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Liberty-minded people called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss stealing property, agreements, providing unwanted services, arbitrary extractions, and a tax revolt. We also hear from an offended caller, who calls liberty activists a “gang” – actually she calls them *my* gang, as though I’m in charge. The smarmy dartmouth guy also makes an appearance.

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Please join us for our weekly chat and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 11a-12p in the Liberty Radio Network 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.

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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Last time it was city councilor Chuck Redfern showing his teeth up close to Dave Ridley’s camera, now it’s this guy, who appears to be a city employee as well:

Also, below is more video of the reason Dave was there in the first place. (Read on …)

For a couple of years now we’ve been offering 1970’s “The Market for Liberty” in audiobook and .PDF forms for download free at Book.FreeKeene.com. Now, we offer a brand new audiobook, published in 2007 by Wes Bertrand, “Complete Liberty: The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America”. The book is inspired by many other great liberty-minded works in the past (such as The Market for Liberty) and is an excellent modern day look at what liberty is and how we can achieve it in our lifetimes. Complete Liberty is a highly recommended read for those interested in freedom. Wes also does a podcast which you can listen to on his site, CompleteLiberty.com. Visit that page for his introduction. Here are three ways you can download this book:

1. 207 MB self-extracting archive (Windows users only) containing ten .mp3 chapters.
2. 207 MB .ZIP file containing ten .mp3 chapters.
3. 1.2 MB .PDF – the actual book, which can be ordered in print here.

The Ridley Report was there to record history in the making as a heroic Manchester liberty activist named Travis sells cannabis openly in a public park, all the while in possession of an “open container”! Have the Keeniacs been out-disobedienced?

Yesterday, this letter to the editor was published in the Keene Sentinel:

An open letter to Sam A. Miller.

I recently read the article in The Sentinel about how Cheshire County “tricked” you into leaving the place you so loved to hate called jail. You had a lovely run there. Three hots and a cot and all the cable TV you could handle. And at no cost to you; John Q. Taxpayer picked up the tab for your new orange threads and your lovely view of the beautiful area of Westmoreland.

No doubt you’re unemployed and are collecting one or more forms of benefits from the very government you denounce, so you really have no idea what it’s like to pay your taxes and see your tax dollars wasted on someone like you.

You refuse to sign a paper releasing you from jail, but then complain that you are being held unjustly and without cause. I am a fellow freedom lover myself, being a Republican, but you, sir, have embarrassed even your fellow Free Staters.

You pollute the downtown with your protests and makeshift signs made from construction paper and magic marker. I know you are longing to be guilty of something so I am going to pass down this judgment in hopes that the matter will be settled and you will stop bothering the good people of this town, county and state. You are guilty of stupidity, and the very thing you are guilty of is also your punishment … a life sentence.

WILLIAM CHAFFEE JR.
32 Court St Apt. 2
Keene

My Response to William Chaffee Junior’s Open letter, (Read on …)

In protest of government people’s continued aggression against peaceful human beings, I decided to pay the latest Keene property tax bill, over $2700, in all ones. I brought pizza to share with those who were inconvenienced, gave a short speech, and Sam from the Obscured Truth Network brought his video camera. As usual, the bureaucrat aggressors did not like the cameras:

This has been a great week, and it’s only going to get better. First this week, Pete Eyre and Jay Talley of Motorhome Diaries showed up in Keene to begin their new project of the same name, and were welcomed by over 25 liberty activists at Social Sunday at Vendettas. Our once meager and less populous gatherings are becoming a thing of the past, as more and more activists make their way to the liberty activist hot spot, Keene, New Hampshire. That said, these two newly arrived activists are a juggernaut to be reckoned with in their badass Motorhome and powerful message of Liberty. No greenhorns to the movement, their experience can only serve to attract more and more of the talent and dedication we need to push back against the every encroaching tyranny of the State.

Now that said, I’d like to address some recent city politics and what I feel will be the appropriate response. (Read on …)

The city councilors voted to steal some homes this week, so liberty activists turned out in record numbers as callers to WKBK’s “Talkback”, a show hosted by two councilors, Cynthia and Paula. This is the best episode so far. Activists pack the phones and when the statists get through all they have are their usual ad hominems and whining. Cynthia is clearly shaken by so many people pointing out that she and the other councilors were stealing, however steadfastly denies it by saying that it’s not stealing because it’s the law! Listen and be amazed, then mark your calendar for 9a-12p on Saturdays to join us for another listening and calling session in the Free Keene Chat and on-the-air on the Liberty Radio Network.

Better yet, join the fun here in Keene!

Download the MP3. Discuss on the Free Keene Forum.

According to the Sentinel, four homes are scheduled to be stolen by the violent, monopolistic gang calling themselves the City of Keene. These families aren’t protesting taxes, they just can’t afford to pay them in the troubled economy. The city’s response? They are choosing to proceed with stealing the homes from these people and kicking them into the street.

If you’ve been listening to the Talkback archives here on FreeKeene, you know that city councilor Cynthia Georgina has until this point refused to believe that families will be tossed out of their homes for nonpayment of property taxes. Now she can no longer deny it, as the Sentinel reveals the ugly process that will happen to you too if you don’t pay the gang: (Read on …)