No More National Callers to Talkback, Please!

April 6, 2009 by Ian Freeman
Filed under: Announcement

I just got off the phone with Dan Mitchell, program director for 1290 WKBK here in Keene. Apparently the tremendous caller turnout we had on Saturday has upset some people and Dan got some complaints from listeners. (Of course, people are more likely to complain about programming instead of compliment.)

That said, he does have a point and that is that it’s not really appropriate for callers outside the Monadnock region of NH to be participating in a locally oriented show. Dan asked me to stop streaming the show and I managed to talk him into letting me continue to stream it so long as the outside-the-area calls stop. He says he does not wish to implement call screening and that they do have caller-ID in the studio to help them identify potential outside the area callers.

So, I can’t tell you what to do or prevent you from participating if you’re outside the area, but I can tell you that if you want to continue to listen to the live stream, then you should just allow local activists to call. If you’d like to call in, then you’ll need to move to the area, and this includes those listeners who are planning to move – it has been requested that you only call once you are here. Thanks for listening and participating in our weekly Talkback calls, and if you aren’t in the Keene area yet, come on up!

Comments

22 Comments on No More National Callers to Talkback, Please!

zaphar on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 10:57 am

I can understand this, it’s similar to how nharticle10 on the forums keeps posting threads that have nothing to do with activism in Keene.

Scott in Winnipeg on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 11:06 am

It seems like a reasonable request.

bile on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 11:34 am

Exactly what I expected after what happened.

You can tell they (the hosts and callers who are anti-”free peoples”) didn’t like local FSP members calling in like they were but there is little they can do about that. They were obviously more upset by those out of the area calling in which is why I refrained.

I plan on being up there soon enough so that won’t matter for much longer.

Edward Tubbs on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 12:11 pm

Reminds me of the Local Shop for local people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCJcqnuUawE

Jeremy Couch on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 12:50 pm

Exactly why I haven’t called yet. I do have a NH number already for my business line so they wouldn’t know, but it doesn’t really seem appropriate to call from outside the area. Glad you can still stream though!

Puke on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:06 pm

I wonder if the out of state area code on my cell phone means I’ll be screened?
I’ve lived in Keene for 2 years, FYI.

Vesuvius on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:11 pm

They will soon enough screen out all the pro-liberty callers anyway, I can see that happening. Furthermore, few if any of the “real” callers have anything to say beyond some sycophantic smarm to lavish on Cynthia or the usual pejorative vitriol aimed at people who are tired of the nonsense. Yes, it IS stealing! Precisely BECAUSE it is the “law”!

notme honestly! on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:38 pm

If Cynthia was speaking legalese during all her conversations I could see how it would not be stealing(considering they define it). But it certainly is stealing, she knows it and that is why she got so agitated when so many people called her out on it.

Rance "Larry the Dwarf" Muhamitz on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 4:56 pm

Ian,

I hope this doesn’t get FTL pulled from WKBK. Harassing a few bureaucrats isn’t worth losing a station.

Edward J. Burkah on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 5:33 pm

rRemember, people, I’m the DECIDER in my court. When I sign the warrants for your arrests, they will be good wherever you live. My judicial authority knows no bounds of geography, either! SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN! SIT DOWN!

John Delano on Mon, 6th Apr 2009 9:04 pm

Puke, by a cell phone with a New Hampshire number. This is pretty cheap to do.

Dan Steward on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 1:14 am

I’m sure that this is the first of many hoops that Freedom loving people will have to jump through regarding Cynthia and her show.

I might have gotten bugged about it that someone like myself who not just was living out of NH (SW Indiana) but also one of the regular callers from outside Keene, rattling the bars on her cage got banned from calling.

I thought about it today and what it really meant, then I found some actual joy in being excluded from what really is, a worship session of those in power.

Why did I find some real joy? It’s because I won. I took my game to her house and she told me I was so good that she didn’t feel like losing to me anymore. She could not compete in the free market offering any ideas, charity, goods, or services that people would ever want to voluntarily pay for.

