“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Lenco Industries, Inc”

by | Mar 2, 2012 | 9 comments

Looks like LENCO is still at it, attempting to control who sees their violence-fetishizing promo video for the BEARCAT attack vehicle. They have pulled down the video from Capuzzo’s channel, which had over 30,000 views thanks to it being linked in the Huffington Post piece on the Keene BEARCAT situation. Fortunately, there are still others online. If you would like to help ensure this never goes away, you can download an .mp4 of the video and upload it to your own Youtube channel (or other video sharing service, since Youtube is so obedient to the state).

Cowardly City Councilors Ignore the People, Vote for BEARCAT 9-4

by | Mar 1, 2012 | 61 comments

Police State KeeneTonight, the Keene city council could have made history as the first ever political designation to reject arms manufacturer LENCO and the federal government’s pushing of the BEARCAT police attack “tank“.

They could have heard the voices of the people who were crying out against this intimidating monstrosity that will inevitably militarize the Keene police even more, and as city councilor Carl Jacobs appropriately pointed out, distance them further from the community they supposedly serve.

They could have. But they didn’t. The BEARCAT passed 9 to 4.

Despite the outpouring of opposition in the community against the BEARCAT, not a single councilor changed their vote from December, when they originally voted in favor of it. That vote was 13 to 1. Why were the numbers different? The new city councilors who took office in January were the ones to vote against it. So, the councilors who originally voted for it completely disregarded all the input they received from the community in various forms:

  • In a Keene Sentinel online poll, 72% said they city council was wrong to accept the BEARCAT. (Only 12% favored the BEARCAT in the poll.)
  • WKBK’s Dan Mitchell stated on-air that 90% of his callers were against the BEARCAT.
  • City councilor Bettina Chadbourne related during tonight’s meeting that of the 80 phone calls she received from various members of the community, (old, young, business owners, men, women, etc) only ten calls were in favor of the BEARCAT.
  • The public hearing on the BEARCAT featured dozens of speakers, the supermajority of which opposed the BEARCAT.
  • A random walk down Main St. would show anyone who bothered to ask people that the supermajority of people oppose the BEARCAT.
  • Most letters to the editor of the Keene Sentinel were in opposition to the BEARCAT.
  • During the meeting the councilors who favored the BEARCAT got no applause from the packed room, while the councilors who spoke in opposition to the BEARCAT were blasted with applause.

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Motion To Depose Four Judges: DENIED – Motion To Change Venue: DENIED

by | Mar 1, 2012 | 19 comments

UPDATE: My signature will not be the only signature on the “rule 11 petition” to the NH Supreme Court.

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Two days after New Hampshire State Representative (and Redress of Grievances Committee member) George Lambert (R) (Hillsboro-27) authorized subpoenas for four sitting New Hampshire judges in the presence of New Hampshire State Representative JR Hoell (R) (Merrimack-13), Judge Kathleen McGuire DENIED Jason Talley the ability to question said judges about what they knew about the court orders that caused him to be arrested for mere POSSESSION OF A CAMERA.

Why would he want to question them about the orders?  Because they enacted them three days after a judge committed a crime on camera.

She also DENIED Jason’s request that the trial be moved out of the county as he doesn’t believe he can receive a fair trial there.

I now intend on filing a Rule 11 Petition with the New Hampshire Supreme Court to ask that they take this case from the Cheshire County Superior Court.

– Cheshire County Superior Court order DENYING criminal depositions of four judges and change of venue .PDF

From the judge’s order:

“The legality of any judge’s order will not be an issue for the jury to determine because a court order may not be disobeyed unless and until it is reversed.“

Immoral and unconstitutional judicial orders should, at the very minimum, be questioned and shown to the public.  In this case I think they should be shown to the entire New Hampshire General Court as well.

There literally are judges committing crimes on camera and then bad judicial orders being enacted to cover as a result in Cheshire County…  and it needs to stop.

The enforcement of said corrupt orders needs to stop as well.  Why isn’t Cheshire County High Sheriff Foote driving these court orders directly to the New Hampshire Supreme Court and saying “NO” ???

That’s exactly what I would do.