Thanks to some mediating by his daughter, Annie, James Callaway and I were able to come to some level of remedy today. James insisted it was not his intention to threaten Sam and seemed to understand how I could have taken what he said to me as threatening to Sam during our phone call a week ago and so I apologized to him for breaking confidence and publicly revealing our conversation. He reasonably requested I relay the information more publicly on the blog, so here it is. I also agree with Annie that my blog post did not help deescalate the situation.
In case you weren’t aware, many liberty activists met with a few of the Free Keene from the Free Keene Stigma members for a few hours in Ashuelot Park this afternoon. I hope that today’s meeting in the park showed James that liberty activists are not all the same. For instance, James seemed surprised when I clearly supported his right to engage in his cup antics. Since Sam was trying to film in a public place, Sam has no right to privacy or right to be free from interference.
Hopefully everyone has learned from this experience. It doesn’t seem like Sam and James are going to find much common ground anytime soon, but most everyone else seemed to get along fairly well at today’s meeting. There was much discussion of a productive nature.
