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The story also made WMUR: WMUR Story
And the Nashua Telegraph: Nashua Telegraph

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Campaign staff will also be ramping up brochure distribution in the final weeks to spread Ryder’s name and idea recognition. He is the only candidate bringing anything resembling a new perspective to the Council race saturated with incumbents and former councilmen. This is made clear when he is the only candidate that media hosts debate with during interviews.

That’s the question Andrew Quemere was asking himself as he was walked from his workplace to the Keene Police Department this morning. Apparently arrested for loitering in the back of a truck. However, Andrew was assigned by his workplace to be in the back of that truck. While exercising his right to not show ID, Andrew does not appear to have been confrontational or aggressive; he simply wanted to get back to work.

But when officer Chris Simonds threatened to throw him into the parking lot pavement, Andrew followed the officers’ commands and was handcuffed. Charged with “Obstructing Government Administration”, he was released on $2000 PR bond and has an arraignment date of August 10, 2009.

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Why, on April 12, 2009, did the Keene Police take this car off a private driveway? Was this an unwelcome visitor to this property? Was there an issue with the owner’s temporary license plates? Was there “contraband” found inside the vehicle? It should also be noted that the car was driven to the flatbed, so the police had the car’s keys as well.

Nick,

OK, I’m going to “address your concerns.”

The car was towed because of this: http://speakoutdanville.org/documents/weldy.pdf . If you had actually asked the cop, instead of presuming he or she should have come over to you to explain themselves, then you would know.

Driver was well under 21yoa, had alcohol in the car. Driver gets arrested, car gets towed, that’s the law. He didn’t live at that address, that’s just where he happened to pull into when he was stopped for blowing through a stop sign (and endangering people by doing so). It’s called the “Kingston Decision” and is the result of a private lawsuit several years ago, one of the results of which was we, the police, have had any discretion on that specific situation legislatively removed. If the officer had done otherwise, they certainly would have gotten disciplined and possibly fired.

I’m going to ASSume you didn’t ask the cop, just the tow truck guy. If you did ask the cop, and they ignored you and just drove off, let me know, because that’s not how I’ve told them to interact with you folks. That’s not the openness and respect I’ve told them to afford you guys.

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Shane

Fifteen to twenty minutes after Jesse arrives downtown, Lt. Shane Maxfield interferes with Jesse’s work and arrests him. Jesse is booked at the police station, and released with a $120 ticket for violation of:

Sec. 82-32. Excavations.
(a) No person(s), company, corporation, or any other entity shall excavate or otherwise disturb any surface (shoulders, ditches, embankments, swales, pavement, etc.) of any city street, highway, sidewalk, right-of-way or city owned property without consent of the public works department. Any person(s), company, corporation, or any other entity shall restore such excavation or disturbance to a condition as good as before the excavation or disturbance occurred with the expense of such restoration to be assumed by such person(s), company, corporation, or entity. The work of excavation, disturbance, removal and restoration of the surface shall in all such cases be done under the supervision of the public works director or designee.

As reported by FreeKeene’s Ian, Jesse says he will not consent to any fines, and will take the issue into the court.

I think it is time that FreeKeene.com hold these people responsible for the votes they make, and make sure they feel the pressure from those of us that care about personal freedom in Keene. Hopefully this is only the beginning of our adventures getting to know the good and the bad going on in the council chambers.

That court date is on March 3rd, at 8:30am in the Keene District Court. There is less than 2 weeks until then, and Andrew agreed to an interview to answer some questions about the upcoming day. While he will be attending his hearing, and possible trial, Andrew says he will not be preparing any legal defense, and says “Any statement I make in my defense will be a moral one; I won’t argue legally because I’m clearly guilty of a crime.”

For more information, see Andrew’s interview below.

Several months ago, a FreeKeene.com blogger posted a Notice to All Keene Area Government People warning them of Sam’s impending arrival. Well, he’s here.

More information about Sam, what he’s done already in Texas, and his recent videos can be found on his website at www.obscuredtruth.com

He also has rescheduled the “trial” that they are demanding in regards to the Freedom Couch for Friday, Nov. 14th at 1:30p.

My interpretation of their legalese is that there is a chance that activists who show up to the “district court” in Keene with cameras on the 14th stand a possibility of being arrested for simply recording the court security procedure or the clerk’s window.

The pool coverage provision demands that only one recording device be allowed in the court and that all interested media parties must share the one recording. This of course means that whichever organization or individual is chosen to be the one with permission to record will scoop all of the rest of the parties on the report. They will have their news package out the door and to their viewers and listeners while the others are still waiting to receive a copy of the audio or video. Additionally, it means that the recording organization has to spend extra time and effort making their recording available for the others. This work on their part is of course, uncompensated. Finally, it is also a creative restriction on the videographers who are choosing to cover the trial. Each videographer is forced to abide by the creative decisions of the “chosen one”, like it or not.

Whether you consent to the government system or not, this “ORDER” is an outrageous restriction on the individual’s freedom to be the media in a so-called “public trial”. For those of you still in the system I refer you to the New Hampshire Constitution’s article 10 and 1:

nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent,

If you agree that this is an instance of arbitrary power and oppression I suggest that you bring your favorite recording device to Keene “district court” on 11/14 and refuse to obey. If they order you to stop recording or order you to do anything, you could tell them you would be willing to fulfill their order, but that would make them liable for a bill of $XXX, payment due in advance. If you’re going to follow their orders, better that they pay you for your assistance. Isn’t that what happens when you place orders with people? Don’t you usually have to pay them to provide the product or service you are ordering?

If you are a market-based activist you already know that these are nothing more than men and women wearing costumes willing to do violence to the people that refuse their “business”. I invite you as well to join in the noncooperation and civil disobedience.

Unless they call it off, let’s pay a visit to the Keene “district court” on November 14th at 1:30 in the afternoon. We will meet in the downstairs lobby at 3 Washington St. at around 1:10p. Bring your cameras and audio recorders, and remember that you are a free, sovereign individual. Do not consent to tyranny. Will they arrest everyone?

Here’s the discussion thread on the Free Keene Forum about this situation.

Thanks to Nick from the Ryder Report and Lyfproductions.com for retrieving the “ORDER” as the “clerk” refused to release details over the phone to the media.

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