Why I plead guilty to “disobeying”: I don’t have time to make a video right now, so a post will have to do. Monday morning, I was ready for a trial. We walked into the Laconia court house, and my attorney Seth Hipple asked to speak to me. He informed me that prosecutor Jim Sawyer had contacted him that morning and said he believed I had given false information on the bail paperwork I filled out in jail and that he intended to charge me with perjury.
What would this have meant? Regardless of the outcome of Monday’s trial, it would have meant ANOTHER trial and – because my attorney was at the jail when I was doing paperwork – I would have to hire ANOTHER lawyer. Jim Sawyer was willing to stop the additional assault if I would pay $100 and admit to committing the horrendous crime of not obeying orders shouted by a jackboot in the street.
So I had a choice – more hours of my life to the state and fistfuls of money to another lawyer, or leaving a situation that had just taken a very bad turn. (more…)
The Cheshire Superior Court gave both sides until March 17 to file further Memorandums of Law before the court would issue a final decision in the case of Salada, et al. v Keene School District. The case was filed by four voters after the February Deliberative Session in which all of the warrant articles that were placed by petition were amended in such a way as to create a nullity.
The following Memorandums of Law were filed. Salada et al. memorandum of law (1 of 2) Salada et al. memorandum of law (2 of 2)
For the second Monday in three weeks, anti-Robin Hood proponents have issued a denunciatory 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?
Free State Project participants Aaron Day and Matt Philips stirred up controversy in their recent run for school board and town council. The election results (here and here) show that despite the opposition spending thousands to send full-color hitpiece propaganda to every household in Bedford, the liberty-oriented candidates received about 25% of the votes. Aaron Day received over 23% and Matt Philips over 27%. Philips also did not come in last in his race. This is a stellar result for first-time candidates!
Unfortunately I did not win the school board race in Bedford (Matt also lost his Town Council race). Congratulations to Bill Foote and Bill Kassler on their victories.
I am grateful for the 1129 people who did vote for me (more…)
Chris Cantwell published a blog post this week in which he made the case that violent revolution is moral, possible, and practical.
To me, Cantwell’s argument comes down to: “Violent revolution is the right thing to do.” Specifically, he advocates for killing in self defense. In other words, killing police that would otherwise be killing you. He argues that peaceful resistance is fruitless because, “ideas require teeth.” He seems to assert, “Why allow our friends to be relegated to the dustbins of history for standing on principle? As long as the State can legitimately kill and cage us, we’ll never have peace or freedom!” (more…)
Robin Hooders visited Laconia, NH’s downtown yesterday. Not a single parking meter in sight, but yet there are plenty of businesses in their bustling downtown.
How can this be? If the city of Keene’s claims are to be believed, parking meters are necessary to help businesses – what a crock!
The city people are lying. Either that or they are seriously misinformed about parking meters. Plenty of towns and cities are doing just fine without them.
This week’s AKPF #1 installment is the second of three parts of Robin Hood’s Direct Action Panel from the 2014 New Hampshire Liberty Forum. This never before seen edit of the panel includes b-roll embedded to better illustrate the scenes as painted by the panel. This footage will air on Cheshire TV at 7:00pm on March 17, as per the usual AKPF #1 timeslot.
Amanda Billyrock took a plea to “Disobeying an officer” (the other charges were dropped) in Laconia district court earlier this week and many have been wondering what motivated her. Turns out, she was under duress as she explains in this Facebook post:
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