Dave Ridley of RidleyReport.com
When he first moved to New Hampshire, it was Keene that was Ridley’s destination. He’s since lived in multiple places across the Shire and is now back in the Keene area! Upon his return, Ridley’s first target for his trademark ambush interviews was the Keene school board meeting, after it was revealed by the Sentinel that an elementary librarian apparently assaulted a student. Dave wants answers and in this series of videos he corners multiple school bureaucrats and gets everything from people pretending he doesn’t exist to blow-offs to stonewalling to even more ridiculous, unaccountable behavior.
In the first video in the series, Dave is mostly ignored or blown off by various school board members and superintendent Wayne Wooldridge:
In the second video, Ridley catches up with Keene school district human resources director Tim Rohr, who refuses to give up any information. When Ridley asks Rohr if people should stop paying taxes since the school people won’t tell parents any details about the supposed punishment to the assaultive librarian, Rohr says:
“My guess is you’ll be motivated to pay your taxes if you try to stop.”
Rohr is referring to the fact that the government will threaten to steal your home if you decide you don’t want to support their awful school system anymore:
In the third video, still more school board members and bureaucrats refuse to answer Ridley’s questions, proving as he’s proved countless times at various government meetings, that these people have no respect for independent media or any semblance of accountability:
In the fourth video, Ridley follows some school board members outside and they refuse to speak. So much for an open and accountable government! Of course, why should they bother being held accountable – they can force you to pay for their system whether they answer your questions or not:
Where will Ridley pop up in the Keene area next? Stay tuned to the Ridley Report and Free Keene for the latest!
If public schools provide a service that is so good, why do they have to use force to make people pay for it ?
If I had a product or service that I thought was really good….is it okay if I threaten taking a persons home if they don’t want to use my service and don’t like paying me?
I guess I don’t know where you are going with this article. Post one law that says these people have to answer Ridley’s questions. How about anyone having to answer his questions.
It would appear the right not to answer questions seem to fall on the activists. I have seen a number of Ridley’s videos. He is very confrontational, not biased, not professional, and these people have seen his videos and see how he twists stories far from the truth. It’s not a wonder why people won’t answer his questions.
WEEDA CLAUS “If public schools provide a service that is so good, why do they have to use force to make people pay for it ? ” Because a number of people would prefer to get something for nothing rather than paying for it. If you had a choice of getting something valuable for free or paying for it – what would you choose? If we put 1 ounce silver coins in a basket with two signs, one says “Take one for Free” and one that says “Please pay $10 for the coin”, what % of people would take the… Read more »
Jumping Jacks The reason the politicians and bureaucrats should answer to the taxvictims is they claim to operate under an unwritten social contract.
Ridley wishes he were a “journalist,” instead of an obnoxious, dishonest hack.
PabloKoh Jumping Jacks I don’t agree with your word “tax victims”. Everyone pays taxes. No one is a victim. Again, show me a law that says these people of the school board has to answer Ridley’s questions.
RichardBauman WEEDA CLAUS
You’ve just made an excellent argument to privatize public schools. If I had a choice of transacting with people on a peaceful and consensual basis or by using force to make people buy my ahem “service…I’d go the peaceful route, since there is no such thing as a “service” being provided if the customer is under duress.
Jumping Jacks
NH Constitution Article 8
[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted.
June 2, 1784
Amended 1976 by providing right of access to governmental proceedings and records.
powertool LoL … exactly.
And btw, Bernard: they don’t have to answer his questions. Besides, he’s not a “real” journalist anyway. This douchebag is just another unhinged tool with a video camera and no real job or direction in life – just like you.
WEEDA CLAUS Jumping Jacks No where does that clause state “must answer questions from wannabe-journalist douchebags like Ridley. Ridley doesn’t represent me or any other taxpayer. Not answering questions is not restricting “the public’s right of access”, you moron.
WEEDA CLAUS Then move the fuck out of town and find somewhere else where you don’t have to pay taxes, shitstain. See? Problem solved.
NH Citizen WEEDA CLAUS Jumping Jacks Sorry, you’re having such a bad day that you are being rude. Since you imply things should be more specific, can you show me the contract that individual people signed agreeing to fund things they don’t use or don’t want, but are compelled under threat of force to pay for or lose their home? If Dave Ridley doesn’t represent you I’d guess that’s because you never consented to it, just as Dave Ridley never consented to be ahem “represented” by the people that use force to make others pay for government schools. See how that… Read more »
NH Citizen WEEDA CLAUS
False dichotomy. (look it up) .
Your suggested actions seem a little unfriendly and lack vision. Good thing your ancestors didn’t fall off the edge of the flat earth when they came to the land of the free eh?
WEEDA CLAUS Jumping Jacks The question I raised was, Show me a law that says these people of the school board have to answer Ridley’s questions.
Does Ridley still keep a sign on his shirt that says he’s recording, even personal conversations wherein everything you say to and around him is ‘on the record’ for whatever use he wants? Or does he no longer do that?
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Fuck you Ridley… FSP go fuck yourselves in some other state. Fuck you Ian