Sam to Appear on FOX’s “Freedom Watch”, 5/27, 2:40p ET!

May 26, 2009 by Ian · 24 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Update, Video

Sam I just got off the phone with the producer of FOX News’ “Freedom Watch” with judge Andrew Napolitano, an immensely popular online-only television program with lots of liberty-oriented guests. Viewers have been voting for Sam as a guest and now, thanks to jail superintendent Rick Van Wickler, the interview is happening tomorrow at 2:40pm ET online at FreedomWatchonFOX.com.

Thank you for helping get the word out about Sam. Hopefully this appearance will help really break his story.

ACTION ITEM: HB 312, Police Transparency

May 25, 2009 by toby · 68 Comments
Filed under: Issues, Personal Freedom, Police, ToDo

ACTION Under current NH law, audio recording a police officer is explicitly illegal, except with their consent. This means that NH police officers currently have the law on their side when they order an individual to shut off their video camera. Of course police officers are permitted to, and routinely do, video and audio record the public without any consent. The law clearly is not written to protect the people, but rather government bureaucrats who do not want the public to see what they are actually doing and how they are treating people.

House Bill 312 would give the public the right to audio record a police officer while they are carrying out their official duties. Joel Winters, who is the primary sponsor of this bill, crafted the language of this piece of legislation to give the power back to the people. Read more

Free Keene Fest May 23, 2009

May 24, 2009 by toby · 3 Comments
Filed under: Free Minds TV, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Video

Free Minds TV covers the spring edition of Free Keene Fest. FKF is an outreach project to educate the public of the importance of liberty and freedom.

Attended by free staters, libertarians, anarchists, and NH natives, Free Keene Fest is sponsored by FreeKeene.com.

Learn more on next week’s edition of Free Minds TV.

Soul-Crushing Prisons Part 2

May 24, 2009 by Dale Everett · 1 Comment
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head

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I apologize that this one was posted so late. This has been the busiest week for me since I moved to New Hampshire.

Sam Calls WKBK’s Talkback and Dan Mitchell

May 22, 2009 by Ian · 7 Comments
Filed under: Audio, Personal Freedom, Update

Radio Tower Sam called Dan Mitchell’s morning show on WKBK this morning. Afterwards, a statist calls to spout unfounded nonsense. Grab the archive.

Also, here’s the archive from last week’s Talkback, which also includes a call from Sam, some statists, and liberty activists discussing violence and morality. Please join us for our weekly listening, chatting, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.

Sam’s Jail Blog: Tuesday, May 19

May 22, 2009 by Sam Dodson · 7 Comments
Filed under: Corruption, Obscured Truth Network, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Police, Thuggery, Update

Tuesday, May 19:

On “The Hill” at the Cheshire County Correctional Facility.
Sam
The Hill, as they call it, is working on the dairy farm, reportedly owned by the jail. I was wrong in my original assumption. According to the other prisoners, no milk from the farm is used at the jail, and it’s sold at cost. Here’s where i gets interesting. The farm is run by Dave Potnam, a local selectman for Westmoreland. It appears at least on its surface to be another example of government granting monopoly privilege to the bureaucrats’ friends and family – or themselves in this case.

I’m left wondering what his management fee is for a farm that requires no personal investment of his own for equipment, seed stock, facilities, repairs, etc. He gets the benefit of a paycheck – I wonder how much – without any of the risks other farmers take, while getting a never ending supply of free slave labor from the jail.
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Sam’s Jail Blog: Monday, May 18

May 22, 2009 by Sam Dodson · 4 Comments
Filed under: Obscured Truth Network, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Update

Monday, May 18:
Sam
Will the wonders of the so called NH “Justice” system ever cease? The prosecutor, now the country attorney, is getting really desperate in his attempt to clean up the mess created by Keene District Court security and the Keene Police Department. The demurs clearly show the charges are deficient and suffer fatal flaws. That presents a problem. They have held me in jail for over a month on baseless trumped up charges, and they need to save face. So they picked the weakest two and dropped them. They are also the two even remotely related to the issue at hand – Burke over stepping his authority, and freedom of the press. Government likes to use the court system they designed to control the discussion and obscure anything remotely damaging to their railroading process.

When all else fails, it’s time to use the good old standby, contempt. Look it up in the statutes, and you won’t find it. It’s a magical charge that one tyrant in a black dress used to jail over 35 people overnight when a cellphone went off in “his” courtroom.
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The Water’s Fine

May 21, 2009 by Mike Barskey · 11 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Outreach

I attended the Liberty Forum in Concord, New Hampshire in February of 2007 to find out what the Free State Project was all about. I wanted to meet people with similar views to mine – to actually know first-hand that there were others in the world like me – and to see the state, experience what winter was like, and get a feel for the cities in New Hampshire. I decided I liked it here; there were more liberty-loving people – very active ones – than I imagined, and I thought that living amongst them would be enjoyable.

But, while I had a strong understanding of the principles of liberty and a strong opinion about the way things “should” be, I had never acted on my beliefs before. I had never passed out FIJA literature, I had never refused to cooperate with a law enforcement officer, I had always filed my taxed, etc. I hadn’t even tried to educate my family (well, I gave up after a few futile arguments). Being active towards the achievement of liberty and towards educating others about it was completely foreign to me.

0111 Free Minds TV May 22, 2009

May 21, 2009 by toby · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Free Minds TV, National, News, Video

The US Senate wants to put a sin tax on soda, snooping on your neighbors in the UK, nanny state switches to clip on neckties due to safety concerns, the Downsizer Dispatch, silly Canadians, marijuana may cause brain cancer cells to destroy each other, a medical marijuana update, police transparency in NH, and an update on liberty activist Sam who is still behind bars.

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