by Nick Ryder | Jul 19, 2010 |
Do humans have a right to sit in public and drink a bottle of water?
A glass of lemonade?
A can of beer?
Some people think we should not have a right to drink the latter, but how are they different? Who is more hurt because a woman drinks a beer outside as opposed to water?
Activists were arrested Sunday evening in Keene. A woman named Heika was arrested first for possession of an open alcohol container in The Square. Further arrests occurred when activists Meg, Wes, Ian, and Rich Paul did not back down from standing in front and behind the police cruisers trying to take Heika and others away.
Further arrests occurred at the police station for allegedly having an open alcohol container inside the police station.
Here is a link to a long live upload from the scene from Ian Freeman.
http://qik.com/video/9339873
And here is a short video of Ian’s arrest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxnbHDk7-54
Further video should be available and coming soon.
by Highline | Jul 13, 2010 |
“No police scrutiny: Drop the camera and back away”
“Take care, New Hampshire, that you don’t let the police catch you using your cell phone or video camera to record their interactions with the public. You could be arrested and charged with a felony.”
“It shouldn’t be a crime to record public officials doing their jobs or to record public disturbances or other crimes. Doing so can be a public service. (Had someone taped the incident involving Christopher Micklovich and four off-duty Manchester police officers outside the Strange Brew Tavern earlier this year, that saga would not be dragging on and on.) But in New Hampshire it’s not only a crime, it’s a felony. This needs to change.”
Pretty easy editorial to agree with. What possible public benefit accrues from barring citizens from recording their interactions with governmental officials (particularly ones trained and authorized to use violence)? New Hampshire has some of the best and most professional police officers in the country, and as long as they stay that way they should have no reason to object to being recorded.
– Peter, Canterbury
Wow. Thank you Union Leader for such an awesome piece. The article is located here.
by Highline | Jul 9, 2010 |
… for idling his car too long. Really.
In this “Live Free or Die” state if you idle your car longer than 5 minutes and the temperature is above 32 degrees you’re looking at the possibility of being caged like an animal for up to a year. If the temperature is above -10 degrees but below 32, you get another ten minutes of idling before said imprisonment could become a reality.
How compassionate of the legislature to allow you to stay warm in frigid temperatures for another ten minutes before authorizing your freedom be stripped away and you be branded a criminal.
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by Highline | Jul 8, 2010 |
The Union Leader is running an article about an individual who was arrested by the Rockingham County Sheriffs Department for driving without state permission:
“A Nottingham man was ordered held without bail after he argued that the county sheriff’s department had no constitutional right to arrest him for driving from the courthouse without a license.”
Drive, without state permission, eventually what happens?
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by Highline | Jun 30, 2010 |
Today John Lynch signed a bill which is intended to reduce the prison population by 18%. Was this law enacted to stop caging human beings like animals who commit various victimless acts? No, we could only wish the government would be so compassionate.
The law was drafted, argued for, and enacted because it stands a chance of saving the state up to $11,000,000 over a five year period. Caging humans like a stray dog costs money, you know. The state prison population has increased %31 and the corrections budget has doubed from $52 million to $104 million over the last ten years..
Although I wish the motivations for this change were for reasons that I (and many of you) wish they were for, I am happy to report that it appears less human beings will be ending up caged like animals in our one-day-freer-state.
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by Highline | Jun 27, 2010 |
Society as we know it is crumbling to the ground with the examples of lawlessness I observed at PorcFest 2010. In total I saw/was made aware of examples that would accumulate at least up to 158 years in cages… were the maximum sentence be given for all the “crimes” I personally witnessed. Imagine all the “crimes” that were happening that I didn’t personally witnessed/was made aware of. The hubris of some people…
How I calculated 158 years:
– An unlicensed chiropractor (who serviced thirty people… see the comments) = Thirty years in a cage.
– An unlicensed performance of hairstyling = One year in a cage.
– An unlicensed massage therapist = One year in a cage.
– Five different unlicensed liquor sales = Thirty five years in a cage.
– An unlicensed tattoo artist (who serviced at least twenty people) = Twenty years in a cage.
– Two people exchanging money for a plant = Fourteen years in a cage.
– About twenty to thirty people selling various items = Twenty to thirty years in a cage.
– About twenty people playing cards for money = Twenty years in a cage.
– One convicted felon carrying a pocket knife = Seven years in a cage.
– At least ten people smoking Marijuana openly = Ten years in a cage.
Not a single person was harmed. No one was forced to do anything. Putting anyone of these peaceful people in a cage would be harming someone who has harmed no one else. That is what the state does.
I don’t support that, do you?
