Here’s a video with some Boston conservaclone talk show host yammering over some footage of today’s 420 in Concord including a great shot of Rich Paul which clearly directs viewers here to FreeKeene.com. Thank you Rich and the FOX editors! Most of the clip is pretty dull and uninteresting, but publicity is always best when it’s free:
Thanks to the Union Leader’s Melanie Plenda for this story, covering both Keene and Concord’s 420 celebrations yesterday:
It wasn’t ash from Iceland creating a haze in communities across New Hampshire yesterday.
April 20, or 4-20, has become known in cannabis-loving circles as the day to “smoke ’em if you got ’em,” according to those who gathered in Keene’s Central Square to smoke marijuana in protest of drug laws.
In recent years, pot-fueled rallies have been held across the country to mark the date of 4-20, the numbers that have become a rallying cry among smokers. A rally took place in Concord yesterday on the steps of the Capitol.
Some lit up marijuana cigarettes while organizers with bullhorns, including former Epping police officer Bradley Jardis of Hooksett, cautioned them not to say a word if police came to arrest them.
The 29-year-old Jardis said he is just a free person now “trying to protect the liberties I’ve taken away.”
State troopers watched from inside the State House, but planned no action unless the crowd got unruly. (more…)
UPDATE @ 2:23p: Jim released on personal recognizance, while Mike was treated with the following:
Today $250 was demanded of Big Mike for standing in the street talking calmly with police – he refuses and is sent to jail for an entire month before trial. Dave Ridley Reports live from the Valley St. jail in Manchester:
Dave also recently called some slimy politicians in an attempt to get answers out of them about the Nashua 420 arrests, without much luck. Listen if you want to be disgusted by state-worshiping politicians: (more…)
In today’s Nashua Telegraph article about the arrests of liberty activists Jim Johnson and Big Mike, they are said to have “clashed” with police and are claimed to have been “extremely disorderly”. Let’s go to the LCLReport’s review of the footage from the day in question to see just how disorderly they were. (If you are short on time, the footage of the Nashua 420 starts at 2:09 in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DnTUCF8oRcHere’s the story from the Telegraph, which fails to mention that cops pointed guns at Big Mike and his peaceful roommates.
Three Free Staters arrested in three days. Russell Kanning, Jim Johnson, and now Big Mike.
This morning Manchester cops acting on a piece of paper from Nashua PD threatened to break down a door, then pointed guns at the peaceful occupants inside Big Mike’s home as they arrested him on “disorderly conduct” allegedly from the 420 crackdown weeks ago in Nashua. Subscribe to Porc 411s for the latest on all three activists, and visit the Free Keene Forum for discussion.
Here are the raw videos that Joe in Manchester was able to take as the MPD agents kidnap Big Mike. Part 1 is here and here’s the more interesting Part 2:
According to a reliable source, the police in NH can enforce warrants outside their “jurisdiction”, so a warrant from Nashua can be enforced by Nashua PD traveling to another county or city and can also be enforced by whatever the local PD is, or the staties. In short, they can get you anywhere you are, no matter the politically designated land mass. It is currently unknown how many others will be arrested. I’m awaiting a call back from Raymond McDannell, a lieutenant in the Nashua Police Department and their media liaison.
A Walmart in MI fires 2008 associate of the year because he is a medical marijuana user when he is off the clock, GA sex offender registry law held up in court even though it lists people who have never been charged with a sex offense, suit filed against New Orleans police officers who jailed people for videotaping them, and study shows Iraq woman worse off than they were under Saddam Hussein.
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