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Peaceful Evolution

Good times at 4:20 in Keene Commons

Filed under: News, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Police, The Free Keene Press, Update — JJ at 4:10 pm on Thursday, September 24, 2009

The announced cannabis smoking event went as planned with no intervention from the state.  As many as a hundred people showed up at Central Square in Keene to live as free men and women.  Many cameras and cigarettes were seen in hands of an upbeat crowd of people.  The smell of marijuana wafted in the air for a few moments here and there as I passed through the throng.

In between fits of laughter and cheering, people were heard pointing out the Keene Police cruisers circling the center.  Officers did not step upon the center but instead stayed on the street and were seen talking with activists and locals; no arrests were made or summons handed out.  Reporters were on hand from both the Union Leader and the Keene Sentinel as well as a video crew from the Obscured Truth Network.

This event is scheduled to take place everyday at 4:20pm.

22 Comments »

Comment by Mike

September 24, 2009 @ 4:15 pm

Congratulations to the activists and participants, and thank you!

Comment by Mrs. Antijingoist

September 24, 2009 @ 4:46 pm

W00t

Comment by FURBjr

September 24, 2009 @ 5:17 pm

This is awesome. I personally don’t use drugs, unless absolutely necessary, but bravo to those of you that were there, and peacefully undermined the aparatus of the state.

Comment by Pete Eyre

September 24, 2009 @ 6:48 pm

Thanks for the update! Wish we could have joined y’all but we know you guys and gals did it up right.

Comment by Anton Lee

September 24, 2009 @ 7:27 pm

I hope this continues until they decide to stop enforcing stupid marijuana laws. Keene is the place to be for liberty activism.

Comment by Kenny

September 24, 2009 @ 7:49 pm

Having a celebratory smoke in NE tonight; congratulations on making Keene freer.

Comment by davehollis

September 24, 2009 @ 8:04 pm

Congratulations on a job well done.

Comment by Atlas

September 24, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

Very Impressive.

Comment by Jeff

September 24, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

Wow. I pray and hope that people everywhere see what those of you in Keene are doing and find the courage to stand up for themselves as well and say NO MORE! to the violent thugs lording over their lives.

Simply awesome!

Comment by Lpviper

September 24, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

Cheers from Michigan.

Good stuff, folks!

Comment by D

September 24, 2009 @ 9:08 pm

You people are destroying the freedom movement! Why don’t you spend all your time trying to beg the legislator to give state permission to some people to smoke cannabis in secret with a prescription? Why not run for governor yourself seeing how he’s vetoed it. Our duly elected representatives make the rules. IF WE DON”T OBEY THEM WE WILL MAKE OURSELVES LOOK FOOLISH.

USE THE SYSTEM! VOTE, RUN FOR OFFICE! ORGANIZE A SIGN WAVE!!!! OBEY ME AND BE FREE!

Good job guys.

-D

Comment by Paul

September 24, 2009 @ 9:12 pm

Bravo! I wish I could be there! I wouldn’t smoke, but I’d sure as heck carry a big @#$@ sign :)

Comment by Adam

September 24, 2009 @ 9:39 pm

Huge! Hahahahah!

Who is worse? A person who makes bad laws? Or the people who follow them?

Comment by iawai

September 24, 2009 @ 9:48 pm

“This event is scheduled to take place everyday at 4:20pm.”
:)

You all are setting a great example. Stay peaceful!

Comment by Mitch

September 24, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

This is really amazing stuff! Great job!

Comment by theKINGofKEENE

September 24, 2009 @ 10:51 pm

…Here’s exactly how it went down today: I was strolling downtown Jumanjiville/Keene today…I saw a guy sitting at a table in front of Luca Paris-THE LIAR’s cafe – Luca’s(I busted my ass washing dishes for the woman-hating Luca Paris for 8 months – $7.50/hour – no raise. He fired me, I went to file unemployment, he lied, said I quit, just so I couldn’t get the unemployment that I worked for…so it goes…). I recognized Randall J. “Randy” Tefft, thank-God now retired Keene *PIG*…I was most prepared to just walk right by him…He saw me…got his big-ole shit-eatin’grin on…I figure he’s gonna say hi…he sees me, & invites my response by smiling at me(maybe he was making fun of me. Whatever…) So I walk up to his table. I look him in the eye. I say, “Tefft, you’re a fucking piece of shit.” Or maybe, “You’re a fucking piece of shit, *TEFFT*”…Whatever…I’m waiting for something, anything out of Tefft. At first, he thinks I’m kidding, maybe. Then he sees the non-expression on my face…He says, “You’re serious, aren’t you?” I say, “Yes, you’re a fucking piece of shit, Tefft.” All of a sudden, he whips out his cell phone, says, “I’m gonna call the Police.” (Gee, Tefft, aren’t *YOU* the police???…)So I say, Well, then, I’m just gonna turn and walk away…See, Tefft has falsely & fraudulently conspired to fabricate charges against me. Worst case was Christmas Eve, 2005…Tefft & Eli Rivera dupe officer Lundin into joining them in falsely arresting me. Tefft and Rivera both LIED IN SWORN STATEMENTS. That’s OK. Perjury by cop is acceptable evidence in Burke-the-jerk’s Kangaroo Court…Tefft is a real macho tough guy when he’s got his gun. But little old me? Never attacked anybody? Tefft gets all girly-man! Can’t even shit-talk me back! PROOF, that those two BULLIES-WITH-BADGES, Tefft & Rivera, are COWARDS AT HEART! Fuck you, Tefft, LEAVE *ME* alone, asshole!////////the 420 Rally was AWESOME!!!

Comment by Brad

September 24, 2009 @ 11:45 pm

Point of information: The gathering was at Central Square. The “Center At Keene” is a different place.

Comment by Brad

September 24, 2009 @ 11:45 pm

Oh, and there was a reporter there from WKBK radio (me). My video is at wkbkam.com

Comment by Neal Conner

September 24, 2009 @ 11:56 pm

Please upvote the article about the smoke-out on reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/Marijuana/comments/9ntce/30_people_smoke_pot_yesterday_at_central_square/

Comment by D

September 25, 2009 @ 1:01 am

my last comment didn’t post… test test test

Comment by D

September 25, 2009 @ 1:02 am

Is there some kind of filter for posts? Or did my comments get moderated? Are there any rules, like i used at one point. is that prob?

Comment by Ian

September 25, 2009 @ 1:11 am

May the junk-looking email address you posted with triggered the spam filter. That’s where I found your post.

It will also knock out posts with a certain number of links, but that wasn’t present in your post, so I don’t know for sure why it was marked.

Thanks for participating here at Free Keene!

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