Rachel Hawkridge: ‘Freedom Fighters in the “Live Free or Die” state’

Posted by Rachel Hawkridge at LP blog on October 9:

I’m sure that most of you have heard of the Free State Project, of FreeKeene.com, and PorcFest.

You may not have heard of John Babiarz, of FreeGrafton.com, and the Merrimack Valley Porcupines.

I visited Keene last Wednesday for “nightcap” on the Commons. It was a peaceful time, where I met Rich, Ethan, and Ken.

Next day, I had lunch with Mike Barsky and Dale Everett at Grafton Gulch. I also got to meet Mariana Evica for a brief moment.

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Keene is “Civil Disobedience Central”, and Grafton is the “Center for Agorism”. (Those are my names for them.)

On Saturday, I attended the Merrimack Valley Porcupine lunch. This group spends more time on electoral politics than the Keene and Grafton people that I met.

John Babiarz spoke of his campaign for Governor of New Hampshire, and one sitting legislator asked for the support of the voters there.

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire which is chaired by Rich Tomasso is pretty well represented on the ballot this year.

It was great to see a campaign sign for a Libertarian – this one was near Grafton, but I saw a dozen or more near Keene, Grafton and Manchester.

I also picked up a great piece of swag – I scored a Libertarian campaign Tshirt!

Thank you John Babiarz, Rich Tomasso, LPNH, and all of my Freedom Fighter friends in New Hampshire!

4 Comments

Granite October 22, 2010
Please get some more of the facts, Orion. Mike Barskey’s fire (sans permit, which he could have gotten just by asking, even after the local authorities arrived) was an open fire on a very dry day mere feet from a wooden building. He was insulting to the peace officers and fire personnel. Had that fire spread and damaged others’ property, would you be defending Barkey’s right to have a fire? Would you chip in to pay the damages or his bail money? John is the Fire Chief in Grafton, he really had no choice but to put out the fire after Barskey refused to do it after being asked three times. John got very positive local media coverage from the incident. John has been fighting for liberty longer than most of us, and winning plenty of those battles.
Keith A October 19, 2010
Nice write up, Rachel. It was good to see you at the Merrimack Valley Porcupine meetup.
I just wanted to get a plug in for the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance. The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is a non-partisan coalition of New Hampshire citizens working to increase individual freedom in
the Granite State. Each year we compile voting records from a wide variety of legislation and release our Liberty Rating, grading our
state legislators’ support of liberty. Our “Gold Standard” watch lists are handed out to the legislators before each legislative session in an effort to highlight bills that, if passed, stand to substantially increase or decrease freedom in New Hampshire. Visit nhliberty.org.
orion October 19, 2010
Remember, it was John Babiarz who forced Mike Barskey to put out an “illegal” camp fire. John is just like any other politician: he tells people what they want to hear. Don’t trust him for a minute.
James O. Ogle October 19, 2010
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