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New Hampshire, the “Live Free or Die” state just murdered freedom

Published February 22, 2012 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Abusive Prosecutions, Guns, Self-Defense


New Hampshire has as it’s state motto the phrase “Live Free or Die“.  If you’re a normal, thinking American you might be forgiven for believing that New Hampshire actually believes in that motto.  In reality, New Hampshire officials, or at least their police, hate the concept so boldly embraced on the state’s license plate.

Anyone doubting that might want to talk to 61 year old Dennis Fleming of Farmington, New Hampshire.  (I’d tell you to ask Carl Drega but they killed him.)

Dennis came home on Saturday, February 18th, 2012 to discover his house had been broken into.  Then he saw local drug addict and criminal Joseph Hebert climbing out of the window of Dennis’ neighbor’s home.

Dennis Fleming yelled at the burglar to stop and then fired a shot into the ground.

“I had drawn my gun … I had a bypass last year, I have a bad knee, bad back, I don’t want this guy to come at me,” he said Monday. “I yelled, ‘Freeze!’ and fired my gun into the ground.”

Not being a complete moron, Hebert stopped and remained frozen until police arrived.

That’s when the motto Live Free or Die had another nail pounded into its coffin.

You see, as well as arresting the criminal for breaking and entering two homes, the police decided to arrest the victim of the crime, Dennis Fleming, as well.  Then they seized all his firearms.

You’d think that a state that had “Live Free or Die” as its state motto would comprehend the concept of freedom. Sadly, this is not the case.

To quote Fox News,

Calls seeking comment from Farmington Police Department Chief Scott Roberge were not immediately returned.

Let me explain it for the freedom-challenged police and prosecutors in New Hampshire.

Freedom includes the right to protect yourself, to protect your property, and it also implies you ought to do the right thing for your neighbor as well.  You know, just like Dennis Fleming did for his neighbors.

The entire state is not without hope though. Gun Owners of New Hampshire is standing firmly behind Dennis Fleming and is “absolutely outraged” that Mr. Fleming was even arrested.

Penny Dean, a spokeswoman for the Gun Owners of New Hampshire, said

“This homeowner fired at the ground, from all accounts, in a safe direction and held a burglar for police and did things correctly,” Dean told FoxNews.com.

“The fact that this man would be charged is an outrage. Burglars in New Hampshire must know it’s open season, since homeowners cannot defend themselves, as evidenced by this case. This is charging the victim.”

Charging the victim of the crime is becoming the norm across North America.  Authorities on both sides of the border apparently despise anyone acting in self-defense or in protection of their private property.

On the Canadian side of the border, Ian Thomson is still facing charges of unsafe storage of firearms for daring to defend his own life against the three masked men attempting to murder him.

Like Ian Thomson, Dennis Fleming knows he did the right thing.

“I think I did right,” he said Monday afternoon. “I stopped a guy who stole and kept him from doing it again.”

Unfortunately for decent people on both sides of the border, governments just aren’t interested in mere citizens defending their own lives.

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Comments

  1. Don says

    February 22, 2012 at 11:04 am

    Hi Chris.

    We have the same problem here in Kanada in spades. We don’t have a constitution that “supposedly” protects us. They are SUPPOSED to have one in the USA but it is consistently being attacked by the current abominable administration. It is rapidly becoming a “police state” as is Kanada.

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  2. M.J. Ackermann says

    February 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    Kangaroo Court is what my parents used to call this kind of process. Of course then, 45 years ago, they were referring to Eastern Block countries like the USSR or Czechoslovakia, not our then proudly free nation of Canada.

    We may think Reagan won the Cold War by making Gorbachev back down in the face of the missile defense shield, but in fact the Statist Left was toiling away in our universities and political institutions, quietly taking us over from within.

    We must work toward a return of lost freedoms, but no State ever parts with power willingly.

    If I am ever in front of a judge for daring to survive a murder attempt against myself or someone I choose to defend, I refuse to allow them to bankrupt me with legal fees. I will hire no lawyers. I will simply and honorably state that I have the right to survive, regardless of how the Statist laws try to destroy that right.

    Then I will take what comes, and become another of a growing list of Canadian political prisoners.

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