Keene City Council Wisdom

by | Aug 7, 2010 | 13 comments

The Keene City Council has a whole code of ordinances that it utilizes to govern authorize violence against its subjects.  Whether it is prohibiting someone from peacefully drinking an alcoholic beverage on public property or making it illegal for its own employees to remove snow from the roadways in the winter…  the Keene City Council carefully crafts its “master plan.”

Yes, you read me correctly.  A Free Keene forum reader found an ordinance enacted by the Keene City Council making it illegal for anyone to plow snow off of its roadways in the winter.  No exceptions are made for government employees and it looks like you can get slammed with a $1000 fine for doing it!

Sec. 82-67.  Placement of snow and ice.

No person shall shovel, plow, put or place or cause to be shoveled, plowed, put or placed,within the traveled portion of any sidewalk, street, lane, alley, or highway, any snow or ice. However, snow and ice may be banked on the sides of public roadways incident to the cleaning thereof or banked on the sides of sidewalks incident to the cleaning thereof. The penalty for violation of this section shall be as provided in section 1-15 et seq.

Now that surely is a creative way for a municipal government entity to generate more revenue: hire people to plow the road in the winter and then fine them for doing it.  😛

Constitutional Rights Were Violated in Keene

by | Aug 7, 2010 | 49 comments

It is no surprise to those of us who write here at FreeKeene.com that we have many readers from the Keene community and beyond that firmly disagree with various things that we advocate.  If you happen to be one of the aforementioned, chances are that you’re a supporter of the state and the constitutions that define how it can behave.  Hopefully, I can appeal to you through this brief article.

Two nights ago two of Free Keene’s contributors had their constitutional rights violated by government employees that they both are forced to fund.  The argument of whether Ian Freeman and Sam Dodson were looking for a confrontation is irrelevant and no excuse for the behavior of government officials that was initiated by government officials.  In this state and country the government is prohibited from interfering with peaceful free speech and protest.  The onus is on government employees to comply with the entirety of the state and federal constitutions, at all times…  even when confronted by people peacefully expressing their displeasure at the continued enforcement of a government policy.

Especially when confronted by people peacefully expressing their displeasure at the continued enforcement of a government policy.

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Shire Society Declaration vs. US Constitution

by | Aug 1, 2010 | 5 comments

A FreeKeene.com reader/commenter has asked me the following question regarding the Shire Society Declaration:

BTW: How is that “Shire Society” document NOT just another Constitution-type, set of simple statutes? In other words, SAME THING, as the current system of (unjust)laws???

I is none constitutional scholar… but I’d say the vast difference is found in the second provision of the document:

“Second, no individual or association of individuals, however constituted, has the right to initiate force against any other individual;”
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Are Police Blindly Robotic?

by | Jul 31, 2010 | 20 comments

On the Free Keene forum a discussion/debate has sparked into existence regarding the topic of whether or not the police are blindly robotic in their enforcement of the law.  My position on this important question is that the police have no choice but to be blindly robotic and accordingly will enforce any law that they’re directed to.  If a police officer wants to keep their job, they have no choice.

Let me articulate my argument as to why they are forced to be blindly robotic…  why it is a terrible thing…  and why society would be better of if this was not the case.

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