What was called “disorderly conduct” two weeks ago was ignored this week as the city council went about their “business” without interrupting their own meeting. Now they REALLY have no case against those they aggressed against, as they allowed the exact same behavior to continue. Not that they had a case before, anyway. WKBK’s Brad Ryder reports:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iaegImMspc
Here’s the article appearing in today’s Keene Sentinel about tonight’s drinking game. It reports that on tonight’s agenda is a letter from Keene native Heika Courser regarding the repeal of the open container ordinance, so the councilors will be addressing the issue. All indicators show a larger turnout of activists is expected tonight than last time. Here’s the text of the piece by “Sentinel Staff”:
City officials say they have made no special plans if a Free Keene group attends another Keene City Council meeting to play a “drinking game.”
The group’s website, FreeKeene.com, says that the “drinking game: round two” will be held at tonight’s meeting. (more…)
Here’s a PDF of a letter that Capuzzo sent me from jail in Massachusetts. I’ve just shipped him a copy of Dr. Mary Ruwart’s “Healing our World” and Lysander Spooner’s “No Treason”. You can give him something to do in there by sending him (and other NH activists like Rich Paul) mail via mail-to-jail!
Keene Sentinel columnist Steve Gilbert has written a piece appearing in today’s paper:
So what do you make of Free Keene? Any idea what it wants?
The local group — it may or may not be an arm of the N.H. Free State Project — gleefully moved into City Council chambers last week with its so-called “Keene City Hall drinking game.”
In it, several members of Free Keene wanted to give the appearance of drinking bottled beer during the City Council meeting, though “not a beer” was printed on the labels.
As expected, the mayor, city councilors and police were unable to ignore what most of us would consider a spectacle of disrespect and took action. (more…)
NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129077277
AP:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/7144804.html
The Toronto Sun (theirs is the best story outside of NH, as they actually bothered to look at FreeKeene.com for our perspective on things):
http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2010/08/08/14962111.html
Thanks to the Union Leader’s Melanie Plenda for the great story about the ludicrous behavior of the Keene city bureaucrats on Thursday night that as of yet has only appeared in print. Here’s a .PDF of the article courtesy of Bill in Manch.
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