Invoking district court rule 2.14, Wes and Meg are sentenced and their cases sent to superior court for “de novo” trial. Wes is also arrested on a theft charge for when he allegedly accidentally walked out of the KSC library with books in his backpack. Despite apologizing and giving the books back, charges were pressed. Here’s the raw video:
As of tomorrow morning, Liberty on Tour‘s Pete, Adam, and Ethan will be back in Keene! They will be enjoying a weekend with their fellow activists then on Monday morning traveling to Greenfield, MA for Adam’s trial and Pete’s pre-trial on wiretapping charges. Details regarding the Greenfield situation are here on CopBlock and here’s the Facebook event, if you’d like to attend.
This was recently posted on the Free Keene Forum, and I thought it deserved a wider audience. Clearly, Tom doesn’t have a complete grasp on where liberty lovers who move to Keene are coming from on the issues (immigration is a good thing and I doubt many of us would consider ourselves ‘tea partiers’ or part of the ‘patriot movement’), but regardless, if you have moved to Keene as part of the FSP or will be moving, please consider this:
Hello Everyone,
My name is Tom Davis and I am casting for a one-hour documentary that will air on MTV. The show is about people who have a strong feeling that the US government is going in the wrong direction.
The show will feature the points-of-view of three young like-minded people who express doubt about the direction the government is going. There will be no narration.
Casting Call:
Age Range: Teens though early 30’s. Male and Female applicants welcome. (more…)
In 2003, security analyst Bruce Schneier introduced the concept of security theater: “Security theater refers to security measures that make people feel more secure without doing anything to actually improve their security. An example: the photo ID checks that have sprung up in office buildings. No-one has ever explained why verifying that someone has a photo ID provides any actual security, but it looks like security to have a uniformed guard-for-hire looking at ID cards. Airport-security examples include the National Guard troops stationed at US airports in the months after 9/11 — their guns had no bullets. The US colour-coded system of threat levels, the pervasive harassment of photographers, and the metal detectors that are increasingly common in hotels and office buildings since the Mumbai terrorist attacks, are additional examples.”
Security theater is driven by political forces: the public demands that the government do something to provide more security. This demand is passed on to representatives, who rely on the the positive perception of voters to get re-elected. Naturally, when they are being judged on these grounds, they maximize the appearance of security rather than security itself.
Over the last few years, Keeniacs have witnessed the growth of a similar phenomenon– activism theater. Activism theater refers to activist measures that make people feel like government policy is being improved without doing anything to actually improve government policy. (Even if the goal is no government, that requires a change in government policy, from what we have today to the absence of any government action.) Examples of activism theater are the School Sucks Project “outreach” and City Hall drinking games. Both of these were billed as activism, and yet there’s no plausible mechanism through which they could have changed anything– their activism guns had no bullets. (more…)
Thanks to those of you who contributed to help support Free Keene’s advertisements in 2010. Ads were purchased all year long on the Ridley Report, Free Minds TV and Radio, and Liberty Conspiracy. I am going to continue advertising in these venues as it supports some great NH-based liberty media and simultaneously gets the word out about Free Keene to people outside NH. I’ve created another chip-in to help cover the costs. Thank you again for your help!
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