Welcome to FreeKeene’s Newest Blogger: OTN’s Sam

February 28, 2009 by Ian Freeman · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Introduction, Obscured Truth Network

Samiam Sam is a native Texan who embarked on a journey to discover himself and in the process, came across the message of liberty. Sam lived the American dream everyone said he should have, complete with: a high paying corporate job, a new car, a big house, 401k, frequent vacations around the world, and still something wasn’t right. Life had lost it’s luster, despite following everyone’s advice. A series of personal effectiveness trainings combined with the right people, events, and influences, began transforming his life from unhappy corporate lackey to activist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Today, Sam runs OTN Productions, The Obscured Truth Network, he’s a board member for CD Evolution, and he volunteers time to advance the liberty movement in various ways.

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“Hat Wearers” Found Guilty of Disorderly Conduct

February 27, 2009 by Nick Ryder · 13 Comments
Filed under: Issues, News, Personal Freedom, Thuggery

Jesse in Court Jesse, recently arrested in the Milford courtroom for refusing to remove his hat, and Charlie, arrested for asking about the hat rule in the courtroom lobby, were both found guilty on Wednesday of disorderly conduct. However, no punishment was required because they were both sentenced to “time served”, which would be the 4 hours they were held on the day they were arrested.

Jesse, apparently not wishing further conflict with courtroom dress codes, wore a suit to trial and followed the court’s desired procedure throughout. Charlie, while following procedure, also went with questions to ask of the court and officers.

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Free Minds TV February 27, 2009 (EP 99)

February 27, 2009 by toby · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Free Minds TV, National, News, Personal Freedom, Police, Video

A NYPD police officer who tackled a bicyclist for no reason is off the force and facing criminal charges, marijuana may act as a protective agent against injury, a 15-year-old girl is facing child porn charges for taking nude photos of herself, inflation and the Downsizer Dispatch, handing over banks to the fed, teens volunteering and national service, and a South Asian man who was stopped 21 times for random searches sues NYPD for racial profiling.

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The Immortal Atheist Soul

February 26, 2009 by Dale Everett · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Essay

The human body is said to be constructed of a few dollars worth of common chemicals, though I’m not sure what the point of saying this is. A blank DVD costs about a quarter in bulk these days, but you could pay thousands of dollars for one that has the bits on the surface rearranged in a preferred way. The software is what makes it valuable. Patterns are what matter.

In a universe equivalent to a blank DVD, the occasional emergence of a pattern more likely to persist dominated the chaos surrounding it and gradually led to the emergence of yet more complex patterns. It’s almost as if the universe itself is making choices, choices that sometimes seem correct and sometimes seem wrong, but it simply seems like a matter of time before it makes the right choices, the ones that move order forward. This is why I occasionally and reluctantly use the word “pantheist” to describe my views.

The human body was constructed over billions of years of natural selection, and of all the parts of the human body, the brain is the organ that stands out. The brain itself is a microcosm, a pattern which like the universe itself, makes choices and enhances the order of its own pattern through the process of learning and responding to the results of those choices, good or bad. Every other part of the human body seems to exist for the sole purpose of ensuring that this one organ can continue making choices, for preserving what we think of as consciousness. I’ve often discussed my predictions about the human race preserving what matters about us, our consciousness, in a superior and more persistent manner such as through some really advanced computer system. Such an advance would allow us to extend our personal lives dramatically; almost indefinitely.
(Read on…)

Where’s Your… ?

February 25, 2009 by Dale Everett · 1 Comment
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head

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I’m attaching scans of the concepts sketches from when I was designing the anarchy boogeyman. The idea was for him to represent this concept of anarchy that was so scary because it was just very different that what we’d been indoctrinated into. That’s why his parts are all mixed up. He’s gold and black to represent the colors of market anarchy. That’s why he has spots. They’re easy to draw and an easy way to add the black.

