Somewhere between 7-8pm on Friday, April 10, a Keene Police SUV was in an accident with a second vehicle. The incident near Emerald Street in Keene caused the police SUV to roll over, spilling it’s contents across the road. Seat cushions, medical kits, jumper cables, and baby wipes were across School Street. After the crash, the SUV was parked on the left side of School Street near Ocean Bank, while the second vehicle stopped on the corner of Emerald St. and School St, facing into the curb with heavy frontal damage.
I asked the driver of the SUV, Lt. Peter Thomas and nearby Officer Matt Griffin for a story, they both told me “no comment.” Asking for comments from other officers produced nearly the same results. The only further response I got was from Sargent Darusso, who told me he couldn’t comment now and would be out with a press release when his investigation is complete.
What did you expect them to do? If they let people get away with not paying their racket, them more people will stop paying, and their system will collapse under it’s own weight. However, as the people are dealing with their outrageous monetary demands, rising prices, an ever-inflating dollar, and new layoffs announced ever week, the bureaucrats voted to fund a private company’s $5,000 business case for the farming Co-Op. I wonder how the guy being evicted from his home would have voted? While they are at it, they voted to adjust property tax rates to account for falling property values. While you are expected to do more with less, they do more with more, because well . . . It’s your money they’re spending.
During this week’s Social Sundays, (attended by a record 32 liberty activists) a couple dozen people set out across Central Sq. to the front of the city building for an award ceremony honoring Judge Edward Burke of the Keene District Court. Activists decided to give the first ever Free State Project Recruitment Award to Burke because according to videographer Lauren Canario, “[Burke] has recruited more liberty-loving people to the Free State Project in a shorter time than ever recorded. His public outburst of rage at Ian Freeman for taking too long to sit followed by a 93 day jail sentence for having a couch in his yard convinced at least 8 people to fight tyranny sooner rather than later.”
After a speech from inspired new mover Yadra Voat, the award was accepted by Free Keene Blogger AnarchoJesse in Burke’s absence. See both the speech and acceptance comments in this video:
A few weeks ago when Free Keene blogger AnarchoJesse was arrested for wearing a hat in Milford District Court, the presiding judge explained it was disruptive to the proper administration of justice. Today however, activists were allowed to wear hats with no incident. In fact, they were explicitly told that hats were allowed! Sure enough, the court procedure went on as it normally would have.
Dave Ridley of RidleyReport.com has put together a great summary of today’s tyranny at Keene District Court, including footage shot by some unknown videographer of the actual arrest. Had the bailiffs and cops known about the other videographer, they’d have likely arrested that person. The Keene Police Department sent four cops (plus the three bailiffs already there) out to handle these radicals who wanted to record in a “public” court with their so-called freedom of the press. Here’s the video:
Here’s my interview with Dave after his arrest. In two parts due to technical difficulties:
Part 1:
Part 2:
P.S. These two were originally streamed live at our new Live Streaming Video page. You can see the activism when it happens!
