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Sam’s trial started today. The state presented its case before the court time ran out, and the trial will be continued on September 4th.

However, moments after leaving court, Sam broadcasted the below Porc411. Apparently under arrest for driving with a suspended license. More details will be posted to FreeKeene.com as we learn more.

Audio: Sam Arrested

Sam has been released with a summons. More information; including video; will likely be forthcoming throughout the weekend.

Qik videos related to the arrest:

Ian’s Camera Phone
Antijingoist’s Camera Phone

At Keene District court today Patrick Shields, a resident of Keene, was put on trial by the State for charges stemming from the April 13th Court Lobby incident.  At the start of the trial Patrick was informed that the Disorderly Conduct charge was being dropped leaving only the Resisting Arrest charge on the docket.

The trial was very similar to the two held on Monday, July 27 where David Krouse and Nick Ryder faced charges of Disorderly Conduct from the same incident. Police Prosecutor Eli Rivera provided the State’s Testimony, repeating the same statements heard Monday.  Mr. Shields’ argument focused on the fact that Officer Rivera, the arresting officer per the summons, had no physical contact with Mr. Shields and because of this there was nothing to resist as far as a physical arrest.

Patrick also testified that his thought process at the time, given the situation, provided him with one moral option.  He chose to attain a purely passive state and not interact with the Officers.

Judge Edward Burke first congratulated Mr. Shields on his preparation for the trial and then found him guilty.  The punishment handed down was a $1000 fine – suspended.  Should Patrick be convicted of a Class B or greater misdemeanor or a felony within the next year he will have to pay the fine or serve roughly 20 days in jail.

British grandmother wanted in France for a 20-year-old marijuana conviction she didn’t know about, the nanny state is afraid of pizza cutters, people are up in arms about Arnold Schwarzenegger waving a knife in an online video, taxpayers being forced to build historic sewer museums, Princeton closed because of a squirt gun, more news from the UK nanny state, and FEMA is conducting exercises.

http://www.freemindstv.com

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One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. And yes, I am aware of the double entendre. Sucks that we don’t have a better male/female ratio in the Free State Project but I may as well use it to recruit some more gay guys.

This one was actually inspired by Puke over at Dooms Day Device who found a way to have a good laugh at the somewhat disappointing (for straight guys) ratio. I actually had to tone it down a little bit before I was comfortable with it. You know how outrageous I can be so that should say something!

Fret not, men. Fortunately the ratio seems to be getting better lately. Lots more ladies seem to be getting interested in the FSP.

Disclaimer: The Free State Project has not endorsed this message… and probably won’t.

By Andrew Carroll

Seeing the trenchant prose of Friedrich Nietzsche disrespectfully spray-painted on a church building, coupled with anarchy symbols and clichéd atheist mantras, left this particular Nietzschean anarchist with a bad taste in his mouth.

With no actual knowledge of Nietzschean or anarchist philosophy to stop them – and plenty of angst to aid them – the vandals have made nothing but fools of themselves, even amongst fellow anarchists, atheists, and Nietzsche fans.

The famous, and usually misunderstood, quote “God is dead” is not, as our vandals seem to think, a criticism of the concept of God and any ethics derived therefrom, as much as it is a challenge to the atheists of the world, to the godless, whose value system is inherently nihilistic.  This nihilism is something that Nietzsche believes must be overcome (and he died trying to do it).  He believed the atheist must struggle, in a world without God, to create his own values and find his own meaning.  Thus Zarathustra, the character who speaks the famous quote, goes on to say that we, after killing God as a source of value, must “become Gods ourselves…”  In other words, we must become the source of our own values.

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The Current issue of the Free Keene Press

In this issue:

Hope for the Chapel

A local chapel asks for help and the community responds loudly.

Keene Court Drama

3 local activists have trials at the Keene District Court.

Blog Brief

Announcing the Keene Police Scanner Feed!

Celebrating One Year of Continuous, Successful FIJA Outreach

Also

Coming changes to the Keene Free Press include expanding the number of pages and coverage.  I am looking at opening up the paper to local reporters and photographers.  My idea at the beginning was to establish a more “open source” media resource allowing individuals in the liberty community and community-at-large a voice.  So send me an email at press@ freekeene. com .  I am also looking for people who would be willing to take assignments.

Thanks,

JJ

As previously posted, there were trials on Monday for some of the activists charged with disorderly conduct for not leaving the courtroom lobby on April 13, 2009. Only two ended up having trial on Monday, as two had their charges dropped, and one trial was continued while Kurt Hoffman further prepares with his lawyer. The full trial videos of Nick Ryder and David Krouse are up for viewing.

Nick’s case was “taken under advisement”, and will be ruled on and the verdict mailed. We will certainly post an update here when we have one.
David was found guilty, and will be forced to serve 6 days in jail if he refuses their fine money.

Additional video taken from a second videographer at the trials is available on this youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/thefreedommovement

After being rejected at the Canadian border, Jason and Pete decided to make a previously unscheduled stop in Keene where they engaged in some video camera disobedience at the Keene district court, appeared on Free Talk Live for the entire show, and the next morning volunteered at the Hope Chapel repainting. Video:

(FYI-those girls in the pic don’t live in Keene, and are actually wearing pasties. Click for the full version.) Apparently just having some ladies discuss the idea of a liberty event wherein women and men would go topless in public has already begun the next activist “schism”. If you’ve been paying close attention to the movement for a while, you’ll recall the first “schism” was between the politcos and the agorists. There was much forum drama, but the end result was that another forum was born, and the agorists (outside-the-system activists) had a place of their own. Most people still get along just fine, and many still mix their activism between both worlds, but there was much drama and sometimes it still raises its head.

This time, the ideological split is between the sexist prudes and their apologists (it’s not fair of me to call the apologists prudes – some claim to not be) and the freethinkers or as we have been labeled, by the apologists, “libertines”.

A single forum post was all it took (Read on …)

On Friday July 24, 2009 liberty activist Richard (Sam A. Robrin) and Tim (zaphar) received letters in the mail dropping the disorderly conduct charges brought against them by the “City of Keene” Corporation Police Department. Below is a scanned image of one of the letters.

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