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Effort and Ease: Every Little Bit Counts

by Carla Gericke 04/22/2021

written by Carla Gericke

Just did one of the best yoga sessions of my life down in our basement gym! I’ve been doing a lot of yin to try to open my tight hips, and today I reaped the rewards. I did an old 50 minute routine I haven’t done in months, and lo and behold, having a strong, stable core makes a yuuuge difference.

As readers know, my 2021 aspirational words are “effort” and “ease,” and today I nailed it. There aren’t any quick fixes in reclaiming your health, but it IS possible if you’re willing TO TRY! Wishing YOU success today with something YOU’RE working on! #LiveFreeAndThrive

Here are 10 Steps YOU can do immediately to change YOUR life. Want to learn more about my journey to better health through ancestral living eating whole foods with a #paleo #keto slant? I lost and kept off 65 lbs, quit drinking alcohol, and become a new and improved me. It is possible… YOU just have to CHOOSE YOU! Please do!

04/22/2021 0 comments

Windham Incident Election Fraud Investigation Update

by Carla Gericke 04/19/2021

written by Carla Gericke

Senator Bob Guida has been doing a lot of good work on this issue, and I recommend you follow his public posts on Facebook. Granite Grok is also covering the issue extensively, and it they who brought it to my attention that the Town of Windham was considering being less than transparent in choosing their forensic auditor. I wrote the following email to the Board of Selectmen, asking them to keep the whole procedure as open and transparent as possible. Without openness and transparency, there can be no trust, and as trust erodes in our institutions, the state is reacting with more and more secrecy. Let’s change that before it is too late!

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Dear Windham Board of Selectmen,

I’m sure you’re being inundated, so I’ll keep this brief. I serve on Right-to-Know NH, a nonpartisan statewide coalition of concerned open government advocates.

It’s come to my attention that you are not planning to make all steps in the decision making for the forensic audit open to the public? This seems short-sighted and will likely unnecessarily raise suspicions at a time of historically low trust in government. Please keep the whole process open and transparent.

I remind you, the NH Constitution requires the following of you:

[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted. The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government. Therefore, any individual taxpayer eligible to vote in the State, shall have standing to petition the Superior Court to declare whether the State or political subdivision in which the taxpayer resides has spent, or has approved spending, public funds in violation of a law, ordinance, or constitutional provision. In such a case, the taxpayer shall not have to demonstrate that his or her personal rights were impaired or prejudiced beyond his or her status as a taxpayer. However, this right shall not apply when the challenged governmental action is the subject of a judicial or administrative decision from which there is a right of appeal by statute or otherwise by the parties to that proceeding.

Please keep your oath of office. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Carla Gericke
Former Republican State Senate Candidate District 20

04/19/2021 0 comments

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Is Big Gov an Abusive Partner? HELL YEZ!

by Carla Gericke 04/10/2021

written by Carla Gericke

If you are still wearing a mask, PLEASE take it off. Then read this. If it makes you mad, it should. You have spent the past year being abused by your own government. I know it hurts to hear this, but it’s true.

Know what you do when you discover someone is bad for you? You break up. YOU need to break up with your abuser. You need to dump the notion that Big Gov is here to save you. If that makes you made, you may want to look up the definition of “Stockholm Syndrome.”

Big Gov is here to collude with their cronies like Big Pharma, Big Tech, and the Big Military Industrial Surveillance Complex at the expense of you. They are LITERALLY colluding to make their cRapitalist (!) buddies rich while experimenting on you.

I want to encourage YOU to race through the steps of denial, anger, bargaining, and depression (that’s pretty much 2020 in a nutshell) and get to ACCEPTANCE. With acceptance comes the knowledge you can move on WITHOUT a mask, and WITHOUT this abusive partner. Come join the healthy, happy people! Come #LiveFreeAndThrive!

04/10/2021 0 comments

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Put Your ‘Best Foot Forward’ by Ending Qualified Immunity

by Carla Gericke 04/07/2021

written by Carla Gericke

Nothing screams INTEGRITY like Sununu’s proposed appointment of a judge, Patricia Conway, who in 2015 was involved in having her husband removed from the Laurie’s List, followed by a firing of the whistleblower who made that public, which then lead to a $80,000 settlement that taxpayers had to foot. But it seems entirely plausible, that, as they claimed at the time, the removal of her husband from the secret list of bad cops was like, totes, “an error.”

