Posted on 02/19/2012 7:56:16 AM PST by matt04
In New Hampshire, the state motto "Live Free or Die" is more of a way of life than just a slogan.
But despite the push of some in the Granite State to place "warning" signs on roads that lead to a border with Massachusetts, the bill was voted down in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on Wednesday in a 285-18 vote.
The signs, which would have said "Warning: Massachusetts Border 500 Feet," were proposed in an effort to warn residents that they were about to enter the Bay State, which has different laws regarding seatbelts, helmets, guns, knives, fireworks, alcohol and cell phones, according to a website backing the bill.
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The website, borderwarning.com, includes a "horror stories" section where New Hampshire residents are encouraged to share accounts of arrests and fines resulting from unknowingly crossing into Massachusetts.
One story tells of an Iraq war veteran who was arrested after accidentally bringing his pistol, which was legally registered in New Hampshire, into Massachusetts on a drive to visit a girlfriend.
"Unfortunately states like Massachusetts do not respect the individual’s Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, even those persons with a lawful carry license issued by a neighboring state," the website's author, attorney Evan F. Nappen, wrote following the story.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
People from New Hampshire know where the state line is.
Sure it is. That's why they support Obama so strongly.
Someone needs to post a pic of those signs from West Berlin that said “Warning: You Are Leaving The American Sector.”
Too funny.
Reminds me of the movement by the good people of Northern Maine pushing for secession from the southern part of the state.
Southern N.H. IS Massachusetts. Sometimes worse since it’s full of Massholes trying to escape and bringing their screwed up ideas north.
He is far less popular here than in any other state in New England, consistently ranking near 40% in popularity.
Our state legislature is 68% Republican. Both of our Congressmen and one of our senators are Republicans. This fall, we are almost certainly going to elect a Republican governor. How does your state compare?
They should however, permit a large sign that lists what is prohibited in Massachusetts. Under headings like: Prohibited items, prohibited practices, and unusual taxes and fees.
That's a popular misconception; an understandable one, though because we all know about Massachusetts' tendencies, but still not true.
The two most conservative counties in NH (which contain about half the state's population) are along the Massachusetts border. Our liberal loons are more focused to the west (closer to Vermont, in the college towns of Keene and Hanover and in Peterborough) and in Portsmouth, along the Maine border. Also the state capital, Concord (unionized government employees).
According to the census in-migration studies I've seen, many of them came here from NY, NJ, MD, DE and PA. And I did look it up because I wondered where the hell these nuts were coming from. Massachusetts more frequently brings us its refugees (I'm one of them)... and bad drivers, too, but that's another story.
It would be hugh, bigger than Mount Rushmore.
Driving down 301 in Florida there is a bill board saying Waldo Ahead-—— Speed trap.
“bringing his pistol, which was legally registered in New Hampshire...”
Weapons aren’t registered in NH.
My local police chief, who approves my CCW and has for the last couple of decades, has no idea of what I own. The long arms leave no traces at all.
But we do have family in RI, and so occasionally have to go through MA. That requires a stop in the last rest area on the freeway to disarm and disassemble. Which is insane, in that down in those holes we really need to be carrying, while up here in NH we most probably don’t.
But we stop at the first rest stop on the way home to restore our normal configuration.
The second was the Plymouth Colony, founded by Puritans in 1620. It was a theocracy.
New Hampshire was founded in 1623 as an economic venture in contrast to the theocratic colonies that became Massachusetts.
These theocratic settlements in Boston, Salem, and Eastham out on Cape Cod soon followed the settlement of the Plymouth Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1628. The theocratic colonies were harsh, intolerant, and bigotted. They were combined in 1692 as the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, which eventually became the U.S. State of Massachusets.
Massachusetts is still a theocracy. The dogma has changed. The intolerance and bigotry have not.
During the seventeenth century, Massachusetts succeeded in annexing New Hampshire temporarily and bringing it under the harsh, paranoid, oppressive rule of the Massachusetts extremists, but New Hampshire regained its independence rather promptly.
The temperament of New Hampshire has been different from that of Massachusetts since its founding.
During the seventeenth century, the theocracies succeeded in annexing New Hampshire temporarily and bringing it under the harsh, paranoid, oppressive rule of the Massachusetts extremists, but New Hampshire regained its independence rather promptly.
The temperament of New Hampshire has been different from that of Massachusetts since its founding.
The second was the Plymouth Colony, founded by Puritans in 1620. It was a theocracy.
New Hampshire was founded in 1623 as an economic venture in contrast to the theocratic colonies that became Massachusetts.
These theocratic settlements in Boston, Salem, and Eastham out on Cape Cod soon followed the settlement of the Plymouth Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1628. The theocratic colonies were harsh, intolerant, and bigotted. They were combined in 1692 as the British Province of Massachusetts Bay, which eventually became the U.S. State of Massachusets.
Massachusetts is still a theocracy. The dogma has changed. The intolerance and bigotry have not.
During the seventeenth century, Massachusetts succeeded in annexing New Hampshire temporarily and bringing it under the harsh, paranoid, oppressive rule of the Massachusetts extremists, but New Hampshire regained its independence rather promptly.
The temperament of New Hampshire has been different from that of Massachusetts since its founding.
During the seventeenth century, the theocracies succeeded in annexing New Hampshire temporarily and bringing it under the harsh, paranoid, oppressive rule of the Massachusetts extremists, but New Hampshire regained its independence rather promptly.
The temperament of New Hampshire has been different from that of Massachusetts since its founding.
I remember complaining to my cousin about the high taxes and poor government services in Massachusetts compared to New Hampshire in around 1990, as we were driving on a side road from New Hampshire into Massachusetts, he defending the PRM. Just as the road transitioned from smooth and wide to pot-holed, narrow and rutty, we were greeted with the sign - wait for it - "Welcome to Massachusetts".
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