Brad Jardis Leaves Law Enforcement

17 Comments on Brad Jardis Leaves Law Enforcement

Paul on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 2:02 pm


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I’m sad to hear this, but I’m sure he had good reasons. The situation must have been untenable.

I look forward to the great things Jardis will do outside of LE, as a member of the liberty community. And, I look forward to the day when I once again have the freedom to use the fruit of my labor as I choose — when I can fire the local PD, and hire Jardis Security instead.


Dave on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 2:32 pm


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So what is Jardis going to do for work now? Maybe he can become a private investigator.


Wyatt on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 4:05 pm


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“Look, we know they are slaughtering Jewish men, women and children behind those walls. But it is THE LAW. Don’t you dare question and expose the evil system. Now just go on about your life as usual and ignore the smoke coming from behind those walls. Or you can go to the Gestapo and beg them to stop and maybe in time they’ll even turn a listening ear to your pleas. But more than likely they’ll just throw you in with the Jews. It’s your choice because it’s THE LAW!”


Thomas on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 5:52 pm


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From looking from the LAW, the Constitution is the “supreme Law of the Land”, and the Supreme Court ruled via Marbury v. Madison that “a law repugnant to the Constitution is void.” And there is no mention concerning marijuana or any drug whatsoever in the Constitution. And the 10th Amemndment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” And I could be wrong, but I remember New Hampashire law allows possession of marijuana with a doctor’s prescription, so Brad Jardis did follow the law after all.


Dan on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 6:02 pm


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Part of me is sorry to not have him on the force anymore, because he will most likely be replaced by a cop who IS willing to enforce bad laws and make society worse.

But I was also becoming concerned for his safety from other police officers. Having seen what they are willing to do to harmless people for possessing certain herbs, I can only imagine the brutality and cruelty they would inflict upon somebody they considered a traitor to their cause (wrongfully).


Sam A. Robrin on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 8:39 pm


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I agree: Relinquishing the way he makes a living has probably saved Brad’s life.


LSNL on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 10:00 pm


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Jardis for Sheriff!


Lpviper on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 11:13 pm


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Great comment! Sheriffs hold the keys to greater liberty for every locality.

Brad Jardis as sheriff would probably boot the feds out of his county and stop enforcement of liberty violating laws.

That’s the kind of platform everyone should be able to get behind!


Peacemaker on Wed, 27th Jan 2010 11:58 pm


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The more honest people learn about the government system, the more they want nothing to do with it.

There’s a better way.


Vince on Thu, 28th Jan 2010 3:36 am


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Agreed. Brad Jardis for Sheriff!


Lpviper on Thu, 28th Jan 2010 7:05 am


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I completely concur, peacemaker. In the meantime, let’s get some liberty loving sheriffs in there


Russell Kanning on Thu, 28th Jan 2010 8:36 am


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Unlike what the LEAP guy said, for me I have more respect for Brad after he made his recent declaration that he would not arrest someone for using certain herbs as medicine.


AnarchoJesse on Thu, 28th Jan 2010 7:51 pm


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Brad, I think you’re one of the greatest and bravest guys I know.


theKINGofKEENE on Sat, 30th Jan 2010 9:19 am


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Jesse’s so right…Bradley Jardis seems the hero-winner in this story, despite recent events. I hope you have good fortune in the future, Bradley. But isn’t it so sad that there is still such a virulent ignorance as shown by Epping’s bureaucraps? The swaggering bully childishness of the Chief of Police makes me sad. Chief should have publicly supported his troop, while taking the initiative to re-affirm the Town/Dept. position & policy. This asinine war on drugs has put 1/2 of all cops on the enemy side of the other 1/2…divide & conquer, anyone???…Should *I* quit L.E.A.P.???…Hmmm…TTYL…


theKINGofKEENE on Mon, 1st Feb 2010 3:21 pm


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I joined L.E.A.P. in Oct. 2008, after seeing Cheshire County House of Collections superintendent Rick Van Wickler give a power-point talk here at Keene State College. For now, I’m not gonna over-react to this little tempest-in-a-teapot…Maybe Jack Cole (LEAP Director…),will also soon be unemployed!?…


DennyC on Wed, 21st Apr 2010 7:11 am


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I’m confused in that what Jarvis did was admirable but he lost his job and any chance of working in law enforcement. With this economy it made no sense. He could have played a better role by working behind the scenes, anonymity, and remaining employed.
Does he have a wife? Kid? Bills?Whats he doing now?


bandit on Tue, 17th Jan 2012 3:43 am


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An open letter:

Jack Cole, and the LEAP BoD:

I just ran across the case of Brad Jardis and LEAP.
I must say, I am very shocked, saddened, and astonished at LEAP’s response.
I have been a supporter of LEAP thru-out the years when I have had the means.

