Free In Idaho!

  

   My name is Bill, and this is my wife Cathy.  Cathy is a Boise, Idaho girl, and I’ve lived in Washington’s Puget Sound area all of my life. 

   Cathy and I have dreamed of moving back to Idaho for a number of years, and in late 2005 we took the steps necessary to accomplish that.  We are so blessed to be able to do that, and to make a new life here. 

  We’re Free In Idaho!

Freed from…

• sin condemnation
• big corporate silliness
• even sillier politics
• the Pacific North-wet

Free to…

• shoot, hunt, and fish
• bike, hike, and camp
• work hard at new careers
• write what interests me
• praise God!

We live in Meridian, Idaho and we’re busy enjoying life and building new careers.  If someone said to you “what would you like your life to look like” what would you tell them?  And if it didn’t look like what you wanted, would you change it?  We did. 

Our daughters live on the coasts, one in Rhode Island San Francisco, and one in Washington… Idaho is a little boring for them right now, but we find it perfect.      

You can email us at    BillH  at  FreeInIdaho  dot  com

Remember to be thankful in all things…

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

-Daniel Defoe

Remember that what we have is given by God, not some big nanny government…

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” —William J. H. Boetcker

And remember what John Adams said about defending yourself and your liberty…

“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.”
- John Adams

Remember the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. vs Heller June 26, 2008

The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.

Which is fine, as far as it goes, but remember that Thomas Jefferson took it much farther when he said

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
- Thomas Jefferson, proposed Virginia constitution, June 1776. 1 Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C. J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)