Facebook Commenting is Back!

by | Mar 21, 2012 | 4 comments

After disappearing mysteriously and me spending way to much time troubleshooting, I finally figured out that another plugin had killed the Facebook commenting feature. It is now back! Enjoy.

Goodbye, Will. I wish you the best.

by | Mar 21, 2012 | 109 comments

WillWill May is a great inside-the-system activist, and I’m sad to see him leave Free Keene. I invited him to blog here a long way back and he eventually took me up on the offer. Since then, he’s provided some really great content, despite the fact that unlike the rest of the bloggers here, he supports some level of coercion against peaceful people. Still, I thought it would be good to have someone blogging here who comes from a different perspective, and it was.

Sadly, he’s fallen into the trap that many politics-only activists have in the past. He has identified some activism that he doesn’t like (holding certain government workers accountable) and has decided that the reason he fails at his activism is because of the actions of other people that he can’t control. Since he’s frustrated, as he admits, he has decided to throw up his hands and call it quits from this blog.

Like many people who have decided that someone else is the source of their problems and frustration, he is lashing out verbally on the way out the door. (more…)

Peaceful Devolution

by | Mar 21, 2012 | 87 comments

Ian Freeman is embarrassing.

It’s a view you rarely never see on this blog, but it’s a view held by myself and a serious portion of liberty activists in the Keene area. (Not to mention the overwhelming majority of Keene residents.) Lately it’s been the senseless pestering of city bureaucrats, the quixotic school outreach, and his involvement in the war on grandmas. Yes, he does other things which are more legitimate and professional, but, for as long as I’ve been in New Hampshire, it seems that Ian has always been vocally supporting activism that’s jarringly wrong-headed.

I joined this blog in 2010 in order to openly criticize certain activist tactics that struck me as counterproductive. At the time, I was worried that the suppression of criticism was creating an atmosphere of groupthink— a situation where the systematic lack of criticism leads groups to make wildly irrational decisions. Since then, I’ve changed some hearts and minds with regards to criticism, and caused people to look twice at things they’ve taken for granted. This has been very satisfying.

But, where it really matters, I have failed. (more…)

Keep Kelly, Ian, and Derrick J. Out Of The Cage – Call Flood

by | Mar 21, 2012 | 7 comments

MEDIA INQUIRIES: Contact kellyvoluntaryist@gmail.com

DATE: This Friday, March 23rd

TIME: 8AM-5PM Eastern Time

WHAT: Call (603) 352-0056 From Your Phone Line, Anywhere

 

Here’s the Facebook event.

 

Call John Webb from the Cheshire County (Keene, NH) Attorney’s Office and demand that Cheshire County does the right thing and drops the criminal charges against Ian Freeman, Derrick J. Freeman, and Kelly Voluntaryist for their peaceful actions taken at the Cheshire County Superior Court on Monday, February 27.
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