by Mr Penguin | Jul 4, 2025 |
Mama Maria’s Gyros Opens In Keene
Mama Maria’s Gyros and More opened this week In Keene, New Hampshire. Mama Maria & her food truck is permanently situated at 85 Emerald Street and will be open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 11am – 3pm and from 5pm – 8pm.
When I inquired about the unusual hours Mama Maria stated that she was following a trend in downtown Keene. Apparently many restaurants are now closing during the day and re-opening in the evenings.
Mama Maria’s adds to the growing list of convenience stores, restaurants, dentists, doctors, and other establishments taking cryptocurrencies in Keene, New Hampshire. Over the past decade many new businesses have come onboard with accepting cryptocurrencies and goldbacks. Despite a rocky handful of years with various restaurants and other businesses going under due to governmental policies and restrictions on operating Keene has remained a tiny bastion of freedom and peace when it comes to businesses taking non-government pro-peace currencies.
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by Mr Penguin | Jun 22, 2025 |
After a thorough review of the court transcript independent and renowned lawyer Jacob Hornberger speaks out on the travesty of the prosecution of Ian Freeman
Renowned lawyer Jacob Horberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) attended the Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival this summer to present a speech on his legal analysis of the Ian Freeman case.
Ian Freeman was arrested in 2021 for the ‘crime’ of selling Bitcoin. In spite of the legal advise, few vending machines operated by him and the Shire Free Church, a complete lack of evidence connecting Ian to the supposed crimes, and more a prejudicial jury found Ian Freeman guilty on 8 counts and 4 charges. These included: Unlicensed money transmission, money laundering, conspiracy to launder, and 4 counts of tax evasion (one for each year of the federal government’s investigation).
Under cross examination the governments leading witness testified that she couldn’t confirm that Ian Freeman owed anything at all. Taxes that is.
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by Mr Penguin | Jun 8, 2025 |
Bitcoin Pizza Day 2025, Keene, NH
On May 22, 2025 Keene, NH had it’s annual Bitcoin Pizza Day event and as usual it was a roaring success! To top it all off Bitcoin reached a record high of $111,000 on May 22, 2025, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the first real-world Bitcoin transaction known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.
While for libertarians this isn’t really about the value of the coin so much as the principles and morals it’s representing: Freedom, control, and privacy. The later of which Bitcoin isn’t, but unlike fiat currencies (government money and the associated systems of banking, money transmission, etc) does retain a pseudonymous property in that a user does not need register their identity to merely utilize it or conduct business.
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by Highline | May 22, 2025 |
Now normally I wouldn’t be posting private e-mails between myself and an opposing lawyer working on a case I’m working on as I don’t find that generally to be very classy — but I felt it was appropriate to post an e-mail I sent to an Assistant Grafton County Attorney this morning.
The government has unfortunately been showing Rob and I about zero respect. They are not communicating anything about anything… and I’ve been working on this since January.
This is the e-mail I sent this to Assistant Grafton County Attorney Taylor Moult.
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by Mr Penguin | May 14, 2025 |
Police officer: Scott Merrell
Gang member Scott Merrell testifies against free stater Alec in trial involving possession of weed
Charge: Non-criminal violation for possession of weed
Video: Watch the full trial video
On May 28th, 2023 at around 12:30AM free stater Alec was pulled over for speeding doing 51 mph in a 40 mph zone. After running Alec’s plate dispatch informed the officer that the vehicle was stolen. Officer Scott Merrell then proceeded to ask Alec to step out of the car based on a false belief the vehicle or registration were stolen.
During the trial the officer testified that “I saw what appeared to be a glass pipe in the operators lap with green vegetative flakes around him” and according to the officer when Alec stepped out of the vehicle the glass pipe fell to the ground.
After further investigation it turned out the vehicle was not stolen.
At trial the prosecutor questioned the officer asking various questions about the stop.
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by Highline | May 4, 2025 |
After respectfully asking both the Grafton County Attorney and New Hampshire Attorney General to properly designate Robert L. Lamontagne a “victim” of criminal conduct due process violations and receiving literally no response from either Office — we are filing the following PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS in the Sullivan County Superior Court.
A “writ of mandamus” is a judicial remedy practiced in common law legal systems where a court of equity has the power to order government officials to perform an act that is required by law. I have identified the possibility of multiple crimes committed by government officials in Robs case and have communicated to the authorities the same. They owe Rob a full investigation and the proper designation: a victim of state misconduct.
It is the State of New Hampshire that should be going out of its way to make things right with Robert Lamontagne. We shouldn’t have to chase them around and force them to act through court actions. They should be doing the right thing on their own accord.
I realize they are busy writing checks to YDC victims at the moment… and the last thing they want is a class action group of people who were collectively screwed out of the right to a fair trial by repeated Brady violations forming an alliance and literally bankrupting the entire State of New Hampshire.
Governor Kelly Ayotte should step in to this Cheshire County Brady violation issue and order her Attorney General to conduct a full investigation.
** UPDATE 05/13/25 **
05/12/25 – ORDER from Superior Court Chief Judge Mark E. Howard transferring the case back to Cheshire County Superior Court.
05/13/25 – RESPONSE to the ORDER from Superior Court Chief Judge Mark E. Howard.
by Highline | Apr 17, 2025 |
On March 31st of this year I requested that Grafton County Attorney Martha Hornick legally identify Robert L. Lamontagne as a “victim” under New Hampshire’s Victim’s Bill of Rights Act for the criminal due process violations we allege he sustained during his trial. Unfortunately CA Hornick has appeared to take no action on this. No disrespect intended to her… but we’re not interested in sitting around waiting for this case to get older. We’re appealing to NH Attorney General John Formella immediately to have his Office designate Rob a legal “victim” of state agent misconduct that seems to have cost him his right to a fair trial.
If Rob went to State Prison for nearly ten years on an established practice of willful due process violations in Cheshire County — other people probably did too. That is an unacceptable disruption in controlling federal constitutional law by state authorities that have no such authority. The American public shouldn’t tolerate this. These national rules exist to protect our people uniformly throughout the land. Defense lawyers have an absolute legal right to know the credibility risks of a witness says the United States Constitution. State law in New Hampshire makes it a crime of various degrees to conceal this required federal information.
This is so serious of a breach in the public trust in my view that people with badges should be investigating this… not a blogger on FreeKeene.com.
Nonetheless, we respectfully appeal to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella to have Rob designated a “victim” of a criminal due process violations that caused him serious harm.
