It’s the first Wednesday after my arrest. I’m writing this thanks to the kindness of the other prisoners here. I haven’t cooperated with the state up to this point. I was completely isolated and cut off from the world until yesterday. I’m sure there are questions, so I’ll do my best to explain.
I was at the court to get a copy of the sign on the wall restricting cameras in the lobby. Lance the court security person had previously claimed it’s an order. Only problem, orders are signed by the issuing judge. This order and the one obtained from the court clerk had no signature. This is clearly an attempt by Judge Burke (or whoever wrote it) to usurp power, in direct opposition to District Court Rule 1.3, which allows judges control over proceedings, and place very stringent guidelines explaining when freedom of the press and the public’s right to open courts may be restricted. What did you expect from a man appointed to a lifetime dictatorship by His Excellency the Governor – a nice little holdover from the days of King George, that remain in the New Hampshire constitution. Talk about isolated from market signals…this must change. Okay, the screaming. (more…)
Political prisoner Sam recorded a special message for last night’s candlelight vigil. Nearly fifty people came out at 9pm on a Sunday night in Keene to participate. In case you couldn’t be there in person, here it is in .mp3 form.
Also, here is Lauren Canario’s video of yesterday’s protest at the jail (with a turnout of at least 19 people!) and last night’s candlelight vigil:
I happened to notice the source of a comment on the most recent Sam update was a City of Keene IP address. Here’s what the commenter had to say in response to a potential new mover to Keene:
Harris and all other prospective “Free Keene” movers:
Why don’t you wait until the new jail is done. Free room and board in a shiny new building. Can’t beat that offer.
The commenter later claims to be someone who was using the public library computers, and denies being a city bureaucrat. Either way, here is a perfect example of some of the people who call themselves “public servants”. Doesn’t sound like a service-oriented individual at all. Sounds to me like a sociopath. If it is a bureaucrat, it’s someone who serves themselves with your stolen tax dollars, and apparently spends some of their working day reading and commenting on this website. I sure would love to stop paying this “servant” for his or her services I don’t want, like locking peaceful people behind bars, but then this “servant” will send their buddies with guns (the Sheriffs) to throw me and my family from the home I thought I owned! Of course, if the “servants” are to be believed, if it weren’t for them stealing from and threatening us, then we would surely live in a chaotic world of aggression! Oh, whatever would we do without them?
Did the anonymous person’s threats scare you? They surely are hoping so. Why else would this person spend time threatening potential movers to Keene unless they themselves were scared? Scared of real, peaceful change. Afraid of the liberty movement and what it could mean for their lust for power over others.
Show them you aren’t intimidated by their threats and post comments as to why you are moving to Keene, and what you’d like to do when you get here.
Our friend, co-blogger, and documentarian Sam from the Obscured Truth Network called me from jail today to tell me they did hold a bail hearing for him by video and the presiding judge Howard Lane (Burke is on vacation this week.) told him he will be held indefinitely until he decides to give them his “legal name”. Sam is currently held as “John Sam Doe”. Even if he were to give them that name, how it is they will be certain that the name he gives them is legal, I don’t know, as they don’t have ID for him and he hasn’t registered to vote in NH. Sam has not indicated that he will be giving in, meaning he’s stuck in the Cheshire County jail, which despite being one of the better jails in the state, still has its share of problems. Sam said that there was sewage floating in his area of the jail when he arrived, for instance. Plus, they are denying him access to the jail law library, making it even more difficult for him to participate in their tyrannical system.
Sam is expected to call in to Free Talk Live tonight. He has asked that you call the Keene Police Department’s prosecutor, Eli Rivera, as it is he who is pressing these charges. Continue calling the Keene District Court, as their judges are responsible for his indefinite imprisoning. Those phone numbers are at Sam.JailedActivist.info. He doubts it will do much, but he suggested calling state representatives and senators and perhaps the governor’s office to let them know what their system is doing to a peaceful man. He also requests you contact local media across NH as well as national media and alert them to the story.
He thanks everyone for coming out to protest yesterday even though they locked his section down during our entire visit as well as everyone who attended the candlelight vigil.
I would like to thank Phillip Bantz for the front page article in the Sentinel covering activists in Keene. I would also like to offer some clarification as I feel much of the article can be confusing taken out of context of certain facts. If you aren’t familiar with Free Keene, here are a few points you should be aware of when you read the article.
The controversial “Free Town Project” website, as I understand it, was never a group project but rather the brainchild of a single individual, an anti-social internet troll, seemingly with a bizarre obsession with cannibalism and bestiality, and that individual never moved to New Hampshire and as the article points out, was in fact banned from any association with the FSP.
The first video is a bit of footage from a protest at the Cheshire County Correctional Facility where Sam of the Obscured Truth Network is being held as a political prisoner. He declined to obey an order to stop video recording in a public lobby of the Keene courthouse and went limp and refused to cooperate with his kidnappers. The protests seem to be a moral boost for the prisoners there, many of whom are there for victimless crimes. The second video is footage from a candle light vigil held in Sam’s honor. Sam, may you soon be free so you can continue to speak the truth.
First, grab this Friday’s episode of Free Talk Live and listen as Sam describes his situation for the first hour of the show. He is fasting but in relatively good shape after being injured by the court security bureaucrats on Monday. He has given up some info and is now in population with the other nonviolent inmates though still listed as “John Sam Doe”. Sam reports success in reaching his fellow inmates about liberty, relates a tale of compassion on the part of the jail’s violent offenders, and more. Also, today activists we able to visit Sam and nine of them came to the Cheshire County jail on just a few hours notice. Afterwards, the visitors walked around the outside of the jail’s perimeter holding signs, eliciting smiles, positive hand signals, and window banging from the inmates. Tomorrow, there is another protest scheduled at 2:45p for shift change at the jail as well as a candlelight vigil at Keene’s Central Sq. at 9pm.
Finally, here is some video of Sam, originally streamed live:
Political prisoner Sam recorded a special message for last night’s candlelight vigil. Nearly fifty people came out at 9pm on a Sunday night in Keene to participate. In case you couldn’t be there in person, 
