Activist Arrested for Crossing Street at DUI Checkpoint, Manchester, NH
Think Penguin founder Chris Waid was arrested on 4/20 when crossing the street on foot towards a DUI checkpoint in Manchester, NH. Here's footage of the arrest.
The Peace Roundtable was the most well-attended and controversial event at Keenevention 2013. It ran overtime by nearly a half-hour!
Is peace attainable through violence or is peace the only way? Does self-defense against aggressive state agents just make matters worse for future activists? These questions and many from the audience were discussed at the Peace Roundtable featuring Derrick J Freeman, Ian Freeman, and Chris Cantwell.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC1wOhWYvbw
JJ Schlessinger brought the house down with this epic and inspirational keynote speech at Keenevention 2013. He discusses his path to the Free State Project, his experience in Keene, move to Manchester, and encourages you to get active for liberty!
http://keenevention.info/2014/01/18/jjs-epic-keynote-speech-keenevention-2013
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmqM6pghYoE
As a practicing Buddhist, when Warren "Bud" Royea got a tattoo of a swastika, a traditionally Buddhist symbol, in the hopes it would start conversations. Turns out it's the people who won't ask questions are the ones jumping to understandable conclusions about it. Please visit Warren's GoFundMe page and contribute if you'd like to see it removed! We'll post an updated video when it's done. Thank you! Here's the fundraiser:
https://www.gofundme.com/not-a-nazi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebX4fpjYuUY
My name is Bonnie. In January 2023, a “ticket” was left on a “motor vehicle” that I am responsible for by a “parking enforcer”. This meant that someone responsible for the car was being extorted for $15 under threat of getting their car stolen from the “City of Keene” goons.
I went to City Hall to contest the ticket. At first they tried to give the ticket to my husband and even tried conducting an investigation to make the “prosecution” goons’ lives easier!
Eventually I was served with a court date. I took this opportunity to get on video what was really going on in the “court room”. A man wearing a robe calling himself “the judge” tells me he is not representing anyone. Not even the state who he admits pays his paycheck! The “parking enforcer” admits that the “City of Keene” is paying her $25/ hour to try to make me cough up $15! And more silly nonsense happens in this video.
While other states are arresting jury nullification activists, New Hampshire allows flyering jurors, AND allows nullification to be explicitly named, described, and advocated for in court, as attorney Paul Garrity proves in the last part of his closing argument in the trial of James Cleaveland for recording video of state police.
If you love liberty and want to work towards making more of it happen, why not do it in the best place for it? New Hampshire is already more free than other places and there are thousands of libertarians and voluntarists, many of whom love jury nullification, that are moving there as part of the Free State Project.
Please join us at http://pledge.freestateproject.org
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEOGpuF-UM
The ATF confiscates a shipment of Airsoft plastic BB guns, Miami considers putting a ban on feeding the homeless, the Downsizer Dispatch, a UK woman in trouble with the law for failing to report buried treasure (yes she found an old coin), and the US government is killing indigenous fish and replacing them with rainbow trout.
http://www.freemindsmedia.org
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPSwYMq2gEU
Here's the full video from the morning business session of the Libertarian Party of NH's 2018 convention.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXwxygQ6dew
This week, liberty activist Graham Colson was tried for a "contempt of court" charge that he received while out on bail after being arrested on a later-determined-unconstitutional no trespass notice from the "city of Keene". In legal land there is a concept known as the doctrine of the "fruit of the poisoned tree". My understanding of this is that if, for instance, the police raid your home on a bad warrant (say they lied to the judge to get the warrant), that any evidence collected based on that warrant cannot be used against you. It's the "fruit of the poisoned tree", and so charges must be dropped.
However, this doctrine appears to not apply to the "orders" of the judge. In Graham's case, he was arrested for violating the no trespass notice from the city that banned him from Central Square. He was let out on bail conditions that included no contact with a couple of parking enforcers. He was later arrested for walking through Central Square and talking to a parking enforcer. For this act he was charged with "contempt of court". Then, last summer, the district court's judge Edward Burke threw out the no trespass letter as unconstitutional and illegal. Since the no trespass letter was illegal, shouldn't the contempt case be thrown out too, since the bail conditions were originally issued on a case based on an illegal no trespass notice? Maybe in a system actually oriented towards justice -- not this one.
So, the contempt charge went to court this week and Graham was found guilty, despite a valiant attempt to defend the charge by Garret Ean. Graham will be turning himself into the Keene Spiritual Retreat, aka the county jail to serve 60 days. He will have five months suspended over his head for two years. All because the city police were handing out illegal no trespass orders. Yeah, justice!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ts4YW8hPYc