UPDATE: Lauren WAS Invited to the Jail

by | May 17, 2011 | 31 comments

In her recent Free Keene Forum post, Lauren puts to rest all the claims by the liberty-haters that she was not invited to the jail:

After the message was left on the phone I called back. I said who I was and asked if I could pick up Rich Paul. They said they’d get him ready to go. When I got to the jail I politely said I was here to pick up Rich Paul. The receptionist politely asked me to sit and wait.

About 20 minutes later, KPD showed up and arrested her for “trespassing”.

Either the COs are guilty of incompetence and aggression (by perhaps not informing the other COs of Lauren’s imminent arrival) or are up to some aggressive shenanigans. Still no call back from either Eli Rivera of KPD or Rick Van Wickler at the jail, and why should they bother commenting? They’ll get your money whether they speak or not. If you don’t pay for their aggression against peaceful people, then men calling themselves “sheriffs” will come and kick you out of the home you thought you owned.

Still believe they are here to serve and protect you?

Thanks to WKBK for covering this outrage.

Disobedience and Noncooperation Win Again: Heicklen 3, Orlando 0

by | May 6, 2011 | 3 comments

Sometimes people who are stuck within the politics-is-the-only-answer paradigm, look at civil disobedience and noncooperation and ask, “Where are the successes?” Many of these folks only judge success when there is an official policy change. Each instance of civil disobedience and noncooperation is a personal success at the very least. It’s empowering to say, “No” to those who wish to control you. Beyond that, we have seen plenty of civil disobedience / noncooperation wins including the cops giving up on enforcing cannabis laws around the historic 420 celebrations in Keene, Manchester, and Concord. Parking tickets have been dropped due to activists’ noncooperation. The court lobby video ban has been violated multiple times without incident. Plus, the events have frequently garnered thousands of dollars in free publicity for Free Keene and the Free State Project, only insuring more movers and more future successes. All that stemming from just the activism here in Keene.

However, Keene is not the only place where civil disobedience is happening. Orlando, FL has recently become a hotspot thanks to the efforts of John Kurtz and other liberty activists (many of whom will be at Porcfest next month). John has used civil disobedience to successfully violate the city’s ban on feeding the homeless near city hall as well as to prove that the panhandling law is selectively enforced against the homeless. Now he’s teamed up with Julian Heicklen, the jury nullification outreach superactivist, to purposefully violate a ban on jury outreach. (more…)

Activists with Cameras Pursue, Question Nashua Undercover

by | May 3, 2011 | 21 comments

Jason Talley of Talley.TV and the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund and I follow an undercover officer from Nashua PD with our cameras as he leaves his hiding spot in the police-friendly “Courthouse Pizza” (across the street from the court building). We pepper him with questions before he can escape in his buddy’s police cruiser. This is an excellent example of how more activists with cameras can make a huge difference – we were able to chase after this cop and others stayed behind at the pizza place to keep an eye on the rest of the cops: