Notices by Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)

@xianc78

Interesting phil osophical question. It was more of a test to see if our mastodon server was working properly... but...

Entertainingly an FBI agent named Phil Christiana has been attacking free staters for decades I just happen to a tad bit connected to some of his victims (people who've moved for the free state project which is migration of folks advocating for greater freedom, and peaceful rather than violent state solutions) for about two decades now (he's attempted to free staters to wear wires, on multiple occasions, once into an activist center, was involved in 3 'investigations' targeting one guy named Ian Freeman alone who has a majorly syndicated radio show called free talk live):

https://freekeene.com/2013/04/16/ambush-interview-with-fbi-agent-investigating-nh-libertarians/

Are you been a bit concerned about the surveillance state? So am I. That's why my company has introduced 'Privacy Proxy', a service where a real human (company) will purchase goods on your behalf and ship them onward in a manor that'll preserve your privacy. Nothing says we have to preserve the details of an order, log the serial numbers of products, or keep a log of every shipment. We can even use cash to pay for S&H and BURN THE RECEIPT!

:) So... if you need someone who can keep a secret check out ThinkPenguin.com for the details on the service and then watch us burn the S&H receipt of our first proxy purchase order (yea, we're literally burning the meta data):

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/files/burning-meta-data.mp4

Do I exist?

@eff
@evacide @washingtonpost

The FSF has a great tutorial on setting up GPG at: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/

@eff
@TexasObserver

How about we just ban government and government contractors from owning, possession, or use of surveillance tech. This on top of acquisition of data from any such systems so they can't get around the law on a technicality. Then lets make it possible for the public to enforce it through the civil courts where companies, law enforcements, and government employees involved in violation of the law can all be held jointly civilly liable by any member of the public. It seems like it would be a lot easier. Then the EFF, ACLU, and others can have a field day with going after the perpetrators of the crime.

Dave Täht, a guy who helped fight the FCC's excess regulation that has led to the death of freedom friendly wifi devices has sadly passed away. He may be best known for his work on bufferbloat, but to me he's one of the few freedom fighters that remained in the world. He recognized the danger of the FCC's rules on wifi routers (and really just wifi) and it's implementation by manufacturers. We lost the fight, but it’s people like him, Eric Schultz, and others who led an important if not short lived fight for freedom in the tech sphere. To that end his name, commitments, and efforts will be remembered.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/05/029230/eric-raymond-john-carmack-mourn-death-of-bufferbloat-fighter-dave-taht

As you may have heard, our bill to end the inspection sticker scam once and for all, HB649, will is now in the N.H. Senate!

If you want to see this bill pass, we need you to do two things:

1. Email the Commerce Committee and tell them to support this bill! The
easiest way to do so is using this form:

https://www.jeremyjolson.com/email?e=4e84ac5e-f6c9-4ca5-880f-4b4d28e69568

2. The public hearing will be Tuesday, April 1, at 9:50 a.m. in Room 100 in the State House. Show up at the hearing and testify for our bill! More information can be found at: https://www.nhinspect.org/

Also, our allies at Americans For Prosperity - New Hampshire will be hosting a Senate calling party with us, and we need you to volunteer!The goal is to contact voters in key districts and urge them to call their Senator to support HB649. Come join us for phone calls and free dinner!

Thursday, April 3 at 6PM-8PM

RSVP to: https://www.nhinspect.org/afpnh

AFP-NH Manchester Field Office
8025 S Willow St Suite 205 (second floor)
Manchester, NH 03103

Please bring a phone or laptop and a headset/earbuds to connect to.

Your a real libertarian if...

