As of April 2024 Ian has been moved from the Merrimack County Spiritual Retreat to the Devens Spiritual Retreat. After taking a plea deal Aria was sentenced to ~8-18 months depending on good behavior. She was released to a halfway house May 9th, 2024 after serving 317 of the ~540 days, or about 57% of the sentenced time. Ian’s likely to serve 4 ½ to 5 years (probably ~4 years 8 months) if appeals fail. For more info on the case check out TheCrypto6.com
Got pizza today from Dominos! Had it delivered to Free Aria. Someone who prepared it clearly got the message. Aria DiMezzo was wrongly caught up in raids targeting free staters motivated by a FBI agent with a political agenda and hatred of liberty. After more than a decade and multiple prior failed attempts at taking out one free stater and a show called Free Talk Live he finally made an arrest of six people under dubious financial charges. The full force of the federal government and every 3 letter agency you can probably think of came down on Aria for the crime of selling BitCoin. The government then proceeded to make up a story that the evidence didn't even show. Sadly we have a system that is broken. Aria took a plea deal, but at least two people did not. They dropped charges against one who didn't even have a crypto wallet at the time and knew little. The other was long time activist Ian Freeman who continues to fight the BS charges in court and is now taking it up on appeal (20 of 27 or so counts were dropped or thrown out and the conviction resulted in less than half the minimum sentence allowed by law, so no it was not a clear cut case of guilty). TheCrypto6.com for more.
Is it anti-consumer for a company to politely decline a rude demand for a discount that was never advertised which is demanded by a customer after a purchase? Or would you consider that some sort of left wing extremist self entitlement mentality? I'm just blown away by a small percentage of the population. It's one thing to ask for a discount and give a sob story before commitment to a purchase.. but assuming you will get it and ?expecting it?. Crazy. This happened and the person was humorously asking for it on already hugely discounted items that were opened but new we were trying to get rid of quickly as they take up valuable warehouse space.
I'm entertained by the messaging on a box my new toilet seat came in. Apparently I get support if I register it. No, this is not a smart toilet seat. I guess this support could be very useful to some 90 year olds. Fortunate for me I'm young enough to not need assistance using the bathroom.
Taco Beyondo in Hilsoboro just got new signage. Ohh and they still take goldbacks. And dang the food is good. I wish they'd open in Keene so I could get an amazing burrito every day.
Voting for a Republican or Democrat? Don't waste your time waiting in line at your local polling station. Just toot your vote to @elections@whitehouse.social
If you don't stand up to tyranny no one else will either. Support #nhexit and #fsp.
For the 2nd time in two years New Hampshire reps have introduced legislation that would result in New Hampshire declaring independence from the United States. New Hampshire led the way in declaring independence from the British empire and is once again leading the way in declaring independence from the American empire: https://nhexit.us/2023/10/19/second-state-secession-bill-filed-in-new-hampshire-legislature/
The inside story on what really happened with Ian Freeman & the feds... despite the media slander Ian didn't help scammers, rather he has been targeted by a particular FBI agent for over a decade now for his advocating peace and anti-violence position on government calling out the hypocrisy and violence inherent in the system, 3 FBI take out attempts later, and they finally brought a case they thought they could win... but it's not over yet:
New Hampshire represenative Jason Gearhard and Franke Staples challenge federal authorities rule against recording by refusing to stop recording at entrance of federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire. This incident occurred at the Crypto6 sentencing hearing of Ian Freeman for which the federal government is trying to hide the corrupt nature of the system from public view. Ian Freeman was convicted of crimes he didn't commit and his name slandered by the feds repeatedly. Ian Freeman has been targeted over the past decade on at least 3 occasions by the FBI and this is the first time they've taken a case to trial over what amounts to a paperwork violation, though claiming other false things including scamming elderly ladies despite the evidence overwhelmingly showing that he had no knowledge of any scams at the time those scams took place and was no more responsible than the banks who transmitted "large sums" for the "little old ladies" to make Bitcoin purchases. These little old ladies signed documents indicating they knew what they were purchasing and confirmed this via a phone call as well. The government was able to identify a mere ~8 "victims" out of about 10k transactions, of which not all were the churches. The government mixed transactions from different parties and claimed conspiracy to bulk up the appearance of criminal wrongdoing. The reality is when the undercover fed tried to fool Ian into partaking in a crime he refused. He refused to sell bitcoin to an undercover agent once he came out as a drug dealer. Ian did everything exactly as he should of and despite this they convicted him. There is no better case to evidence how rigged this system is than this. Thank you Jason Gearhard and Frank Staples for standing up and fighting.
