Listen live at 7pm Eastern as the Motorhome Diaries‘ Jason, Pete, and Adam appear on Free Talk Live to tell the story of their roadside attack and abduction at the hands of the criminal gang of men and women calling themselves the “State of Mississippi”.
UPDATE: Here’s tonight’s archive.
Motorhome Diaries‘ Jason Talley says:
The #MHD crew has been released from Jones County jail. I was pepper sprayed and choked for refusing to give ID.
Sounds like the story is yet another horrific example of government tyranny. How many more of your friends and associates must be abused before you take action? Have you stopped paying federal taxes? Have you joined the Free State Project and moved to New Hampshire? Have you considered moving to where Pete and Jason are planning to move after the diaries are done?
Also, I’d like to thank all the great bloggers who stepped up and covered this story so quickly. I wish our other activist friend Sam could have gotten such a quick rush of attention when he was arrested for recording video in a public court lobby and imprisoned indefinitely without trial for invoking his right to remain silent. Sam has now been in jail over four weeks and is on a hunger strike. Please scroll through FreeKeene.com to read his blogs and get the story, or visit sam.jailedactivist.info and freesamdodson.com for more on his situation.
I will be inviting the MHD 3 on Free Talk Live tonight to tell their story.
Update on this afternoon’s breaking news:
I just spoke with an unusually helpful jail bureaucrat at Jones County Jail. The bureaucrat explained that the ATF has passed on investigating the incident and also called Jason, Pete, and Adam their “little celebrities”, due to the volume of phone calls the jail has received this afternoon. I was told that all the charges are misdemeanors and that bonds have been set in the amounts of $1,000 each for Pete and Adam and $1,500 for Jason. Apparently jail is not an option for sentencing of these misdemeanors, unless of course the MHD boys refuse to pay the fines. Additionally, Pete has been charged with “Possession of a firearm across state lines”, which is a MS state charge, not federal.
So, it sounds like they are going to bond out, and perhaps we’ll be lucky enough to hear from them on FTL tonight.
It went down this morning in Jones County, MS. Jason Talley posted this to MHD’s Twitter:
“We are in Jones County MS and @adammueller has been arrested for filming cops after they pulled us over.”
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Later, other posts to Jason’s facebook page revealed they were all arrested. After asking for details and hearing nothing, I called the Jones County Jail at 601-649-7502 and confirmed they have all been imprisoned.
Adam Mueller – Disorderly Conduct and Disobeying an Officer
Pete Eyre – Possession of a Beer in a Dry County
Jason Talley – Disorderly Conduct, Disobeying, and Resisting Arrest
The bureaucrats at the jail think they will be arraigned tomorrow, so if you live in Jones County, MS, you may want to show up to offer your help and support.
More as we know it on FTL tonight and here at Free Keene. Hopefully the guys will be out to tell their story soon at MotorHomeDiaries.com
Update 5/15: They are out.
Today at the arraignment for Richard, one of the “disorderly six”, (a trial is scheduled for July) Keene District Court security agents had no issues with allowing two videographers into a packed courtroom. No one had to fill out motions to do this, they were just allowed in, like they always should be.
The only question is, will the court continue respecting the free press, or will they arbitrarily change the rules again later? Time will tell, and we’ll be sure to blog about it.
Andrew:
Today he filed his intent to appeal judge Burke’s gulity verdict, and remains a semi-free man for another month as a result. He has until June 2nd to file his full appeal, or else they’ll put him in a cage at that time. This should mean he gets a jury trial, which should take place at superior court, the same place where activists do Fully Informed Jury outreach at every jury selection!
Sam:
Today Ivy followed up on her writ of habeas corpus with the NH supreme court. They attempted to claim they have no obligation to move quickly on hearing it, so she filed some sort of motion to expedite and believes she’ll have an answer on that motion within 24 hours. However, judging by the initial reaction of the court bureaucrats, it’s not looking good.
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