Our friend, co-blogger, and documentarian Sam from the Obscured Truth Network called me from jail today to tell me they did hold a bail hearing for him by video and the presiding judge Howard Lane (Burke is on vacation this week.) told him he will be held indefinitely until he decides to give them his “legal name”. Sam is currently held as “John Sam Doe”. Even if he were to give them that name, how it is they will be certain that the name he gives them is legal, I don’t know, as they don’t have ID for him and he hasn’t registered to vote in NH. Sam has not indicated that he will be giving in, meaning he’s stuck in the Cheshire County jail, which despite being one of the better jails in the state, still has its share of problems. Sam said that there was sewage floating in his area of the jail when he arrived, for instance. Plus, they are denying him access to the jail law library, making it even more difficult for him to participate in their tyrannical system.
Sam is expected to call in to Free Talk Live tonight. He has asked that you call the Keene Police Department’s prosecutor, Eli Rivera, as it is he who is pressing these charges. Continue calling the Keene District Court, as their judges are responsible for his indefinite imprisoning. Those phone numbers are at Sam.JailedActivist.info. He doubts it will do much, but he suggested calling state representatives and senators and perhaps the governor’s office to let them know what their system is doing to a peaceful man. He also requests you contact local media across NH as well as national media and alert them to the story.
He thanks everyone for coming out to protest yesterday even though they locked his section down during our entire visit as well as everyone who attended the candlelight vigil.
First, grab this Friday’s episode of Free Talk Live and listen as Sam describes his situation for the first hour of the show. He is fasting but in relatively good shape after being injured by the court security bureaucrats on Monday. He has given up some info and is now in population with the other nonviolent inmates though still listed as “John Sam Doe”. Sam reports success in reaching his fellow inmates about liberty, relates a tale of compassion on the part of the jail’s violent offenders, and more. Also, today activists we able to visit Sam and nine of them came to the Cheshire County jail on just a few hours notice. Afterwards, the visitors walked around the outside of the jail’s perimeter holding signs, eliciting smiles, positive hand signals, and window banging from the inmates. Tomorrow, there is another protest scheduled at 2:45p for shift change at the jail as well as a candlelight vigil at Keene’s Central Sq. at 9pm.
Finally, here is some video of Sam, originally streamed live:
The color-hating busybodies poured onto the phones on last week’s “Talkback” and liberty activists called in response to speak out in favor of color freedom. Activists also discussed what the state is and the illegitimacy of it. City Councilor Kendall Lane suggests that Free Staters are a “bother” and claims that if you don’t attend dull city meetings that you aren’t part of the community. (Ignoring that liberty activists have attended several city council meetings now.) Also, listen carefully as the board op dumps my audio at the beginning of my call when I attempt to point out the arrest of AnarchoJesse for illegal gardening.
Join us for our weekly “Talkback” listening and chat session on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p ET in the Free Keene chat room and discuss on the Free Keene Forum.
This morning I had a nice conversation with Superintendent (and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaker) Rick Van Wickler of the Cheshire County Jail. According to him, Sam is eating but apparently wasn’t until just recently, and that he is still not cooperating so therefore has not been classified. That means he can’t be in population, therefore he is likely in solitary confinement until he decides to submit to some of their questions and a TB test.
I asked Rick what level of control he has over releasing inmates and he explained that he answers to the judges with one exception. (more…)
Our friend, co-blogger, and documentarian Sam from the Obscured Truth Network called me from jail today to tell me they did hold a bail hearing for him by video and the presiding judge Howard Lane (Burke is on vacation this week.) told him he will be held indefinitely until he decides to give them his “legal name”. Sam is currently held as “John Sam Doe”. Even if he were to give them that name, how it is they will be certain that the name he gives them is legal, I don’t know, as they don’t have ID for him and he hasn’t registered to vote in NH. Sam has not indicated that he will be giving in, meaning he’s stuck in the Cheshire County jail, which despite being one of the better jails in the state, still has its share of problems. Sam said that there was sewage floating in his area of the jail when he arrived, for instance. Plus, they are denying him access to the jail law library, making it even more difficult for him to participate in their tyrannical system.
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This morning I had a nice conversation with Superintendent (and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaker) Rick Van Wickler of the Cheshire County Jail. According to him, Sam is eating but apparently wasn’t until just recently, and that he is still not cooperating so therefore has not been classified. That means he can’t be in population, therefore he is likely in solitary confinement until he decides to submit to some of their questions and a TB test.
