I’ve been here in Nashua, N.H., for the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, and dealing with technical problems all day. First it was Comcrap, then it was my video camera. But everything’s sorted now.
If you haven’t been here before, the Liberty Forum is an annual winter conference put on by the Free State Project, where dozens of speakers talk about a variety of issues of interest to anyone who wants more liberty, and especially those who are considering joining the Project and moving to New Hampshire.
At the Liberty Forum you get a chance to meet some of the people who are fighting for freedom here in New Hampshire. On Thursday night I ran into radio talk show hosts Gardner Goldsmith and Ian Bernard, science fiction/horror writer F. Paul Wilson, Libertarian Party presidential candidate George Phillies, several state legislators, Declan McCullagh from CNET News.com, and quite a few other interesting people.
This morning I listened to the opening speech by Sharon Harris of the Advocates for Self-Government. You may know this fine organization from the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, which brilliantly exposes the fraud of the left-right, two political party paradigm. She spoke on how to communicate libertarian ideas and “stick it to the statists.”
I’d planned to bring you some bits of video, but thanks in part to video restrictions and in part to technical problems, it will be a day or so before I can get any video posted. Stay tuned; it’s coming.
I do have video, though, of an incident which happened this morning. Apparently we’re sharing the hotel with John McCain and his staff. And apparently after some of the Liberty Forum attendees walked in last night, the hotel got complaints that several openly armed citizens were peaceably going about their business inside the hotel, bothering nobody. And to think McCain comes from the other state where open carry of firearms is not only permitted but fairly common.
In this short clip, a McCain staffer approaches the Liberty Forum registration desk to ask what’s going on. He received a booklet containing the schedule of events and short biographies of the speakers and took it back to the main lobby, where yet another armed citizen walked right by, coffee in hand, peaceably going about his business.
So much for McCain and gun rights. According to Liberty Forum organizer Chris Lawless, McCain has been invited to sit in on some of the presentations, though his staffers are crying scheduling conflicts.
Much more to come, including more video, and tonight’s speech from Bernard von NotHaus of the Liberty Dollar.
See also coverage of last year’s New Hampshire Liberty Forum.
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Gardner Goldsmith explains why claims by politicians that consumers can become "irrational" and why claims by the same politicians that government can help "fix" markets are both false and misleading. He also explains what the terms Praxeology and Epistemology mean, which is key in understanding how to place free markets in their proper place among human history.
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Q
Jan 04, 2008
they are all sellouts and liars. this is why they are trying to shut out Ron Paul, while these hypocrites keep getting front page attention
Control
Jan 04, 2008
It is all still about control. They don’t want us to have more liberty!! They just want line thier pockets with cash and thier buddies. We want our freedom back!!! Ron Paul is the only WAY!!!
Rick Rodriguez
Jan 06, 2008
The New Hampshire Liberty Fraud Forum! Censoring those who threaten the highly secretive is precisely how Fascism expanded in Nazi Germany. Who do you people think you are believing that those who support our Constitution should have no voice? You take power from those you claim to value by lying, excluding, manipulating and intimidating We will not be denied or defeated by your feeble attempts to exclude Dr. Paul from your debates. If you believe that our President can refer to our Constitution as just another piece of paper with impunity, then our nation is truly lost. If you believe that Mainstream Media and the Liberty Fraud Forum can disrespect a medical doctor with an excellent public record and sound family values, our nation is truly lost. I hope your upbringing included fairness and moral character, and stop excluding those whom you fail to understand or fear. If you continue this practice, one day you and your families will also be excluded and the highly secretive will not hesitate to take away your rights and privacy. The public will decide for themselves who our next President will be, not the Liberty Fraud Forum, Fraudulent News and their self-serving communication Spanks who obviously kiss-up to Rip-off Murdock and his One World Government Neocons.
Rick Rodriguez
Navy Veteran
Michael Hampton
Jan 07, 2008
What the hell are you talking about?
Jan 09, 2008
Live free or don’t - Homeland Stupidity
stacy stites
Jan 09, 2008
Here Here!!! Good form, Rick. The NeoFascist(I’m sorry NeoCon)agenda has done more damage than any foreign enemy ever could. It’s called Neo “CON” for a reason. Our country has been given over to the elitist agenda for some time, now. I just don’t think our citizens “retain the spirit of resistance” that Thomas Jefferson spoke so eloquantly about.
Michael Hampton
Jan 09, 2008
At least 18,000 of us in New Hampshire do.
Though I have no idea why Rick is saying “Liberty Fraud Forum.” Ron Paul was the headline speaker! He gave McCain fits by having his speech in the same hotel McCain was staying in!
susan28
Feb 16, 2008
what the heck ARE Rick and Stacy talking about? propaganda maybe? echo-chamber type thingie?
as far as the McCain staffer, you know i’m usually a firebrand and ready to pounce on statists of every stripe, but i really didn’t see anything overly hostile about that staffer. a little nervous maybe, but he didn’t seem to be being a dick, and you weren’t asked to disarm or anything. overall a successful encounter i’d say. maybe he’ll actually give the literature a read.
btw Michael i have an email to send you about the amicus brief for the SCOTUS 2A case, so look for it k? my domain often gets filtered by mailers.