Local code enforcer and former Keene police detective (yes, he is collecting his pension and still working for the city – sweet deal!) Fred Parsells appears to have taken me and the Keene Activity Center on as his pet project. Fred’s told me on more than one occasion that he thinks I’m going to leave Keene and it seems like he’s trying his best to ensure that happens.
Sorry Fred, it’s not happening. First, your case is pretty weak to begin with. You’re attempting to prove that the KAC is a “lodginghouse” by relying on old evidence collected from posts made online by former tenants, who are not currently living at the KAC. Even if the former tenants were running a “lodginghouse”, that’s not evidence that the current tenants are. Local robed man Ed Burke signed your permission slip to come raid the KAC, but that merely resulted in you finding some bunk beds – that’s not proof of anything.
There are more reasons why the KAC is not a “lodginghouse”, as I understand it, but that’s not the point of this piece. The point is, whether or not it’s a “lodginghouse” doesn’t matter. The Keene Activity Center is a project protected by Article Ten of the Bill of Rights in the NH Constitution to which Fred Parsells swore an oath. What is Article Ten? Here it is:
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Is the New Hampshire Supreme Court ready to take this issue on over a “lodging house” issue? Is the Attorney General ready to invest tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars over this?
Lets wait and see…
