by Ian | May 15, 2009 |
Hear a very disturbing call to WKBK’s Talkback and my response here. Unfortunately, it appears that liberty activist participation in Talkback has fallen off a cliff. Please join us for our weekly listening, chatting, 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.
by Ian | May 15, 2009 |
Motorhome Diaries‘ Jason Talley says:
The #MHD crew has been released from Jones County jail. I was pepper sprayed and choked for refusing to give ID.
Sounds like the story is yet another horrific example of government tyranny. How many more of your friends and associates must be abused before you take action? Have you stopped paying federal taxes? Have you joined the Free State Project and moved to New Hampshire? Have you considered moving to where Pete and Jason are planning to move after the diaries are done?
Also, I’d like to thank all the great bloggers who stepped up and covered this story so quickly. I wish our other activist friend Sam could have gotten such a quick rush of attention when he was arrested for recording video in a public court lobby and imprisoned indefinitely without trial for invoking his right to remain silent. Sam has now been in jail over four weeks and is on a hunger strike. Please scroll through FreeKeene.com to read his blogs and get the story, or visit sam.jailedactivist.info and freesamdodson.com for more on his situation.
I will be inviting the MHD 3 on Free Talk Live tonight to tell their story.
by Ian | May 14, 2009 |
Update on this afternoon’s breaking news:
I just spoke with an unusually helpful jail bureaucrat at Jones County Jail. The bureaucrat explained that the ATF has passed on investigating the incident and also called Jason, Pete, and Adam their “little celebrities”, due to the volume of phone calls the jail has received this afternoon. I was told that all the charges are misdemeanors and that bonds have been set in the amounts of $1,000 each for Pete and Adam and $1,500 for Jason. Apparently jail is not an option for sentencing of these misdemeanors, unless of course the MHD boys refuse to pay the fines. Additionally, Pete has been charged with “Possession of a firearm across state lines”, which is a MS state charge, not federal.
So, it sounds like they are going to bond out, and perhaps we’ll be lucky enough to hear from them on FTL tonight.
by Ian | May 14, 2009 |
It went down this morning in Jones County, MS. Jason Talley posted this to MHD’s Twitter:
“We are in Jones County MS and @adammueller has been arrested for filming cops after they pulled us over.”
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Later, other posts to Jason’s facebook page revealed they were all arrested. After asking for details and hearing nothing, I called the Jones County Jail at 601-649-7502 and confirmed they have all been imprisoned.
Adam Mueller – Disorderly Conduct and Disobeying an Officer
Pete Eyre – Possession of a Beer in a Dry County
Jason Talley – Disorderly Conduct, Disobeying, and Resisting Arrest
The bureaucrats at the jail think they will be arraigned tomorrow, so if you live in Jones County, MS, you may want to show up to offer your help and support.
More as we know it on FTL tonight and here at Free Keene. Hopefully the guys will be out to tell their story soon at MotorHomeDiaries.com
Update 5/15: They are out.
by Ian | May 7, 2009 |
Here’s the “ORDER ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS” regarding Sam.
Basically, superior court judge Brian T. Tucker says since there has not yet been a trial (that they refuse to hold unless Sam gives them his legal name, which they already have), the writs are “dismissed”.
Translation:
“Sam, you naughty slave. Just bow down and give us your name so we can provide you with your “remedy”, otherwise you’ll just have to sit there in that cell forever. Sure, you have the right to remain silent, and we have the right to hold you in captivity until you die if you continue exercising it. Not only that, but the rest of you suckers reading this will have to continue paying $80 a day to keep Sam in his cell, because if you stop paying my friends calling themselves the Sheriffs will come to throw you and your family from your home.”
So Sam sits, now in his fourth week of a hunger strike. If you refuse the government’s “services”, they put you in a jail cell. Can you imagine the outrage if Walmart or Pizza Hut would behave in this way? Yet the government people get away with it every day, and people cheer them on.
by Dale Everett | May 5, 2009 |
A question that’s been asked several times is what have acts of civil disobedience accomplished in Keene, New Hampshire. I know of a couple of incidents where people refused to pay traffic fines on moral grounds and they got out of paying those fines. Those are small victories. I also have my larger expectations. For instance, I expect local law enforcement and the local justice system to exercise more restraint when they realize that their usual railroading and intimidation tactics don’t work on some of their victims. Instead, we make their jobs harder when they attempt to violate our rights. We don’t want to be in jail, of course, but we don’t necessarily let that threat deter us. Instead we bring attention to it. We stand up to them, defiant yet peaceful, and use it to point out the violence of the system. In turn, I expect that to affect a culture shift whereby many others become more aware of their rights and they’ll become emboldened to stand up for those rights. These are noble goals. But I can’t really point at anything significant and concrete that we’ve accomplished as of yet.
I don’t fault the victim of a street burglar who hands over his wallet rather than risk his life. For the same reason, I don’t fault the person who concedes to the demands of violent governments. We all have to decide for ourselves where our boundaries lie. Having said that, I’ve gotten a better sense of the risks and sacrifices of civil disobedience and what responses to expect from local agents of the State in my own role as a supporter of other activists. What I’ve experienced is my own safety boundaries being gradually pushed further and further out.
(Read On…)
