New Hampshire bill to place warning signs near Massachusetts borders rejected by lawmakers

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[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.

[hinckley buzzard]

A friend of mine from Peterborough says the same--its mostly the NYawkers not the Massholes that muck things up.

[TYVets]

Every time I hear stories like yours about the Northeast I give thanks that I live in Fly Over Country.

[NonValueAdded]

“You are now leaving the American Sector”

[RedMDer]

Tired of the disruptions?

[taildragger]

If you land a Private Aircraft at an Airport in Mass or even visit an FBO you have to sign a ledger required by the Mass State House post 9-11 to be extra careful as to who's visiting an airfield.

As someone who learned to fly their, It is sad that I may never go back to visit some old friends at the airport or if I do some apparatchik reading these ledgers will be asking who's Dick Hertz? when they see my name in the ledger...

[APatientMan]

You know better than I do. I try to stay north of Conway. I get that far south and see as many Mass. plates as N.H. plates.

[andy58-in-nh]

I get that far south and see as many Mass. plates as N.H. plates.

They're just coming here to buy tax-free booze, cigarettes, and lottery tickets. I was on Cape Cod a couple months back - $8.50 for a six-pack of beer. And not even the premium stuff.

[Baynative]

"New Hampshire voters do not support Obama strongly."

Maybe the fact that NH went for Obama by ten points had more to do with McCain - I don't know. It does look like things are trending a bit more to red. I hope so.

My state is Washington. It is very close to falling completely subservient to one world environmental zealots. If Obama declared that all people should surrender their passports and bank accounts to the government as a matter of national security, I truly believe that most of this state would be stampeding to government centers to be the first in line.

Ironically a state poll just showed Obama down by 9 to Santorum. But, I don't believe it.

[andy58-in-nh]

Your suspicion is well-founded: McCain was not well-liked here in NH (even though he narrowly won my county); he frequently came off as disingenuous, not taking our state's interests seriously. When he came to my office to speak, even the hard-core GOP people I talk to daily were far from impressed. And although Romney won our primary (with less than 40% of the total vote) he doesn't exactly set us on fire, either.

I must commiserate with your situation in Washington. You've not only got that whackjob Patty Murray in the Senate, but also Baghdad Jim McDermott, an outright Marxist in the House. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the King County/Seattle metro area, without which most of Washington would be pretty conservative.

[Baynative]

King County is a bizarre conglomerate of marxist revolutionaries, environmental fanatics, disillusioned students and union democrats. A bizarre example you brought up is Jim McDermott.

He is a self professed socialist progressive who preaches the redistribution of wealth and denounces the evils of privately held property and resource development. But, he lives in a million dollar enclave in the Queen Anne Hill section of Seattle where most of life seems to be centered around sitting at one of the hundreds of Starbucks, or other coffee houses talking about the glory of 'one world, one people'.

When he lost his wire tap case and subsequent lawsuit his legal bills approached a million dollars. When his scam to have the taxpayers pay the tab by saying he was doing government business didn't work, Bill Clinton flew out here and held fund raiser rallies and exclusive dinners so that the socialist could save his house (with other people's money) and maintain his elitist lifestyle high on the hill where he can look down at the unwashed masses and workers of the world.

Liberals talk of everyone being equal, but they need their elite royalty to look up to. Their perfect world is something akin to the days when everyone toiled in fields and factories and gave what they produced to the McDermotts, Pelosis and Clintons of their time.

[andy58-in-nh]

Your description of McDermott’s house made me smile, because it’s so typical. I instantly thought of the gargantuan homes of such left-wing luminaries as Al Gore, Michael Moore, John Edwards, and of the multimillion-dollar townhouses owned by Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry (who was in Vietnam). Hypocrites all.