I was following a formula for cuteness that I’d read about for cartoon characters. You give them big, wide-set eyes and make them pudgy with short limbs. When I did that at first, he looked way too much like Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants, so to make him distinctively different, I rounded his head. You can see the progression in the concept sketch.

The boogeyman is not a penis!

(Click to see concept sketches)

Robin Hood Strikes Downtown Keene!

February 25, 2009 by James Schlessinger Jr · 1 Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Keene Weekly News, News, Outreach, Video

Robin Hood paid a visit to downtown Keene this week and came to the rescue of some individuals whose parking meter had expired, saving them from the clutches of the Meter Maid!

Senior Freelance Field News Corespondent Jim Johnson filed this report:

Slavery Equals Death

February 24, 2009 by Dale Everett · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Rant

And accordingly, Liberty Equals Life.

Our will is what defines us as living. It’s what makes us critically different from dead inanimate objects, e.g. a rock has no will of it’s own. To the extent that you take away or restrict a person’s will and expression of self, you’re killing that person. I’ve been talking about slavery in very cold and hard terms, and if I communicated my views well, then you probably find it rather depressing. Well I don’t mean to be. Unfortunately, there’s just no delicate way to tell someone a hard truth like that. Fortunately, knowledge is power and you have to know the truth before you can deal with it.

The gay rights movement was onto something with the slogan “Silence Equals Death”. To be threatened with punishment for fully living your life as your innate will would have you live it is akin to being suffocated. Perhaps that sense of suffocation is simply more overt amongst gay and lesbian people by virtue of having a non-typical internal will more at odds with societal standards. In that sense, it can be seen as a gift, in the same way that sensitivity to pain was likely a beneficial mutation for some of the earliest creatures to evolve nervous systems for reacting to dangers in their environment. It’s why the coming out process is such a relief and so empowering. It’s like being alive and gulping in deep breaths after feeling suffocated.

Liberty Activists Call WKBK’s Talkback 2009-02-21

February 22, 2009 by Ian Freeman · 1 Comment
Filed under: Audio, Economic Freedom, Issues

Radio Tower Liberty activists called WKBK’s Talkback Saturday morning and discussed parks, pensions, withholding property taxes, tax sales, Ed Brown, government aggression, using the system, and leaving the country. Listen to Cynthia’s cognitive dissonance as she rejects the idea that government would throw a tax protester from their home and later admits she just “goes along to get along”.

If you are awake on Saturday mornings, we could really use your help! Please join us in calling the program with a pro-liberty viewpoint. Get details on when and how and discuss with other activists on this Free Keene forum thread.

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Dave Ridley’s “Constructive Disobedience” at Keene District Court: March 3rd, 8AM

February 21, 2009 by Ian Freeman · 5 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Issues, ToDo

A letter from Dave Ridley to the Keene Sentinel:

On Nov. 14, authorities at Keene District Court ordered documentary videographer Tom Caruso to shut off his camera – and keep it off. They were just four minutes into a trial he drove four *hours* to film. No acceptable explanation was provided.

I know some of the court operatives and personally like them. But like them or not, they should not be able to draw a veil of secrecy around their public proceedings. You have a right to know what they’re doing with your money. You have a right to know how it looks.

In protest of their partial censorship, I’ve informed KDC authorities I will respectfully attempt to enter the courtroom around 8:00 a.m. on March 3. I’ll have a video camera, and I will *not* shut it off. Not without an acceptable reason. I’ll film the trial of Gandhi-emulating marijuana activist Andrew Carroll in an appropriate, comprehensive manner, or be arrested.

Liberty Activists Call WKBK’s Talkback 2009-02-14

February 20, 2009 by Ian Freeman · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Audio, Issues

Radio Tower Liberty activists called WKBK’s Talkback Saturday morning and discussed persecution of free staters, private schools, insider school board meetings, politicians, marijuana, murder allegations, the NH liberty movement, seatbelts, and the good old boys club.

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