UPDATE @ 2:23p: Jim released on personal recognizance, while Mike was treated with the following:
Today $250 was demanded of Big Mike for standing in the street talking calmly with police – he refuses and is sent to jail for an entire month before trial. Dave Ridley Reports live from the Valley St. jail in Manchester:
Dave also recently called some slimy politicians in an attempt to get answers out of them about the Nashua 420 arrests, without much luck. Listen if you want to be disgusted by state-worshiping politicians: (more…)
In today’s Nashua Telegraph article about the arrests of liberty activists Jim Johnson and Big Mike, they are said to have “clashed” with police and are claimed to have been “extremely disorderly”. Let’s go to the LCLReport’s review of the footage from the day in question to see just how disorderly they were. (If you are short on time, the footage of the Nashua 420 starts at 2:09 in):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DnTUCF8oRcHere’s the story from the Telegraph, which fails to mention that cops pointed guns at Big Mike and his peaceful roommates.
Varrin Swearingen (president of the Free State Project) has had his response to Pam Martens’ attack piece published in the Keene Sentinel. Here’s a link to his letter to the editor – as you can see Varrin is already under fire by anti-freedom commenters.
Here’s the text of his letter:
Pam Martens calls for an “untrammeled debate” on the issues (“We have a right to speak our minds,” Keene Sentinel, April 4), but before getting into any specific topic, we need to address the elephant in the room: Where do our rights come from?
Mrs. Martens writes, “rights are derived … from engaged citizens in a participatory democracy.”
She believes rights are granted by society, and denies individuals any natural rights of their own; what some might call “human rights.”
Her opinion conflicts with the simple idea that each of us has our own inherent, unalienable rights, and that government, democratic or otherwise, should be limited to protecting those rights. (more…)
Below is a letter I wrote to Keene Policeman Peter “Sturdy” Thomas, about my camera and the armed men who showed up outside my house at 3am knowing I was in jail. I feel the actions of several Keene Police have devastated the integrity of the Keene Police as an organization, and I am posting this to ensure their interactions will at least be public, so you can see what they are doing with your money.
Yesterday I called Ken Meola, Keene Police Chief per John Mclean’s request. I have not heard back yet, and here is the audio. I was put on hold, then they picked up and started talking, then I was hung up on. I called back, got transferred to records, and then was sent to Ken’s voice mail. (This is who is protecting you in an emergency)
