S04 E12

Show Title: Let’s Burn Cars

Featuring Hosts: Matthew Carano, Nick Boyle, and Cord Blomquist

Engineered by: Matthew Carano

Produced by: Matthew Carano, and Nick Boyle

Show Summary: On this episode of The Freecast: Laurie List to be released without redaction, new legislation allows Kingston residents to burn a car, Tether’s up to no good again, and Meshech Weare as NH’s supreme leader.

News

• NH Court Says: Release List of Police With Credibility Issues (MC)
• • https://www.fosters.com/news/20190424/nh-court-release-list-of-police-with-credibility-issues
• New legislation will allow Kingston to Bonfire a Car (NB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/human_interest/legislation-will-allow-kingston-to-rekindle-bonfire-with-car-on/article_cf87649b-ddfc-5ccf-b9c0-4581e570a646.html
• Nancy Strapko get $350,000 in settlement from Plymouth State for violating her “academic freedom” in reaction to Kristie Torbick case (CB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/fired-psu-lecturer-who-supported-counselor-in-sex-assault-case/article_357b2667-0a1d-5abb-be28-4874fc8bf8ce.html
  • • Atlantic wrote about this:
    • • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-a-professor-was-punished-for-an-act-of-citizenship/570418/
    • “Kristie takes full responsibility for her actions with her ‘victim.’ I put this in parentheses because I am aware that her ‘victim’ was truly the pursuer in this case.” This “pursuer” was a 14-year-old boy.
• Polygamist (NB)
• • https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/man-who-married-four-women-gets-no-jail-time-on/article_2ddbc9a3-e1c2-502d-bff0-87c686c8bc6a.html
• Tether is only 74% backed (MC)
• • https://www.coindesk.com/tether-lawyer-confirms-stablecoin-74-percent-backed-by-cash-and-equivalents
  • https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-allegedly-covers-850-million-loss-with-tether-funds
• NH Gun Bills Testimony (MC)
• • https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20190430/passionate-testimony-on-nh-gun-bills

Events

Freecoast Liberty Meetup Thursday: Dover

NH History

• The 1784 Constitution
• • Meshech Weare
  • • President of the Executive Council
    • • This was the upper-body of the legislature and the executive body
    • Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
    • He was at the top of all three branches of government
    • He began as a town moderator
  • Pine Tree Riots
  • • In 1772 Weare was one of four justices to rule on the Pine Tree Riots
    • He voted to fine the defiant party 20 schilling, which was an extremely light punishment
  • Book Recommendation: Andrew Vietze’s White Pine: American History and the Tree That Made a Nation
  • • Native Americans in the “Five Nations” seeking peace would gather beneath a towering white pine, its clusters of five needles a symbol of unity.
    • The Mohawks called the Algonquin “rondak,” a slur meaning “tree eater” because they ate the inner layer of bark during hard winters to prevent scurvy
    • The English exhausted all of their native “mast trees,”
    • • Imported trees from Russia and Norway and Bosnia
      • These trees needed to be 3’ feet wide at the base and 36’ high
      • Had to keep pace with the Dutch, French, and Spanish
    • This was the driver of the Pine Tree Riots
    • Explains why the pine was on the first Flag of New England
• http://www.seacoastnh.com/president-meshech-weare/
• https://www.founderoftheday.com/founder-of-the-day/weare
• https://northernwoodlands.org/wood_lit/entry/white-pine-american-history-and-the-tree-that-made-a-nation

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