The Free Keene Forum continues to grow as a resource for activism in Keene as well as for those who are interested in moving to the area. Now with over 500 members, 1200 topics, and 15,000 posts, the Free Keene Forum has become the second most popular NH liberty-oriented forum on the internet, surpassing the NHLA Forum and trailing the NHFree Forum .
To celebrate the continually increasing demand on the Free Keene Forum, new activism subforums have been added! The old “Activism & Events” subforum was the forum’s most popular, so four separate subforums were created to replace it:
Additionally, the “Introduce Yourself” subforum has been made more prominent at the top of the forum. Be sure to stop in there and tell us about yourself before you start posting!
Jump to Forum.FreeKeene.com anytime, or just click the “Forum” link in the list at the top right of the blog here at FreeKeene.com, and join the discussion!
Just a reminder to those attending Social Sunday tomorrow, we will be holding the monthly food drive. Bring along a can or two to help feed those less fortunate than us!
On last week’s “Talkback” on WKBK, liberty activists called to talk about health care. You’ll also get the smarmy Dartmouth guy’s opinion on the matter.
Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene 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.
In Keene district Court today Mike Barskey of Derry had a trial related to a speeding ticket given by Swanzey Police. Judge Burke found Barskey guilty and imposed a $200 fine of which Mike stated he will not pay. Judge Burke gave Mike 30 days to pay the fine.
The Granite State Gang
New Hampshire transplants live free — or die trying
By CHRIS FARAONE | August 26, 2009
Big bucks couldn’t buy the viral awe and ire that the Free State Project (FSP) scored on August 11, when New Hampshire resident William Kostric arrived outside President Barack Obama’s Portsmouth Town Hall meeting with a handgun on his right thigh — “open carrying” is quite legal in the Granite State — and a sign declaring IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY! Kostric, an Arizona transplant who lives in Manchester, has now become a hero in the FSP movement, which, since 2004, has attracted 523 activists to the “Live Free or Die” state in search of “a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property.”
Free Staters — a loose amalgamation of Libertarian offspring who resent drug laws, speed limits, bureaucrats, and taxes — welcome both good and bad publicity. To them, there is little difference between the flattering July 25 Associated Press piece on the group’s annual Porcupine Freedom Festival and Kostric’s legal but arguably distasteful demonstration of his First and Second Amendment rights. Those developments spurred surges in interest; FSP President Varrin Swearingen, of Keene, says (more…)
The Free Keene Forum continues to grow as a resource for activism in Keene as well as for those who are interested in moving to the area. Now with over 500 members, 1200 topics, and 15,000 posts, the Free Keene Forum has become the second most popular NH liberty-oriented forum on the internet, surpassing the NHLA Forum and trailing the NHFree Forum . 
On last week’s “Talkback” on WKBK, liberty activists called to talk about health care. You’ll also get the smarmy Dartmouth guy’s opinion on the matter.
