Sending this as an LTE in response, also tried to call WKBK-AM Keene this morning with a different rebuttal but couldn’t get thru.
" NH Independence Referendum - Let the people vote
Dear editors at the Sentinel:
This is a response to your editorial against the New Hampshire Independence Amendment, which - if passed - would let all NH citizens vote in a referendum on whether we should continue to be ruled by Washington. Why do you think this issue should be decided by dead war criminals and judicial activists rather than your neighbors, arguably acting within the rules laid out in the U.S. Constitution? Though silent on the question of state independence, it reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Well here we are, trying to peaceably exercise these powers through the state house, then the polls…what’s there to be against other than D.C. and its enablers in the press?
Grrr…sorry to get so blunt…the Sentinel may be one of the few papers that actually still has some independence and frontpage/editorial separation. You deserve respect for the fact that I can say this without much worry you will suppress the letter. But ultimately it’s questionable a when a proposed referendum on “who should govern where” is treated as Forbidden and shocking…but starting five wars since 2011 is just business as usual; write your congressman; vote for a different chickenhawk. God forbid we should imitate Estonian or Gandhian independence drives as we try to stop this and other Fed cruelties.
The Washington empire, like Moscow and London before it…has made independence look good by abusing the people who live under its domination. It has turned most New Hampshirites against the central government, which in scientific polls now has an approval rating hovering somewhere between that of syphilis and leprosy. But an informal poll by the state’s largest paper shows support for the Independence Amendment at 71% as of September.
If D.C. didn’t want an independence drive in New Hampshire, it wouldn’t have shut down four square blocks of residential Keene to put a drone through the window of America’s #25 talk show, or confiscated roughly a dozen Bitcoin machines around the state, or arrested six New Hampshirites for allegedly failing to surveil and betray their cryto-currency customers.
It would not have exacerbated shortages by demanding most New Hampshirites submit to medical experimentation as a condition of employment. It would not have turned rivers orange with toxic spills committed by, of all things, its “Environmental Protection Agency.” And it would not have used our tax dollars to run a TORTURE CHAMBER at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Google these Federal crimes, and read the accounts from sources you trust if you don’t believe me. And explain to us again why you think rule by Washington is more desirable than rule by Concord.
Best,
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Dave Ridley
NHexit.com
Winchester "
