Why Should YOU Oppose The Drug War?

March 23, 2012 by Bradley Jardis · 84 Comments
Filed under: National, News, Outreach, Police, Politics, Rant

This is why.

GRAYLNG — The fatal shooting of William Reddie, 32, by a Crawford County Sheriff’s Department deputy during the “emergency removal” of his 2-year-old son from an apartment they shared has many of his friends crying foul.

A Michigan State Police probe has concluded the shooting was justified because Reddie had a pocketknife and lunged at police.

“I can’t believe they (police) could not subdue Will without killing him, and over what, marijuana,” said Joanne Michal, who knew Reddie for half of his life. “Why didn’t police just arrest him or cite him for marijuana instead of removing his child?”

Marijuana itself is scientifically far safer than its prohibition ever will be.

This violence is totally unnecessary.

Keene: Still A Relatively Peaceful Society

March 14, 2012 by Kelly · 5 Comments
Filed under: Issues, Living Free, Rant, Shire Society

*DISCLAIMER: Although the following may sound a bit negative, it was written in the context of making a point. I truly love living in Keene and have been very homesick during my current venture to Philadelphia. Philly is fun, but it very much exemplifies the fact that Keene is still a relatively peaceful society. The police state runs rampant down here, and honestly, it’s pretty damn scary. All I want is to live in a peaceful society. That is why I spend so much time taking the peaceful actions in Keene which have been described in detail on this blog; to help ensure that I have a peaceful society to live in.

From a comment of mine on my Facebook page: Read more

RAW Video of CivDis Panel at Liberty Forum 2012

March 10, 2012 by Pete Eyre · 16 Comments
Filed under: Civil Disobedience, Copblock, Free State Project, Free Talk Live, Introduction, Living Free, Noncooperation, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Police, Politics, Rant, Video, Your Evolution

The raw video of the Civil Disobedience Panel – a session held at the 2012 Liberty Forum, in which Jason Talley, Ian Freeman and I converse with those present about ideas, strategy and impact.

Cowardly City Councilors Ignore the People, Vote for BEARCAT 9-4

March 1, 2012 by Ian · 51 Comments
Filed under: Corruption, Issues, Police, Politics, Rant, Response, Update

Police State Keene Tonight, the Keene city council could have made history as the first ever political designation to reject arms manufacturer LENCO and the federal government’s pushing of the BEARCAT police attack “tank“.

They could have heard the voices of the people who were crying out against this intimidating monstrosity that will inevitably militarize the Keene police even more, and as city councilor Carl Jacobs appropriately pointed out, distance them further from the community they supposedly serve.

They could have. But they didn’t. The BEARCAT passed 9 to 4.

Despite the outpouring of opposition in the community against the BEARCAT, not a single councilor changed their vote from December, when they originally voted in favor of it. That vote was 13 to 1. Why were the numbers different? The new city councilors who took office in January were the ones to vote against it. So, the councilors who originally voted for it completely disregarded all the input they received from the community in various forms:

In a Keene Sentinel online poll, 72% said they city council was wrong to accept the BEARCAT. (Only 12% favored the BEARCAT in the poll.)
WKBK’s Dan Mitchell stated on-air that 90% of his callers were against the BEARCAT.
City councilor Bettina Chadbourne related during tonight’s meeting that of the 80 phone calls she received from various members of the community, (old, young, business owners, men, women, etc) only ten calls were in favor of the BEARCAT.
The public hearing on the BEARCAT featured dozens of speakers, the supermajority of which opposed the BEARCAT.
A random walk down Main St. would show anyone who bothered to ask people that the supermajority of people oppose the BEARCAT.
Most letters to the editor of the Keene Sentinel were in opposition to the BEARCAT.
During the meeting the councilors who favored the BEARCAT got no applause from the packed room, while the councilors who spoke in opposition to the BEARCAT were blasted with applause.

Ron Paul Zombies Wake Up!

January 3, 2012 by Pete Eyre · 20 Comments
Filed under: National, Noncooperation, Outreach, Personal Freedom, Politics, Rant, Ron Paul, Video, Your Evolution

This video is made-up of three short parts:

clips from The Onion News Network’s video “Obama Win Causes Obsessed Backers To See How Empty Lives Are” with the words “Obama” and “Barrack Obama” replaced with “Ron Paul”
clips from myself, encouraging current Ron Paul supporters to take their views to their logical conclusions
clips of Ron Paul striking the root from Adam vs. The Man, Motorhome Diaries and Fox Business

Shire Activism Never Sleeps

November 18, 2011 by DerrickJ · 16 Comments
Filed under: New Hampshire, Personal Freedom, Rant, Your Evolution

There were a few anarchists in the town where I grew up, and a lot more in the city nearby. But perhaps because these individuals were not as organized as Keeniacs, the activism in which I participated seemed to live or die with my action.

I could get a few of my friends together and shout from a megaphone and sign-wave in Rittenhouse Park. We would go “Robin-Hooding,” where individuals feed parking meters for strangers in an attempt to “cost” the State the “revenue” of the ticket. But even in a city of 1.5 million, there were only a handful of us doing activism on a regular basis. “What’s the deal?” I wondered.

Derek’s Speech at Concord 420 Yesterday

November 6, 2011 by Ian · 1 Comment
Filed under: Issues, National, Occupy NH, Personal Freedom, Rant

Derrick had this to say to the public yesterday at the Nov. 5th 420 at the Concord state house. Video courtesy of MikeforLiberty:

Pat K. Rants about Hand-Wringers

August 4, 2011 by Ian · 5 Comments
Filed under: Civil Disobedience, Rant, Video

Dave Ridley reports on Pat K.’s rant against the hand-wringers as he tells them to “Get over it”:

Free Staters “Forcing” Freedom

May 4, 2011 by Bradley Jardis · 4 Comments
Filed under: Living Free, Rant

I’m really confused.

Every time I’ve recently heard someone complain about “Free Staters” I’ve been hearing about how the dreaded “Free Staters” want to “force” their views on people. I’m not a Free Stater, but I’d be proud to call myself one. For the sake of argument, lets pretend that I am .

I am now a Free Stater. *click*

You there! Reading the FreeKeene.com blog and hating every syllable. I want you to be left alone to live your life how you see fit so long as you don’t harm anyone. You disagree? Tough crap! I’m going to force you to be left alone!! By leaving you alone!! Theres nothing you can do to stop me…..!

Ha ha ha ha ha!

This whole forcing liberty thing is apparently an epidemic. I’m debating it with a guy on the usacarry.com forums in this thread here. I’m far from the best debater on the planet, so feel free to back me up if you see fit.

End The Drug War, Curtail Terrorism

May 4, 2011 by Bradley Jardis · Leave a Comment
Filed under: News, Rant

In the spirit of the summary execution of an unarmed man, CNN has an article today discussing how al Qaeda makes the money it uses to perpetrate violent attacks against the innocent: Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda. I wonder how much money al Qaeda is making off bootlegging liquor these days.

I often wonder how many times people like me need to point these things out before detractors finally realize that what we’re talking about has some substance to it.

Drug prohibition causes crime. Drug prohibition funds violent criminal enterprise. Drug prohibition does the opposite of addressing the problems of drug abuse.

Shouldn’t be long now before I have some fresh stories from across New Hampshire of needless victimization fueled by the insane drug war.