Why I Support “Free Keene”

August 21, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 67 Comments
Filed under: Issues, Living Free, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Police, Rant

You know…. as I read all the insults and hatred that is directed at both myself and fellow Free Keene contributors, I can’t help but think the vast majority of you making these rude remarks haven’t the slightest clue as to what exactly this blog is about. I think this because I’m fairly sure that if people really knew the logic behind things here that we would be supported, joined, and encouraged.

I think this because at one time I vehemently disagreed with Ian Freeman’s (the owner of this website) view of how a society can function without institutionalized violence. Not only do I now agree with him, I volunteer to help him by writing for his blog.

If Police Really Wanted To Make Communities Safer

July 7, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 12 Comments
Filed under: Issues, News, Police, Rant

… they would strike at the root of the cause of so much crime that plagues their communities: drug prohibition.

In Farmington, NH there has been a rash of burglaries:

“Police have nabbed three men and continue to make headway on an investigation into a burglary and theft spree plaguing the town.”

“Farmington is a town that averages 35 to 40 burglaries annually, Willey said, but in a monthlong period from early June to early July, there were nine reported break-ins, he said. Between June 1 and June 6, there were additionally 15 reported thefts from motor vehicles, he said.“

I feel I must repeat myself continuously here for the truth to hopefully one day sink in: Why, oh why, are these innocent people being victimized?

Take An Antiemetic Before Reading

July 1, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 10 Comments
Filed under: News, Police, Rant

Before reading this.

(definition of antiemetic)

Merrimack Man Grows Plants, Faces Seven Years of Caging

June 29, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 5 Comments
Filed under: News, Rant

I wonder how many people reading this blog see news like this and find that it is acceptable to put someone into a cage like an animal for the innocuous act of growing a plant. I wonder how many of those people think that it is acceptable to seize steal his house (which the state can do) in a “civil forfeiture” proceeding. There really is nothing civil about a “civil forfeiture” proceeding. If the state wins the “proceeding,” men with guns will enforce the “ruling.”

Men with guns coming to throw someone out of their own home really is anything but “civil.”

Men with guns killing someone who refuses to be thrown out of their own home is definately not “civil.”

Continuing Government Cruelty

June 18, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 10 Comments
Filed under: News, Police, Rant, Thuggery

Wake Up

June 16, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 5 Comments
Filed under: Rant

Coming on the heels of my very publicly and ashamedly bowing to the threats of the IRS… I read this. If you don’t like legal-eeze, don’t click it.

The US Supreme Court has refused to allow review of the dismissal of a civil case against the United States government by a man who was shipped to Syria and tortured back in 2002. The man was innocent. So innocent that the Canadian government has paid him $8.5 million dollars to make good on their part in his suffering. Our rulers haven’t even issued him an apology.

Hypocrisy By Government Agents

June 15, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 3 Comments
Filed under: Hypocrisy, News, Police, Rant, Thuggery

You can tell when someone uses steroids. I know several police officers who have used them and know some who probably still do so today.

I know several police officers who are lucky they were never caught committing various victimless drug felonies when they were younger adults. If they had been caught and prosecuted (like the people they continue to advocate catching and prosecuting today) they would have been felons with a lifetime federal gun possession ban. In other words, they never would be where they are today. How quickly people develop amnesia and a lack of compassion for people who do the same victimless things that they’ve done.

I find particularly amusing that some of these same officers who have committed drug felonies are some of the same individuals who were so critical of me speaking out against the injustices of the drug war. Logic: They were upset that I advocate(d) for people like them. I digress.

Today I Support Violence

June 13, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Issues, Rant, Thuggery, Update

Like a person confronted with an armed robber on the street demanding money and telling you the money will be used to purchase new weapons to kill people, I embarrassingly fold to the threats of the IRS they graciously sent me in the mail.

I don’t want to pay for the military to continue killing people around the world at the behest of the military industrial complex.

I don’t want to pay for the CIA screwing with other countries and people.

I don’t want to pay for the CIA KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS WITHOUT ANY SORT OF OVERSIGHT. (Didn’t people watch the Bourne Trilogy?)

But I will. I don’t want my stuff stolen and I don’t want to be hurt.

There is no difference between a person giving an armed robber money and a person giving the IRS money. Both are threatened with very real violence.

Actually, there is a difference. With an armed robber you have the option of defending yourself.

Just Got A Threat Of Violence In The Mail

June 7, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 5 Comments
Filed under: Issues, Outreach, Rant

And you’d better believe it is a threat:

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I don’t want to pay $892.96 to fund the police attacking people for doing things that haven’t hurt anyone.

I don’t want to pay $1561.55 to fund the local school system that will dumb down kids and teach them that it is okay to use violence to solve problems.

I don’t want to pay $353.24 to fund other school systems to dumb down kids and teach them that it is okay to use violence to solve problems.

I don’t want to pay $400.25 to fund keeping humans in cages for doing things that haven’t harmed anyone else.

……… but I will. I will because I don’t want violence to be used against me. I am a believer in karma so I’d say that I’d deserve it.

I used violence all the time to enforce the will of the majority. If someone didn’t do what I said I’d either slam them on the pavement, put 50,000 volts of electricity through their body, hit them with a baton, or spray them with painful pepper spray. I hurt a lot of people who never hurt anyone else. I regret it. I am sorry.

If I don’t pay the government will sell my home. If I don’t leave when they sell it they will use violence to get me out. If I defend myself… I’ll be killed.

I understand how someone can think that this is acceptable behavior for a supposed “civilized” society. It is not.

A Movie Every Government Agent Should Watch

June 6, 2010 by Bradley Jardis · 5 Comments
Filed under: National, News, Police, Rant, Thuggery

Equlibrium. One of my favorite movies of all time and a movie with a message that changed my life.

The movie centers around a government enforcement agent in the future where everyone is forced to take medication to repress emotion. When the agent stops taking medication he begins to realize all the cruelty that he is inflicting on people. Once he realizes the cruelty that the government represents, he violently destroys it. The message, minus the violence (violence is the problem), is one that I wish every person who enforces government laws would absorb, reflect, and find metaphors for.

I too was a government agent doing cruel things to people. I wasn’t taking medication to repress emotion like in the movie… but I was led to believe that what I was doing was the right thing to do. Hurting someone is never the right thing to do.