NH: More Free Staters arrested in spat with Feds

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Manchester, New Hampshire
Feb. 14, 2006

Two New Hampshire Free Staters chose arrest last week rather than allow themselves to be herded into a "Free Speech Zone" while the President was in Manchester. One of the protesters was carrying a sign advocating New Hampshire secession, both were in a non-secure area where civilians were milling around unmolested.

Keene Free Press article/pics:
http://keenefreepress.editme.com/LuncheonPoliceState

Manchester Union Leader article (link is split into two lines):
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Two+arrested+as
+protesters+gather&articleId=ff16795b-bd46-4bc7-bc0d-619d8f8946fc

Free Staters (www.FreeStateProject.org) are libertarian activists who move to New Hampshire from other parts of the country because they consider it the state with the most freedom. About 150 have moved here since 2003, with 7,000 more pledged to follow. Local and Federal officials have made seven arrests so far in civil disobedience incidents involving this group.
 
As a Libertarian I think that this was really stupid!

I think we have more to offer than to emulate Cindy Sheehan, but these guys are making it seem like that's not the case.

This sort of thing may appeal to old hippies who never grew up, or to underage anarchist wannabes, but it's the wrong way to reach out to intelligent lovers of freedom in the mainstream.

I think most Constitutionalist and Libertarian types can understand the need for security around the President. You want Brit-style gun control, and more of a police state in general? Just watch what happens if someone else takes a shot at the President, no matter when and no matter which party he/she is from. The Secret Service doesn't hurt the Libertarian cause.
 
The Second Amendment applies everywhere (well, except CA, NY, NJ and a few other places), the Fourth, the Sixteenth and so on. Why shouldn't the First?

I don't think the President--any President--or any other elected official's security is so threatened by peaceful protestors that you can make any case for "free speech zones". That concept smells to me like an attempt to stiffle dissent.
 
Philosophically, I agree, Freeholder.

But I'm also into picking battles, and trying to use tactics and strategies to win those battles. Use your energy up on this kind of college-kid silliness, and what do you have left for affecting real change? Nothing.
 
Armed Bear,

You are probably the first person I have heard defending the proposition of putting protesters in cages located in places where POTUS can't see them.

That is exacly what they are doing. Anyone that isn't wearing a Bush T-shirt or whatever, gets corralled.
 
That is exacly what they are doing. Anyone that isn't wearing a Bush T-shirt or whatever, gets corralled.

And what's wrong with this? Why should the President, the leader of the free world be bothered by this riff-raff? He's out there, every day - on the front line of freedom protecting the Nation against the many threats that exist - I'm sure he and the serfs that travel with him wouldn't want to see these anti-American elements.
 
since when is protesting anti-american. Do you even know what they were protesting?

Is protesting illegal wiretaps anti-american?
Is protesting eminent domain abuse anti-american?
Is protesting the patriot act anti american?
 
owen said:
since when is protesting anti-american. Do you even know what they were protesting?

Is protesting illegal wiretaps anti-american?
Is protesting eminent domain abuse anti-american?
Is protesting the patriot act anti american?

Errr...I believe the "serfs" part gave away the sacarcism of this post. :)

At least I HOPE it did.
 
owen said:
Armed Bear,

You are probably the first person I have heard defending the proposition of putting protesters in cages located in places where POTUS can't see them.

That is exacly what they are doing. Anyone that isn't wearing a Bush T-shirt or whatever, gets corralled.

Try a little nuance on for size. This is politics, now.

I'm not defending "putting protesters in cages." I'm saying that joining in with a bunch of dimwitted, loud-mouthed moonbats makes libertarians look like nothing but idiots. This sort of "civil disobedience", where people do things that have no value or impact, to try to get arrested so they can tell stories about it in the paper just doesn't resonate with many people, nor should it.

Talk to me when they get arrested but aren't deliberately TRYING. I want to win the long-term war, not rant about some pyrrhic victory.

See, "protests" are a pretty silly way to get one's point across in the 21st century. Been to any? I have. Idiotarianism at its finest.

Who has had more of a libertarian influence on politically-aware Americans? These guys, or Glenn Reynolds?
 
When I read some of the vituperation against Bush posted here at this website, and read some of the even more hostile commentaries at the more leftist sites around the WWW, I'm not at all surprised that security efforts have become as harsh as they are.

