Free Keene Blogger Imprisoned Six Days for Caring

August 3, 2009 by Ian
Filed under: Corruption, Issues, Jailed Activist, News, Thuggery, Update

David K As journalist and videographer Sam Dodson was screaming from another room, David Krouse and other activists were ordered to leave the lobby of the allegedly public Keene district court. Krouse sat down and remained peacefully noncooperative. For this, he was arrested and charged with “disorderly conduct”. Last week he was sentenced to six days in the Cheshire jail and that sentence began this morning, as activists gathered to see him off.

Learn more and get the jail contact info at JailedActivist.info. Write to David at Mail-to-Jail.com.

Join us for his release party at the jail on Sunday at 9am. Details on this forum thread.

Videojournalist Dave Ridley has written this letter to the editor of the Sentinel:

Keene liberty activist David Krouse is in jail for several days because he quietly, briefly refused to leave the Keene District Court lobby. He chose to stay there partly in protest of an indie reporter’s arrest, partly out of concern for the reporter’s safety.

If you have a problem with authorities using your tax dollars in this manner, I invite you to join the FreeKeene.com activists who will celebrate Krouse’s release on August 9th. This will presumably ocurr outside the Cheshire County jail. Details are at Calendar.FreeKeene.com. The last such event drew over forty supporters, a hamburger grill and a mobile entertainment center.

Punishing folks for constructively monitoring the government…turns individuals into movements and movements into cultures. The latter is what’s starting to happen now.

Comments

9 Comments on Free Keene Blogger Imprisoned Six Days for Caring

Puke on Mon, 3rd Aug 2009 4:29 pm

Good luck Dave!
See you in a few days.

Peacemaker/aka Markus on Mon, 3rd Aug 2009 6:11 pm

Thanks Dave for proving yet again these Government people don’t care about protecting anyone but themselves.

ELKFART on Tue, 4th Aug 2009 7:33 pm

Dude, you know, if you’d showed your breasts, there’d be like, 70+ more comments on here than 3…*3*!!! what is *WITH* you people! Don’t you care enough to say something in support of David Krause???…David, on behalf of the few Keene natives left here, I sincerely apologize for the totally unecessary bullshit KPD & Kangaroo Court have put you through…and here, I thought I couldn’t get more disgusted and fed up with “my gov’t”…fuckyouburkeshit

thinkliberty on Wed, 5th Aug 2009 10:22 am

Thanks for caring even while violent thugs threatened you. Thanks for not giving in to fear.

Thanks for showing us all how to make the world a better place.

Lpviper on Wed, 5th Aug 2009 10:28 am

You are in the van, David, and someday hopefully the world will look back and remember you as one of the first to stand up and refuse to abandon your friends to tyranny.

Thank you sir

Charlie on Wed, 5th Aug 2009 4:41 pm

David, thank you for having the courage and commitment to be the change libertarians wish to see in the world.

Society in Jail
People talk of government compassion. But there is no compassion in jail, which is where anyone who resists the state — even in the smallest way — ultimately ends up. People talk of social justice but to implement it means requiring everyone to make a choice: obey or face humiliation and servitude. …
People who criticize government as nothing but beating, killing, and hanging — to use Mises’s phrase — are sometime accused of using exaggerated and hyperbolic language. Surely government is more than that and is not always that. Something as simple as a stop sign doesn’t beat you or kill you!

And yet, what the critics of government mean is that all law, even that which appears to be a mere guideline and a help, must ultimately be enforced at the point of a gun. It represents a threat to obey or lose all freedom.

This insight applies to all law, whether it results from a Constitution, legislation, or appears out of nothing more than a regulatory body. Every regulation, no matter how small is enforced at the point of the gun. Every tax can result in handcuffing and jailing and even killing those who fail to fork over. Hidden behind each mandate is an armed tough in jackboots and a bulletproof vest who is prepared to beat and kill to serve the state and its laws.

As legislation extends, so does the coercive arm of the state, its police powers, its jails, and its reach over society. It is like a poisonous fog that descends and grows more by the day, seeping into every nook and cranny of life: schools, businesses, homes, churches. Nowhere is exempt. The sound of the jailer’s key rattling grows louder and more ear-piercing. The culture of the jail, where people are treated worse than animals, proliferates. You can’t move without risking life or limb.