Guest Blog about Ademo by Tom Knapp at C4SS: “The State is an Autoimmune Disease”

by | Aug 15, 2012 | 1 comment

Free AdemoTom Knapp at the Center for a Stateless Society has this to say about the Ademo conviction:

“Autoimmune diseases,” per the Wikipedia article on same, “arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells.”

Analogizing from autoimmune disease to political government has its dangers — foremost among them the fact that any such analogy requires us to think of society as a sort of super-organism with its own interests separate from and superseding those of its constituent parts, people — but I don’t think the analogy is a poor one. If there really is such a thing as “the body politic,” the nation-state is to that body as lupus or multiple sclerosis is to an individual human body.

The most advanced stages of the disease are easily identifiable: Mussolini’s “everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” sums them up rather neatly. (more…)

“Who is a freestater?” – Guest Article by NH Rep. Seth Cohn

by | Aug 6, 2012 | 13 comments

[Thanks to Ian for reposting this, and the offer to blog here at FreeKeene.  I’ll post here occasionally, with insights I’ve gained over the years, or perhaps counterpoints.  I’ve evolved in my view on the Keene methods of activism. And perhaps that’ll be my next post here… — Seth]

Found a post over at BlueHampshire, and my reply is below (I copied the rest for context)

http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/14808

There is no right to know
by: Marjorie Porter
Fri Aug 03, 2012 at 20:02:05 PM EDT

Over the last several days, I have been trying, via Twitter, to get @FreeStateNH to tell me which candidates running for the NH House are members of the Free State Project. They have boasted there are 14 FSP members currently serving in the NH House. But they keep telling me FSP is not political. I keep asking how I will know if a candidate is FSP. I have asked and asked. I have said voters have the right to know. Tonight they told me there is no right to know. (more…)

Kate Blogs at CopBlock about Ademo’s Caging

by | Jul 13, 2012 | 5 comments

Kate has posted a piece at CopBlock about Ademo’s ridiculous caging:

At 10:00AM, July 11, 2012, Ademo Freeman and I, as well as about a dozen other individuals, left the Keene Activity Center and headed for Manchester. Ademo was scheduled to have a hearing at the Manchester District Court at 1:15PM.

For those unaware, Ademo recently received a letter stating that he had missed jury selection for an appeal on a resisting arrest charge stemming from the Chalking 8 incident, and that his case had been remanded back to the District Court. Ademo never received the letter notifying him of the date for jury selection. The letter itself had the correct address in the upper left corner, but the envelope displayed an address that according to the return stamp on the envelope, the USPS couldn’t even locate. (more…)