My problem with the theoretically liberal bloggers in NH is that instead of advocating for anything, they mainly just spend their pixels explaining why you should hate and fear NH conservatives.
Here's a sample from William Tucker at Miscellany Blue:
Here's a sample from William Tucker at Miscellany Blue:
Republican House candidates report receiving a letter from former state Rep. Tom Alciere (R-Nashua) threatening to “sink the Republican Party” if the party fails to nominate “extreme libertarians.” "Ron Paul Revolutionaries have proven that we can and will sink the Republican Party if our demand is not met," the letter read. "Nominate libertarian extremists, — or else!" "To defeat the Democrats, the Republican Party must stand united, and Ron Paul Revolutionaries will never unite behind enemies of liberty," wrote Alciere. "You must unite behind libertarian extremists. Delay and denial will get you nowhere."
Alciere, you may remember, was forced to resign from the House in 2001 when his incendiary rhetoric advocating cop killings was made public. “There is nothing wrong with slaughtering a cop,” one of his messages read. “Just throw the carcass into the Dumpster with the rest of the garbage. Cops are nothing but vicious brutal thugs anyway.” Alciere’s rhetoric has not mellowed with time. “Cops are brutal bullies in the business of intimidating humans into obeying unjust laws,” reads one of his web sites. “Cops are the scum of the Earth.”
In his message to the state GOP, Alciere wrote, “We are entitled to use any necessary means, — especially nonviolent means — to stop your government from violating our rights. If we give you a choice, you won’t comply; so we won’t give you a choice. We have to win.” "Sometimes a rapist is so far gone, he doesn’t expect the victim to be angry at him," Alciere continued. "You’re just as crazy if you think you can vote away our freedoms and show depraved indifference to our rights without breeding hostility."
That's some brisk rhetoric from a crazy man. Oh hey, Susan the Bruce has a follow up.
Given all that Alciere has espoused, it's no wonder that he served as an inspiration to early Free State Project colonizers, as we see in this 2002 Yahoo Group:
The point I'm trying to make is that if Tom Alciere can get elected,
anyone can. He found a way to work the system and got himself
elected, when he would otherwise be unelectable.
Why is he unelectable? He posted several times on Usenet that if a
person is selling drugs, and the cops try to bust him, then the drug
dealer has a right to shoot the police in defense of his honest
trade. He refers to his constituents as "lame-brains who will vote
for anyone that smiles and waves at them." He also runs a website,
deporttheborderpatrol.com on which he gleefully contemplates the
possibility of Mexicans sniping Border Patrol agents from across the
Rio Grande. He is not a lawyer or well-known businessman, if I
recall (can't find it on his site right now), he stocks groceries at
the supermarket.
And
So I suggest that if you think we need a new party, a porcupine
party, independence party, or whatever, just STOP...and consider that
what we really want to do is to get our porcupines elected. Read
Alciere's story, see how easily he got elected by running AS A
REPUBLICAN, just BECAUSE he ran as a REPUBLICAN. There are three
ways to get votes: win people to your side with the issues you
believe in, run with a party that most voters will DEFAULT to if they
don't know the issues, or outspend everyone else in a massive PR
blitz. By infiltrating a major party, we will have the advantage of
all three--financial support, votes from the "default voters" as well
as ISSUES we can use to win over the voters.
Are the Free Staters infiltrators of the NH GOP or allies?
Read Alciere's website. Note how that if he can get elected in New
Hampshire, certainly a Porcupine can.
Back then the Free Staters marveled that Alciere could get elected. Now they sound just like him.
Well, if a handful of people wrote stuff like that on the internet, I definitely think NH's democracy is under threat from a dangerous conspiracy.
Shine, perishing republic.
Shine, perishing republic.