On this morning’s “Talkback” on WKBK, Free State Project President Varrin Swearingen appeared as a guest for an hour. He discussed the Free State Project, Keene activism, secession, voluntaryism, bad neighbors, dishonesty, paying for services, education, regulations, and politician ratings. Also included in this archive are liberty activists calling later in the show and discussing the protectionist government system, confronting the system, and neighborly relations.
Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.
Very little information is known to anyone but the police so far, but a friend named Andrew was arrested this morning – probably a little before 8:40a – and is still being held at the police department. Fellow friends and liberty activists are at the police station trying to find out why their friend is being held captive. The only information the police are giving is that Andrew was arrested for not answering questions that police were asking. It is also known that Andrew said things like, “Stop arresting me, assholes,” but it in unclear whether the law enforcement officers were overreacting to “harsh” language or whether that language was itself a reaction to the police’s actions.
Liberty activists called WKBK’s “Talkback” this morning and discussed downtown skateboarders, the minimum age to work, NH independence, imprisoning peaceful people, and city camera bans. Also the smarmy Dartmouth statist calls and suggests I’m stupid, puts words in my mouth, then proceeds to appeal to tradition. I then call back to rebut and he calls again to lie to cover his tracks…busted, dude!
Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.
Cameras have caused quite a stir at Keene City Hall in the past and recent weeks have only seen an increase in the amount of drama surrounding these devices. Whether it is in a court room or a clerk’s office, local liberty activists have made many attempts at capturing the civil servants in action only to be thwarted by police and bureaucrats. At the focus has been a sheet of paper hung on the wall, the text of which declares a ban on the use of cameras in various areas of the building. The paper, which court personnel have alleged to be a lawful judicial order, carries no indication of any official authority nor bears any marking that would confirm its legitimacy. Inquiries about the ordinance from which the “order” is derived have been met with rhetoric and no real answers.
Watch as the Keene city attorney refuses to answer questions about their ban on cameras from the clerk’s office once he finds out he’s being broadcast. Remember, government people have no obligation to answer questions or do anything at all. They’ll just steal your money until you decide to stop paying. Then, they’ll steal your home. This is what happens when you try to get answers on the record:
As of Monday July sixth, the people calling themselves the “State of New Hampshire” have imprisoned another videographer at the Cheshire jail. This time it’s Dave Ridley from RidleyReport.com. He’ll be spending six days in Chez Westmoreland because he dared to use his freedom of the press and record video in the lobby of the Keene district court. Videographer Sam Dodson spent 58 days in the same facility for recording video and then using his alleged right to remain silent. Sam, also a blogger here at Free Keene, was arrested at the arraignment forced on Dave. Now having been forced into a trial and found guilty, Dave has turned himself in (under their threat of violence, of course) for a six day sentence. Nearly twenty liberty activists came out and had a picnic and sign-waving rally on the jail grounds. The prisoners were pleased to see us, as always.
Total cost to jail peaceful activists in Cheshire county so far in 2009? At over $30,000 per year to imprison people in NH, Dave’s six days, Sam’s 58, and Andrew Carroll’s nine, that’s at least $6,000. How much they spent on all the bureaucracy (police, court, sheriffs) to get them in jail is another question entirely. Either way, it seems that mass civil disobedience and noncooperation are keys to freedom (plus education and enlightenment) and that when more disobey and say no, it will begin to cost the violent monopolists more and more. May they one day see the error in their ways!
On this morning’s “Talkback” on WKBK, Free State Project President Varrin Swearingen appeared as a guest for an hour. He discussed the Free State Project, Keene activism, secession, voluntaryism, bad neighbors, dishonesty, paying for services, education, regulations, and politician ratings. Also included in this archive are liberty activists calling later in the show and discussing the protectionist government system, confronting the system, and neighborly relations.
