Porcfest X Media Coverage

by | Jul 1, 2013 | 1 comment

porcfest-x-logos-round-transparent[1]Porcfest this year was fantastic, lots of fun, and the most-well-attended ever! Various media were there at the event and here are some of their stories:

Bitcoin Magazine‘s Six-Part Series:
Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Punk Rock Libertarians’ Matt Bergman’s report in two parts:
Part 1, rtarians.com/my-experience-at-porcfest-x-part-2/”>Part 2

Chenango County NY’s “The Evening Sun” reporter Ashley Biviano filed this report.

The Economic Thought Blog’s Mattheus Von Guttenberg’s report.

Mises.org’s Joseph Salerno’s report.

Copblock.org’s report

Concord Monitor Rails Against Wiretapping Law

by | Jun 30, 2013 | 0 comments

Attorney Jon MeyerFirst, the Concord Monitor tells the story of Joe Hamel, who recorded a Concord city bureaucrat and had his home searched by police, was charged with “wiretapping” and eventually had the charges dropped. The story also features quotes from heroic first amendment attorney Jon Meyer. Then, they editorialize in favor of the police no longer arresting people for recording government workers. Both articles are very good.

Here’s the story about Hamel: (more…)

Fire Chief’s Inspection of Activist Center Thrown Out by Court

by | Jun 29, 2013 | 7 comments

smokeDetector[1]Recently, I had a hearing on the “administrative inspection warrant” that was the reason for the raid on the Keene Activist Center in June of 2011. Eventually that raid resulted in a criminal case bring brought against me over not having AC-powered, interconnected smoke alarms in my tenants’ home.

Good news! As a result of the hearing on the warrant, judge Runyon of district court issued an order reversing the fire inspection portion of the warrant and threw out all evidence gathered by fire chief Gary LaFreniere. (more…)