This past Friday morning, Keene State College was host to parents and prospective students from around the country. During a campus open house event, which gathered in the Mabel Brown auditorium, current KSC students organized a protest directly in front of the venue’s doors inside of the student center.
Organized actions are rare for Keene’s campus, and no one present was able to recall the last sit-in style protest. According to a 1990 Nashua Telegraph article, over 250 students camped out in front of an administrative building for multiple days following the questionable firing of an administrator at the time.
Students were, and continue to be discontent with the unfunding of the Multicultural Affairs Department, which is reported to receive less of a budget them some of the student clubs. A correspondent for the school’s newspaper, The Equinox, was present to collect perspective from the students, accompanied by a photographer and videographer. I was asked by participating students to provide documentation of the event. As I arrived (more…)
After some discussion it has been decided to repurpose the nearly-defunct Monadnock Porcupines yahoo group to be more of a forum for liberty people in the area. (It used to be for facilitating welcoming new Free State Project movers – something that is now done on Facebook.) – so feel free to use the invite button and invite the people that you know love liberty and live in the Monadnock region.
Maybe it won’t pan out into anything since people love Facebook so much, but I wanted to have a way to connect with liberty-oriented people who don’t want to use the facebook or Shire Society forum.
As you may know, NH is the only state with a law affirming the right of a jury to nullify bad laws (thanks to Free State Project liberty legislators). Now the NH Bar Association’s Mark Sisti and Jared Bedrick weigh in with an opinion piece about the issue:
This past September, Judge James D. O’Neill, III of the Belknap County Superior Court instructed jurors that they could find the defendant not guilty, despite proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, if they had “a conscientious feeling that a not-guilty verdict would be a fair result in [the] case.”
In that case, Barnstead resident and Rastafari practitioner Doug Darrell had taken the stand and admitted to each and every element of an indictment alleging that he knowingly manufactured marijuana at his home. The judge was essentially allowing the jury to base its decision on something other than law or logic – its concept of justice. This is known as “jury nullification,” and it’s the subject of a recent law and heated debate. (more…)
A very revealing video from Dave Ridley where various Manchester city alderman as well as the mayor express that they don’t care about the first amendment:
Dave Ridley attends a candidates’ forum for school superintendent wannabes. One of them is from NJ, a state known for its corruption. Ridley catches the man in a lie as he claims that he has never reported his students for victimless crimes then moments later admits to having reported them to police for drugs:
In the fourth episode of Aqua Keene Parking Force, the squad tackles the issue of environmental friendliness, both in toilet water consumption and pedestrian/vehicular relations relating to petroleum use. Check out the series that has been reviewed throughout downtown Keene as number one in the hood.
This past Friday morning, Keene State College was host to parents and prospective students from around the country. During a campus open house event, which gathered in the Mabel Brown auditorium, current KSC students organized a protest directly in front of the venue’s doors inside of the student center.
Students were, and continue to be discontent with the unfunding of the Multicultural Affairs Department, which is reported to receive less of a budget them some of the student clubs. A correspondent for the school’s newspaper, The Equinox, was present to collect perspective from the students, accompanied by a photographer and videographer. I was asked by participating students to provide documentation of the event. As I arrived (more…)
