Their travels are not over yet – Pete, Jason, and Adam from the Motorhome Diaries have made another pit stop in Keene (which will be where MHD comes to a close later this year) on their way to the 2009 Porcupine Freedom Festival. They came to visit us at Social Sundays and here’s proof:
Penn Jillete mentions Keene again, this time with an amazing endorsement,
“I should be in Keene, New Hampshire with the Free Staters”
It comes toward the end of this “Penn Says”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw3XuUm4HSc
Thank you, Penn – if you are reading this, I’ve been working to get you on my radio show for years, to no avail. (I usually ask Glen Alai once a year and either get no response or he’ll say you aren’t doing radio interviews.) We’d love to have you on, talk about freedom and help you plug your shows or whatever else. ian at freekeene.com
Sorry for the short notice, but the trial for Sam is being rescheduled. To when, we are not yet sure. You can always find the latest info on the activism section of the Free Keene Forum.
Debates regarding the circumstances under which the secession of a town, city, county, state or region from a larger “entity” are potentially interesting, although I would imagine that any enemy of the FSP would welcome the project’s members waxing verbose about the North’s engagement with the South in our Civil War being essentially evil. Arguing on behalf of a region’s supposedly inalienable right to treat human beings as chattel (while making the childish analogy between said chattel and American citizens in our time) on the basis of the sanctity of property rights is probably not a winner, folks. Unless you are actually 1) trying to undermine the movement, or 2) fundamentally non-serious and more inclined towards attention-getting stunts and rhetoric. Sorry.
Well-meaning Americans like Ann have been seriously misinformed. It wasn’t necessary to fight wars to abolish slavery in other parts of the world. (more…)