This morning I had an excellent conversation with the University System of New Hampshire General Counsel Ronald Rogers and Plymouth State University Vice President for Student Affairs Richard Hage. I got a genuine sense that these two professionals were doing their very best to balance what is understandably is a difficult situation to deal with.
In response to the respectful way that the General Counsel and Vice President’s concerns were addressed to me, Tommy and I have decided that during our educational outreach we will have unloaded weapons with both trigger and breech locks securely affixed. In other words, the firearms we intend on carrying for symbolic speech will be rendered absolutely non-functional.
As has been reported here at FK, first the Keene district court banned cameras from its lobby. Activists Sam Dodson and Dave Ridley were arrested for defying this ban. A couple of years later, the ban was extended to all media devices and applied to the entire courthouse. It was at this time that the “superior court” in Keene also picked up the ban and began confiscating cell phones and other devices. District court had Derrick J arrested in the lobby for recording this summer (the charges were dropped later) and superior court later had Jason Talley arrested for recording in their lobby. He is still facing trial on that matter. Around this same time, the total media device ban was extended to all circuit courts in NH.
It has been an all-out assault on press freedom in the NH courts for the last couple of years, but all-of-a-sudden, a new “Administrative Order” has been released on 12/1. Here’s a link to the superior court version of it by head judge Tina Nadeau, which has nearly identical language as the one that the circuit (district) court also released.
The following is a press release regarding a information distribution Tommy Mozingo and I will be partaking in at Plymouth State University on 12/09/11. The intent of the information distribution is to call attention to the illegal regulations that the University System of New Hampshire has enacted to restrict self-defense rights by both students and public members.
In a recent episode of Freedom Watch, Judge Napolitano talks to Lynn Chong, former chair of the Belknap (NH) County Democrats. Frustrated with Obama’s foreign policy, she changed her voter registration from Democrat to independent udeclared and will vote for Ron Paul.
“I would definitely call myself a progressive,” said Will Hopkins of Belmont [NH], who returned from a tour as infantryman in Iraq to become executive director of New Hampshire Peace Action, a group seeking to end foreign wars and cut defense budgets. “I supported Obama in 2008, but I’m supporting Ron Paul. That’s where I’m putting my eggs this year,” he said. “A lot of folks in the peace movement are taking a close look at Paul.”]
Yesterday Fr33manTV went to Hookset, NH with liberty activists Ian Freeman, TalleyTV, and Kelly Voluntaryist to investigate and participate in the first Occupy New Hampshire General Assembly. After 3 hours of polite deliberation, the only thing the GA decided was the time and date of their next meeting. (more…)
