Kate Tried, Found Guilty of Standing Still and Asking a Question

May 22, 2012 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Corruption, Court, Personal Freedom, Police, Update, Video

As you may be aware, NH native liberty lover, Ladies in Keene co-host, and Free Keene blogger Kate Ager was arrested for standing on some chalk and not moving off of it fast enough upon Manchester police’s request (see her video here). Here’s the trial where another obedient jury found her guilty of “resisting arrest”:

School Board Bureaucrats Questioned About Felony Wiretapping Charges Against FK’s Ademo

May 18, 2012 by Ian · 3 Comments
Filed under: Corruption, Personal Freedom, Update, Video

Dave Ridley attempts to get answers at a Manchester school board meeting regarding Ademo being charged with three felony counts of wiretapping for recording his conversations with school admins:

Fed Gov Gets it Right for Once, Upholds Right to Record Police

May 18, 2012 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Copblock, Personal Freedom, Police

Carlos Miller, who was almost arrested while visiting Keene, blogs about the Department of Justice issuing a letter to the Baltimore police telling them to stop arresting or threatening photographers and videographers. Here’s a direct link to the full eleven page letter.

Radio Free Keene News 2012-05-12

May 12, 2012 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Audio, Issues, Jailed Activist, News, Personal Freedom, Radio News, Update

Radio Tower Radio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.

Topics covered include the imprisoning of Derrick J and Beau and a man smoking cannabis legally in the state house. Here’s the archive:

You can add Radio Free Keene News to your podcast client via this RSS feed. Please note, this is a new feed, so update your podcast clients appropriately. As you may have noticed, we’re now hosting RFKN on Soundcloud.

Beau Davis Jailed for 30 Days

May 9, 2012 by Ian · 5 Comments
Filed under: Civil Disobedience, Jailed Activist, Personal Freedom

Activist and videographer/editor Beau Davis was jailed today after a sentencing hearing at Cheshire “superior court”. He will be spending 30 days in the Keene spiritual retreat for the “crime” of distribution of cannabis. If he gets good time, he could be out in as little as 20 days.

Please write to Beau via Mail-to-Jail or at this address:

Beau Davis
825 Marlboro Rd.
Keene, NH 03431

You can put money into his commissary (so he can be a little more comfortable on the inside) via the info here.

“Patients’ pain ignored” – Letter to Concord Monitor

May 7, 2012 by Ian · 2 Comments
Filed under: Corruption, Personal Freedom, Police, Politics, Response

Paul O’Day of Spofford writes to the Concord Monitor, calling out the head of the NH police chiefs, Richard Enfield for his lack of compassion:

Re “Law enforcement resisting pot bill” (Sunday Monitor front page, April 29):

Enfield Police Chief Richard Crate was quoted as saying the pending medical marijuana bill is “looking for a potential solution when there’s not a problem out there.”

Many people endure needless pain and suffering because of the prohibition of this medicine.

Others risk losing their money, their liberty, their houses and their kids if they break the law to stop their pain.

Some people with cancer or other serious ailments succumb unnecessarily to the symptoms of their illness or its treatment such as chemotherapy, dying months or even decades sooner than they would have had they been able to use medical marijuana.

Untold numbers unnecessarily suffer from the worst diseases and ailments known to mankind. Others unnecessarily risk everything to escape their suffering. And some people are unnecessarily sent to an early grave – and there is no problem out there? Read more

Guest Blog: “A Month in the ‘Free State’”

May 5, 2012 by Ian · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Essay, Living Free, National, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Your Evolution

New mover Chris Cantwell reflects on his first month in the Shire:

A few weeks ago, my shotgun would have subjected me to years in a state prison, I paid an 8.625% sales tax on nearly everything I purchased, and a progressive state income tax made every effort to steal from me the fruits of my labor. Finally, a local municipality driven mad by xenophobic anti-immigration activists declared my apartment illegal and threatened to evict me from my home. Thanks for that, no, really, thank you, because coming to New Hampshire is the single greatest thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.

So I fit what I could in my van and fled the criminal gangs calling themselve The State, operating inside the arbitrary geopolitical boundary commonly known as New York. 5 hours north, I find myself in Marlborough, New Hampshire, just outside of Keene.

The move couldn’t have gone smoother. Read more

To Fred and Josh in “Code Enforcement”, please stop picking on my neighbors.

May 4, 2012 by Ian · 2 Comments
Filed under: Copwatch, Corruption, Living Free, Personal Freedom, Update

Fred Parsells and I go way back. I like the guy personally – we’ve dined together a number of times over the years and had pleasant conversations. However, last year he left his job at the “Keene Housing Authority” and took on the role of city “Code Enforcer”. A former detective with the Keene police, (and I believe collecting a police pension) Fred has decided to make my property one of his pet projects and has begun a campaign of harassing me, my tenants, and most recently, my new neighbors next door. (Curiously, prior to Fred being hired, I hadn’t heard from code enforcement in five years. So, clearly there weren’t any glaring issues at the time upsetting anyone. The one time I did hear from code enforcement prior to the five years was due to the complaint from a city employee.)

I recently came home to discover Fred and his partner Josh, parked out front of my house, standing at my new neighbors’ door. They were just leaving and I inquired of Pete, who was there recording, as to what was going on. I was informed that they were threatening the neighbor over the car in their side yard. I informed Fred and Josh that I have no problem with their car being there and that I don’t appreciate them picking on my neighbors. Josh told me to stop eavesdropping, as though when strange men come threatening my neighbors that it’s not my business. I don’t know where Josh lives, but I want to live in a place where neighbors care that their neighbors are being threatened by aggressors.

Afterward, I spoke with the lady next door and assured her that I had not called code enforcement on them and nor would I. If I have an issue with a neighbor, I’ll do like a good neighbor should, and drop by to talk. She informed me that Fred claimed he’d gotten a complaint from another neighbor regarding their car in the yard, because the other neighbor had experienced code enforcers threatening them over the same issue. Read more

There is no free speech when state agents don’t like your speech.

May 4, 2012 by Ian · 18 Comments
Filed under: Corruption, Court, Hypocrisy, Living Free, Personal Freedom, Video

Free Keene TV’s Ali Havens interviews several victims of the insane no trespass orders that have been leveled at activists for exercising their supposed rights to free speech and assembly: