I was grateful to have the opportunity tonight to appear as a guest with A New Way of Life‘s Susan Burton on “Reentry Radio” and discuss with her and co-host Ed Garrett the idea of not taking plea deals. Susan is the lady who was featured in the excellent New York Times piece, “Go to Trial – Crash the Justice System“.
After I saw the article I reached out to share with her that what she wanted to see happen was already happening here in New Hampshire – people refusing to take the plea deal and loading the system up with cases. I linked her to our downloadable, printable trifold, “Don’t Take the Plea Deal“, which exists in both a NH and national version.
A couple of days later, I was contacted by Ed Garrett, who is also on her show, and invited to come talk about the flier and what we are doing up here. It was a detailed conversation about the risks and potential rewards of not taking the plea deal, and we covered a lot of ground in about an hour, including talking briefly about Jury Nullification, the Free State Project, and more.
While hundreds more voters did come out to vote in this year’s school board election, (in comparison to last year) the supermajority of registered Keene voters decided to abstain. Only 2266 people cast a ballot last week in Keene. (16.2% of 14,402 registered voters) The people in the state society claim as justification for their aggressive actions that “we voted for them”, but that’s hardly if ever true. Most people don’t vote. However, that doesn’t stop them from foisting their violent system on us. This is why any plans to stop voting will not stop the aggression. Just look at any town where 0% turn out (it happens). The government people don’t take this as non-confidence in their system, but instead they see it as an endorsement that the voters just think everything is peachy, so they just go right on oppressing people. The only thing that will stop them is noncooperation.
Of those who voted, 11.5%, or 262 people, voted for me. That’s with virtually no campaigning and a radical message of turning ownership of the schools over to the teachers and staff. Thanks to everyone who voted for me – no matter what your reasons.
Please contact local state reps to support the following legislation that could take power away from the corrupt court system in NH (these, as I understand it, if passed will result in public votes to amend the constitution):
CACR 26 – Providing that the article authorizing the chief justice of the supreme court to make rules governing the administration of all the courts of the state shall be repealed.
CACR 22 – Providing that the chief justice shall adopt court rules with the concurrence of the general court.
CACR 11 – Providing that all state judges be commissioned for renewable 7-year terms.
I was grateful to have the opportunity tonight to appear as a guest with A New Way of Life‘s Susan Burton on “Reentry Radio” and discuss with her and co-host Ed Garrett the idea of not taking plea deals. Susan is the lady who was featured in the excellent New York Times piece, “Go to Trial – Crash the Justice System“.
