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   Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 04:38:16 JST Mr Penguin

   My response to NH Liberty Alliance's request for us to sponsor the NH Liberty Dinner this year:

   Unfortunately I am not able to sponsor this year as the NH Liberty Alliance has fallen short in its mission to expand individual freedoms in New Hampshire and taken a radically conservative stance on at least one issue that I am aware of. As such I can't in good conscious support the liberty alliance dinner this year.

   Limiting government intervention does not include supporting new laws that place restrictions on folks, particularly under the guise of "privacy and safety". "safety" is the primary justification for restrictions on freedom for both the left and the right, and I can't ignore the co-opting of the organization by conservatives to push an agenda that is so blatantly hostile to freedom and liberty. We should be limiting government, not expanding it.

   House Bill 1442 (HB1442) expanded government institutes restrictions on trans women by legally classifying them as male and prohibiting their access to facilities designated for females.

   The gold standard should not have indicated this was a pro-liberty piece of legislation. Libertarians believe in eliminating government institutions, not [government] "safety". Whatever the concern is it does not matter as it is up to private property owners and non-government organizations/entities to make these rules as policy decisions, not government through use of violence and law. A bill inhibiting the government and institutions thereof from forcing people to partake in mixed use facilities would have been a way better pro liberty-bill. That is the pro-freedom position, not some convoluted logic and twisted excuse about safety and privacy. This is an expansion of government, clear as day.

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     sister_sam (sister_sam@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 07:03:46 JST sister_sam

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     @mr_penguin YAY. Well said!
     Also starting with Trump Executive Order on gedder on day one you have POTUS decreeing facts of reality regarding things like sex and gender. Is orders to federal prisons are based on this. A ruler trying to decree reality itself should be utterly verbotten and distasteful to all sane people.

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     Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jul-2026 09:00:10 JST Mr Penguin

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     • sister_sam

     @sister_sam Yea, I had a feeling you'd think that. I did dive a little deeper into the issue. I thought it was worth making a public statement on it to demonstrate to others the libertarian position. Too many people wrongly associate libertarians with conservatives, and it doesn't help when you have conservatives infiltrating libertarians circles and pretending to be libertarians. At least the libertarians are up front that they're libertarian when 'infiltrating' republicans and democrats. Of course that's only because the right and left have put up barriers to libertarians running as libertarians that don't apply to those running as republicans and democrats. In other words for them it's self-inflicted. For us it's doing what has to be done, not something done out of choice.