AKPF #1: Year of Television

AKPF #1, a series that began bringing the internet to the television over one year ago, celebrates this week its revolutionary anniversary episode. With DPRK fireworks erupting over opening credits, the scene unfolds from the People’s BBQ in Central Square, which was enjoyed on Friday, March 9 between five and seven pm. With approximately thirty tacos distributed to the people, a strictly regimented battalion of STOP FREE KEENE!!! silent ObamaCoin-1aprotesters picketed the barbecue, facing traffic at the head of the grassy roundabout. What occurs is street preaching, sociological analyses, and fetishistic disavowal. Following the feature, we cut to two days prior, as local business Phat Stuff is pillaged by the Drug Enforcement Agency operating at the behest of the federal department of justice. Be sure to stay tuned until the show’s conclusion for a brief Obamacoin presentation.

Shire Free Church Makes Sentinel Front Page, Above the Fold

CoexistThanks to the Keene Sentinel’s Kyle Jarvis for this excellent Sunday edition, front page, above-the-fold article about the Shire Free Church!  The church’s Keene parsonage is the subject of the piece, but it also covers the purpose of the church and my comment about war and Christians made it in as well.  (You can like Shire Free Church here on Facebook – we just turned 100 there!)  Here’s the piece, the headline of which differs (and is better) in the print edition, “Shire Free, tax free?”:

Two members of a local activist group have applied for tax-exempt status, under religious considerations, for the Leverett Street property one of them formerly owned. (more…)

Thanks to the State Police for the Free Media Coverage!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASomeone at the NH State Police did me a big favor and sent out a press release about my arrest.  As a result, WMUR has published a quick blurb and tweeted and is working on a larger story, a Union Leader reporter has called for an interview (UPDATE: Here’s the UL report.), and the Concord Patch has already scooped the mainstream news with some good coverage!

Thanks for the free press, NH State Police!  You’ve managed to make yourselves look really petty and this also seems to be highly political.  Or, do you treat everyone like this over paperwork errors?

Here’s the release, which wrongfully misinforms readers that I had obtained multiple identifications from the DMV.  At no point did I have more than one ID from New Hampshire: (more…)

What does it mean to be “affiliated”?

In video shot this morning, Keene District Court’s Judge Edward J Burke tells Cop Block Radio‘s Eric Freerock that he’ll accept his thirty-one community service hours as certified by the Shire Free Church.  (He volunteered to record hours of panels and speeches at a recent event.)  However, Burke warns Freerock that one is not supposed to do community service for agencies with which one is affiliated.  That makes no sense.  Why wouldn’t one be able to do community service for an agency one has already supported previously?

If one has worked previously at say, the Community Kitchen, does that mean one is “affiliated” and cannot perform community service hours there?  Or does “affiliated” mean that one is on a board of directors of said organization?  That is not made clear during this hearing, and the community service order that courts issue to defendants says nothing about a prohibition of affiliation with an agency.  Regardless, Burke accepts the hours.  Case closed.

In case you missed it, here’s the full video of Freerock’s trial in January where he was convicted of not showing his license to a state cop fast enough.  Here’s the community service hearing from this morning:

Robin Hood Opposition Distributes Second Pro-State Proclamation

For the second Monday in three weeks, anti-Robin Hood proponents have issued a 2014_03_17_rhoodflier1denunciatory printout, distributing the flier to car windshields around the downtown portions of Keene. This week’s flier is less profane than the last, which included the ‘f’ word uncensored. Perhaps in response to negative feedback, the flier now bowdlerizes the language with asterisks and includes seldom accurate information listed sequentially following pronouncements declaring the content, ‘Fact’.

One goal of the flier’s author seems to be consciousness raising directed at the home address of myself (Garret) and at least one other Free Keene blogger. I can’t imagine too many of the recipients of the flier will be delighted to read what amounts to a distasteful rant posturing as though it were a serious critique of community activists. In all honesty, could one ask for a more useful opposition?