Interesting. I did not know that ‘flipping out’ was the same thing as screaming in pain when a pair of handcuffs is improperly attached to one’s wrists.

As I stated above, repeated uses of force against peaceful individuals who are obviously not committing crimes will eventually anger the populace, regardless of your or anyone else’s opinions of the Free State Project or liberty activists in general.

Alluding to them as ‘whack jobs’, and dismissing their ideology as ‘fantasy’ without a convincing argument (at least not in your response above, what are these contradictions of which you speak?) will do nothing to change the nature of the actions of activists or of the tyrants who harm them and lock them in cages.

Andy,

In fact, the reaction of the people of Keene, beyond those few people here who are already members of the movement, has been one of indifference, mostly because members of the FSP here tend to come off as whack jobs. This is because the ideology expressed is often so fantasy-based, and doesn’t address the basic contradictions and challenges inherent in human society (or even non-society, if you will). A guy flipping out while being taken away by police; it’s not exactly an unusual occurrence, as it happens with the mentally ill, the inebriated, people under emotional duress, etc. If this person had established a significant degree of political and social credibility with a wide cross-section of Keene’s residents, I would think there would have been a reaction. But he hasn’t, and the group he’s a part of hasn’t either. In this instance, most people who even noticed will tend to think “Oh, another nutty guy got hauled off to the county farm; what’s the big deal?”. Sorry.

Go, Sam! *thumbs up*

Free Sam Dodson!

The inherent contradictions that underlie the very existence of your violent monopoly will doom you to repeat this process over and over until the people ignore you, because they will see you for what you are, thugs operating under the color of morality and ‘rule of law’.

Thank you John or Sam or whatever you may be called at this moment (formal labelling of individuals is a governmental obsession, I’ll know you when I see you or hear your voice) for exposing this farce, and I know there will be another brave soul waiting in the on-deck circle to go back around and through again, and I would think it won’t take too awful much of this before the people of Keene look at it and say, ‘What the hell are these cops and this judge doing?’ Then the feces will strike the air circulation device.

Good Day All

Andy in Michigan