News Update

June 8, 2010 by Bradley Jardis
Filed under: Issues, News

1. It is refreshing when the state focuses on going after those who actually hurt others. A woman attacked with a dumbbell. An accused rapist. Another accused rapist. A man who breaks a woman’s nose in a domestic dispute. A man who shakes a helpless 11-month old child. This behavior, if proven to have actually have committed, is unacceptable and should be met with justice.

Is it really hard to understand that people within the freedom/liberty movement simply want consensual acts between people as well as acts which harm no other individual to be unfettered? It is amazing that simply wanting to allow other people to live their lives in the way they see fit is a goal that needs to be striven for.

In the “land of the free” shouldn’t this already be the state of affairs?

2. A homeless man in Portsmouth, NH smashed the window out of a local business so that he could be arrested and taken to jail. He needed a place to stay as the local homeless shelter had kicked him out. The question this makes me ask myself is that I wonder if he would have more options and places to go in a world where onerous zoning and building codes did not exist. Destroying someone’s property is in fact a real crime that warrants application of justice. I just wonder if a troubled man like this one could have found help somewhere in a world a tad bit freer than the one we currently occupy.

3. A man risked his freedom and endangered the lives of others in Farmington, NH by committing a burglary and violating a protective order. Why would someone do such a thing?

“A local man was charged May 24 with entering the home of his ex-girlfriend through a screen window and demanding money and prescription drugs from the occupants.”

I wonder how many times I need to point these things out to people who read here at Free Keene before they figure out that drug prohibition is causing these crimes. This obviously drug addicted man wouldn’t have to commit such crimes (and the public wouldn’t have to pay countless billions a year investigating them) if drug prohibition were eliminated. Ending drug prohibition would not only eliminated these crimes… but energy could be focused on helping people quit their addictions. Think of how the $69 billion a year United States drug war money could be better spent… or not spent at all.

4. Two Harvard medical doctors are being charged and seventy young people had their freedom taken away in Weare, NH. Why? The young adults were drinking alcohol. The medical doctors were the hosts of the party. These young adults who had their freedom taken away just graduated high school. I’d wager a bet that %80+ of them are eighteen years old and that many are planning a career in the military. Those who are not planning a career in the military face the possibility of being forced into the military if President Obama says so.

How can someone who can be forced to die fighting for this country not be able to have a beer? It baffles me… and it should you.

5. In Gilford, NH a hiker has been arrested for laying nude alongside a hiking trail. As strange as laying nude along a hiking trail may be… there really is no victim in this case. Everyone knows what private parts look like. Should this man who arguably acted oddly really be facing the possibility of being locked in a cage? The state’s only tools to change behavior which is disagreeable are violence and cruelty. I’ve seen it first hand.

I’ve also seen first hand within the liberty/freedom community the exact opposite. I’ve seen people who have victimized others within our community be shunned for their failure to accept responsibility and make good on their actions. People talk and simply agree to not have any interaction with someone who hurt other people unless they made good for their immoral acts.

It required no violence or threats of violence… it required no forcible stealing of money… and boy was it effective.

Tim

Sorry, but this has been bothering me with Bradley Jardis's posts. I do love his posts, but he continues to make this typo. Please put the % sign after the number. 80% is the correct grammar. If you were using a $ symbol then it would be $80.

Thanks

Tim
Brodie

Awesome! Keep up the good work.
Mitch

Sorry, but this has been bothering me with Tim's comments. I do love his comments, but he continues to make nit picks on grammar. Please, if you understood the meaning of the text with little to no difficultly, the grammar is fine.

Thanks

Mitch
Bradley Jardis

Tim– thank you for the correction. You indeed are correct!

I'm glad you and others appreciate my news updates and commentary. Because there are people who appreciate my updates… I keep on doing them!
Thomstele

Posting this here. Haven't posted in months but i thought i'd share a current keene event with you guys. There are two students at Keene High being refused the right to "walk" and receive their diploma due to the fact that they spent a portion of the year homeschooling. Just goes to show how insidious and arrogant the public system is. They really don't know who they are dealing with. One student not being allowed to walk was the Keene High Track Team Captain, and the other student was PROM KING!

Who do they think they are? who do they think they are fooling? Public Education sounds like it should be a service provided for people, not some private club where we have to follow their rules.

Spread the word, there should be some kind of a protest (besides the obvious 'constant' protest towards the publics school system).
bil

If Bradley is trying to change professions and become a journalist,any sort of help given in a polite and respectful manner should be welcomed.If he was just blogging,enny spelinng wood werk if it got the message across.It is about professional standards,and being accepted as a professional.His work is becoming better every day,in fact,I think it has improved %100+ ! —bil
Bradley Jardis

Hey thanks Bil.

Not trying to change professions though….. just trying to change some minds
bil

Isn't that the same thing? you are just changing them from the other side.Keep up the writing,I don't always agree,but you are a prolific writer,it may be more of an avocation than profession,but the better you get,you may decide you like it more.I have found that strange things can happen when you put real effort into something without looking for personal gain,just helping a fellow human. Karma is a powerful force,in both directions. —bil
Bradley Jardis

That's quite a flattering compliment Bil.

Thank you
Lpviper

Don't they do the %80 thing in Europe? It's kinda correct.

I'll let it pass, this time.

If MSM did a news update like Jardis does his, maybe things would change a little faster in the land of the 'free'…
Gabe

I ask this out of curiosity: in #2, what do zoning laws have to do with it?

@Thomstele: That sounds terrible. Do you have a link to any story posted about it or anything? Has it made the news at all, or is it just going completely unnoticed?
Bradley Jardis

Are you familiar with the Hundred Nights Shelter in Keene?

Technically this is a violation of Keene law. The government could come in to crack down and shut the place down if they wanted. The people running the place are doing so being civilly disobedient.

I think they haven't because it would be a PR disaster.
thomstele

It's going completely unnoticed. We are trying to get the sentinel to cover it. The mother of the student has met with the superintendent, whom in their conversation offhandedly tried to make sure that "religion" was not a reason for why they homeschooled in the first place.
Gabe

Bradley – No, I'm not familiar with it. I'm assuming they don't have whatever silly permits they supposedly need to run it?
Bradley Jardis

That is correct, sir.

An individual rented space and opened it up to keep people warm…… Without begging permission or kissing rings.