1025. You have a smart phone with LineageOS, GrapheneOS, or some other fork
1026. You have a smart phone, but don't have a sim card or use the cellular feature
1027. Instead of the cell phone you communicate with boefang radios and unlike hams defy the authoritarians by not asking their permission, going so far as to unlock restricted albeit unused portions of the spectrum (hey, we aren't monsters, protocols aren't the issue, it's the violence inherant in the system that ia the problem)
1028. When the FCC shows up looking for your pirate radio station you and your closest friends go out to protest
1029. When the health inspector shows up to your events you and 1000s of your friends run them out of town
1030. Your first instinct when a cop shows up is to pull out your phone and start recording
1031. When you start an anti-drug-criminalization protest in the central square and one guy dares to pull out some weed after the cops show up in an attempt to intimidate and then gets arrested you and a hundred of your friends take a trip to the police station and start smoking weed in the police station in protest of their arrest
1032. You actually know enough about the law to refuse a roadside DUI breathalyzer test after being pulled over without losing your license or facing a trial
1033. You know enough about the law to a point you can stare down a cop illegally demanding a drivers license during a DUI checkpoint encounter and still not be arrested for failure to ID (the reason a cop can normally demand a license is they have articulable suspicion of a violation, but at a DUI checkpoint this does not exist, stops are based on a plan and supreme court carve out exception to the warrant requirement in the constitution)

Your a real libertarian if ...

10. At least one or more of your friends are sitting in a cage over reasons of principle
11. You have constant conversations on weather Matrix, Freenet, or encrypted mesh networks are the way to go
12. You know what Tor is and have actually used Tails
13. You smoke weed not because you like it, but in defiance of unjust laws or attend decriminalization rallies despite not using
14. You've spoken at state house hearings, attended trials of your friends, and know people who have run for office
15. You have your GPG key on your business cards
16. You don't tweeet, but toot
17. You look down on people using dirty fiat
18. While you may not pay taxes you help others who help themselves
19. You car is registered to a trust or LLC
20. You think about how you can be more self-reliant on regular bassis
21. You've moved to New Hampshire for The Free State Project
22. You've stood up to abusive authority figures be it the police or a high school vice principal

There is a new simple test to determine if your a real libertarian.

1. All your friends are on Matrix
2. You attend attend regular crypto meetups that have turned into alternative currency meetups
3. You attend events where the people around you are accepting and spending crypto, but not investing in or marketing crypto even if they sell or advocate for non-fiat currency
4. You have attended some form of mesh meetup or event, such as for Mashtastic, or simply setting up a mesh network
5. Your preferred operating system is primarily or entirely composed of free software
6. You or someone close to you has 3d printed or milled a gun for reasons of principle, no serial numbers and preservation of freedom
7. You have no respect for the law, but are OK with protocols and value principles of nonviolence with the exception of self defense
8. You can sniff out feds amongst your 'friends' based on their interest in sports and a lack of understanding of fundamental liberatarian principles
9. None or nearly none of your friends pay taxes for moral reasons

@fsf
Or we could just dissolve the IRS. For the first 86 years after the United States founding we didn't even have an income tax! And... the roads pre-date government so no we don't have to give up the modern conveniences in the processes. There is also still a gas tax that funds the roads too. Prior to the governments monopoly on roads though we actually did have 'long distance' toll roads where every so many miles you would pay a toll. In New Hampshire we had a toll road privately funded between Keene and Concord/Manchester which is about an hours drive in an automobile. We also had private enterprise run public transit in a more decentralized way before government took it over and trains prior to the interstate system. Nothing says we can't have a mixed system to guarantee ones right of travel on private enterprise managed roadways with limits on profits or profit sharing between public interest and corporation managed infrastructure.

How you know you've won: So I was reading an email from the Free State Project's director about an entertaining incident he had encountered the other day. He was at a small cafe in Dover alongside a ton of other free staters (just so coincidentally packing the cafe, apparently independent of one another) when a group of politicians rolled in. These politicians were democrats and sat down to have a meeting of some kind. Well, while holding this meeting they could be overheard complaining about all the free staters who’d been moving in. They were complaining about being surrounded by free staters. This isn’t really anything new, but what is humorous is that they were apparently unaware of the fact they were completely surrounded by free staters in the cafe.

Later it was pointed out on social media that the former Maine senator Eric Brakey who is now the Free State Project’s executive director was in the background of a picture that the democrats took of the meeting and posted to social media.

The left in New Hampshire isn’t wrong when they complain libertarians and free staters have taken over the state. The house is at around 100 libertarians currently and for the first time ever we have 5 libertarians in the senate too! This is 100 out of 400 in the state house and I think it’s 5 out of 24 in the senate. Every two years the number of republicans and democrats in the senate and house decline and the libertarians take their place! Where else in the world do you see successes like these? We don’t “own” New Hampshire yet, but we are getting closer every day and it’s plain as day to see why the left and right are complaining.

