Our town hall meetings are on a rolling schedule now so check the Keene Liberty Calendar on google for dates.

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In fact, the origins seem to be as early as the English Civil War beginning in 1642. Relations between the colonies and England were strained, encouraging the colonies to open trade relations with the Dutch and French.

Later it was the availability of Dutch tea at a much lower price to the colonies, the availability of molasses from the French West Indies at a much lower price, the French and Indian Wars, and the desire of England to regain control of it’s colonies all contributed to an overreach of English power in the colonies.

The trade problems were largely a result of the English economic tradition of mercantilism. The Navigation Acts were an attempt to consolidate the power and authority of England over all aspects of the colonies.

The colonies had originally been granted the right to tax themselves, and to have their own elected officials, which the Intolerable Acts tried to deny them.

This is just the broadest of outlines, but several threads can be delineated.

1. An attempt by England to control ALL aspects of the economy of the colonies, through trade restrictions and the taxes imposed on the colonists to enforce this control was anathema to the colonists.
2. Eventually England denied the colonists the right to have their own money, requiring the colonists to pay taxes (mostly) using the English pound.
3. England eventually removed the right of the colonists to elect their own officials, and restricted the town meetings to only one per year. Courts were staffed by officials appointed by England. Even ecclesiastical courts came under the control of England.
4. Smuggling became rampant, as well as a practice of non-importation. But the Admiralty courts did not seat a jury, all decisions were up to a judge, who received 5% of the value of of the cargo in the ships that were apprehended the judge found the defendant guilty. This was a huge opportunity for corruption of all types, on both sides.

Now, let’s look at the later constitution.

1. The power to control commerce was given to the federal government. Through a constitutional amendment, the federal government was given the power to lay taxes on individuals. Remember that constitutional amendments are ratified by the states, not by the people.
2. The power to coin money was reserved to the federal government.
3. State legislatures were required to swear allegiance to the United States, and the constitution and federal laws became the “law of the land”.
4. The right to trial by jury was incorporated into our most cherished traditions. Later, the courts were given the right to control how juries were selected, and jury duty became just that, a duty.

All of the same things that the colonists found objectionable were later incorporated as powers of the federal and state governments, with no power to the people, regardless of the rhetoric of both the constitution and the politicians.

The colonies were from the beginning self-governing, but the “supreme law of the land” took away the right to self-government of the states.

The people just simply exchanged the English king and parliament for the US constitution and the federal government.

Similar trade restrictions and the right to self-government were also at the root of the civil war, and of today’s secession movements.

I will expand on all of things in the weeks to come. Let me say for now that the people of the United States are less free today than at the time the colonists seceded from England.

https://forum.shiresociety.com/t/a-pragmatic-path-to-independence/13192/75

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_state_tartan

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Opinion

Letter: Free State facade

Published: 3/17/2022 8:01:00 AM

Modified: 3/17/2022 8:00:20 AM

The dichotomy between the majority of members in the New Hampshire Legislature and a fringe band of renegades called Free Staters was on full display several weeks ago with their ludicrous bill to have New Hampshire secede from the union.

Free Staters have pilgrimaged into the state over the past 20 years, thanks to a warm welcome from then-Gov. Craig Benson. There may be as many as 40 Free Staters now in the Legislature. They are a nuisance who blurt out patriotic babble to conceal a deeper goal to sculpt government into a tiny microcosm that controls little. For instance, public education would be on the chopping block for this group. They contribute nothing but noise and crackpot ideas that consume considerable legislative time. 

Their latest gambit was to advocate for the state to secede from the union. It’s pure lunacy, but when wrapped up in pseudo-patriotic vitriol, it can quickly penetrate the skulls of their members. The sad part of the secession stunt was the amount of ink and airtime that media across the state devoted to it. Free Staters file for office in stealth mode, so voters must unmask them before the votes are cast. Hopefully, media outlets around the state will begin to report what is behind the curtain.

Ted Leach

Hancock

https://www.ledgertranscript.com/Leach-letter-on-Free-State-45507070

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https://mix941kmxj.com/texas-has-an-unlikely-ally-new-hampshire/

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Video recently uploaded from the event:

https://nhexit.us/2022/05/07/national-divorce-secession-panel-at-liberty-forum-2022/

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https://wethepeoplenh.org/

Recently formed group with cool people in it

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By giving states and communities the power to create money and decide where it is invested, public banks can:

• support local business and create jobs
• build and maintain infrastructure
• support and expand public budgets, and
• stabilize communities in times of economic crisis

https://publicbankinginstitute.org/about-us/

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More complaints about cutting a school budget:

https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/03/nh-lessons-from-croydons-50-school.html

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“Free State Extremism”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Tilson_Piotrow

https://twitter.com/FreeStateNH/status/1507327719931006979/photo/1

Are you an antifederalist? Then you might like #NHexit

“CACR32, an amendment calling for New Hampshire’s independence from the United States, was shot down on the house floor two weeks ago, but the Libertarian and anti-federalist attitudes behind it are here to stay.”

https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news/local/who-are-the-free-staters/article_4a61326c-a92d-11ec-89a4-3f5f65cfb0f4.html