[Ian sent this letter to the Keene Sentinel editors from jail via Mail-to-Jail]
Ian Freeman
825 Marlboro Rd.
Keene, NH 03431
Letter to the Editor (from Jail)
More Police Will Not Stop Robberies, Violence, and Theft in Keene.
Many Keene inhabitants are rightly concerned with the recent incidents of real crimes like robberies, thefts, fights, and even murder. It is understandable that typical response amounts to, “We need more police on the streets!”
Unfortunately, this only provides the illusion of security. The police cannot be everywhere at once. Even they will tell you they usually arrive on-scene after a crime has already ben committed. If they manage to find the money to hire another officer or two, the politicians can pat themselves on the back and pretend they have done something about crime. At best, more police only addresses a symptom – not the root cause of most of these crimes.
What is the root cause? Drug prohibition. Don’t believe me? Any honest policemen will tell you 80% of them want money to buy illegal drugs. The recent tragic murder in Keene wasn’t some random fight between friends, as has been suggested here in the Sentinel. The fight was over $100 in cocaine and the victim was attempting to collect the debt.
This should all sound very familiar to those who’ve paid attention to history. It all happened before nearly 100 years ago during the prohibition of alcohol. Crime rose dramatically and the profits available to those willing to flaunt the law gave rise to gangs and the violence that is all too familiar. Even the police in many cases could not resist the corrupting influence.
Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine addicts can all support their habit with a regular job. Total drug decriminalization would allow drugs to be distributed in the open market rather than the shadowy black market – decreasing prices dramatically, and removing most of the crime associated with those high prices. Purity and consistency of products will improve, reducing overdoses. Dosage instructions and safety information will be easily available – reducing harm to users. Addicts will be more likely to seek help, as they won’t fear arrest.
A solution like this will require real political courage. Sadly, Keene’s city council recently “accepted as informational” my proposal to stop enforcing drug prohibition in Keene. That means they refused to have even a public hearing on the issue. Apparently they’d rather keep you and your family at risk of drug-related violence and property crime. Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results. All of history proves the continued failure of the “War on Drugs”, which is really a war on our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family. After decades of millions of arrests of dealers and users (which destroy further the people they are supposed to “help”), and trillions of dollars spent, drugs are as popular as ever, if not more so.
Don’t believe me? Ask the cops at LEAP. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. They have all the studies and statistics you could want. Visit LEAP.cc for more.
Drug prohibition creates more problems and solves none. Aggression in the form of arrests will not solve this problem. Only compassion can help addicts. War is not compassion. Until politicians are willing to seriously look at the issue rather than brushing it under the rug, you can expect the crime to continue unabated.
he's right about this. But i have one concern about legalizing weed. Wouldn't Big Tobacco compaines take over all the business from small growers and dealers? If they legalize it, they should make a requirement that bans big business from getting into the business
Legalizing Drugs Will Not Stop Robberies, Violence, and Theft in Keene.
Somebody keeps changing their name or using different names, i dont know which, but i garuntee that the second poster is one of these people that always gets on here and defends the cops and the government
@blackie: You're right, because nothing will stop robberies, violence and theft from ever happening. Prohibition and police aggression certainly doesn't work either. The goal is to lessen the occurrences of these violent crimes. The facts are that these crimes will and do diminish when prohibition is ended. Just look to the history of alcohol prohibition in the US.
I choose compassion and not aggression. This article is great!
Or he is a troll?
Dr. Ian Bernard, Criminologist – save proclaimed Messiah of all things Keene has spoken. Gather round everyone, Ian Freeman the jailbird has the answer to solving rape, murder, assaults and drunk driving deaths! All these crimes are a result of drugs being illegal….who da thunk. Legalize crack and sit back and watch pedophilia just magically VANISH.
So when the EMT "stole" Ian's camera a year or so ago he was yelling like a little girl in the street "Help! POLICE!" – it was because of drug prohibition? LOL
*self proclaimed* – for all the wordsmiths out there who can only focus on spelling errors.
