Hello Fellow Free Keeners! Ian brought to my attention that I have neglected to post the Shire TV episodes on FreeKeene.com. Here are the episodes 3 – 7 from Aug – early Sept! I hope you enjoy! Please feel free to send any comments or suggestions to news@shiretv.org!
Peace & Love!
As you may recall, Derrick J, Kelly and I were all arrested at the Cheshire “Superior” court in late February for “trespass” after we were banned “forever” by Sheriff Dick Foote for singing to bureaucrats and asking them questions as they went to and from work. The trespass order is highly unconstitutional, and attorney Jon Meyer agrees and has taken the case pro-bono. Meyer has made a splash in Cheshire county before, with his win in the Bigfoot free speech case.
Now he has filed a Motion to Dismiss the charges along with a Memo in Support of Motion to Dismiss.
In court, judge Ed Burke gave the prosecutor 30 days to respond to the motion to dismiss. Next court date is a hearing on the no “trespass” order, November 14th at 9am in Keene district court. Here is the video from today’s hearing:
If you’ve been wondering what happened after the raid on the KAC back in July, I have an update for you. Two months later I was sent this NOTICE OF VIOLATION from the city “Plans Examiner”, Gary Schneider and Gary LaFreniere, “Fire Prevention Officer”. In it, they claim that there is a “tourist home” being run at the KAC, and they demand it be stopped or else I’ll be fined $500 per day.
Even by their own rules, they have no case. The evidence they collected was from former tenants who no longer live at the property. That aside, my response to their NOTICE, calls the warrant into question based on the clear bias that district court judge Ed Burke shows against Free State Project participants.
Will they continue to aggress and give us the opportunity to go to court? Stay tuned for the latest.
Free Talk Live gets linked in the story, which FK helped break!
Thanks to the Huffington Post for covering this epic news:
A New Hampshire Rastafarian facing felony marijuana cultivation charges was declared not guilty on Friday because a jury believed that punishing him for the offense would be unjust. (more…)
This Wednesday, September 12, I joined up with the Reddit AnCap community‘s decentralized podcast, Decline to State.
The show was hosted by Zach Sandager (Zom), Dalton Adair (WrongOpinion), and some others (Throwaway-O and Ronald McPaul). Adam Kokesh was also a guest during the show, and we had the opportunity to share with the listeners our upcoming project, the Adam Vs The Man Newscast, a comedy news show broadcasting over the Adam Kokesh YouTube channel 5 days a week starting October 8th, 2012.
By the way, I’m still putting together a writing team for that comedy newscast. To learn how you can get involved, watch this video.
In a developing story that has hit Reason.com, an NH jury has acquitted a man facing a felony for growing cannabis! It’s our first real-life case of jury nullification here in NH and the jury nullification law hasn’t even gone into effect yet. Kudos to the judge for reading a fair and easy-to-understand jury instruction about nullifying as an option! Also, it probably helped that a free stater was on the jury!
If you are an self-described anarchist or agorist and you are not registered to vote, you need to remedy that now. Being on the voter’s rolls means you could be chosen as a juror, which means that even if you never actually cast a vote in an election, you could cast a vote on a jury that could stop someone’s life from being ruined. Here is the proof. Is there still any doubt the Free State Project is working? If you haven’t made the move, what are you waiting for?
Here’s the story from Reason, which includes the judge’s instruction to the jury:
A few months ago, New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a bill declaring that “in all criminal proceedings the court shall permit the defense to inform the jury of its right to judge the facts and the application of the law in relation to the facts in controversy.” Although the new law does not take effect until next January, a case decided yesterday in Belknap County illustrates the importance of the nullification power it recognizes. A jury unanimously acquitted Doug Darrell, a 59-year-old Rastafarian charged with marijuana cultivation, after his lawyer, Mark Sisti, argued that a conviction would be unjust in light of the fact that Darrell was growing cannabis for his own religious and medicinal use. More remarkably, Judge James O’Neill instructed the jury that “even if you find that the State has proven each and every element of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt, you may still find the defendant not guilty if you have a conscientious feeling that a not guilty verdict would be a fair result in this case.” (more…)
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