I was around some of the Secret Service security for LBJ, both before and after he became Prez. I recall Reagan being shot. I recall the hostility expressed agains Clinton and now against Bush.

No, I'm not at all surprised at how security is now handled, compared to before 11/23/63.

I am surprised that others get all bent out of shape on what we--as the public at large--have brought upon ourselves.

And that's even WITHOUT Al Qaida.

Art
 
It's not about the president's safety.

Why would a person intending harm to the president show up with a sign and a t-shirt? I can't believe that weeding out people who look like protesters is the best the SS can offer to safeguard our president. I don't believe that. I think the SS looks beyond the clothes, just as you and I would if we were truly interested in security.

So... better s'plain to me again why clothing and signs denote a physical threat to the president.
 
Wayne, do you reckon it might be what's worn under the shirt and inside the pants? something that goes Boom?

The Secret Service guys are paid to be paranoid. They're paid to believ that somebody is out to get The Boss. All-in-all, as I said above, they have reson to be as they are...

I'm not saying I like it, to put in what seems to be obligatory as a disclaimer. I'm just trying to understand why stuff happens in an apparently unsane world...

Art
 
Art Eatman said:
Wayne, do you reckon it might be what's worn under the shirt and inside the pants? something that goes Boom?

Art, that's exactly right. It's not the clothes that can harm the president. It's what might be under them. And what can be worn under a "Bush Lied" shirt can just as well be worn under a suit & tie. So why would any security detail worth its salt get distracted by the clothes? I postulate that the SS is worth its salt, and is not distracted by appearances. I also believe that they have the will, the right people, the right training, and the right equipment to protect the president. These things I believe are why I conclude that putting people with signs in "free speech zones" has nothing to do with protecting the president.
 
See, "protests" are a pretty silly way to get one's point across in the 21st century. Been to any? I have. Idiotarianism at its finest.

Two examples of idiotic demonstrations:

1. Applause lines at the state of the union address. Choreographed by the Executive Staff. Dutifully counted and reported by the MSM on prime-time TV.

2. Those that occur on the floor of the national conventions (dem and repub). Orchestrated, paid for, cued and directed by the candidate/party.

So, if the "protest" supports one's position/candidate, its OK, & encouraged; if it gets in the way of the photo-op, its idiotic? The king has no clothes.

Those who buy into the "security" pretext for isolating opposing opinions haven't really thought too much about the issue, IMO.
 
We have only the word of the woman involved that they were peaceful, but after reading some of these little pieces of childish drivel I don't necessarilt believe her
I switched to holding a sign saying, "Bush, Feds = Fascists"
They were saying that they were only following orders. The Nazis said the same thing about locking up Jews. I asked them if they remembered Nuremburg
I got pretty upset and started screaming about this being a police state.
They decided they were going to arrest me, too then. I wasn't about to cooperate with that, so sat down and started screaming more. I basically screamed until I couldn't scream any more and they had to carry me to the paddy wagon
I think they're practicing gathering them together so they can shoot them all easily.
When you act and speak like an idiot you will generally be treated like an idiot.

I am seriously pulling away from the Republican party and am looking at the likes of the Libertarians, mostly due to the influences of Neal Boortz.
But if freaks like this are representative of the party I'll pass
 
The Secret Service guys are paid to be paranoid. They're paid to believ that somebody is out to get The Boss. All-in-all, as I said above, they have reson to be as they are...

There are people out to get the boss - let us not forget - United flight 93 was thought to be flying to crash into the White House when it crashed in PA. American flight 77 might have been targeting the White House too, and chose the Pentagon as a secondary target. The White House wasn't evacuated until 7 minutes after 77 hit the Pentagon.
 
This didn't start with Bush did it? Wasn't this practice started during the reign of Slick Willy?

In any event I have a problem with it. It's controlled free speech. And put up jobs on the part of either party aside it just feels wrong.

If you become what you say you aren't while trying to defend what say you are then . . . .well what are you?
 
Merkin.Muffley said:
And what's wrong with this? Why should the President, the leader of the free world be bothered by this riff-raff? He's out there, every day - on the front line of freedom protecting the Nation against the many threats that exist - I'm sure he and the serfs that travel with him wouldn't want to see these anti-American elements.
This was satire, right?