@matt
Personal attacks on Ian do no harm to this message. It is correct and the path we should follow.
yea…Ian may say "i wish there were more flowers in the world" and trolls like matt would eviscerate him for it……. thats the hallmark of a TROLL…..
but they aren't smart enough to know that they are making themselves look bad….lol (not making Ian look bad)
80% of the police want money to buy drugs?? Don't they just use the stuff they take from the folks they arrest?? While a lot of crime IS commited by drug users looking for easy money,is there anything that suggests that those people would be clean,sober members of society if drugs were legal? Would they just get jobs to buy drugs,supposedly cheaper? What about addictive personalities,making drugs easier to get would only give one more avenue of abuse that is legal. And as said above,what about the crimes that are in no way related to drugs? We could make them… Read more »
Too much of a comparison. —bil
http://www.mlkonline.net/jail.html
Bil = Trol. (winky smiley face)
Thank you! —Trol ; )
*THIS*COMPUTER*SAVES*LOGINS*&SCREEN*NAMES*
I am posting with my usual email address. That is available to site.admin.
"blackie" has indeed posted here before, and to me, that sounds like the "blackie" I have come to
know and love….
SCREW*YOU*"david-keene", *YOU*MOTHERFUCKING*PIECE*OF*WHORE*SHIT*///*STOP*CALLING*EVERY*BODY***YOU**DON'T**LIKE**A**FUCKING**TROLL**, -or else-*I'M**SURE**GOD**WILL**SMITE**YOU**OFF**YOUR**TRICYCLE**, **KID**…
Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TVset…
And, ———————->
reality*checkers
is kok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfMkkMnSJI&fe…
And the classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiu6DFXeF9A&fe…
And for you, david-keene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79uI_u9Src&fe…
Mr. Rick Van Wickler is the Superintendent of the Cheshire County House of Corrections. In plain Contemporary Native American English, he's the county jail boss…He's a L.E.A.P. speaker, and recruiter. (Disclaimer: In Oct. 2009, I attended an indoctrination seminar, featuring a propaganda PowerPoint, and speaker. I drank the Kool-Aid. I paid $2. I got the cool little badge-looking lapel pin. It says: "Peace, Honor, Health, Discretion". I am a L.E.A.P. member. I am a plain-clothes, deep-cover, Federal Investigative Agent, employed through Treasury, with a cover as a Social Security Administration and USPS Postal Inspector. As the direct result of my… Read more »
Sorry, the first one is for you, king.
Yes, "david-keene", "reality*checkers" is the screen name I used last week, when last I logged on to this computer. It was "saved" here, when I logged on today, despite said computer having been run through several "shut down" and "restart" cycles, and having been hand-deleted by me, several times. I even hacked into the boot registry, and got fire-walled by some cool script that looks Czech or Ukranian, so I don't think it's "our side" doing it, but, NSA & NRO(Naval Reconnaisance Office) does sometimes use East European or Chinese -looking script as *DOMESTIC*COVER*…(International borders ceased to be relevant to… Read more »
Thank-you, "David"…~tKoK.
one thing i hope id never do is scream for the cops like a girl. I guess Ian screamed for the cops when the EMT stole his camera. He said, "that EMT stole my private property. Id like to file a complaint because he violated my right to my property." Property is theft – Proudhon
We may both be assholes, king, but only good assholes know Zappa(smiley face flipping off the freekeeners).
"video reinaction"???…they mean "re-enactment"???…MLK sure is hot property. I bet MLK still makes $millions$ / year in royalties…Thank-you, "bil", for the link to MLK's "Letter From Birmingham Jail"…No, "4:20" in the Common, or the "right" to drink beer openly, and display naked female breasts in public, is *NOT* anywhere near as "important" as CIVIL*RIGHTS…Ian is *NOT*, and never will be, "EQUAL" to MLK in importance, but still, the parallels are there. The parallels are there. I wonder what Church "David", and "matt" preach at? As stupid as I think it was, for Ian to stand in front of a cop… Read more »
TO: "David":
…I heard one of the 9/11 hijackers was actually Arab royalty…his real name was Sheik Yirbouty…(…you're welcome!…)~tKoK.
