This is a response, in part, to the recent letter “Proposals for secession are unpatriotic.” (Monitor, 12/10). The New Hampshire Independence Amendment, if passed, would let all New Hampshire citizens vote in a referendum on whether we continue to be ruled by Washington. Why should this issue should be decided by dead war criminals rather than your neighbors, arguably acting within the rules laid out in the U.S. Constitution?
Though silent on independence, it reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Washington empire, like Moscow and London before it, has made independence look good by starting five wars since 2011 and abusing the people who live under its domination. If D.C. didn’t want an independence drive in New Hampshire, it wouldn’t have shut down four square blocks of residential Keene to put a drone through the window of America’s #25 talk show. It would not have exacerbated shortages by demanding most New Hampshirites submit to medical experimentation as a condition of employment. It would not have used our tax dollars to run a torture chamber at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Google these fed crimes, and explain to us why anyone would think rule by Washington is more desirable than rule by Concord.
Dave Ridley
Winchester