On last week’s “Talkback” on WKBK, discussion centered around Fred Parsells’ suggestion to city council that they support medical cannabis and decriminalization. Also discussed were shiftless, troublemaking teenagers. The smarmy Dartmouth guy calls to insinuate liberty activists support abusing children in the workplace and calls activists immature, as he usually does.
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To those who opposed it, please note there is nothing wrong with the city council working toward hurting people less often. If they must exist, that behavior seems totally appropriate to me.
The city council hires and fires the city attorney, clerk, and manager, from my understanding. The manager hires and fires the police chief. Seems clear to me that the council could hand down a do-not-enforce or at the least a lowest enforcement priority policy to the police chief (who seems like a reasonable guy from my recent breakfast with him). That would actually accomplish significant decriminalization in a fairly short order (as opposed to Fred Parsells’ suggestion of a “substantial” fine, which would continue to harm peaceful people) resulting in many Keeniacs no longer having to be afraid of being caged for enjoying recreational or medicinal cannabis consumption.
I support steps in the right direction, but there’s no reason that this can’t be done in one step. Imagine the city council people saying this to the police chief: (more…)
This weekend KPD’s prosecutor “served” Jesse with papers demanding he show up at Chez Westmoreland for a reduced sentence. Jesse thought it had been dropped entirely, but it had only been reduced to a $100 fine down from $150, so that will mean he’d spend two days in jail. Since Jesse has no transportation to the jail, he calls KPD to inform them. Rivera tells him he needs to visit the court and tell them. Rather than jump through a bunch of hoops, Jesse opts to not bother continue voluntarily cooperating with their caging of him. His call to Rivera was broadcast live:
Will they come to his home, force him to take a ride to the jail, then charge him with more “crimes against the state”, like “failure to appear” or “contempt of court”? Perhaps they’ll just wait until they see him in the street? Only time will tell. This is the first time an activist has refused to cooperate by not showing up for their caging demands.
We’ll keep you informed as this situation develops.
It’s no secret that bureaucrats selectively enforce their laws. There are so many that almost anyone could be accused of “breaking the law” on a daily basis. So when activists are pointing out the violence, unaccountability, or just plain illogical actions of the government, the bureaucrats will search for the normally unenforced “laws” that the activists are breaking. However, judge Burke has been known to simply make up his own rules to expand his oppressive reach.
But just like the selectively enforced written laws, Burke often forgets some of his own rules. In this video clip, 2 such “rules”, which have previously been enforced with arrest or the threat of arrest, are “broken” without consequence.
So enjoy this action packed clip of Keene activists performing these dangerous stunts:
– Wearing a hat
– Panning the camera to the audience
How will the world remain safe with people getting away with crimes like these?
Thanks to the Keene Sentinel’s Phil Bantz for his follow up article covering the Keene Police dropping charges against Cassidy Nicosia. Thanks also to Jay Dugay of KPD for admitting his officers were wrong. It’s rare to see that level of integrity in police departments these days. Here’s the story:
Charge dropped against teenager
Free Stater went topless in city
By PHILLIP BANTZ
Sentinel Staff
Cassidy Nicosia, 18, of Manchester no longer faces a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure and lewdness.
Nicosia was arrested Aug. 23 after police received complaint calls about a topless teenager standing near the Main-Marlboro-Winchester streets roundabout with a handgun holstered on her hip.
State law does not require residents to have permits to openly carry guns, and she was not charged with any firearm-related crimes.
Last week, police prosecutors D. Chris McLaughlin and Eliezer Rivera decided to drop the charge of indecent exposure and lewdness against Nicosia. The charge was dropped because walking down the street topless does not qualify as a crime under state law, Keene police Lt. Jay U. Duguay said.
The law states that a person commits indecent exposure and lewdness if he or she fornicates, exposes genitals or performs any other “act of gross lewdness … likely to cause affront or alarm” in public.
Word just came in through Porc 411 that Cassidy Nicosia’s “Indecent Exposure” charge has been dropped by KPD’s prosecutor, Eli Rivera. Does this mean the KPD is liable for false arrest, kidnapping, or official oppression? I don’t know, but I forgive them for what they’ve done and would encourage them to leave peaceful people alone in the future. Thankfully, now Cassidy doesn’t need to be concerned about being deemed a “sex offender” for acting as free as her male counterparts.
Some liberty ladies had scheduled another topless event in advance of Cassidy’s arraignment, so will that event occur or be rescheduled? I’ll let you know.
Also, here was the Ridley Report’s coverage of the topless outreach event arrest, which did not get pulled from Youtube as our original footage did:
On last week’s “Talkback” on WKBK, discussion centered around Fred Parsells’ suggestion to city council that they support medical cannabis and decriminalization. Also discussed were shiftless, troublemaking teenagers. The smarmy Dartmouth guy calls to insinuate liberty activists support abusing children in the workplace and calls activists immature, as he usually does.
Thanks to the Keene Sentinel’s Phil Bantz for his 