TO: "David":
Seriously, dude, i just clicked on your first of those 3 links above, *AFTER* I posted the post right before this one!…"Great minds think alike…???…WTF…???…~tKoK.
Who'd x-pect a friggin' EMT to snatch a cell fone? Course Ian squealed, smashcap. He's sure cowboyed up now. Thanks, Judge Arnold, for giving Ian the best *FREE* Vacation, and *FREE*STAY* at the new Cheshire County *FREEDOM*TRAINING*CAMP*. Ian will be out soon, bigger, better, badder than ever!…
In a previous post, Lpviper suggested that, if "FreeKeeners" are not being good neighbors, I should "call them out as hypocrites. FreeKeeners, I am calling you out as hypocrites! We were born with TWO ears and only ONE mouth. That means we were meant to LISTEN twice as much as we talk. What has been experienced during all of this is “sealed ears and flapping lips”. Unfortunately, attempts at civil discussion with you are met with shouting down, subject changing, name calling (“Statist”, “Sheep”, "Troll" etc…). I understand that the members of this movement are passionate in your beliefs, but… Read more »
tKoK-you have been 'incountry' too long,gone native.Why do you think I was sent,man-it was to watch over you! They are starting to get suspicious back at the Agency-I covered for you,said it was all part of an extremely cunning plan.They went for it,but be careful-there are Feds in town! —bil
Of *COURSE* there are "Feds" in town, "bil", who the fuck do you think works at the post office, and the military recruiters, for instance???…And, there's always an "AIP", (Agent In Place) for the Secret Service, in case O'Dumbo flaps his ears into Dillant-Hopkins…What, me worry? Relax, I'm writing a book, OK???…sheesh, you're as bad as that "keene-david" character!!!…~tKoK.
I told people i was the commander of an anarchist militia and was fighting a group called the triple six crew. They said "somebody left the computer at the psych ward unattended again."
They always leave that thing logged in-I don't know why.Anyone could use it! —bil
🙂 i have a picture now peace
good riddance to kok
that's not me……… it's the wrong end of the cow!!!
the ones without the cow picture are that mental patient kok………..GOOD RIDDANCE
I realize some people hide their names from their words:I attach my name to my words unlike those people and I own every word I say..Unlike those people.
one other quick note before he gets ZERO mention from me: I see kok/impersonater/brad around town for years ..and he has never ever said anything like the trash talk he does in here for zero reason…
EVER and I have seen him for YEARS …and all this non sense is unprovoked..well I will cross the street when I see him now
🙂
🙁
*@bil: you can get the smiley faces by typing the emoticons as colons, pancreases, semi-colons, and stuff like that. paraentheseses 4 mouths…like that, you troll-bait…kd.
:>)
🙂
arrow noses screwq it up 🙂
troll:)
It's INTERESTING that there are TWO write ups in Free Keene,(ian freemans website) ,two write ups regarding the arrest of I'm not saying jason shouldn't be wrote about on here; he should,but Ian,the creator of the site and host of ftl, having TWO court dates GETS ZIP!?
I'm not a blogger so It's not on me to do it.
Anyway,THAT'S IT.
key board acted up…sry about that ….hopefully people will make sense of what I said
: ) ; ( Testing emoticons.I tried with the conons and pancreases,also that curly thing they use for 'at' and an ampersand,I may be an ass to risk it.Thanks,keene-david. —bil PS -are you any relation to the keene-david that had a hotel in Jeruselem?
No. That was theJERUSALEMofKEENE. Thnx 4 askin', tho-.~tKoK….try: colon / parentheseas…:)
HUH?… 🙂
key: "space bar"… 🙂