Free Keene

It was the end of December 2006 when Free Keene quietly launched. Today, we have over 23,000 visits per month, over 1,100 facebook fans, the busiest liberty activism forum in the state, and have helped little Keene truly become New Hampshire’s Liberty Activist Destination. New people every week are posting their intentions to move in our forum. When are you coming to Keene?

This was a record-setting year for the number of movers to Keene as well as the numbers of activists put in jail. The more the state gang lashes out against peaceful activists, the more people will come here to help us Free Keene! (So thank you, Ed Burke and Eli Rivera!) More people armed with video cameras and audio recorders are arriving every month and things are only going to get more difficult for the aggressors. Their days of coercive control are numbered, and the number will shrink when you arrive!

Thank you to our wonderful bloggers and thanks to all who read and participate on this site. Have a happy, safe and fun New Year’s Eve! See you in 2010!

Health and safety nuts are freaking out in the UK because beer is cheaper than water, the Downsizer Dispatch, dead people being displaced by eminent domain, and Canadian music companies acting as huge hypocrites by suing individuals for downloading music while they steal millions from artists.

On Thursday, January 7th HB1347 is to heard before the NH House Judiciary Committee.

House bill 1347 would require that “In all court proceedings the court shall instruct the jury of its inherent right to judge the law as well as the facts and to nullify any and all actions they find to be unjust.”

If you can make it to the State House to support this bill please do. If you can’t make it you could still help out by sending an email asking committee members to support this bill.

david.cote@leg.state.nh.us
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robert.thompson@leg.state.nh.us
nancy_elliott@elliott-controls.com
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phackel@comcast.net
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rick.watrous@leg.state.nh.us
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lawrence.perkins@leg.state.nh.us

My parking ticket saga continues (see the other parts here), as today while at court to support Kurt I was “served” by the friendly Peter “Sturdy” Thomas of the Keene police. Here’s the complaint he foisted upon me, alleging I committed a “VIOLATION” of city ordinance 94-152 B1. As you can see, the original was completely illegible so Sturdy took the time to trace over most of it for me – such service! Basically they are claiming I parked at an expired meter and didn’t pay for the meter.

I’ve been meaning to post my correspondence about this incident with the Keene police’s parking bureau head, Ginger Reyes, and this gives me the perfect opportunity. (I believe she’s the angry-looking blonde parking enforcement person so many Keeniacs are unfortunately too familiar with.) Here’s the situation. (Read on …)

From the Union Leader’s Melanie Plenda:

KEENE – Don Primrose is opening a temporary cold-weather shelter for the homeless on Tuesday — whether the city approves or not.

The 50-year-old Sullivan man recently became an advocate for six men living in a shack behind a local shopping plaza when the city cited the men for building, health and fire code violations.

Primrose, a farmer and retired contractor, said he has rented space in a commercial building off Main Street to serve as a temporary shelter for the homeless.

The Hundred Nights Shelter will be open until March, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily, he said. There will be 16 beds, mostly in one room, with some beds in two or three smaller rooms. There will be a toilet and sink, but no shower facilities or other amenities.

“It will just be a safe, warm place to sleep for the night,” Primrose said.

He said when he approached city officials with his plans yesterday morning, he was told he would have to go through the planning and zoning process. But, by the end of the day, he was told he may not have to go through those steps, depending on how the planning department interprets what he is doing.

“The need is now,” Primrose said. “I understand there may be penalties, there may be hard feelings or confusion on the part of the city, but I believe there is a need right now . . . we are going forward.” (Read on …)

Rob Menard from ThinkFree.ca has been posting a series of videos, “Fundamentals of Freedom” to his youtube account, and they’ve been pretty good so far. So good in fact, that FreeKeene.com is going to sponsor some upcoming lessons. Here’s Lesson 4, “Society and Statutes”. In it he discusses creating your own society, as we have been discussing here on the Free Keene Forum.

Part 1:
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Liberty activists visited the jail in Westmoreland tonight and did some Christmas caroling outside the gym door. (This is the best place to get prisoners to hear you.)

Click read on for two more videos! (Read on …)

Undercover cop brings a gun to a snowball fight, parts of the health care bill may be permanent, the Downsizer Dispatch, Reindeer event canceled because UK nanny staters were afraid of the slippery snow, and you best not get pregnant if you are in the army.

Liberty minded people called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss the police, the people camping behind Hannaford, the jail, and city worker shenanigans.

Grab the archive.

Please join us for our weekly chat and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 11a-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.

Due to low usage, the Free Keene chat room has been replaced by the chat room for the Liberty Radio Network. You can still get in the chat by visiting Chat.FreeKeene.com, and we still have our weekly scheduled chat Saturday mornings from 11a-12p during WKBK’s Talkback. Hopefully using the LRN chat will increase participation in that particular event, as you can listen to Talkback streamed live on the Liberty Radio Network.