A follow up to what is so disturbing about this proposal in France to criminalize 'incitement' of piracy:

"The act of inciting by any means, including an advertisement, the use of an online public communication service, a device, or software, allowing access to a competition or sporting event without authorization"

To ban the public from advocating free expression is utmost disturbing.

https://torrentfreak.com/france-mulls-instant-iptv-blocks-e750k-fines-new-piracy-crime-incitement-250324/

France Mulls Instant IPTV Blocks, €750K Fines & New Piracy Crime of ‘Incitement’:

I want to make it unequivocally clear that I wholeheartedly advocate for the elimination of the artificial creation they call 'copyright law' and push forward the ideas of the free decontamination of information, of which political opponents may refer to as 'piracy' or 'incitement'.

To surrender free expression for the benefit of a tiny minority is to hand over democracy as well by it's very nature. Whether I agree with the idea it works or doesn't being less material given it's still seemingly the least bad governance system man has implemented to forego it for the benefit of a tiny minority is insane.

The left may argue for socialism under the logic a growing economic disparity between the haves and have nots being bad or dangerous for society, but this disparity is not the real underlying problem. The cause of this disparity is largely the result of the creation of copyrights and patents that business majors are taught in 101 classes, startup courses, and so forth. This is the means by which exploitation occurs and one of the major things that need attacking. For without it (among other regulations) large enterprises wouldn't be able to achieve the level of monopolies, duopolies, and minimal competition in a truly free market in the first place.

https://torrentfreak.com/france-mulls-instant-iptv-blocks-e750k-fines-new-piracy-crime-incitement-250324/

It's official: Our 420 Concord weed decrim rally in NH is on the calendar. This is for the sale more or less since weed is mostly legal here already. So is our Bitcoin Pizza Day at Little Zoe's! And don't forget about the Free State Project's annual conference coming up! We'll be there in attendance with all sorts of cool privacy oriented stuff.

@ancap_86 That's the plan! I haven't done it quite yet, but working on it.

4/20 is just around the corner. What are your plans for the day? I'm planning a trip to Concord, NH to rally at the statehouse for the complete decriminalization of the sale of currently illicit substances.

@Nobody

You do you and then come back! Hopefully your mom's situation revolves itself one way or another sooner than later as parents can become a serious burden when things go south. I've been fortunate up to this point, but I don't think I could deal with such a situation.

PS Rily and I are going to start promoting this years 4/20 rally shortly. The situation isn't looking good as the Governor won't sign further decriminalization bills regarding the sale of marijuana and some of our biggest advocates it appears have given up on the issue for the time being. Though it is good they didn't pass tax and regulate like other states. We can do better in the live free or die state even if it takes us longer to get there in the end.

We may see a bill pass that will eliminate vehicular inspections this year though! So that is good.

If you haven't voted in the Union Leader's manipulated polling yet what are you waiting for? The good news is that despite that they want people to vote yes people are overwhelmingly voting no. This is yet another opportunity for folks to do their part and tell their state reps to vote NO on vehicle inspections (that don't make us any safer statistically, but do benefit the lobbyists and industry that this law already on the books exists to benefit).

https://www.unionleader.com/news/safety/should-new-hampshire-continue-to-require-annual-vehicle-inspections/poll_ac46ba98-fafa-11ef-9b00-bb6a59c2d313.html

Great news! I know we're a little behind other states at eliminating or minimizing the inspection nonsense, but we're close to passing a bill in New Hampshire to eliminate inspections. The house just passed HB649 that will eliminate inspects 212 yeas to 143 nays. Now we have a couple of weeks to let everyone know to reach out to their senators to pass the senate version of the bill so this thing becomes law!

PS: Next up to eliminate: Vehicle registration, license plates, and drivers licenses ...what can I say I'm an optimist, but each year libertarians get a bit closer in taking over the state. We've got a 100 reps in the house out of 400 and 5 of 24 in the senate. Those 5 were elected in the past couple of years too, so our rate of expansion is amazing and really spurred on by the Free State Project- which is a migration of libertarians from around the world to New Hampshire for the purpose of working together to establish freedom somewhere.