I pointed that out to her each week that I was allowed to phone the show.

I offered reason, she countered with force.
I gave solutions, she responded with evasions.
I mentioned accountability, she hid behind raw power.
I presented freedom, she ignored the chains placed on her fellow humans.

Cynthia has nothing, she can offer me not a single thing in the world that I can’t get from anyone else without any of the coercion, fraud, or naked brutality inherent in governmental planning.

She picked up her little bag of marbles and told me that she doesn’t want to play anymore because she lost to me fair and square. Being a politician, she just couldn’t find it in herself to be honest enough to state her real reason for banning people like myself.

I’ve told both her and Fred Parsells before that when people tell me that the 100% “Voluntary Society” can’t be achieved because it hasn’t been done before, I instead say, “just watch me!”

I’ll be in the Keene area soon enough, chipping away tiny piece by piece at the state.

Dan

Slim on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 6:50 am

I have not called in to Talk back because I am not in the area but I do enjoy listening to the show if I am up on Sat mornings.

As for Cynthia the “mob boss” of Keene loosing her cool on the air which showed the illusion that she convinced herself. She needs to realize this is the beginning and it will be happening all over NH very soon. Most of the calls on Sat that I heard from the archive that Ian posted were from Keene area.

I also wonder what constitutes the “Monadnock region” are the people over the river in Vermont in the region or the people from Mass. Is Concord in the region according to the coverage map the signal from WKBK can reach Concord. If some o those people are not encouraged to call then WKBK probably should reduce the signal power so that they do not cross outside the “Monadnock region”

Edward Tubbs on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 10:34 am

I wonder if the out of state area code on my cell phone means I’ll be screened?
I’ve lived in Keene for 2 years, FYI.

What about people with skype phones?

Denis Goddard on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 1:14 pm

Why give these people quarter? Why?

Ian on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 3:48 pm

Who?

Dan Patrick on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 10:00 pm

What if your only phone is a cell with a non NH area code?

Ian on Tue, 7th Apr 2009 10:20 pm

Dan Mitchell said he does not intend to screen calls. I can’t say for sure what the board op will do.

John Delano on Wed, 8th Apr 2009 12:10 am

You can buy a prepaid phone pretty cheap and activate it with a Keene ZIP code. you can probably get one for under $20. I know there is one at Wal-Mart for just under $30 that includes 300 minutes over 2 months.

AnAmazedReader on Fri, 10th Apr 2009 9:31 am

Such grandiose claims about what will be in the future. But of course, past is prologue. The “Free State” movement has been in this area for a pretty good stretch of time already, so its fair to ask:

What has been accomplished thus far that demonstrably affects the lives the vast majority of citizens in Keene and the surrounding areas?

The reason that the movement has been such a failure, in the broadest and most meaningful sense, is because its adherents confuse rhetoric with reality. Clearly, it’s easier that way; it’s a form of regression that’s comforting. But in terms of actually making the agenda a reality? Not a shred of significant evidence. Just a bunch of self-referential stunts and echo-chamber talk.

bile on Fri, 10th Apr 2009 10:01 am

4 years is “a pretty good stretch of time already?” You have to live in the state two years just to run for state office as I understand. Those who have moved are in the minority of those who signed the SOI and moved before the original condition was met. To act as if swift change would occur with 600+ people spread over a state of 1.3 million is rather silly. All social movements start with the more brave minority. Those willing to up and move. To put themselves on the line. You are building a strawman argument that you can’t lose. Why not wait until the original plan is even half way met? Would you have questioned Ghandi in 1917? Or those in the woman’s suffrage movement in the late 1800′s and early 1900′s?

What would you consider progress? Would you have considered abolilition of slavery in the US a failure 4 years after Paine wrote African Slavery in America? Is not getting more people interested in your idea the first step? Has the past two years, for all liberty movements, not gained more momentum and support than perhaps any other time in history?