Free Keene Forum Expands, Adding New Activism Subforums!

by | Aug 29, 2009 | 3 comments

FK ForumThe Free Keene Forum continues to grow as a resource for activism in Keene as well as for those who are interested in moving to the area. Now with over 500 members, 1200 topics, and 15,000 posts, the Free Keene Forum has become the second most popular NH liberty-oriented forum on the internet, surpassing the NHLA Forum and trailing the NHFree Forum .

To celebrate the continually increasing demand on the Free Keene Forum, new activism subforums have been added! The old “Activism & Events” subforum was the forum’s most popular, so four separate subforums were created to replace it:

Additionally, the “Introduce Yourself” subforum has been made more prominent at the top of the forum. Be sure to stop in there and tell us about yourself before you start posting!

Jump to Forum.FreeKeene.com anytime, or just click the “Forum” link in the list at the top right of the blog here at FreeKeene.com, and join the discussion!

Food Drive

by | Aug 29, 2009 | 1 comment

Just a reminder to those attending Social Sunday tomorrow, we will be holding the monthly food drive. Bring along a can or two to help feed those less fortunate than us!

Hope to see you there.

Chris M.

Liberty Activists Call WKBK’s “Talkback” 2009-08-22

by | Aug 28, 2009 | 0 comments

Radio TowerOn last week’s “Talkback” on WKBK, liberty activists called to talk about health care. You’ll also get the smarmy Dartmouth guy’s opinion on the matter.

Grab the archive.

Please join us for our weekly listening, chat, and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p in the Free Keene Chat room. If you’re online, you can listen to Talkback streamed live via the Liberty Radio Network and if you’re in the Keene area you can tune in to WKBK 1290 AM or 104.1 FM. The Talkback discussion thread is here on the Free Keene Forum.

Mike Barskey fined $200

by | Aug 28, 2009 | 49 comments

In Keene district Court today Mike Barskey of Derry had a trial related to a speeding ticket given by Swanzey Police.  Judge Burke found Barskey guilty and imposed a $200 fine of which Mike stated he will not pay.  Judge Burke gave Mike 30 days to pay the fine.

Boston Phoenix: “most [Free Staters] live in and around the city of Keene”

by | Aug 27, 2009 | 23 comments

Welcome to the Free State
I don’t really think that statement is true, but it speaks to the influence of the style of liberty activism here in Keene. Thanks to all who have moved here to Keene and gotten active for liberty – you earned this great article from the Boston Phoenix’s Chris Faraone:

The Granite State Gang
New Hampshire transplants live free — or die trying
By CHRIS FARAONE | August 26, 2009

Big bucks couldn’t buy the viral awe and ire that the Free State Project (FSP) scored on August 11, when New Hampshire resident William Kostric arrived outside President Barack Obama’s Portsmouth Town Hall meeting with a handgun on his right thigh — “open carrying” is quite legal in the Granite State — and a sign declaring IT IS TIME TO WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY! Kostric, an Arizona transplant who lives in Manchester, has now become a hero in the FSP movement, which, since 2004, has attracted 523 activists to the “Live Free or Die” state in search of “a society in which the maximum role of government is the protection of life, liberty, and property.”

Free Staters — a loose amalgamation of Libertarian offspring who resent drug laws, speed limits, bureaucrats, and taxes — welcome both good and bad publicity. To them, there is little difference between the flattering July 25 Associated Press piece on the group’s annual Porcupine Freedom Festival and Kostric’s legal but arguably distasteful demonstration of his First and Second Amendment rights. Those developments spurred surges in interest; FSP President Varrin Swearingen, of Keene, says (more…)

Sentinel Reports on Topless Arrest – Curiously Restricts Access to Story

by | Aug 25, 2009 | 8 comments

The Keene Sentinel did run a story yesterday about Cassidy’s arrest, but it’s curiously not available on their website to anyone but subscribers. (It was my understanding that normally they only restrict their stories to subscribers after seven days.) Luckily, journalist Phil Bantz has his own blog where he posts all the stories he writes. So, thanks to Phil, we present his coverage of Sunday’s event:

By PHILLIP BANTZ

Sentinel Staff

The Keene Sentinel: August 24, 2009

A topless teenage girl with a handgun holstered on her hip was arrested Sunday afternoon near a busy intersection in downtown Keene.

Cassidy Nicosia, 18, was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure at about 1:30 p.m. near the Main-Marlboro-Winchester streets roundabout.

Nicosia was arrested after police answered multiple complaint calls about a topless girl walking through downtown Keene with a group of armed protesters affiliated with the Free State Project, Keene police Sgt. James A. Cemorelis said. (more…)