PLEASE tell me you were kidding.
 
DadaOrwell2 said:
Interested to get THR's take on this:

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Manchester, New Hampshire
Feb. 14, 2006

Two New Hampshire Free Staters chose arrest last week rather than allow themselves to be herded into a "Free Speech Zone" while the President was in Manchester. One of the protesters was carrying a sign advocating New Hampshire secession, both were in a non-secure area where civilians were milling around unmolested.

Keene Free Press article/pics:
http://keenefreepress.editme.com/LuncheonPoliceState

Manchester Union Leader article (link is split into two lines):
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Two+arrested+as
+protesters+gather&articleId=ff16795b-bd46-4bc7-bc0d-619d8f8946fc

Free Staters (www.FreeStateProject.org) are libertarian activists who move to New Hampshire from other parts of the country because they consider it the state with the most freedom. About 150 have moved here since 2003, with 7,000 more pledged to follow. Local and Federal officials have made seven arrests so far in civil disobedience incidents involving this group.

Secession? Okay. People like that need to get the hell out of NH. We're quite happy being part of the United States, thank you. :cuss:
 
bear wrote:

<<I think we have more to offer than to emulate Cindy Sheehan, but these guys are making it seem like that's not the case.>>

Since you are so unhappy with the activism and the sacrifice Kat and Russell have enganged in on your behalf, could you tell us a little about what kinds of superior things you have done to stand up to or downsize the government?
 
Art Eatman said:
Wayne, do you reckon it might be what's worn under the shirt and inside the pants? something that goes Boom?

The Secret Service guys are paid to be paranoid. They're paid to believ that somebody is out to get The Boss. All-in-all, as I said above, they have reson to be as they are...

I'm not saying I like it, to put in what seems to be obligatory as a disclaimer. I'm just trying to understand why stuff happens in an apparently unsane world...

Art

Though in response to this, I would think that an actual assassin would be more likely to wear a SUPPORTIVE shirt, just as I think that the most likely vehicle for a domestic carbombing would be an obnoxiously huge, giant new SUV with American-flag window silkscreening.

The guy yelling "I hate you!" can only come up and take a swing at you, you expect it. It's the one praising you who can stab you in the back when you least expect it. And I would expect the Secret Service to know that, too? So I don't think the shielding from protest shirts really has much to do with security.
 
bear (armedbear) wrote

<< I'm saying that joining in with a bunch of dimwitted, loud-mouthed moonbats makes libertarians look like nothing but idiots.>>

why are you criticising people for doing what you say they should be doing?

You say they should not be joining moobats... Not joining the moonbats is exactly what they were doing. they refused to stand over there with the liberals where the secret service wanted them.

You say they should get arrested but not try to get arrested.

that is exactly what happened, they had no intention of getting arrested that day. If they had we would have video, a dozen more protestors and a hundred pics of it.

At least criticize people for what they really did, not what you are pretending they did.
 
DadaOrwell2 said:
bear (armedbear) wrote

<< I'm saying that joining in with a bunch of dimwitted, loud-mouthed moonbats makes libertarians look like nothing but idiots.>>

why are you criticising people for doing what you say they should be doing?

You say they should not be joining moobats... Not joining the moonbats is exactly what they were doing. they refused to stand over there with the liberals where the secret service wanted them.

You say they should get arrested but not try to get arrested.

that is exactly what happened, they had no intention of getting arrested that day. If they had we would have video, a dozen more protestors and a hundred pics of it.

At least criticize people for what they really did, not what you are pretending they did.

I criticize people for coming to my state and having the presumption to say that it should "secede". What gall! Find another state...My town has a Revolutionary War hero buried in the cemetary down the street. We are proud AMERICANS.

Go find some other place where people don't care. The people OF New Hampshire don't want a bunch of moonbats barging in and pretending to own it!

(BTW, if that sort of thing keeps up, the legislators in Concord ARE actually going to mandate some sort of controls on this 'movement'...the citizens really don't like it!)
 
<<I am surprised that others get all bent out of shape on what we--as the public at large--have brought upon ourselves.>>

Are you so sure you're right that you're willing to force every man woman and child on this forum to pay for it - this overactive security - with a percentage of their income?
 
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