Noncooperation | Free Keene

Parking Ticket Burn!

by Ian | Apr 21, 2010 | 3 comments

Ticketed while attending yesterday’s 420 in Concord, activist Neal Connor decides to ignite the government’s extortion demand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnnqxVQsF4

Cannabis Culture’s Feature Article on Keene’s 420 Celebrations!

by Ian | Apr 9, 2010 | 5 comments

Thanks to Jodie and Marc Emery and the rest of the great crew of Cannabis Culture for publishing this awesome feature article all about Keene’s cannabis freedom movement, starting with Andrew Carroll’s arrest last year and going through the Nashua crackdowns. Not only that, but they allowed JJ from the Free Keene Press to write the piece! They included activists’ photos as well as videos from OTN and Anarchy in Your Head. It’s an amazing piece that is going to help put Free Keene on the cannabis activism map!

If you found this website via Cannabis Culture, please take a look around – there’s a lot more happening here than cannabis freedom activism.

Here’s the text of the piece: (more…)

Concentrated Civil Disobedience and Noncooperation are the Keys to Liberty

by Ian | Apr 6, 2010 | 18 comments

Before I begin, I’d like to share a brief quote from an article by the Keene Sentinel’s Phil Bantz:

“At least 95 percent of all cases are settled by plea negotiations,” Keene defense lawyer Paul G. Schweizer said. “Plea bargains are absolutely essential to the judicial system.”

Without plea deals, the courts, jails and prisons would become clogged with defendants and inmates.

“As a practical matter, we would have to build 10 new courthouses in Keene if we took everyone to trial,” he said. “We would have to hire five times as many police officers and prosecutors. The judicial system would come to a screeching halt.”

Please take a moment and think about that quote. It reveals an Achilles’s heel of the state. Their system is counting on you to go with the flow.

“Just take the plea, pay up, and we’ll make this go away.”, say the government aggressors. Naturally, people eagerly take the “deal”. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to minimize the harm that the state is inflicting upon them and their loved ones.

However, I’d like to encourage them take a longer view. (more…)