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[Mayoral Candidate Nobody and City Council Candidates Ian Freeman and Robert Call toke up at Central Square in 2019.]

Yesterday, New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu announced that a <a href="https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/emergency-orders/documents/emergency-order-17-1.pdf">"stay-at-home" order</a> would be going into effect at 11:59pm tonight.  As though he hadn't already damaged New Hampshire businesses and economy with his <a href="https://freekeene.com/2020/03/20/the-right-to-assemble-not-erased-by-government-emergency-libertarians-to-continue-meeting-in-keene-sundays-at-5pm/">previous tyrannical orders</a>, this one instructs all "non-essential" businesses to close, putting even more people out of work.

Sununu claimed on <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1156258788055889&id=381270828888026">his facebook post announcing the "order"</a> that disrupting Granite Stater's daily lives is only done in the greatest of emergencies.  Really?  This Coronavirus thing isn't even as bad as the flu yet - even if you go by the government numbers, which of course are in <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/484098-coronavirus-fatality-rates-exaggerated-italy/">no way trustworthy</a>.

What is happening is government goons are grabbing power as quickly and as firmly as they can, and they are using fear to do it.  It's the same old scam, but this time they are going farther than ever.  Though Sununu hasn't gone as far or as hard as New York, he's made it clear that "Live Free or Die" is just an empty slogan.  Sadly, the fearmongering works, and many people are begging to be told what to do under the auspices of safety.

Tonight, Keene-area libertarians will be commiserating and protesting our lost freedoms, by gathering in Central Square at 12:01am, after Sununu's "order" goes into effect.  We will be bringing back a classic event from about a decade ago called "Keene Nightcap", where participants are encouraged to bring a mind-altering substance to enjoy in the company of others.

Though Sununu doesn't deserve much credit for his tryannical moves, at least there are a couple of loopholes in <a href="https://www.governor.nh.gov/news-media/emergency-orders/documents/emergency-order-17-1.pdf">the stay-at-home "order"</a>, which may actually make such a gathering allowed, so long as people practice so-called "social distancing".  That said, it sure would be outrageous for police to arrest people who voluntarily choose to hug each other.  If you're not scared, come on out and join us tonight at midnight!