by Ian | Jun 21, 2010 |
Here’s a guest blog from Mark Edge on his successful noncooperation regarding a parking ticket. Next time you get a parking ticket, consider demanding a trial, like Mark did. It bogs down an already overburdened system. Of course, risk is still involved and your mileage may vary. As you’ll see, Mark’s charge was dumped before trial, but I went to trial over a ticket on Apr 28th and have never received a verdict. Worst case, if you don’t want to noncooperate all the way and they find you guilty at trial, you will probably only need pay the $5 then – after you’ve really made them work for it. Please give this a try, Keeniacs, and post to the Free Keene Forum with your results or in advance if you’d like some input or support at your court appearance, should it get that far. This is an excellent first step for an activist new to saying “no” to government people.
When I moved to Keene in Sep06 I noticed right away that Keene has a problem with parking and Parking Enforcement downtown. The parking meters dissuade people from patronizing the businesses downtown. One morning my wife and I were going to go to Timolean’s for breakfast. When we parked, we realized that we didn’t have any change. We got back in the car and went to Friendly’s on West Street, were the parking is free.
Obviously, there needs to be some sort of system to disincentivize people who are not doing business from taking up the parking spaces of those who wish to, but Parking Enforcement, as I understand it, runs a large deficit every year. It costs more to send the little ladies with parking tickets around to fine people than they collect from meters and fines. That is silly.
Top that off with what I have often said, you don’t have to pay those tickets. (more…)
by Ian | May 31, 2010 |
Keene’s Central Square was empty yesterday as the daily 420 celebrations have been moved to the beautiful Ashuelot park at West and Island St!
Celebration spokesman Rich Paul wouldn’t cite reasons for the venue change and encouraged readers to decide for themselves. Celebrants cleaning up some garbage in the park noticed the city’s cans were nearly overflowing! This has been a problem at other city parks in the past and is more proof that the violent monopoly can’t even handle the garbage. It would seem likely that the city’s janitors don’t work weekends and holidays, which are the times they are needed most!
As Rich says, “420, Ashuelot park, everyday”.
by Ian | May 19, 2010 |
Thanks to Keeniac and liberty activist Abbie, we are proud to announce the world exclusives of Dr. Mary Ruwart’s awesome book, “Healing Our World” (90s edition) in Epub (.epub) and Kindle (.azw) formats! Just click your preferred format to download.
Plus, we still have the .PDF of “Healing” and some other books like “The Market for Liberty” and “Complete Liberty” free in audio format as well as .PDF on our Free Books page!
by Ian | May 18, 2010 |
You’ve probably noticed the big change. After three years as a two-column blog, Free Keene has moved to a more modern theme with some pretty cool features including Gravatars, which allow you to have a picture next to your blog comments! The new theme also displays each blogger’s name more prominently and we’ve switched to full names instead of first names or handles. Full names and the forum handles of our bloggers were always listed on our Bloggers page, but now each article will be easily attributable to each blogger. You’ll notice some items are gone from the top menu, but are still available on the right “Free Keene” menu, which is rich with lots of content that we just can’t fit up top. (more…)
by Ian | May 17, 2010 |
Julian Heicklen is touring the country visiting different federal courthouses and handing out FIJA info. The fed agents are usually more dangerous and uppity than the state bureaucrats. Just last week a liberty activist, George Donnelly, (who is NH-bound) was kidnapped at Julian’s event. Julian has been kidnapped multiple times. That’s why we need an EXTRA awesome turnout for when he visits Concord on June 23, 2010, from 11:45 am until 1:15 pm, U. S. District Courthouse, Warren B. Rudman United States Courthouse, 55 Pleasant Street, Concord, 03301.
This is conveniently scheduled the Wed of Porcfest week so PLENTY of activists should be available. See you there! Here’s the Free Keene Forum discussion.
by Ian | May 10, 2010 |
Here’s a :60 commercial for the Free State Project and Free Keene, but mostly for Free Keene. Feel free to run it if you are a producer of a podcast or radio show!