Are you going to attend Ian’s sentencing hearing on 9/11 @ 10AM in Concord (US District Court, 55 Pleasant St)? I am. Ian was convicted for the bastardy crime of selling Bitcoin and not begging the government for a permission slip to do so. Supporting Ian now is one of the most important things you can do for liberty in our life time. A sentencing hearing is the MOST important hearing a person can attend to support a fellow activist in our fight against the governments erosion of our freedoms.
For those who don’t know Ian he has been one of the most influential people on the planet in promoting liberty and the use of cryptocurrency as a way to separate money and state. Ian advocates for peace through voluntary exchanges that cryptocurrencies facilitate. For selling Bitcoin Ian faces up to 70 years in a cage.
Ian has been on the feds radar for over a decade. He’s being targeted because he is such an effective liberty activist and by taking out Ian and his nationally syndicated radio show Free Talk Live the feds think they can take out the Free State Project and the larger migration movement. They want to make an example of Ian and chill the adoption of crypto and demoralize the broader liberty movement.
Ian exemplifies liberty principles and consistently demonstrates what it means to be a free stater. It was Ian and Free Talk Live that introduced Bitcoin to the world. In fact, he introduced Bitcoin Jesus aka Roger Ver to Bitcoin.
It was Ian and Free Talk Live that directly and indirectly led 10s of thousands of people to move to New Hampshire and partake in the Free State Project. I myself moved in 2016. The feds know Ian's the reason 2/3rds of people moved early on too (according to early Free State Project participants who did ‘intake’). What the feds have missed in their effort to take out Ian is that they’re too late.
When principled liberty activists are targeted by the state it is in all our interests to double down and get behind them. Please join us next Monday in Concord.
For all those who keep saying you can't edit video on GNU/Linux the FSF has announced Seth Kenlon will be having an online workshop to show users the basics of editing videos on GNU/Linux using KDEnlive. There are lots of other great video editors as well though. My favorite is OpenShot, but KDEnlive has also come a long ways since it's early years. It's now a stable usable video editor.
@ciphermenial It may be a bit critical, but a lot of folks on GNU/Linux value their privacy and traditional ideas about keeping apps small and doing one thing and one thing only (aka systemd for instance is less than optimal embedding everything and the kitchen sink and could be considered hostile to what GNU/Linux is or was for that matter). Things like Snaps increase the surface area and bugs needing fixed and it undermines the security. This is not Snap specific, but Snap may be the worst example with the centralized control. Linux Mint isn't incorporating Snaps as an example as are other distributions you would have expected to do so that are based on Ubuntu. Not everyone wants a Microsoft Windows or Mac system and yet that is what so many distributions if not most have become no thanks to parties like Redhat and Canonical. Many distributions have been forced to go along not having the resources to undo the damage and or risk losing support for many apps. No data should ever leave my PC without permission and unfortunately there is a lot of data that does and it has no business doing so. It's one thing when it has a function I want performed like getting an IP dynamically, but it is another when it is sending other information unnecessary to fill that objective.
Saw this awesome post elsewhere posted just a few moments ago: Always remember, #ubuntu pioneered AD sponsored malware. @sabdfl said : “We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root.”
Why would anyone subscribe to @ubuntu Pro when @Canonical allows malicious snaps and pushes them for core packages when they are horribly broken out of the box. Exhibit A @firefox
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