There were a few anarchists in the town where I grew up, and a lot more in the city nearby. But perhaps because these individuals were not as organized as Keeniacs, the activism in which I participated seemed to live or die with my action.
I could get a few of my friends together and shout from a megaphone and sign-wave in Rittenhouse Park. We would go “Robin-Hooding,” where individuals feed parking meters for strangers in an attempt to “cost” the State the “revenue” of the ticket. But even in a city of 1.5 million, there were only a handful of us doing activism on a regular basis. “What’s the deal?” I wondered.
Featuring FK’s Ian and Ademo:
Here’s the original report in German, and the translation below thanks to Rochelle Pitkäniemi:
How big should the influence of government be? This question dominates the election campaign in the USA. For the Republican presidential candidates it’s clear: as small as possible. They are currently outdoing each other with savings proposals. Going the farthest are the representatives of the libertarian movement. They want to get rid of all taxes, the central bank, and the Department of Education. Health insurance and social security should be a completely private matter and American troops should be pulled out of foreign countries.
In New Hampshire, a state way in the Northeast of the USA, the libertarians are especially strong. the so-called “Free Staters” are even working there for a peaceful take-over of the state. Max Akermann visited some of them. (more…)
I’m not sure about Sam’s charges, as he missed his first court date due to his move back to Texas, but my charges for the 2010 Drinking Game arrest, “disorderly conduct” and “contempt of court”, were both dropped or by the prosecutor. Here’s the video from the original arrests.
As you may recall, liberty activists including myself had engaged in a drinking game in protest of the “open container” ordinance. “Mayor” Dale Pregent interrupted his own meeting to threaten us over it, then had Keene police chief Ken Meola threaten and arrest us. He demanded I either hand over the brown bottle for inspection or leave the meeting. Considering I am not obligated to either consent to a search of my property or leave a public meeting simply because I was engaging in silent protest, I stayed right there and was arrested. The “contempt” charge was levied because I was arrested while on bail for the prior arrests for “trespass” at the jail and for standing in front of a police car, or “obstructing government administration”.
It’s also worth noting that at the 2nd drinking game, Dale Pregent and police ignored the dozen-or-so activists who re-played the game.
Will Dale Pregent and Ken Meola apologize for the illegal arrests? Will the city council issue a proclamation that silent protests will go unmolested in the future? Stay tuned to find out, because I plan to ask via a letter I am dropping off today at city hall.
The Keene Sentinel is reporting that two Keene police officers were injured by a drunken assailant early this morning.
Officer Katie Corbett suffered a knee injury and Officer Kyle Macie suffered a hand injury in the altercation
How could this violence have been avoided? The Keene officers could have simply left the man alone, but they just had to aggress against him because of… an open container! If they’d ignored him, no injuries would have been sustained. The open container ordinance needs to be repealed.
It has been several months since I contributed to the Free Keene blog regarding my transition to liberty or my opinions about stuff that is happening in the government world. In fact, my second to last post here was about how I, for the first time in 30 years crawling this planet, got arrested. I was arrested at the US/Mexico border in Nogales, AZ by United States Customs and Border Protection for exercising the 5th Amendment.
Well, I finally got my “arrest report” from the feds (after 4-5 months of notarizing forms, mailing things back and forth, and begging) and it sure looks like they let me off easy for the pure evil I unleashed at the border station. It looks like I misled you in my July blog in that that I failed to mention that I, according to the federal officer who arrested me, murdered one of their co-workers.
Among the two things I “could have been arrested” for were 18 USC 111 and 18 USC 1114. That would be forcibly impeding and murdering a federal officer. Now verbal warnings are given out every day for things like speeding and rolling through a stop sign… but I never imagined I’d get a verbal warning for violating a law that I could get the federal death penalty for. I went straight from never having been arrested or convicted of anything to the lethal injection.
Here’s the report. It is so ridiculous, I believe it deserved its own meme.
Now, having written a police report or two myself, I’ll point some things out that are happening in CBP Officer Aldrich’s weak attempt of a report he came up with.
I’m not sure about Sam’s charges, as he missed his first court date due to his move back to Texas, but my charges for the 2010 Drinking Game arrest, “disorderly conduct” and “contempt of court”, were both dropped or by the prosecutor. Here’s the 
