Liberty Activists Call WKBK’s “Talkback” 2009-05-23

by | May 29, 2009 | 4 comments

Radio TowerLiberty activists called WKBK’s “Talkback” on Saturday morning and discussed abusive police, war, forcing people to save old buildings, art subsidies, and childishness. You’ll also hear the smarmy statist talk a little sense this week, but rest assured he continues with his unfounded bashing of the market and his ad hominem attacks.

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Please join us for our weekly listening, chatting, 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.

Boston Globe Covers Free State Project with Focus on Keene Activists in Front Page Article!

by | May 29, 2009 | 35 comments

Many will nitpick things in here, like the headline calling us “antigovernment”, (I’d prefer pro-freedom) but you really can’t get better mainstream media coverage than this. The story lavishes attention on our movement and even links to FreeKeene.com. Thank you to the Boston Globe’s Sarah Schweitzer and photographer Cheryl Senter for this great article:

From a jail cell in this rural corner of New Hampshire, Sam A. Miller waged a philosophical battle, one milk carton at a time. The soft-spoken electrical engineer declined food for nearly a month, save for swigs of milk. To eat, he said, would be caving to the tyrannical government powers that placed him here for illegally filming in a courthouse and refusing to reveal his legal name to jail officials. (He says it’s private; jail officials obtained it from a fingerprint trace.)

His resistance has made him a folk hero among antigovernment types who have been making their way to New Hampshire from points across the country since their leaders put out a clarion call six years ago.

The Free Staters, as they are known, hope to lure thousands of like-minded souls to the state, with the goal of paring government to a bare minimum by eliminating things like taxes, speed limits, and zoning laws.

Thus far, just 427 Free Staters have relocated. Yet, here in Keene and in pockets across New Hampshire, Free Staters are making their case in increasingly provocative ways. (more…)

Pavlovian Indoctrination Centers

by | May 28, 2009 | 1 comment

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This is a sequel to Soul Crushing Prisons part 1 and part 2. I recommend you read those first if you haven’t already.

The comic should be arriving in RSS feeds full-sized now. It didn’t work for the last comic. There’s some work I need to do to make this the default behavior. For now I’m using a bit of a hack that should address the problem. I’m lagging behind a bit on a number of things due to a recent move, settling in, lack of Internet access, etc. Once things are settled, however, I should be in a much better position to stay on top of things. I have a home office now instead of having to work in the living room of an apt shared with four other people!

A Day in the Life of a Merry Man

by | May 28, 2009 | 46 comments

Robin Hood of Keene doesn’t rob anybody, but does like to help out those in need: particularly patrons of downtown Keene whose parking meters have expired. By adding extra coins, Robin Hood saves those patrons from the hassle and extra expense of parking citations given by the orders of the Crown of Keene and distributed by his sheriffs. After all, what business does the Crown of Keene have demanding money to park your car in a public place?

I’m one of Robin Hood’s merry men, and I’d like to tell you a story that happened to me the other day while carrying out Robin Hood’s mission. Two fellow merry men and I were checking the meters around Central Square when we found an expired one in front of Pepper Pete’s Hot Shop. I put in some coins, deposited a note on the car’s windshield to alert the driver, and was on my way. But as I left, I noticed Pepper Pete come out of his store and stand on the sidewalk. He said nothing but I was alert, because in the past Pepper Pete has accosted some merry men, accusing them of acting illegally and berating them for soliciting money.

I walked to the end of the street, finished my metering duties, and returned from whence I came, passing Pepper Pete again. Again, he said nothing. I was a little suspicious, so after I turned the corner, I stopped and peered back down the street through the window of the corner shop. I saw Pepper Pete walk to the car that for which I had deposited coins and remove my note.

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