Jack Kenny in a Sept. 21 story in The New American writes of strange doings in a small New England town that can either restore your faith in small-town democracy or make you scratch your head.
"When the Raymond, N.H., selectmen refused permission to a local resident to hold a yoga class on the town green in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace, they may not have anticipated the decision would draw gun-toting libertarians and others to the site to show support for First and Second Amendment rights," Kenny writes.
Yoga instructor Molly Schlangen wanted to hold a complimentary class on the green on Sunday, Sept. 20, instead at her studio in the neighboring town of Epping.
"But," as Kenny writes, after her request was denied, "two other gatherings were held on the town common that day. At noon, about 20 members of the Free State Project, a movement to draw people to New Hampshire to work for smaller government and greater protections of individual liberty, showed up to demonstrate their support for freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble, as well as the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Several of them were wearing guns, in accordance with the state's 'open carry' law.
Later in the afternoon," hre continues, "between 30 and 40 local residents showed up, including Selectman Cheryl Killam, who had voted to grant the request for the yoga class. 'If we had approved it, there wouldn't be this much focus on it,' Killam said. 'It would not have drawn this publicity.'"
For more, go to: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/1934--yoga-ban-brings-guns-to-town-common
Also:
-- No yoga, but lots of other folks on common; http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=No+yoga%2C+but+lots+of+other+folks+on+common&articleId=8d383137-2434-4661-9897-49574c13cdfa
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term limits would solve alot of this problem.these nuts have served to long!
I'm sure if she was wanting to hold a rally for abortion rights she would of had no problem. Bo is right when he talks about if its something they dont agree with or dont like it at all they think they have the rights to tell us no. These people had power for way to long we can all see that by how bad there control complex gets when the have the chance to show it.
"Selectman Jack Barnes said his decision to vote against allowing the event had nothing to do with yoga, but with the lack of information about what was planned." Now that sounds like censorship to me. One of the ways government, (city, state, or federal) has to censor people is to demand a complete agenda and if they don't get one that satisfies them, they deny the activity. All they really need to know it is peaceable assembly, like the First Amendment says. I've said it before, but it is so appropriate here. As Ronald Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
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"Selectman Jack Barnes said his decision to vote against allowing the event had nothing to do with yoga, but with the lack of information about what was planned." Now that sounds like censorship to me. One of the ways government, (city, state, or federal) has to censor people is to demand a complete agenda and if they don't get one that satisfies them, they deny the activity. All they really need to know it is peaceable assembly, like the First Amendment says. I've said it before, but it is so appropriate here. As Ronald Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
I'm sure if she was wanting to hold a rally for abortion rights she would of had no problem. Bo is right when he talks about if its something they dont agree with or dont like it at all they think they have the rights to tell us no. These people had power for way to long we can all see that by how bad there control complex gets when the have the chance to show it.
term limits would solve alot of this problem.these nuts have served to long!
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