The Nashua Telegraph’s Patrick Meighan files this report from the 2012 Liberty Forum, where Free Keene is a major sponsor and several Free Keene bloggers are in attendance. It’s not too late to come out and enjoy the Saturday activities and networking. Here’s the schedule for the event.
Robert Koehler at Huffpo writes on Saying No to Militarism.
“We must be the change we want to see in the world”
The quote is often attributed to Mohandas Gandhi, though like another researcher, I have yet to track-down when that phrase was first written or spoken. Still, no matter who first stated it, the phrase makes sense, right? Rather than sitting by idly and complaining the surest way to bring-about the world you want to live in is to be proactive and create.
Yesterday Luke Rudkowski, one of the founders of a grassroots organization that took its name from the quote (WeAreChange.org) told his 7,000+ Twitter followers “thanks but no tank!”
The link took Twitter followers to this video: Thanks But No Tanks – Keene Residents Speak Up
In this video courtesy of snuffelsuf, WKBK’s morning host Dan Mitchell says that based on callers to his show, 90% are against the BEARCAT police attack tank.
Meghan Pierce of The Union Leader covers the growing resistance to the militarization of Keene’s streets with the article in today’s paper:
KEENE — Thanks, but no tanks. That’s what some residents are saying in opposition to a city plan to purchase an armored vehicle for emergency response.
An outcry resulted after the City Council accepted a $285,933 Homeland Security grant in December — without a public hearing — to buy a LENCO BearCat Special Missions armored vehicle. Now the BearCat’s fate awaits the City Council’s final decision, expected at its March 1,7 p.m., meeting at Keene City Hall.
The city’s reconsideration of the grant got national media attention, including an article in the Huffington Post, sparking thousands of comments online about the role of the federal government.
Mike Clark, a 27-year-old handyman currently facing a criminal mischief charge in Keene — and the son of the sole Keene council member to vote against accepting the Homeland Security money — told the Huffington Post he has had encounters with Keene police and was “roughed up” both times.
“The police are already pretty brutal,” Clark said. “The last thing they need is this big piece of military equipment to make them think they’re soldiers.” (more…)
Or at least people are now calling me a terrorist and calling for my indefinite detention as a result of my taking on the corruption happening in Cheshire County.
maximumfullpower
“Brad Jardis in my observation is a terrorist plain and simple. All he has done along with his so called activists friends has started violence against Judge Burke because they got caught breaking the law. It is a good thing the NDAA passed because Brad Jardis needs to be taken off the streets because of his violence.”
All my violence’eh? You apparently forgot to read this.
Why would they need the NDAA to come after me right now for what I am reporting if I was actually breaking the law? Everyone knows the NDAA is meant to only silence people who would be victorious in court.
Could it be because I am right?
From the comment section of my interview on the Ridley Report.
On Friday I am commissioning my first ever official “overview” of government misconduct. The presentation will detail my case as to precisely how Keene Circuit Court-District Division Presiding Judge Edward Burke violated state law, the state Constitution, and judicial canons by telling a lie to have someone arrested. A lie that constituted False Reports to Law Enforcement, a crime under state law. A crime that if the exact facts and circumstances were brought before him in a criminal case where you did the same thing, he would find you guilty.
I am quite familiar with the crime as I have arrested people and prepared prosecution cases for it before. Judge Burke should have been arrested by now for what he did… but lucky for him, it appears that his friends in government are protecting him.
The presentation I will be burning to DVD and distributing to Governor John Lynch, the Executive Council, and every member of the New Hampshire General Court. Every mainstream media outlet in New Hampshire will also be receiving a copy.
Judicial Canon #2, the code of conduct for judges, reads as follows:
A JUDGE SHOULD AVOID IMPROPRIETY AND THE APPEARANCE OF IMPROPRIETY IN ALL OF THE JUDGE’S ACTIVITIES
I presume that includes impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge’s interactions with members of the free press who are asking constitutionally protected questions. Especially when our own Constitution says:
FREE SPEECH AND LIBERTY OF THE PRESS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SECURITY OF FREEDOM IN A STATE: THEY OUGHT, THEREFORE, TO BE INVIOLABLY PRESERVED.
(not taken away in a creative attempt to cover up a criminal offense)
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