by Highline | Aug 8, 2010 |
Face it, citizen: judges have some sort of magical power that allows them to control men and women who carry weapons. Through a flick of the wrist and a wave of a pen one of these mythical creatures can command these men and women to violently drag you away and throw you in a cage for the simple act of not showing them your undying respect by standing when they enter a room. The men and women using violence as directed will never question what they’re being told to do.
Understanding and embracing the magical power these gifted people possess naturally leads to understanding the necessity of enacting a change to a New Hampshire law, RSA 502-A:23. It presently reads:
502-A:23 Judicial Robes. – The justice of a district court shall wear an appropriate black judicial robe whenever his court is convened in criminal or civil session. Such robes shall be paid for by the state.
Our friend and OTN star Luthor has suggested the law be amended to read as follows:
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by Ian | Aug 8, 2010 |
In the online world, there has been much discussion of a “schism” between the activists. The original perception was that the divide was between activists favoring civil disobedience and noncooperation vs in-the-system political activists. In real life, the so-called schism was barely visible. Most people in the liberty movement are friendly and helpful toward one another, and there is no firm dividing line in activist approaches. Many choose differing levels of those two categories of activism and also plenty of other things one can do for liberty such as outreach, education, media creation, internet work, software programming, and more. Sure, there are a few people who are intolerant of certain activist approaches, but that will always be the case with a spectrum of interest. The politicos who are generally intolerant toward those doing civil disobedience and noncooperation are known for their very public complaining about “poisoning the well”.
I finally understand what they mean.
These political activists frequently chastise (as do the bureaucrats and politicians) civdis/noncoops for not “working within the system”. Today I had a conversation on facebook that was quite enlightening. I’d like to share that here. Keep in mind as you read that Seth and I get along fine in the real world, but here we are clearly at loggerheads. He will appear in bold and I will add commentary between the block quotes:
Ian: Apparently working in the system means doing everything the government people demand of you. If they put up a hoop and you don’t jump through it, you’re poisoning the well!
Seth Cohn: Ian, this is quite disingenuous. You decided to hold a ‘drinking game’ at the meeting. You posted openly about it, and then get upset when they stop you from doing it in the first place. Stop being petulantly obtuse that somehow you ‘tried to get involved in the system’, it’s just not true.
Ian: Seth – we handed out fliers to all the councilors and media in advance alerting them that they could repeal the ordinance and citing the ordinances. We WERE working in the system. You just don’t like the method we used to get people excited about going to a BORING city council meeting.
FACT: At the start of that meeting, there were 15 people in the audience section of the council chamber. Eight liberty activists and seven others, at least two of which were city employees I recognized. Put another way, after years of mostly never attending city council meetings, the city council drinking game brought out more liberty lovers than anything I can recall from the past. It’s likely that the police crackdown on people with brown bottles will bring even more people to the next meeting, but only time will tell. This approach has clearly gotten people involved in-the-system, but the complaining political activists are still not happy. Why? Read on.
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by Highline | Aug 7, 2010 |
The Keene City Council has a whole code of ordinances that it utilizes to govern authorize violence against its subjects. Whether it is prohibiting someone from peacefully drinking an alcoholic beverage on public property or making it illegal for its own employees to remove snow from the roadways in the winter… the Keene City Council carefully crafts its “master plan.”
Yes, you read me correctly. A Free Keene forum reader found an ordinance enacted by the Keene City Council making it illegal for anyone to plow snow off of its roadways in the winter. No exceptions are made for government employees and it looks like you can get slammed with a $1000 fine for doing it!
Sec. 82-67. Placement of snow and ice.
No person shall shovel, plow, put or place or cause to be shoveled, plowed, put or placed,within the traveled portion of any sidewalk, street, lane, alley, or highway, any snow or ice. However, snow and ice may be banked on the sides of public roadways incident to the cleaning thereof or banked on the sides of sidewalks incident to the cleaning thereof. The penalty for violation of this section shall be as provided in section 1-15 et seq.
Now that surely is a creative way for a municipal government entity to generate more revenue: hire people to plow the road in the winter and then fine them for doing it. 😛
by Highline | Aug 7, 2010 |
It is no surprise to those of us who write here at FreeKeene.com that we have many readers from the Keene community and beyond that firmly disagree with various things that we advocate. If you happen to be one of the aforementioned, chances are that you’re a supporter of the state and the constitutions that define how it can behave. Hopefully, I can appeal to you through this brief article.
Two nights ago two of Free Keene’s contributors had their constitutional rights violated by government employees that they both are forced to fund. The argument of whether Ian Freeman and Sam Dodson were looking for a confrontation is irrelevant and no excuse for the behavior of government officials that was initiated by government officials. In this state and country the government is prohibited from interfering with peaceful free speech and protest. The onus is on government employees to comply with the entirety of the state and federal constitutions, at all times… even when confronted by people peacefully expressing their displeasure at the continued enforcement of a government policy.
Especially when confronted by people peacefully expressing their displeasure at the continued enforcement of a government policy.
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by Ian | Aug 7, 2010 |
Thanks to the Union Leader’s Melanie Plenda for the great story about the ludicrous behavior of the Keene city bureaucrats on Thursday night that as of yet has only appeared in print. Here’s a .PDF of the article courtesy of Bill in Manch.
by Ian | Jul 23, 2010 |
Video courtesy of Liberty on Tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49KGe5mn4zM
