Heroic Attorney Joins Courthouse “Trespass” Case

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:

Update on KAC Raid – Response Filed

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.

DerrickJ on Decline to State

This Wednesday, September 12, I joined up with the Reddit AnCap community‘s decentralized podcast, Decline to State.

(Link to podcast here.)

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.

Harold and Kumar to Appear at Colleges for Obama

Harold and Kumar, the unoriginal Cheech and Chong parody/spinoff team is traveling around New Hampshire colleges tomorrow to promote the Obama campaign, and also to trumpet voting in general. Despite supposedly representing a cannabis consuming culture through their films, Harold and Kumar are fictional characters played by actors who share little in common with the everyman their roles embody. According to Msnbc, the pair have a packed schedule today. They will appear individually at three colleges by 2:15 and will make a joint appearance at Keene State College. Below are chalkings on Wincester Street put out to greet the actor guests.

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Obama Office Action for Bradley Manning

September 6 was a national day of action for Bradley Manning. Some larger cities hosted civil disobedience arrests for trespassing via sit-in. The focus of the actions were mostly Obama campaign headquarters, though the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, DC was the location of a tense letter delivery to president Barack Obama. A full report of the delivery of the letter to the national office is available here.

Sept 6 2012 – Concord, NH

The letter being delivered to the party headquarters was signed by eighty-three individuals representing a variety of organizations. Included in the list of signers is Art Brennan, a veteran and former New Hampshire district court judge who scheduled his own action to occur at the Concord Obama campaign office on September 6. He had notified the office that he would be reading his letter aloud and delivering a copy for Mr. Obama. When Mr. Brennan arrived with a small group from Veterans for Peace and NH Peace Action, the doors were locked and the lights were off. (more…)