New Hampshire’s slogan is “Live Free or Die”. It’s on all the license plates along with the image of the Old Man of the Mountain. Or rather, it shows the Old Man before he fell off the mountain side. Is his spirit still alive or is our freedom gone with him? Is the slogan just empty rhetoric now? I guess it’s up to us to demonstrate to the contrary.
February 18th, 2009
Does that mean I will see you at the Senate hearing or any protests to stop it?
http://www.nhliberty.org/forum/index.php?topic=1910.msg14626#msg14626
It can still be stopped, and the fight moves to the Senate.
Free market anarchists can engage in the political venue as a legitimate form of self defense, just as they can hire lawyers and fight charges in government courts.
The amount of federal highway revenue NH would receive for passing a mandatory seatbelt law amounts to about $3 per person.
Yep: the majority in the house want to sell your freedom for three dollars. Three measly dollars.
Oh, and just for the record: seatbelts are smart. Wear them because it’s stupid to not wear them, not because the government says you must.
And I thought I was an adult!
I guess my mother just turned into a nebulous group of worthless assholes called politicians.
>Does that mean I will see you at the Senate hearing or any protests to stop it?
Honestly, I think the time spent trying to prevent one minor nanny-state regulation from passing by engaging in the political process could be better spent undermining the political process itself through communication and empowering individuals and communities against authority. But that’s just my priorities.
I’ve given some thought to these hearings that I keep getting invited to. I have little faith in shrinking the beast by playing its games and the thought of actually participating in politics makes me ill. However, I figure I can use these events to make my voice heard and I won’t get ill from it as long as I speak from the heart, completely honestly. For instance, I’ll be at the state secession rally on the 3rd of March, but I’ll be there promoting secession of the individual. It’s very hard for me to talk about state’s rights when I don’t believe in the legitimacy of states. I can’t say I believe NH has some right to secede when I don’t believe NH is a real entity and therefore can’t have any rights. But I can say that I don’t think the Federal government has any rights either.
“Is the slogan just empty rhetoric now? ”
Depends on which individual you are referring to.
If this passes when I move back to NH I won’t be bothering with the car registration, driver’s license, concealed weapons permit, business permit, or any other paper work. If the govt decides to bust my head – well then the folks who work for a living will have to work a little harder to pay for my trial, room, and board.
“Free market anarchists can engage in the political venue as a legitimate form of self defense, just as they can hire lawyers and fight charges in government courts.”
I agree.
NH libertarians should use all tools available to them to shrink the power of the state, including electoral politics. Which is easier to get rid of entirely: a giant government with many unconstitutional areas, or a small narrowly limited constitutional government? I vote the latter. Better still, if you fail to eliminate the latter, masses of innocent people are not being murdered or imprisoned, and it’s easier to hide your money and practice counter-economics.