But y’all keep believing this cabal in 2021 when they say, “So we must avoid an approach that is primarily punitive in nature, but rather is supportive and transparent with clear consequences for bad actors. No good officer wants to work with a bad officer, not one.” (From today’s Union Leader op-ed, “We are all in this together” by Charlie Dennis, Mark Morrison, and Marc Beaudoin.)

If ya’ll are “good cops,” trying to “put your best foot forward,” why HAS NO ONE LEAKED THE LAURIE’S LIST? Why do you always testify AGAINST ANY REFORM measures? Y’all are, if you’ll pardon my French: Full. Of. Shit.

Over the course of the past six years, various “police accountability/we’ll do better, we promise, just don’t change anything” commissions, including the most recent 2020 LEACT Commission, made recommendations, none of which actually go anywhere.

And, if you don’t think there’s a problem in NH, did you know in 2017, 25% OF ALL HOMICIDES WERE COPS KILLING CITIZENS? I haven’t run the numbers for 2020 yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be another bumper “justified killing” year! Justified, even when shooting fleeing people in the back.

In the meanwhile, two court decisions including one from the NH Supreme Court last year, have said to release the FULL Laurie’s List, without the redactions that shocked thousands of Granite Staters when it was printed in the Union Leader a few weeks ago. WHERE IS THE LIST, SO-CALLED “GOOD COPS” AND PROSECUTORS?

What can we do?

The best defense citizens have at this stage is to END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, which is basically a cop’s personal “get out of jail free” card. Know how you’re told “ignorance of the law is no excuse,” well, get this, for the enforcers of the law, IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DEFENSE. Yup, they are held to a LOWER standard than the rest of us. No kidding!

Your legislators will be voting on HB 111 to END qualified immunity sometime over the next 3 days. I’ve heard due to support from liberty folks and Democrats, it will pass the House. We then need to keep the pressure on the Senate. Stay tuned!

04/07/2021 0 comments

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Stick a Squat, No Topple: A Metaphor for Life

by Carla Gericke 04/05/2021

written by Carla Gericke

Today, during my yin practice downstairs, I nailed my malasana for the first time ever without reaching for support or toppling over towards the end. In yin, you work meridian lines, and you have to hold poses for longer than in the more active and sweaty yang. Don’t ask for how long. I’m not sure. I said 3 minutes, Louis says one. Louis is obvi wrong! ? I’m grateful that my health has improved to where I can do these things again!

Learn more about steps YOU can take to improve your general health and wellbeing. It starts with the DECISION THAT ONLY YOU CAN MAKE. That decision, choice, is TO CHANGE.

Yes, it takes work. Yes, it’s challenging at first to prioritize yourself. Yes, cooking from scratch is an adjustment if you are used to eating junk and carbs. Yes, excuses are all around you. But know what??? YOU ARE AMAZING! YOU ARE WORTH IT. YOU CAN DO IT! YOU just have to do one simple thing: Choose YOU.

Forget about anything beyond your direct control. Forget about sad stories from lands far away. Forget about the things you cannot change. Newsflash! There’s only one thing within your direct control… and that’s how you treat YOURSELF first and foremost. Your duty to society is to be well and free of self-inflicted chronic diseases. That’s the only equitable social contract.

Here are 10 steps I personally implemented in my life to improve my wellbeing. Try it… I’m certain over time you will like it! Join me on this journey to your very own betterment. Don’t you want to live your life fully, happily, and healthy? You know you do. If I can do it, so can YOU! 😀

04/05/2021 0 comments

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Free State Crypto Entrepreneurs are Political Dissidents Being Targeted by Corrupt Federal Agencies

by Carla Gericke 03/31/2021

written by Carla Gericke

The government’s paid shill, NHPR, manages to conflate all. the. things. incorrectly. here. [Go figure.]

Some initial thoughts on the targeting by the Deep State of #bitcoin and #crypto activists in the Free State:

The SEC’s case against LBRY and the FBI’s case against Keene Bitcoin ATM operators have nothing to do with each other, other than the undeniable fact that Big Gov is now shamelessly targeting peaceful political dissidents who are participants of the Free State Project, where I serve on the board. You can read more about how you can #HelpLBRYSaveCrypto HERE.

Free Staters subscribe to the ethical stance of the “nonaggression principle,” applied equally to all human interactions (i.e. “the government” doesn’t get a free pass to bully you against your will). Free Staters are determined to lead the way to a better future by dismantling corrupt and immoral crony structures through entrepreneurial human action.

