Free Keene was founded back in late 2006 with the intention of being the go-to source for Keene-area liberty news, opinion, and activism. Over three years later, that has been accomplished, and more. Free Keene has become a movement with real-life positive impact for freedom in not just the Keene area, but Manchester, Nashua, and Concord. Within the past year, the site has taken the tagline, “New Hampshire’s Liberty Activist Destination”, but I wish there were more such destinations! Despite my gentle prodding over the years, no one has bothered to launch a similar area-centric blog to “compete” with Free Keene. There have been a couple started, but they haven’t really gone anywhere yet, so Free Keene will continue to fill-in the gaps by covering noteworthy activism happening in other places. Of course, the FK blog has been doing this for a while now, but to expand a bit, Free Keene welcomes our newest blogger, Brad Jardis. Brad is our second outside-Keene blogger and was given the opportunity to blog here because of his outstanding activism, and because FK is frankly the best place for NH liberty-blogs to be seen. Too bad FreeManch.com never materialized, cause now we’ve got him here at Free Keene! Here’s his bio from the Bloggers page:
Brad Jardis is a New Hampshire native and is well known for being one of the very first active rank-and-file law enforcement officers to join Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) and come out publicly against the insane war on drugs. His work in LEAP resulted in him forming alliances and friendships with many people participating in the liberty movement. Brad admits that many things he did as a police officer he regrets. He hopes that by speaking out on liberty-related issues other law enforcement officers can understand that a society need not target peaceful people for prosecution who break victimless laws and that individual police officials should follow their conscience before blindly following orders handed down by politicians. Now having moved on from LEAP and the world of law enforcement, Brad has decided to blog here at FreeKeene.com!
