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Deadline: Midnight EST March 31st, 2012. Send an email to “copblock [at] gmail [dot] org” with “Szasz” in the subject line and a link to your video
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The raw video of the Civil Disobedience Panel – a session held at the 2012 Liberty Forum, in which Jason Talley, Ian Freeman and I converse with those present about ideas, strategy and impact.
We had our hearing on the medical marijuana bill (SB 409) Thursday afternoon, and it went extremely well. A major highlight was Enfield Police Chief Richard Crate being on the receiving end of some serious pushback from the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
Of course, each time they pull a copy down from youtube, another person uploads it again, but now that it’s on torrent, there are no corporations they can leverage with the threat of lawsuit to make this go away.
I attempt to take conversations to their logical conclusions. If Person A makes an absolutist statement it in the least leaves ample room for questions posited as “devils advocate” and likely brings to light questions never before considered, that upon further scrutiny, causes Person A themselves to admit that flaws exist in their argument.
Over the past week when conversing with Keene police employees about their stance on the possible acquisition of a BEARCAT armored vehicle, some noted that “it’s free” – essentially saying that since it is to be provided via a federal Dept. of Homeland Security grant it’d be erroneous to turn it down.
Overlooking the fact that the federal government (like government at any level) must first steal or print what they spend, my immediate follow-up to such it’s-free-so-why-not-take-it statements is to question the point at which they’d say “no thanks.”
What would Keene “authorities” do if they were offered other military hardware, such as a drone? Sound far-fetched? Not so. Fortunately, as the story below demonstrates, at least some comic relief can be had from this escalation of the police state thanks to the rampant be-afraid-of-everything mindset peddled since 9/11 (hey – any excuse to grow the size and scope of the State, right?)
Tonight, the People have reported hearing folks have conversations against the BEARCAT over dinner at local restaurants. This morning I heard one at Timoleon’s, where an older gentleman said to another at the counter, something like, “Looks like they’re going to shove the BEARCAT down our throats”.
Tonight, the People have reported hearing folks have conversations against the BEARCAT over dinner at local restaurants. This morning I heard one at Timoleon’s, where an older gentleman said to another at the counter, something like, “Looks like they’re going to shove the BEARCAT down our throats”.
