Radio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.
You can download the edition for this week ending 2011-07-29 here. Topics covered include the drug-prohibition-fueled murder of a local teen, KPD threatening a memorial gathering with pepper spray, and the continuing crackdown at Keene’s courts.
GREENFIELD, MA – A war against cameras is being waged everywhere there are unaccountable governments. On one side you have the public “servants” and law enforcers who like to film others but don’t want to be filmed. On the other side you have those who want government to be more transparent, especially in areas of justice where they enjoy monopoly privileges.
At first the jury for the State v. Pete Eyre and Ademo Freeman had four people who were ready to vote “GUILTY” for their use of cameras inside a government building to record government employees (law enforcers). The other two jurors were not and, at least in the case of Darcy Merchant, were willing to sit there all day until the Jury declared Pete & Ademo “NOT GUILTY.” We were fortunate that Darcy agreed to speak with us for the following episode of Talley.TV:
Pete & Ademo had a lot of support. From the internet and the hundreds watching the live stream to the over fifty individuals who traveled to Greenfield to witness their trial. Other supporters were from the local community. But the most important supporter had never met Pete or Ademo before the State brought them together. Darcy Merchant essentially “Cop Blocked” from inside the jury room. This isn’t the last we’ve seen of Darcy. The weekend after the trial, Ademo had the random opportunity to meet up with Darcy in Keene, New Hampshire where they played cards.
Thanks to Jason Repsher and Hannah Hoffman helping to solicit jurors and ask questions. Thanks to the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund for paying the “$20 for 5 minutes” we offer the jurors.
You can read a transcript of the interview at Talley.TV but I’ll leave you with the following from Darcy:
Merchant: I didn’t believe that just because I hear a recording that – I didn’t know where it came from – I mean, honestly, I don’t know if you got to the police station and they recorded you because they were pissed at you. Just because you have a badge doesn’t mean I believe what you have to say.
You can learn plenty more about this case at CopBlock.org/Greenfield or Pete’s recent blog post with footage from the trial thanks to Beau Davis of Liberty on Tour.
I hope to speak with more jurors like Darcy Merchant or Juror Jim who spoke to Ian. If you were a juror and would like to discuss your experiences please contact me at [678] TALLEYTV or talleytv@gmail.com.
For no reason whatsoever, Keene police showed up in force at Central Square yesterday during a memorial for Craig Metivier and threatened the peaceful crowd with pepper spray if they did not leave the park. True, a call had been made to police regarding a fight in the park, (apparently over $15) but instead of calmly questioning people in the park and collecting the story, the cops sent the entire department plus Cheshire Sheriffs and Staties! They burst into the park yelling threats and holding large cans of pepper spray, telling people to leave in three seconds.
All of this after the fight had long ended and everything was relatively calm.
Overreact much, KPD? It reminds me of the time they brought out a machine gun for a fight call at Gino’s a couple of years back. Here’s a QIK video I took yesterday just after the threats; sorry about the crappy perspective:
Greenfield MA jury acquits two Keene men of felony wiretapping charges after they were arrested for filming the police, the dire state of American schools, and 15 states thinking about alternative currencies to compete with the declining dollar.
http://www.freemindstv.com | Show Notes
After three weeks of being jailed for not filling out a court form, then ultimately for being morally opposed to paying money to aggressors, Jim Johnson is among the semi-free again!
Generous people donated to Jim’s wife Lauren Canario, and she and Jim made the choice to pay the ransom. It is good to have Jim out of the cage, and outrageous that he was put there in the first place. The man in the robe, in an “ORDER”, claims he doesn’t have “statutory authority” to instead of a fine, impose jail time at $50/day, or community service. (See that ORDER, as well as the original one that Jim was imprisoned on here.
Can the robed man, John P. Arnold, be held responsible? Word is that some activists are pursuing the new “grievance committee” option in Concord against both Keene judges, Arnold and Burke. How successful it will be is another question. JJ and I also put in a message with John Lynch, “the governor”, who is the man who appoints all the judges. Thus far, he has not called back.
Other shenanigans related to this case:
The hearing where John P. Arnold threw Jim Johnson back in a cage was about as secret as you can get. (more…)
MassLive’s Connor Berry reports in from Greenfield with a wrap-up of the trial of Pete and Ademo:
GREENFIELD — It took a Greenfield District Court jury about two hours on Tuesday to acquit a pair of New Hampshire men accused of illegally filming at the Franklin County Jail last summer.
“We can put this behind us and move on with our other projects,” said defendant Pete Eyre, who along with Adam Mueller had been charged with unlawfully filming law enforcement officials at the Greenfield jail last July.
Eyre, 31, and Mueller, 28, both of Keene, are subscribers of voluntaryism, an anti-government movement that favors the concept of natural law or voluntary adherence to rules and regulations over a state-sanctioned system of laws. (more…)
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