Arrested? Told you need to pay $40 to be released? That is simply not true.
For eleven years I took part in a scam that turns the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Part I, Article 33 of the New Hampshire Constitution into a money making racket.
When you are arrested for a crime or offense which is punishable in the adult system, the police have generally three options regarding your release.
1) Release you on a hand summons. (A ticket, telling you when to appear in court.)
2) Release you without any charges.
3) Contact a “Bail Commissioner” who will decide what your bail will be.
The third option typically is what happens most and if you have been through it you are most likely $40+ poorer for the experience. The thing is this: you legally do not have to pay and they still need to release you. Any threat to not release you is just that. An empty threat. In fact, you would be quite lucky if they followed through with such a threat …
Motorhome Diaries
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 
Pictures of yesterday’s jail demonstration and “trespass” are now online
