My little radio show, Free Talk Live, based here in Keene at the LRN.FM studio, was just ranked at #52 of 100 (up from #79 last year!) in the TALKERS Magazine “Heavy Hundred” yearly list of the “most influential talk radio hosts”. Thank you to all our listeners and stations and supporters who helped make this possible!
Sadly, it is only heard in Keene on WKBK radio on Saturday nights, and that’s when baseball isn’t on. Perhaps someday Monadnock Radio Group will expand our coverage in Keene, considering we scored better on the list than did Boston conservaclone Howie Carr, who ranks at #56, as well as Wall St. Journal’s Michael Castner who is #61.
There’s a neat new website that is tracking the top “libertarian” websites on a regular basis based on data from Compete. Free Keene scored at #66! Other NH-based liberty sites are also on the list, including Shire Society at #82, LRN.FM at #81, Free Talk Live at #60, Free State Project at #53, Porcfest at #100, Liberty on Tour at #125, and Cop Block at #36!
This nearly 24 minute audio includes all the radio traffic the KPD scanner received between 10pm and Midnight on April 17th, 2012. It’s everything from the initial report from Diversified Computers of noise on the roof, to the shooting of the suspect on Marlboro St., to the manhunt for the other two suspects, to the afterwards.
The Keene police scanner audio reveals that the two suspects were taken into custody AFTER the police shot the third man to death. The Sentinel’s report makes it sound like the reverse happened:
At least one person was on the roof of the building when police arrived. He and another man were taken into custody after a short pursuit, authorities said.
A man who was not captured allegedly left the area in a car and led police on a pursuit to Marlboro Street.
Their mis-reporting led FK’s Ademo to write his opinion piece, in which he assumed the Sentinel got it right and therefore makes several mistaken conclusions. Remember, as you listen to this audio, the blank spaces have been mostly excised from the piece to make it easier to listen. In the full audio, it’s more than ten minutes before officer Jennifer Uhas (118) announces she has the first suspect in custody. Less than a minute later, the second suspect is in custody as well. In their report, the Sentinel claims to have their own scanner – so why the botched reporting?
The audio is pretty intense, and Keene police for the most part, do the best they can to bring aggressors to justice, backed by four state troopers, a couple of county sheriffs, and mutual aid units from Winchester, Dublin, and Troy. Sadly, some officers opted to use deadly force to stop the third suspect from running, which seems entirely inappropriate and even reckless (more…)
In late 2011, the Shire Choir performed “Chronic Carols” in protest of the war on drugs, at a few state liquor stores. If you thought you had the right to assemble and right to free speech, you clearly haven’t attempted to exercise those rights. When you do, (if you do it in a place that matters, like a courthouse or other government property) you’ll find out that you don’t have them at all. Here’s video of me being served with an “order” banning me and Jason Talley and Derrick J from every state liquor store in NH, forever. For singing.