We have a big PR battle ahead of us, and it is going to be all hands on deck to make sure our friends and neighbors in the Free State understand the following:

In NH, just as numerous states have nullified cannabis laws over the past decade, crypto transactions are exempt from federal money transmitters laws. See: https://www.jdsupra.com/…/new-hampshire-exempts…/

In NH, based on my current understanding of past similar situations, either the local NH law enforcement was not authorized to act with federal agents, or the entire case must be done in NH courts. (See: https://www.aclu.org/…/federal-immigration-officials…)

Bitcoin and other crypto currencies were designed in part to hedge against inflation caused by flagrant monetary expansion. If you don’t understand this sentence, you cannot be a juror on these cases. Jury nullification, thanks to past work by free staters, is alive and well in NH.

LBRY’s Odysee is a censor-proof platform. This must terrify our actively censoring Big (Bad) Bros and provides an unseemly motivation for their actions.

Ian Freeman and I don’t always see eye-to-eye but he is a peaceful man, and it is an insult to say he is a “danger to the community.” I’m glad to hear the bail refusal will be appealed. Side note: When did “innocent until proven guilty” go away? How can it be lawful to add things like “no alcohol” or “no phones” to bail conditions? We have so much stuff to fix, grr!

In order for these cases to have any legs, you’d need to apply the same “logic” to other institutions. Has a US bank or Paypal or Facebook never been used for a “romance scam” before? How is it the responsibility of the ATM operator to manage that? Doesn’t every US dollar note have traces of cocaine of it? Can we lock the Fed Gov up for that?

Clearly, this targeted federal government overreach is directed against leaders in the crypto industry because #crypto offers the most significant option to peacefully replace the most corrupt structures in the world in favor of decentralized power… in the hands of the people, for realz!

And it starts with what happens with these cases in the Free State of NH. Stay tuned…

03/31/2021 0 comments

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When Will Sununu’s “Reign of Error” End?

by Carla Gericke 03/26/2021

written by Carla Gericke

I’ve been pretty testy about the Executive Orders issued by Chris Sununu over the past year, but legislators I work with assured me that these orders would end by March. Then I was told, it would be the end of March. And yet, here we are, March 26, 2021, and Sununu has once again extended his “Emergency Orders”.

More than a year has passed since the NH Superior Court said that “because the Court finds that Governor Sununu has the authority to suspend or limit fundamental rights during a state of emergency, and because EO #2 constitutes a reasonable time, place and manner restriction” meaning that the “emergency order” needed to be SHORT and LIMITED in scope to pass Constitutional muster. One year is NOT short and limited in scope.

Last year today, I jokingly suggested we should consider a tax revolt, meaning that “nonessential” Granite State taxpayers should consider whether they think they’ve been treated in a way that makes them amenable to continuing to pay their property taxes at the full rate.

When you consider most of our property taxes go to support government-run schools, which have been closed for most of the past year (private schools have been open the whole time without negative health outcomes), and that teachers have been staging what amounts to “sick-outs,” and that our own Governor destroyed the economy, put thousands of people out of work, destroyed businesses, and implemented an unnecessary mask mandate, perhaps the time has come reconsider whether we’re getting what we bargained for with regard to our property taxes… I mean, they clearly, unambiguously told us they thought we were NONESSENTIAL. Perhaps it’s time to show them how “nonessential” we are!

03/26/2021 0 comments

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R.I.P., Rule of Law in NH

by Carla Gericke 03/25/2021

written by Carla Gericke

One year ago today, the rule of law died in New Hampshire.

Facts matter:
* The “Emergency Orders” are still standing today
* The “Emergency” involved large hospitals like CMC treating, on average, less than TWO PATIENTS PER DAY
* The NH DHHS’s own data shows there is NO “emergency” in terms of excess all-cause mortality in NH

And yet, one year ago today, a judge claimed the governor has the right to SUSPEND the US and NH Constitutions… And now King Chris Sununu is demanding our legislature should not try to curb these emergency powers? Huh. So many history lessons here…

Read the rule of law destroying court order signed by Judge Kissinger HERE.

03/25/2021 0 comments

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The Free State is THAT “Cool Little Planet,” And PorcFest is YOUR Landing Pad

by Carla Gericke 03/20/2021

written by Carla Gericke

If you’re a #LIBERTARIAN, you should come to PorcFest 2021 (XVIII) because we’re about to enter into Totalitarian Empire Time, and the Free State of NH is well-positioned to become that one “cool little planet where everyone stops to trade, fix their space ship, and hire a mercenary.” You know the one, that free market, low-key spot where everyone gets along because they don’t give a shit beyond *trading* for what they want!

