> JANUARY 02, 20:54 EST
>
> N.H. Lawmaker Advocates Killing Cops
>
> By MIKE RECHT Associated Press Writer
>
> CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A newly elected Republican state lawmaker has
> enraged his constituents, party leaders and police by saying he
> favors killing police officers when they cross the line. One police
> chief calls him ``a hate-mongering lunatic.''
>
> Tom Alciere, 41, won a seat in the New Hampshire House on his fourth
> try after a low-key campaign last fall. It wasn't until Sunday that
> his constituents in Nashua learned of his anti-police views.
>
> Alciere told the Valley News of Lebanon that he loves it when
> someone kills a police officer: ``It's unfortunate that cops do make
> it necessary (to kill them) when they're waging a war on drugs, and
> I view cops as enemy officers.'' He said he is ``too chicken'' to do
> it himself.
>
> He acknowledges posting his views at Internet chat sites for months,
> including this 1999 comment: ``Nobody will ever be safe until the
> last cop is dead.''
>
> State GOP Chairman Steve Duprey said Alciere should renounce his
> views or resign. But Alciere stood his ground.
>
> ``There's no way I'm going to resign,'' he said Tuesday.
>
> Alciere, a married father of one who inspects circuit boards at a
> factory, said he was arrested for ``petty stuff'' years ago but
> never went to jail and has no criminal record. He said his
> anti-police comments are the ``harmless rantings of a private
> citizen'' that won't influence his legislative work.
>
> New Hampshire has no procedure for recalling state representatives,
> and legislators said they expect Alciere to serve.
>
> ``As despicable as the ideas are, the complaints against him are for
> his ideas,'' said Peter Burling, the House Democratic leader.
>
> With 400 members, the New Hampshire House is the largest state
> legislative body in the country and many campaigns don't get much
> media attention. Alciere admits he didn't advertise his views during
> his campaign, but denies misleading anyone.
>
> ``Nobody asked,'' he said. ``For state representative, you don't
> have to tell where you stand on the issues.''
>
> He said when police cross the line, citizens have the right to use
> force to defend themselves: ``Whatever is necessary is necessary. It
> sounds kind of harsh.''
>
> He is taking plenty of heat. Newmarket police Chief Rodney Collins
> called Alciere ``a hate-mongering lunatic,'' and Gov. Jeanne Shaheen
> is among state leaders to denounce him.
>
> Nashua Deputy Police Chief Timothy Hefferan said supervisors warn
> officers to be careful if they get a call to Alciere's apartment
> building. He said police usually stay out of politics, but ``I think
> we'll have to revisit that policy just to enlighten people.''
>
> Alciere's views got some publicity when he wrote letters to
> newspapers.
>
> In 1997, three days after Carl Drega killed two state troopers, a
> part-time judge and a newspaper editor in Colebrook, Alciere sent a
> letter saying that except for the editor, Drega was ``an otherwise
> innocent cop-killer taking out enemy officers in battle.''
>
> The letter was never published, but became part of the
> investigation.
>
> A short time later, Epsom police officer Jeremy Charron was
> murdered. Alciere defended Charron's killer, Gordon Perry, because
> he said Charron had no right to ask Perry and a companion for
> identification while they slept in their car.
>
> Alciere said his anger stems from reading and watching television
> about police misconduct, and his belief that many of the laws the
> police enforce are unjust.
>
> But during his campaign, he promised simply to oppose any bills that
> infringe on freedom, and defeated a Democratic incumbent by 55
> votes. In his previous runs for the seat, Alciere ran twice as a
> Libertarian and once as a Democrat.
>
> After the election, Alciere went online and said he was elected by a
> ``bunch of fat, stupid, ugly old ladies that watch soap operas, play
> bingo, read tabloids and don't know the metric system.''
>
> ``The same lamebrains who vote for politicians who are WRONG finally
> voted for one who is RIGHT,'' he wrote.