Silent demos planned for Wed. 1/3 (calendar entry)

[KBCraig]

Silent Protester Questions City's Ban On Displays

CONCORD, NH -  Displeased with Concord's abuse ofrestrictions on local businesses' use of electronic signs, liberty activist Dave Ridley, liberty activist, decided to protested in various city offices onWednesday.
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HeRidley stood silently holding a banner asking "Is it right to ban electronic signs?" andHe also handed leaflets to interested onlookers.  The leaflet enumerates, explaining his moral objections to the sign ban. ItThe flyer reads in part, "In a free country you don't need permission from the government to set up a sign at your own business... In a free country, government does not impede harmless commerce.  Is Concord 'free country' or are city officials turning it into something else?".

Ridley was largely ignored by workers in city hall, the code enforcement department and city manager's office.  He left after about fifteen minutes in each location. If the city officials would show such benign neglect to businesses they would never have had to deal with the legislative red tape, aesthetic evaluations or legal costs of the ban either.

More information about Ridley and his demonstrations can be found at NHfree.com.

Try that. I applied some journalistic style rules, and cleaned it up. Press releases have to be usable by news agencies with minimal cleanup; if they read like propaganda, they get tossed in the round bin.

And woo-hoo for the protest! 

[KBCraig]

I still think that one would have been more effective, done with an electronic sign!

+1!

[Russell Kanning]

Thanks again Lauren. I stuck it on the Keene Free Press website.

[TackleTheWorld]

Try that. I applied some journalistic style rules, and cleaned it up. Press releases have to be usable by news agencies with minimal cleanup; if they read like propaganda, they get tossed in the round bin.

Nicely done, K.
Why are you working at a fed job when you could be a newspaper editor?

[Dave Ridley]

Denis,

We of course, could quibble endlessly about what is "most effective". I know that the political activity is very very consuming of time and energy. That must diminish its efficiency. And the returns are there but the value of that return is arguable. Rather than argue, it seems we should make personal choices on how to expend our own efforts and allow for others to come to their own conclusions.

Our audience(or target) is everywhere. Whatever we choose is a benefit to the movement.

Cathleen

I think Dennis may be right in that operations directed at the state house are usually worth the return simply because it generates attention, debate and media.  It also lets them know we're here and puts us into their calculations.  all that even if you achieve no legislative success.   I've only requested two bills and both of them got a heck of a lot of media...one time I sat down to get my hair cut in colorado and a guy I didn't know from adam started telling me about this cool New Hampshire pro liberty bill that he'd heard about on Alex Jones....(it was the one I had requested LOL)

Also a lot of state house activity is so mainstream it tends not to generate that much animosity.

I have however decided I don't want to request any more bills probably unless they eliminate some existing law.   There are too many unintended consequences to passing a law.

[KBCraig]

Why are you working at a fed job when you could be a newspaper editor?

Because I don't like working for slave wages and getting fired every six months.

Journalism is not a highly paid job.

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Journalism is not a highly paid job.

The hours suck, too.

[Russell Kanning]

Why are you working at a fed job when you could be a newspaper editor?

The federal teat is just too sweet.
Why work when you can bow to the beast?
Fanning Pharoah pays well and has a pension.

[TackleTheWorld]

Shush Russell,
I'm luring him in.

[Tom Sawyer]

Watch out for Lauren Jim claims she can vex the devil. 

[Russell Kanning]

... but it has a pension

[KBCraig]

Shush Russell,
I'm luring him in.

Yeah, well. If Russell wasn't a friend, I'd bother to be bothered. Life is a journey, no?

[Dreepa]

I have however decided I don't want to request any more bills probably unless they eliminate some existing law.   There are too many unintended consequences to passing a law.

Like these:

2007-H-0851-R   repealing the restrictions on Sunday dancing and repealing the prohibition on transporting moving picture films aboard passenger trains.

[TackleTheWorld]

Video of this event

[Kat Kanning]

Very cool   I love the music you picked.