Today I witnessed something that I found so shockingly callus, while at the same time unsurprising.
I went to Keene City Hall to file the asinine “required papers” to capture video of the ‘public trial’ Burke is holding for Sam this Friday. As I came into the 2nd floor lobby, the bailiff recognized me, and I gave him a friendly smile and a ‘Hello’. The bureaucrat behind the window began looking for some information I requested, I noticed a state trooper walking around in the area behind the counter. As he exited through the side door, and entered the hallway that leads into the courtroom, I could no longer see him; however, when he began to speak to the bailiff, I could hear him plainly:
“Hey, remember those Free Staters we got the other day? We just got him again!”
He exclaimed this in a tone of absolute joy, and then began laughing.
Because the bailiff had recognized me upon entering the lobby, he had attempted to silence the trooper after the words ‘remember those Free Staters’. Whether he was trying to protect the trooper from exposing themselves as the heartless thugs they are, or protecting me from hearing an official degrade my friends and family, is unclear to me. However, when I shot him a look of shock mixed with sadness, and asked who it was, his tone became very ashamed and apologetic.
This brought front and center the attitude of the state towards peaceful people who object to their brutal treatment. They are hunters and we are the game.
