You are invited to join this little "Rebel Alliance;"  though it is possible there will be some Thursdays where the demonstration does not occur.   Give me a shout at 721-1490 if you'd like the latest details, or check the NHfree.com calendar.

Many thanks to the KSC students who have already been participating in these demonstrations.   In an age dominated by Federal powermongering and abuse, you represent hope!