N.H. Lawmaker Alciere Resigns. The recently elected legislator (to reports about whose statements advocating the legitimacy of cop-killing I blinked below) has been forced by popular demand to resign, effective 11:59 tonight. Alciere has acknowledged posting anti-police messages on the
Internet, including one that said: “There is nothing wrong with
slaughtering a cop. Just throw the carcass into the Dumpster
with the rest of the garbage.” He’s apparently a radical libertarian who, as a condition of his resignation, demanded that the NH Legislature vote on the abolition of public education and the legalization of all drugs. Another legislator has stepped in and agreed to be Alciere’s proxy in introducing the bills, stating that the issue has been such a distraction to the Legislature that he’ll do anything to facilitate Alciere’s departure. Alciere thinks he stands a chance of being re-elected in the special run-off election that will fill the vacancy his resignation causes. Amazing that, this time, the voters might get a second chance when they squandered their first one. In all the public outcry, I haven’t heard anyone saying “I told you so” yet to them — this is what you get if you vote the party line instead of investigating your candidate’s views before electing him. In the same state, Republicans also elected a legislator who had failed to reveal his conviction and incarceration on check-forgery charges in neighboring Massachusetts in the ’80’s. Who was it who said something to the effect that a people get the government they deserve? Whether or not a government serves the people well, it serves them right, I’d say.