It boils down to this:
there is a clear conflict of morals here between a cop enforcing the law,
and the enforcing of a clearly immoral law.
In such a conflict, the refusal to enforce the immoral law wins.

Take an Reductio ad absurdum case:
a law that *requires* the cop shoots someone with drugs.
What is the clear moral choice?
Refuse to enforce the law.

Sadly, history shows that type of law has been on the books, except it was killing Jews.
(Please note I am not invoking Godwin’s Law.)
It *is* a historical fact that, once the Nazis had killed a couple of hundred Jews,
they realized there was not a law that permitted them to kill Jews.
They corrected that oversight and passed a law.
6 million Jews (and at least 12 Million others) later, the Allied finally defeated them.

Under LEAP’s logic, Mr Jardis refusing to shoot a Jewish person would be immoral.
(It makes no difference, you will admit, between shooting someone and being an accessory.)

What is the fundamental difference between killing someone,
vs otherwise destroying a sick person’s life with an arrest for MedPot?
This is a difference in scale, not a difference in kind.

I would also note there are cases of people dying a painful death after
being arrested for MedPot, and then being unable to obtain more.

With the increasing number of laws trashing the Bill of Rights,
under the War banners of Drugs and Terrorism, what is LEAP going to do?
At what point does the law become so egregious that y’all speak out
for LE to take an active moral stand?
Just look at the differing responses to the orders to the police,
and the refusal by some, to the harsh crackdown on the Occupy groups.

Also by LEAP’s logic, LEAP should *refuse* to allow any association with the
(at last count) of the 25% of federal judges that have refused to hear drug cases.

LEAP is also concerned about cops getting fired for just speaking out against
the Drug War – and yet these same cops must now feel that LEAP will dump them too.
LEAP’s response to Mr Jardis sends a clear message that LEAP cannot be trusted by those LEOs.

I sincerely hope that LEAP will re-think its position on this issue,
because blind obedience (which you are clearly demanding) to a grossly
immoral law is grossly immoral itself.

In fact, the blind enforcing of the drug laws, especially against sick people,
have had a tremendous, corrosive effect on respect for the Law and LE.
*That* is something LEAP should be greatly concerned about,
which is one of the reasons I was *shocked* at LEAP’s response to Mr Jardis.

(In fact, I should be one to assume the LEO’s I encounter are honest.
Note that *all* traffic stops in the last 20 years in California
and Washington State has run thru *my* code for NCIC and DOL checks.
I wrote that portion of the message switchers in 1991.
I *want* to respect LE, but I *must* assume that *any* LEO I encounter
*must* be corrupt, because of the possible consequences.
This makes me very sad as a citizen.)

And, while I am unsure if MedPot was legal at that time in the state Mr Jardis was a cop,
you should clearly know a cop in a state with legal MedPot should obey the law
which makes it legal, even though it is still illegal under Federal law.

On a related topic, I would note the war on drugs has been, in the US,
a “police action” (all references deliberate). Mexico has a Drug War.
It is only a matter of time, a few years at most, before this war crosses the border
and US citizens (police and civilians) start getting killed at a rapid rate.
I say this because it is obvious, and LEAP is one of the organizations with the
access to those who *can* change the law.

In short, grow some balls. Time is short. Tens of Thousands have died in Mexico alone.

This war is coming to the US. I live in Albuquerque, and the border states are going
to be the first real battlefields in the next phase of this war.
I do *not* want this. I want this war to *end*.
And one thing is obvious – if this war does not end, the cartels *will* cross the border,
and cops are going to be the first to be killed because they are the most obvious targets.
The consequences of this trend scare the shit out of me.

Respectfully yours … bandit

http://freekeene.com/2010/01/27/brad-jardis-leaves-law-enforcement/

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Jardis, who has spoken publicly many times on behalf of LEAP, urged other New Hampshire police officers not to make the arrests either, claiming it’s unconstitutional to charge a sick person using marijuana for medicinal purposes.

“This is the opposite of what LEAP requires of our representatives,” Cole said in his letter. “We have always said that we will in no way ask that any law enforcer decline to do his or her duty by refusing to enforce the laws as they are currently recorded. That would be unethical and wrong. What we do call on them for (to) is take action on their off-duty time to help us change those laws.”

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