NH Activist and Free Keene Supporter Makes National Waves

by | Aug 11, 2009 | 82 comments

Today, William Kostric went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire to protest at President Obama’s Town Hall style meeting regarding healthcare. Soon though, he was spotted on private property nearby the meeting with a legally carried handgun. National news began reporting on the “Man with a Gun” near Obama’s appearance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjvRYvf7vg4

Within hours, William was given an appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball:

While William is not a Free Keene blogger, he is often spotted at local activism events and Social Sundays meetups

FSP President Varrin Swearingen Guests on WKBK’s Talkback

by | Jul 18, 2009 | 30 comments

Radio TowerOn this morning’s “Talkback” on WKBK, Free State Project President Varrin Swearingen appeared as a guest for an hour. He discussed the Free State Project, Keene activism, secession, voluntaryism, bad neighbors, dishonesty, paying for services, education, regulations, and politician ratings. Also included in this archive are liberty activists calling later in the show and discussing the protectionist government system, confronting the system, and neighborly relations.

Grab the archive.

Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.

Video Journalist Dave Ridley Imprisoned by “State of New Hampshire”

by | Jul 7, 2009 | 11 comments

As of Monday July sixth, the people calling themselves the “State of New Hampshire” have imprisoned another videographer at the Cheshire jail. This time it’s Dave Ridley from RidleyReport.com. He’ll be spending six days in Chez Westmoreland because he dared to use his freedom of the press and record video in the lobby of the Keene district court. Videographer Sam Dodson spent 58 days in the same facility for recording video and then using his alleged right to remain silent. Sam, also a blogger here at Free Keene, was arrested at the arraignment forced on Dave. Now having been forced into a trial and found guilty, Dave has turned himself in (under their threat of violence, of course) for a six day sentence. Nearly twenty liberty activists came out and had a picnic and sign-waving rally on the jail grounds. The prisoners were pleased to see us, as always.

Total cost to jail peaceful activists in Cheshire county so far in 2009? At over $30,000 per year to imprison people in NH, Dave’s six days, Sam’s 58, and Andrew Carroll’s nine, that’s at least $6,000. How much they spent on all the bureaucracy (police, court, sheriffs) to get them in jail is another question entirely. Either way, it seems that mass civil disobedience and noncooperation are keys to freedom (plus education and enlightenment) and that when more disobey and say no, it will begin to cost the violent monopolists more and more. May they one day see the error in their ways!

JailedActivist.info has contact info for the court, jail, police, and Dave, so feel free to get in touch. Also, you can write to Dave via mail-to-jail.com, but hurry because he’ll likely be out Sunday.

More video of the jail scene to come, but prior to his arrival at the jail, Dave was interviewed by Motorhome Diaries‘ Jason Talley: