Since its announcement one month ago, dozens of activists have signed on to the new Keene 411 group txt messaging service! Unfortunately, others were concerned the process to sign up was too much of a hassle, so it has now been simplified.
Get the details and get signed up at 411.FreeKeene.com!
The sign on the door at Abunara says, “Closed until further notice”. I sure hope they come back, because it was a pretty cool place to hang out. Until that time, Social Sundays / Game Night will be at 12 Emerald St. in Keene at 5pm. Here’s the forum thread about the change.
Liberty-minded people called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss Molly Kelly’s seemingly broken promise, the nature of the state, inflation, voting, KPD breaking and stealing Sam’s camera. Listen as Cynthia and Kendall Lane excuse the police acting like thugs. It’s sad.
Please join us for our weekly chat and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 11a-12p in the Liberty Radio Network Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.
The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund is entering a new era with a website redesign (more changes coming) and the HUGE announcement that former LEAP speaker and veteran law enforcement officer Brad Jardis will be heading up the organization as Executive Director!
Here’s the release from CDEF Chairman Brian Travis as posted at CDEvolution.org (please go and become a contributing member!):
It is my great pleasure to announce that Brad Jardis has joined the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund as Executive Director.
Brad is a well-known figure in the liberty movement in New Hampshire. He spent 11 years as a law enforcement officer. His outspoken criticism of the illegal drug war has made him a pariah to the established law enforcement cabal. For the same reason, Brad has become a hero to many people in the liberty community.
Because of his public stance on the drug war, as well as criticism of other crimes that imprison non-violent people, Brad was recently forced out of his job.
We are fortunate to have Brad as the public face of the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund and look forward to the impact he will have on the liberty movement in New Hampshire.
Robin Hood and the Merry Men celebrate a successful first year! From Lauren C.’s post on the Free Keene Forum:
Hip Hip Hoorah to Robin Hood’s parking meter rescues!
Let it be known that in the course of one year the outlaw Robin Hood has deposited $54 in expired meters, denying approximately $1350 to the crown, and allowing about 270 people to relax and smile.
He also accepted $273 in donations, and spent $248 on expenses. That means $25 for the Merry Men!
Awesome job!
Footage has now been release from the massive 40+ person 4:20 celebration that happened in Manchester involving a bunch of Keeniacs. This was from the one-week commemoration of Big Mike’s arrest for “assault”. Police threaten activists with arrest and are offered pink panties:
Basically, the people calling themselves the city of Keene are trying to get the property owners to do the city’s dirty work and evict the homeless men from the lean-to behind the Hannaford shopping center. They are fining the owners hundreds of dollars each day the homeless are allowed to inhabit the land, so it will be up to the owners to remove them. Despite the homeless men working to improve their shack, one of the head aggressors makes it clear what the real issue is:
“The bottom line is there’s been no permit for the structure itself,”
Medard K. Kopczynski, assistant city manager
It doesn’t matter that these men worked to improve the safety of the structure they built and have happily occupied for months, you see, they didn’t BEG the city people for permission to build it in the first place. It’s not about safety – it’s about OBEDIENCE.
Now the city is threatening the property owners. If they don’t pay the fines (which they will), the city people will steal their property, just like they will do to you if you don’t pay their arbitrary extractions. Does anyone really believe that government is protecting you or serving you?
The Keene Sentinel’s David Greisman reports on the city gang’s continued aggression against peaceful homeless people. Story below. See OTN’s interview with the homeless men here.
The owners of a property where homeless men have taken shelter are facing an ultimatum from Keene city officials: have the men move out of the makeshift shack they built, or potentially pay up every day until that happens.
The land, behind the West Street Shopping Center in Keene, belongs to Timothy N. Robertson, a Democratic state representative from Keene, and his sister, Dorothy Arwe, also of Keene.
“My sister’s given in,” Robertson said this morning. “She’s the majority person behind the property. It’s a 60-40 deal. She says we’re going to do whatever they say (Read on …)
The Union Leader’s Jason Schreiber reports:
EPPING – A police officer who fought publicly to keep his job has resigned from the police department and has also been given the boot as a member of an international group that wants to legalize drugs.
Leaders of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which advocates liberalization of drug laws, moved to distance themselves from Officer Bradley Jardis, who suggested in recent online postings that he would not enforce certain drug laws.
Jardis, of Hooksett, quit the police department on Monday, saying he could no longer work there after comments that Police Chief Gregory Dodge made about his job performance when he tried to have him fired recently. (Read on …)
A few days back on this blog we posted the news that longtime NH police officer Brad Jardis was no longer going to arrest medical cannabis users. Jardis has shown much courage – far more than the average cop – in first coming out verbally against the insane war on drugs, and now taking the first step into actually doing the right thing and refusing to enforce bad laws.
Despite the courage he has and the support he has earned in the community because of it, the organization known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition has unceremoniously booted him from their ranks. Brad posted the email he received from LEAP’s head, Jack Cole, on the Free Keene Forum. In it, Cole takes position that while LEAP members are encouraged to speak out about the horrors of prohibition, as long as they are employed as LEOs, they must enforce bad laws, because to not do so would be “unethical and wrong”. It’s a sad statement that outs LEAP as an organization of nothing more than a bunch of talkers, rather than doers. Of course, Cole is incorrect. Enforcing laws that harm peaceful people is what is unethical and wrong.
Other law enforcement officers, who are members of LEAP, have announced they will be sending in their resignations. Many other supporters of LEAP are sending in revocations of their membership, and explaining why. Some of these messages can be found on this forum thread.
Here’s the message Jack Cole sent to Brad, with Cole’s full contact info at the bottom.
Dear Bradley Jardis,
I have tried but am unable to reach you by telephone.
It has come to LEAP’s attention from the below blog entry, that you have
chosen to violate the oath you took on joining the police department; to
enforce all the laws of the federal and state governments in which your
police department has jurisdiction. And worse, you are calling on other law
enforcement officials to violate their oaths of office. (Read on …)
40+ people, a good portion Keeniacs, gathered in Manchester’s Victory Park today to hold a 4:20 cannabis celebration mid-winter in honor of Big Mike. He was arrested for brushing up against an MPD undercover officer. Big Mike has been imprisoned until the trial in April because he’s using his so-called right to remain silent and refusing to give up his name. Our blogger Sam was imprisoned for 58 days for the same thing last year. Disobey, and you stay in their cage.
Here’s BikerBill’s excellent coverage of the events in the park. Hopefully someone else got footage of the entire MPD being called out later on at the jail…
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