Submitted as a letter to the Keene Sentinel:
In a 3 to 1 vote, the Planning, Licenses, and Development committee passed a resolution to prohibit the posting of political advertising on city property and public rights-of-way. The resolution goes to full council on the 20th.
To many, the the political signage around town can be messy at times, especially during presidential years, but this resolution is a clear violation of our freedom of speech rights and also conflicts with current state statute that protects placing political signs on public property.
As it stands, RSA 31:41-c authorizes municipalities to create bylaws regulating electioneering. But state statute RSA 664:17 protects the placement of political signs on public rights-of-way, as long as it doesn’t obstruct the safe flow of traffic.
This comes right on the heels of a ridiculous new amendment to RSA 659:43 that now prohibits voters from entering the polling place wearing campaign related clothing. Clearly some of our state reps have entirely too much time on their hands.
Passing this new ordinance will undoubtedly open up lawsuits against the city which they will likely lose. The courts do routinely recognize extra protections for political speech. That means “we” the taxpayers will be picking up the tab as usual for mistakes made by the city. Please contact your city councilors and urge them to vote against this.
Conan Salada
Just another day in the United Police States of America. Better luck next election.
I think we’ve seen enough of these videos to realize that among the good cops, there are alot of pigs mixed in.
What the good peaceful cops really need to do is stand up to the pigs and work to expose them, because the bad cops are the ones that tarnish them all.
Cops don’t rat on other cops or union bigs step in and makes sure the rat gets his. Happens time after time after time. You rat and no one backs you up on the job. You rat and you will never get a promotion. You rat in a big enough city and you just might end up dead.
If there were “good cops,” these bad cops would have been arrested, instead of protected.
Conspiring to protect the abusers makes them culpable in the abuse. Ergo, there are no “good cops.”
this is a disgrace they are supposed to uphold the law
and they wonder why no one has any respect for them
because they wear a gun and a badge they can do whatever they want
hats off to the seabrook pd you hired the best of the best
they little tweerps
should be fired but they will not be
and if this kid is so drunk he was able to video the tweerps
I know of an officer who once got on a school bus and he made threats
to 6 and 7 year children
hes still employed with the force
and he even got promoted to sargent
and he still works with kids
there is plenty more just like him
this story just came across my newsfeed from wmur/wabc apparently FBI investigating
The name officer who is smiling while the suspect was on the ground is Adam Laurent.
the media and town officials in seabrook are trying to suppress the names of the officers involved.