by Kager | Aug 16, 2012 |
Originally posted at LadiesInKeene.com
August 13, 2012, Ademo Freeman, founder of CopBlock.org, was found guilty on three counts of felony wiretapping after recording his conversations with public officials in an attempt to bring accountability to a situation where it was noticeably absent – an incident where excessive force was used against 17-year-old Frank Harrington, a student at Manchester’s West High School, by Darren Murphy, school resource officer and an employee of the Manchester Police Department.
If you are not familiar with Ademo’s situation, learn more.
Ademo was sentenced to one year in Valley Street Jail, all but 90 days suspended, as well as 1-3 years in NH State Prison suspended for 5 years of good behavior.
In a letter from jail, Ademo wrote: “By the time this is posted, we’ll already know the outcome and hopefully the jury is understanding of my position. I don’t, or won’t, blame them if they find me guilty.”
Ademo may not blame them, but I do. (more…)
by Ian | Aug 15, 2012 |
Tom Knapp at the Center for a Stateless Society has this to say about the Ademo conviction:
“Autoimmune diseases,” per the Wikipedia article on same, “arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells.”
Analogizing from autoimmune disease to political government has its dangers — foremost among them the fact that any such analogy requires us to think of society as a sort of super-organism with its own interests separate from and superseding those of its constituent parts, people — but I don’t think the analogy is a poor one. If there really is such a thing as “the body politic,” the nation-state is to that body as lupus or multiple sclerosis is to an individual human body.
The most advanced stages of the disease are easily identifiable: Mussolini’s “everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” sums them up rather neatly. (more…)
by SethCohn | Aug 6, 2012 |
[Thanks to Ian for reposting this, and the offer to blog here at FreeKeene. I’ll post here occasionally, with insights I’ve gained over the years, or perhaps counterpoints. I’ve evolved in my view on the Keene methods of activism. And perhaps that’ll be my next post here… — Seth]
Found a post over at BlueHampshire, and my reply is below (I copied the rest for context)
http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/14808
There is no right to know
by: Marjorie Porter
Fri Aug 03, 2012 at 20:02:05 PM EDT
Over the last several days, I have been trying, via Twitter, to get @FreeStateNH to tell me which candidates running for the NH House are members of the Free State Project. They have boasted there are 14 FSP members currently serving in the NH House. But they keep telling me FSP is not political. I keep asking how I will know if a candidate is FSP. I have asked and asked. I have said voters have the right to know. Tonight they told me there is no right to know. (more…)
by Ian | Jun 30, 2012 |
Radio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.
Topics covered include Porcfest 2012, Derrick J’s release and subsequent civil disobedience in Middleboro, MA, and the exodus from Keene of new mover Chris Cantwell. Here’s the archive:
You can add Radio Free Keene News to your podcast client via this RSS feed.
by Ian | Jun 15, 2012 |
Local code enforcer and former Keene police detective (yes, he is collecting his pension and still working for the city – sweet deal!) Fred Parsells appears to have taken me and the Keene Activity Center on as his pet project. Fred’s told me on more than one occasion that he thinks I’m going to leave Keene and it seems like he’s trying his best to ensure that happens.
Sorry Fred, it’s not happening. First, your case is pretty weak to begin with. You’re attempting to prove that the KAC is a “lodginghouse” by relying on old evidence collected from posts made online by former tenants, who are not currently living at the KAC. Even if the former tenants were running a “lodginghouse”, that’s not evidence that the current tenants are. Local robed man Ed Burke signed your permission slip to come raid the KAC, but that merely resulted in you finding some bunk beds – that’s not proof of anything.
There are more reasons why the KAC is not a “lodginghouse”, as I understand it, but that’s not the point of this piece. The point is, whether or not it’s a “lodginghouse” doesn’t matter. The Keene Activity Center is a project protected by Article Ten of the Bill of Rights in the NH Constitution to which Fred Parsells swore an oath. What is Article Ten? Here it is:
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Is the New Hampshire Supreme Court ready to take this issue on over a “lodging house” issue? Is the Attorney General ready to invest tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars over this?
Lets wait and see…
by Ian | May 7, 2012 |
Paul O’Day of Spofford writes to the Concord Monitor, calling out the head of the NH police chiefs, Richard Enfield for his lack of compassion:
Re “Law enforcement resisting pot bill” (Sunday Monitor front page, April 29):
Enfield Police Chief Richard Crate was quoted as saying the pending medical marijuana bill is “looking for a potential solution when there’s not a problem out there.”
Many people endure needless pain and suffering because of the prohibition of this medicine.
Others risk losing their money, their liberty, their houses and their kids if they break the law to stop their pain.
Some people with cancer or other serious ailments succumb unnecessarily to the symptoms of their illness or its treatment such as chemotherapy, dying months or even decades sooner than they would have had they been able to use medical marijuana.
Untold numbers unnecessarily suffer from the worst diseases and ailments known to mankind. Others unnecessarily risk everything to escape their suffering. And some people are unnecessarily sent to an early grave – and there is no problem out there? (more…)
If you are not familiar with Ademo’s situation, learn more.
