Martial Law Stops at the NH Border: An SOF Soldier Looks at the Free State Project

Denver, CO (PRWEB) October 17, 2005

It was the major question on this reporter's mind. The objective was to canvass a representative cross section of folks who are members and organizers of the Free State Project (http://www.freestateproject.org) and live in the state of New Hampshire.

The opportunity arose on August 5th at a barbeque thrown for prospective new comers by the State Welcome Wagon Coordinator, Margot Keyes. There was a great turnout by Free State Project members, a 31 Flavors variety of libertarian iconolasts. There were Christians and atheists, objectivists and anarchists. Several candidates running for local office were present and subtly working the crowd for support. There was a libertarian talk show host and a Libertarian Party member who'd recently been arrested for protesting a licensing law for manicurists. The director of the Gun Owners of New Hampshire was there as well.

These are the kind of people who walk their talk. They’ve pull up their stakes, packed up their families and moved across the country to live in a tiny little burg on the East Coast simply because they hunger to be…FREE! Think about that for a minute – people in America are picking up and moving somewhere else because they want to be FREE!

In view of everything going on with the acceleration of draconian police powers in this country since 9-11, this reporter has been eager to corner the locals here and pop the question -- if “terrorist” nukes go off in this country in what will amount to the Mother of all 9-11s, and the White House makes good on its new love affair with coast-to-coast martial law – how will New Hampshire react?

Will the New Hampshire state legislature play ball? Will they march lock-step with all the other state governments down the primrose path to the New World Order? Or will they keep their cools? Will they refuse to recognize the Feds authority to place New Hampshire under martial law?

Which way will this tiny, rascally New England state sway?

Everybody presented with this scenario didn’t hesitate to offer their opinion on what the outcome of such an event would be.

New Hampshire will tell the Federal Government to go pound sand.

Indeed.

The words “freedom” and “America” have become an oxymoron when combined together for no longer are the one synonymous with the other. Freedom is a buzzword politicians use to describe a cascading consolidation into collectivist tyranny that more resembles Orwellian doublespeak than accurate communication.

This reporter has spent the last 18 months living in Arlington, Virginia and working in the Pentagon at the Army Operations Center in support of ONE/OIF/OEF. Any off-time was spent venturing into the District of Corruption to observe the national monuments, take in the Smithsonian and quietly...keep an eye on the emerging Total Surveillance Society.

Honestly, one can't spit in any direction anywhere in this town and not hit some cop in a Darth Vader uniform toting an MP-5 or a surveillance camera or both. This point was well illustrated while sitting on the waterfront in Georgetown with friends from Crisis Action Team 4, it was early on a Friday evening in June and the sky was literally swarming overhead with police helicopters -- not Bell Jet Rangers, no. These cops were flying military Blackhawk helicopters with "POLICE" in yellow lettering on the tail boom.

This particular waterfront establishment was a very popular gathering spot for the Beautiful People in D.C. There were several private yachts tied up to the pier, the money and booze was flowing, the women looked like extremely high-priced call girls or Hollywood actresses -- there really isn't a difference anymore. They were all laughing and they were all completely oblivious to the obvious.

There are surveillance cameras everywhere watching them.

Military hardware was orbiting overhead manned by cops with gunners standing in the open doors. On the river, extremely high powered speedboats with POLICE painted prominently on both sides of the hull race up and down the waterway with cops and machine guns eying everyone and everything like a target, like raw meat.

And these people on the waterfront, in their trendy clothes and fake tans, were partying like it was 1999.

The Police State is no longer an event that might transpire in the near future. It is here now. The Rubicon has been crossed. America is no longer a free country. America is occupied.

And yet, in the midst of this birthing of the United Police States of America, surrounded on all sides by bastions of Leftist Commie Liberalism sits the tiny red-headed stepchild of the East Coast: New Hampshire.

New Hampshire was chosen as the libertarian migration state of choice out of a ballot numbering 10 states. As of today, there are 6,801 signed on participants who've pledged to actually move to New Hampshire within 5 years. 384 have already made that move for Liberty in Our Lifetime.

It’s ironic or maybe its destiny, the tendency for things to come full circle, that the first piece of ground taken and secured again in the name of Liberty is right smack in the middle of where it all began 229 years ago, in the heart of New England -- that tiny, rascally independent state of New Hampshire. A place where the peoples’ right to revolution is enshrined in the state constitution. A place where the proud tradition of local control in the form of town hall meetings has continued in an unbroken chain since Colonial times to the present. A place where the tax collector gets beat like a gong and run out of the state on a rail. A place where the state legislature is run by civilians, not career politicians -- paid a mere $200 a year for their services. That’s a pay scale that that those prostituting traitors in the District of Corruption need to be saddled with by next Tuesday…after lunch.

Just being in New Hampshire was like being zapped to another universe, a universe where people come and go as they please, do as they please, where there isn’t a cop everywhere one looks and one isn't under constant surveillance from every street corner. This reporter stayed in Concord, the state capital, during this quick visit to meet up with members of the FSP.

This reporter was shocked to visit the State capital building and up entering wasn’t immediately surrounded by black-clad storm troopers with badges, being forced to empty pockets for search, having one's body probed with metal detector wands and having line-up pictures taken for computer biometric comparison to known “enemies of the State.” There were NO metal detectors. NO cops. Just an elderly retiree security guard who was eager to tell anyone interested about the unique place the state of New Hampshire occupies in Revolutionary American history.

This reporter proceeded to wander around the capital building, touring the chambers of the senate and the representatives – all without once being stopped, questioned, photographed or prevented from proceeding at all. Here, the government is the property of the people! Imagine that! What a subversive idea!

Try doing that anywhere outside of New Hampshire. But to do that, you’d have to get into the state capital building first and getting in without being bodily violated by members of law enforcement would be like waking up tomorrow and seeing pigs fly.

If you live outside of New Hampshire, you really don’t know what being free feels like.

Everywhere outside of New Hampshire, the police state isn’t just coming. It’s already here.

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