If you’re putting a village together for PorcFest (which is sort of the mini-version of this planet) please, invite me to speak to your peeps. I have a lot to say! Buy your $50 tickets for Dave Smith, Tom Woods, Dr Naomi Wolf, Matt Kibbe and more today! Get them soon, because we’ve sold a record amount of tickets and we may have to cap attendance! You. Have. Been. Warned.

A bit about me and my skills and 25+ years of experience as an author, activist, and attorney. My mantra is #LiveFreeAndThrive! My subjects:

* Independence/secession/”Yankee Hong Kong”
* ReOpen/ReBuild NH activities/critic of lockdown and Covid response
* Free State Project: I have been actively involved since I first organized PorcFest in 2009 and am the only person to have done it x3 including in 2020 like a mofo libertarian HERO!!! , I was the president from 2010-2016, got Edward Snowden, triggered the move, and now serve as Chair of the board
* Police accountability/qualified immunity, including a deep understanding of NH’s secret Laurie’s List, I’m an active and outspoken critic of police militarization, incl. BEARCATS, police radio encryption, drones, and unlawful surveillance cameras (lost my 2019 lawsuit, boo!)
* First Amendment/free speech, including winning my 2014 landmark and well-cited 1st Circuit First Amendment case affirming the right to film police encounters in public, Gericke vs. Begin et al
* Right-to-Know/NH Open Government, incl. court cases like Brady, Fenniman, Keene 5, etc. Suggested getting redacted Laurie’s List printed in the newspaper for Sunshine Week 2021
* “Art as Activism,” including teaching writing skills (I have an MFA in creative writing in addition to my law degree) and my book The Ecstatic Pessimist (which everyone should buy on Amazon!!! It includes 13 essays about my NH activism and the FSP)
* Politics and running for NH Senate x3 as an unabashed Free Stater and getting 45% in 2020, see Carla Gericke for New Hampshire
* “Liberty as a Lifestyle,” so how to improve your health, diet, fasting, keto, yoga, sleep, cooking from scratch, and my own transformation including losing and keeping off 65 lbs and living alcohol-free.

Learn more: https://www.carlagericke.com/about/

03/20/2021 0 comments

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Today’s Q&A with the Manchester Police Chief

by Carla Gericke 03/18/2021

written by Carla Gericke

As the government asserts more and more control over every aspect of your life, going so far as to unlawfully claim they have the right to tell you what face coverings to wear in public, our NH police become less and less transparent.

They spy on us with ill-gotten surveillance cameras, but hide their actions from us. Does this sound right to you?

Traditionally, in Manchester, we had access to the police scanners. This was a simple way for the press and public to exercise some oversight over police actions on our streets, and to know when militarized tools like the BEARCAT was deployed. Around 2016, Chief Willard, in a backroom deal with the City, simply encrypted the scanners. NO PUBLIC INPUT/HEARING WAS HELD.

Today, since it is #SunshineWeek, and I serve on Right-to-Know NH, a statewide nonpartisan coalition of open government advocates, I asked Chief Aldenberg about how he will approach MPD transparency.

The Chief refused to answer whether any active MPD are on the current redacted Laurie’s List/EES. The NH Supreme Court overruled Fenniman last year, and the “personnel record” exception no longer applies. Nor, frankly, should it ever be permissible, in a functioning open society, for state agents, especially those permitted to use lethal force, to hide their own bad behavior from citizens. Watch this week’s episode of Manch Talk for a primer on the Laurie’s List, the court cases, and where we currently stand.

When asked about the dark scanners, the Chief suggested “that’s just how it is.” Chief, you have an opportunity to reverse course on this issue, and be more open and transparent. Please consider this.

The Chief also incorrectly stated the police log is updated every 30 minutes. It’s not. AND, not all calls are logged. Why’s that?

If the police log online is now the public’s sole “check and balance,” what reassurances do we have about the veracity or timeliness of the information on the log? How can we exercise any oversight? Is this how you establish trust? I think we can do better…

Please consider your duty and oath to the NH Constitution:
[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted. The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government…

ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIVE.

Thanks for doing the Q&A, Manchester NH Police. I look forward to seeing us make progress on these issues to improve citizens’ oversight of your department.

03/18/2021 0 comments