Stealing Free Speech

This past Thursday Keene resident James Walters arrived home around 3pm and noticed Keene PD’s Officer Short sitting in his driveway. Officer Short said, “I’d like to ask you about this sign” pointing to an anti-Romney political sign.

Walters asked, “am I being detained?”

Short said, “no.”

Walters asked Officer Short to leave his property and after a brief back and forth, Short asked for a receipt showing proof of purchase or the sign would be taken. Walters informed Officer Short that if the sign was taken, lawyers and the media would be contacted.

Walters said, “Short told me that the Attorney General personally called the Keene PD demanding them to take this particular sign.”

According to Walters, Officer Short then made a phone call, and took the sign.
Calls to the Attorney General’s Office were not immediately returned.

Free Obama Drone!

If you’ve been following the United States presidential race, there’s a chance you’ve seen the viral video of an Obama supporter explaining that she supports her candidate because of a free Obama-phone. While telecommunications is an important issue to many Americans, Free Concord presents an alternative spin on the monologue from a foreign policy perspective.

 

Contact the Obama4Amerika campaign to find out how you can qualify for the disposition matrix and receive a free Obama-drone!

VIDEO: Ian Arrested in Palmer MA for Recording in Town Hall

Earlier today, the police in the Town of Palmer ignored the historic Glik decision that affirms your right to record government employees in the performance of their duties, and went ahead and arrested a cameraman, me, for recording video in their town hall. Darryl described the scene earlier. A longer video is coming, but for now, here’s the video of us entering the town of Palmer offices, the arrest, to when the cops turn the camera off:

UPDATE: Here’s the arrest report from officer Raymond L. Tenczar. Compare his report to the reality of the uncut video, and you decide…

One more thing: In case you don’t believe this was a public auction, here’s proof:
1. Here’s the Zekos Group announcement of the auction, which I downloaded from their website, that clearly states, “This will be a very open, public, and professional process“. Other attendees were denyed entry to the auction – unless they had a $5,000 cashier’s check.
2. We visited the Palmer town offices and sat in on a tax sale in 2011 and were unmolested by the same town bureaucrats. See the video here: (more…)

MassLive.com Covers Tax Sale Protest & Ian’s Arrest

Thanks to MassLive’s Lori Stabile for the coverage of today’s situation in Palmer, MA:

PALMER – During a public auction of town-owned properties on Thursday, only registered bidders were allowed to attend, the media and other members of the public were banned, and a New Hampshire man was arrested.

Town officials took the unusual step of allowing only registered bidders inside the auction, held inside the Town Building on Main Street, to prevent a group of protesters from potentially disrupting the proceedings. (more…)