Radio Free Keene News is a five minute newscast which is available as a podcast and also will air at the top of some hours on LRN.FM.
You can download the edition for this week here. Topics covered include the recent dismissal of activists’ charges, Michele Seven’s caging for driving, and the city’s meeting about Central Square.
Thanks to the Union Leader for covering the story, where a judge dismissed the wiretapping charge against Biker Bill, saying:
“engaging in an audio recording of a police officer in the course of his official duties in a public place is protected speech under the First Amendment”
CONCORD – Citing a federal appeals court ruling, a Goffstown District Court judge dismissed a charge of unlawful wiretapping against a Weare man who used his cell phone’s voice mail to record a traffic stop by a police officer.
Judge Edward Tenney cited a First Circuit Court of Appeals order in August in the case Glik v. Cunniffe in making his ruling. “The Glik holding makes it perfectly clear that First Amendment protections apply to both audio and video recording.” (more…)
Free Keene welcomes Garret Ean, the founder of FreeConcord.org as our newest blogger! Free Concord is a great site to visit to get more liberty-oriented opinion and news, focusing on the Concord area as well as Manchester. Since Free Keene has been around longer and has a larger audience, I thought Garret would make a good blogger here so he can cross-post content to FK and draw more visitors to his blog. Here’s his bio from the Bloggers page:
Garret has been involved in political action since high school, but it wasn’t until college that he came to consider himself a liberty activist. In college, he ran for state representative twice, while pursuing a criminology degree. In late 2010, he started FreeConcord.org to cover news of interest to liberty activists in the greater Concord area. You may catch him in front of the state house with chalk and camera in hand, making futile attempts to objectively cover liberty-flavored events as he participates in them. The underlying theme of his activism is propagating the revolutionary notion that human beings own themselves.
As I mentioned in one of my blogs from jail, I was asked “Why Keene?”. My inspiration was because this was the area in which Russell and Kat Kanning and Lauren Canario were living, also Dave Ridley. These early movers set the pace for civil disobedience and noncooperation in NH and they were all living in the Keene area. I thought it would be a good time to re-release some classic videos from NHFree.com, courtesy of Tom Sawyer. Tom’s videos of the earliest movers were a big motivation for me to move here. I hope you find them as inspirational as I.
This one has over 236,000 views at the time of this writing:
See the rest here on the NHFree.com forum, one of the top forums in the NH liberty movement. Thanks, Tom!
Free Keene sponsored CopBlock‘s trip down to Zucotti Park for an outreach trip to Occupy Wall Street:
Downsize DC‘s Jim Babka had Copblock‘s Pete and I on recently to discuss voluntarism.
During the discussion, we also talked about Liberty on Tour, Free Keene, voting, Copblock, and more.
While waiting for my Chalking 8 trial, Nov. 21st, and Pete’s ruling, sometime this month, we’ll be trying different ideas for videos. The above is an expansion of “Better Than A Cop.” Thanks, Kager for being the host of the first ever, CopBlock.org News – enjoy.
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