Welcome to our Newest Blogger, Lyndz “AnarchoMama” Stevens!

March 26, 2011 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Announcement, Introduction

Free Keene welcomes our newest blogger, Lyndz “AnarchoMama” Stevens! She is an experienced blogger who is very into Unschooling and is also a member of the Monadnock Families for Liberty. To learn about our other bloggers, please visit our bloggers page. Here’s her bio:

Lyndz Stevens (“AnarchoMama”) – Lyndz Stevens (along with her partner and their two year old son) moved from Hawaii to New Hampshire as a member of the free-state project in February 2011. She was brought up, as most children are, to respect the State and accept its existence as a necessity. It took the birth of her son in December 2008 to truly open her eyes to the brutality of life under a government. These days, she believes that men are good in nature and fully capable of existing in a world based upon voluntary action. She believes that government of any form infringes upon the inherent nature of freedom, and hopes that her own child might someday live in a world where he is truly FREE.

Where I Stand, Structurally

December 17, 2010 by Skeptikos · 19 Comments
Filed under: Essay, Introduction

Summarizing my political views is hard. In the forums, I’ve been calling myself a “liberaltarian” — because I’m too libertarian to call myself a liberal, and too liberal to call myself a libertarian. (I posted an essay here, at Blue Hampshire, where I discuss particular policies and describe how I reached this position.)

But in this post I want to focus on a more interesting aspect of my views.

Beyond policy lies another level of politics. This is the structural, or institutional, level. Institutions determine, not individual policies, but how policies are chosen. When New Hampshire Democrats and Republicans fight to make it harder or easier for college students to vote, they are making crude forays into structural issues. Campaign finance reform would be a structural change.

While straightforward republican democracy has been working relatively well in America, it suffers from well-established flaws. Special interests and voter biases, in particular, create the most obvious problems. Anarchists (of whatever variety) and communists are unique in that they actually propose an alternate set of institutions to deal with these flaws. No other major political philosophies do this.

In opposition to anarchists and communists, however, I would like to see more structural experimentation: let a thousand nations bloom. Read more

New Blogger: Welcome to Will May!

December 6, 2010 by Ian · 13 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Introduction

There has long been critique surrounding this blog that it’s all about civil disobedience, when nothing could be further from the truth. From its early days, Free Keene has been a source for blogs about all manner of activism in Keene and NH, including politics. We have covered the campaigns of liberty-lovers for state house and city council throughout the last four years. However those posts are typically overshadowed by the civil disobedience because CD is so atypical and politics not-so-much, plus civil disobedience can happen anytime while politics is usually relegated to the campaign seasons. I had extended an invitation to local democrat Will May to blog here a long time back, so as to add extra balance to the content of Free Keene, and he has finally accepted. Free Keene welcomes as our newest blogger, Will May, the founder of the NH secessionist website, NHBloom.org. Here’s his bio:

Will Will May (“Skeptikos”) – Will is not a libertarian. He moved to Keene in 2008 for the Free State Project, and, after one too many books by Paul Krugman, took a sharp turn to the left. Having been critical of Free Keene in the past, he intends to be the opposition blogger, providing an alternative perspective and the occasional debate. He still has a strong anti-authoritarian streak, however, and is working to promote a liberal-libertarian alliance in Keene.

Read about our other bloggers on the Bloggers page.

My Continued TSA Saga

November 12, 2010 by Meg McLain · 184 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Issues, Living Free

Meg In light of my recent TSA encounter, I have received national media attention, including FOX News, Drudge Report, InTouch magazine, and more. Even the TSA published a pair of their own videos, since they had the freedom to do something I was prevented from doing myself – recording. The videos, which lack even the most standard feature(s) of surveillance videos like a time stamp, the ability to show multiple angles of the same area, or even a clear view of one area in general; are supposed to disprove my claims. While everyone is free to determine what they believe to be true, to me this another case of government not giving you the full story. The TSA has continuously been caught in lies to cover the embarrassment of the truth, and this seems to be yet another instance of that, in attempts to misguide attention from the real issue. The biggest question for me is: why is there a large portion of the secondary screening area not shown in either camera angle? An area where much of my incident took place, and where countless others have been taken to be put through a procedure I can only describe as molestation. This should be a concern for everyone.

Shire Society Declaration Available for Download

July 31, 2010 by Sam Dodson · 37 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Living Free, Obscured Truth Network, Your Evolution

Thanks to James “Puke” Schmill for donating his time as a photographer to create the high quality Shire Society Declaration documents The document was signed by a number of wonderful activists from Porcfest, with a final few signatures from the Keene area.

This is what Anarchy is All About.

July 5, 2010 by Yadra Voat · 8 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Video, Your Evolution

It has been said of anarchism/voluntarism—the idea no group can be given greater rights than its members if all members are beings of equal moral nature—that it is the effort to build the first human civilization. (Keene being very much an epicenter of that transformation in human thought.)

Thanks to a liberty activist posting on Facebook a reference to a particular academic presentation, I became aware that a certain speaker (Jeremy Rifkin) at the British Royal Society for the Arts has done a far more credible job articulating that perspective than I could presently hope to.

Further, having done a small spot of research into it myself, I found that RSAnimate also did an excellent exception of the total talk, further encapsulating and better communicating the topic even more so.

[Viewer-discretion advisory: this animation contains some cartoonish nudity in scientific context.]

Middle School Parent Writes with Questions

June 7, 2010 by Sam Dodson · 7 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Outreach

“Curious” wrote with the following questions from the Sentinel Middle School Outreach Story:

Now that the Free Keene set, has taken it apon themeselves to do the neighborly thing and creepily now approach our children, I have a few imortant questions Id like to pose at Sam and Ian specificlly. Please answer them directly, no hyperbole or philisophical preamble please. I think everyone reading deserves some straight talk.

Thanks for reaching out “Curious”, sharing ideas is the core of my activism. I along with most others are happy to engage in rational discussion exploring our perspective. Feel feel free to talk with us or ask us questions at these events. We’re friendly and interested in exchanging ideas. Read more

What is the Free State Project?

May 1, 2010 by Sam Dodson · 8 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Obscured Truth Network, Personal Freedom, Video

I sat down with Varrin Swearingen, Media Spokesperson, for the Free State Project at their annual 2010 New Hampshire Liberty Forum to get an update on how the project is going. We cover the wide range of topics that encompass the actions of Free State Project participants who have moved to NH to get active for liberty, including everything from open carry litter pickup events to cannabis celebrations as Varrin explains the underlying freedom message that ties it all together.

FreeKeene’s Richard Featured on the Ridley Report

February 5, 2010 by Ian · 2 Comments
Filed under: Introduction, Video

Free Keene Welcomes Our Newest Blogger, Brandon!

December 5, 2009 by Ian · 3 Comments
Filed under: Announcement, Introduction

Brandon Durham Welcome to our newest blogger, Brandon. He’ll be heading up the Free Keene food drives and who knows what into the future. Look for his first post here soon. Meantime, here’s his bio from the Bloggers page:

Brandon moved to Keene in June of 2009 from the Detroit, MI area. He had been a believer in small government philosophy before coming to the realization that only through a voluntary society can the rights and liberties of individuals be preserved. After learning of the Free State Project in 2004 Brandon felt that the FSP would provide the best opportunity to reclaim those liberties.

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