Ahhh, how warm and fuzzy does it make you feel to know that the society you live in remains in the list of five countries worldwide that continue to mur-, execute people, for punishment and as a deterrent towards future execut-, murdering. Nothing like a parent spanking their child to teach them not to hit.
How even more warm and fuzzy would it make you to know that if the government people in the State of New Hampshire were to carry out the sentence of death on their lone African American death-row inmate (in a state comprised of %97+ white people)………. it would have to be by hanging. New Hampshire state law says:
That’s right. No longer will young at-risk juvenile females be sent to a location where they can receive treatment, compassion, caring, and support…………. they will be shipped to New Hampshire’s prison for kids (part of the Juvenile Justice system).
(clearly, the above is a suitable location to ship a young female who is victim of family related sexual assault or other horrific abuse……)
I think the people in state, county, and local government make their intentions pretty clear when they need to cut funding for helping at-risk youth so they can continue to build multi-million dollar correctional facilities which primarily will be used to keep non-violent offenders behind bars.
Below is a letter I wrote to Keene Policeman Peter “Sturdy” Thomas, about my camera and the armed men who showed up outside my house at 3am knowing I was in jail. I feel the actions of several Keene Police have devastated the integrity of the Keene Police as an organization, and I am posting this to ensure their interactions will at least be public, so you can see what they are doing with your money.
Yesterday I called Ken Meola, Keene Police Chief per John Mclean’s request. I have not heard back yet, and here is the audio. I was put on hold, then they picked up and started talking, then I was hung up on. I called back, got transferred to records, and then was sent to Ken’s voice mail. (This is who is protecting you in an emergency)
The original intent was to get this out on President’s Day but it snuck up on me. Then I thought I’d do it for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday which I’ve incorrectly believed to be the 22nd for years now. Yes, that’s Washington’s birthday. I know that now. I’m already sufficiently embarrassed but go ahead and make fun of me for it in the comments. Anyway, it doesn’t matter because I didn’t quite finish it yesterday before I had to take off for some volunteer work I had been scheduled for. So here it is late enough to seem completely off topic.
When videographers tried to document Kurt Hoffman being taken out of the Keene District Court on a stretcher, they were met with extreme resistance, forced into a side room, and issued threats of being penalized for violating HIPAA.
Not once has anyone been able to show us the text of HIPAA that restricts people from recording patients in public. In fact, you may be surprised to see that in the video below, a videographer in Keene openly records the scene of an accident and the patient, without his consent, and the police don’t even seem to acknowledge it as an issue.
On the day of the general election I went to Ward 4’s voting location with the intention of voting for Free Keene’s Nick Ryder. As the city clerk had promised, I had indeed been removed from the voters’ rolls because I’d registered to vote with my “domicile” as my box at the UPS Store. On the day of the general election I was homeless and decided to register to vote as such. As happened during the primary, they did everything they could to prevent me from taking part in their system. (Interestingly, people like me who prefer outside-the-system activism are incessantly told that we should work within the system, but if we try to, this is the kind of crap that happens.)
So I tried to register as a homeless person and despite signing TWO forms under penalty of perjury (the “domicile affidavit” and the “voter challenge affidavit”) they STILL refused to accept my registration! I immediately pulled out my blackberry and QIKked their explanation. Turns out because the “checklist supervisor” didn’t FEEL like I was homeless, that was enough to deny me the right to vote. It didn’t matter one iota that I’d sworn an oath to my claim being true. My supposed right to vote was DENIED. Watch as it happened:
