Local political trivialities are warming up as one candidate has gotten ahead of the curve in quickly releasing a mayoral race video entitled Bradford for Mayor through the independently organized Keene Unfancypants Party. The advertisement showcases Bradford’s passion and drive to make a change in the Keene, New Hampshire city government. With no end in sight to politics as usual, Bradford offers choice to the citizenry in this year’s contest for mayordom. You can see special edition videos of Bradford attacking Robin Hooders Garret and Graham on two separate occasions in February of this year from Fr33manTVraw. In the latter footage, Bradford stumbles into a parking enforcement officer before harassing Graham for filming the enforcer. Be sure to share Bradford for Mayor with all municiple voters you know – this election season, education is power!
The “Planning, License, and Development” committee has “taken as informational” the suggestions from liberty activists that the council send a letter encouraging the legislature to decriminalize cannabis and also to repeal the paraphernalia ordinance. Citing “the children”, the committee ignored the factual, compassionate reasons given by advocates of freedom as to why they should not be arresting their neighbors for their personal, peaceful habits of drug use and instead bought the prohibitionist propaganda presented at the meeting hook, line, and sinker. Here’s an excellent article about the meeting by the Keene Sentinel’s Kyle Jarvis:
As states around the country pass laws decriminalizing small amounts or even legalizing marijuana, some residents want Keene to get onboard. But local police, community health leaders and city councilors aren’t convinced it’s the right move. (more…)
The NH Civil Liberties Union has run the numbers and found that across NH, blacks are 2.6 times more likely than whites to be arrested for cannabis possession. That’s a pretty serious indictment about a pervasive institutional racism present among NH police. (I’m not saying all cops are racist. Betcha some of them are, though.)
It gets worse, though. Cheshire county is far-and-away the worst place of all the counties in NH. Law enforcement officers here are nearly TEN TIMES more likely to arrest blacks than whites for cannabis possession. That’s just…stunning.
