Here’s a more complete picture of the events that occurred both before and after the Keene City Council Drinking Game, Round 2:

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James,

I apologize for invading your personal space yesterday outside city hall. I should have worked to deescalate the situation, and instead my actions contributed to exactly the opposite. I certainly could have responded differently, and I have learned from this experience. I apologize for my aggressive behavior towards you.

I do not feel I owe you a new cup, as it was a closed container that was put in my face,  and I truly felt threatened. However, I would invite you to sit down and talk about the issues related to Free Keene and the Liberty Activism going on. If you want to do this on camera, I think this would make great footage, and would be happy to film this in front of your coffee shop. Of course your videographer would be welcome to set up as well. This would be great advertising to the people that agree with and support your viewpoint, and I’ll even buy the drinks.

I think this would go a long way to help you understand some of the changes that are happening in Keene and around the state. There is a tremendous amount of  mis-information about the liberty activists, our views, and activism. I would like to explain what we are all about, and how the freedom message naturally works to bring people together.

So James if you would like to set that up on camera or off, please let me know with a private message to me in the forum. I’m glad you joined, and look forward to speaking with you about this.

Sam Dodson

A frustrated and angry UK virgin is being flown to Amsterdam to hire a prostitute on the tax payers’ dime, raw milk raids increase, mailing tobacco through the US mail just got harder and more expensive, and mattress police; yes they really do exist and yes they really are cracking down on people who remove the ‘do not remove’ tags.

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I called into the morning show here in Keene to discuss last nights Keene City Council drinking game and the Anti-Free Keene hecklers that showed up to disrupt filming. Keene City Councilor Pam Slack called in to announce that Heika’s letter would be addressed on Wednesday at 6:30.

Grab the Archive here to get my perspective on this video:

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Here’s an Update based on the comments:

I’m currently editing the video for the event.  The full footage from this incident is shown in the beginning.  This version seems to have cut two previous occasions where he was disrupting my interview by holding the cup in front of the camera. He was repeatedly asked to stop interfering.

He then went over to Puke, and said I think I’ll just stand here. I asked him what his cup said, and what it meant. He read the cup and said he wants to “get you morons out of here.”

That was fine with me, and I started the interview. When he saw that he was unable to prevent me from interviewing Puke, he then again started putting the cup in front of Pukes face. This is Disorderly conduct. That’s when I walked over to him (and this video starts) to again ask him to stop interfering with my business.

He did hit me in the face with the cup; He was obviously hostile and engaging in name calling. I didn’t know what was in the cup, and he had a lid on it. When he hit me with it, that was assault, and I honestly didn’t know if he was planning to throw something on me or hit me in the face while I can’t see past the cup.

I felt threatened by his actions and took steps necessary to ensure my personal safety.

That said, I was also frustrated that there were no Keene Policeman around to inform him that his behavior was disorderly and causing alarm. I was also under a time crunch to get the interview before the meeting started.

The second time when he hit my camera I again grabbed his arm because the camera is very expensive, and he has already shown hostility towards me.  He apologized, and unfortunately because of  his attitude and demeanor, I did not believe  it was sincere.

James was warned about his behavior, and told that he attacked me and my camera with the cup. I informed him that if he touched me again that I would take him down. Meaning remove him from my space because he was threatening me and my equipment with unwanted physical contact while interrupting my interview.

He then went and stood behind Puke (after I repositioned him elsewhere), and as the video will show,the interview was completed, while James was acting irrationally in the background causing a scene. (but not interfering with my interview)

I do agree that in the situation I was angry and did move in close to James after he was warned to stop. I certainly could have responded differently, and apologize for my aggressive behavior. I also apologize for escalating the situation, as I could have handled it better.

I do not feel I owe you a new cup, as it was a closed container you shoved in my face, the writing shows you planned this, and I truly felt threatened.

However, I would invite you to sit down and talk about real issues related to Free Keene, and the Liberty Activists here in Keene. If you want to do this on camera, I think this would make great footage, and would be happy to film this in front of your coffee shop. This would be great advertising or the people that support your viewpoint. I’ll even buy the drinks.

I think this would go a long way to help you understand some of the changes that are happening in Keene and around the state. You seem to be suffering from the rumor mill which has fed you a lot of  mis-information.

You reference a girl stealing my sign at the middle school outreach event. Did you know it was a parent who first stood in front of my sign? I had no problem with this, and simply held it over his head. It was another parent who then came up and attacked me knocking the sign down. Cody (a boy) who was encouraged by the juvenile behavior of the adults, then ran up to rip the sign from my other hand, run off, and destroy it.

So James if you would like to set that up on camera or off, please let me know.

Sam

What was called “disorderly conduct” two weeks ago was ignored this week as the city council went about their “business” without interrupting their own meeting. Now they REALLY have no case against those they aggressed against, as they allowed the exact same behavior to continue. Not that they had a case before, anyway. WKBK’s Brad Ryder reports:

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Adam Mueller conversed with some feds outside a courthouse during Liberty on Tour’s stay in Philadelphia. At least these cops are honest about who they are protecting – it’s right there in their agency name, “Federal Protective Service”. Adam captured some real choice lines by one officer in particular:

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Also, here’s a bonus video with some unknown masked men:

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Here’s the article appearing in today’s Keene Sentinel about tonight’s drinking game. It reports that on tonight’s agenda is a letter from Keene native Heika Courser regarding the repeal of the open container ordinance, so the councilors will be addressing the issue. All indicators show a larger turnout of activists is expected tonight than last time. Here’s the text of the piece by “Sentinel Staff”:

City officials say they have made no special plans if a Free Keene group attends another Keene City Council meeting to play a “drinking game.”

The group’s website, FreeKeene.com, says that the “drinking game: round two” will be held at tonight’s meeting.

On Aug. 5, a group of Free Keene members attended the City Council meeting, drinking from bottles appearing to be alcohol but marked with the label “not a beer.” Mayor Philip Dale Pregent stopped the meeting to address the group, after which two people were arrested when they refused to allow police to determine whether the bottles they were drinking from contained alcohol. A third person was arrested outside City Hall after the meeting. The group members said they were protesting the city’s open container ordinance.

“We have made no plans,” said Keene police Capt. Steven Russo, adding that it is largely up to the mayor and council to address the issue. “Frankly, we’ve hardly even thought about it.”

Russo said the department may discuss the situation prior to tonight’s 7 o’clock meeting.

Pregent said “We’re going to handle city business in a normal, everyday manner. If there’s an issue, we’ll deal with it then.”

On tonight’s council agenda is a letter from Heika M. Courser of Keene, who was part of the Free Keene group at the council meeting earlier this month. She asks that councilors reconsider the open container ordinance, and apologizes to anyone she may have offended during the last council meeting.

“My intentions were not to offend or anger anyone,” Courser said in the letter. “I had never been to a council meeting, and felt it was a fun and quiet way to become involved. I thought it (the drinking game) would be fun without being disruptive.”

Courser’s letter also talked about the reasons why she and others believe the ordinance should be repealed.

“As an adult, I feel we should be able to make our own decisions on public property, property that we all collectively own.

“If you are thinking that the streets of Keene would be littered with drunkards, then I ask you to take a look at Main Street on a Saturday night as people are stumbling out of bars,” she said.

The correspondence will likely be referred to a council committee.

Local activist Rolland Judd writes the following op-ed:

Any case made to legalize now illegal drugs in the U.S. is really a case to repeal acts that made them illegal in the first place, namely the Controlled Substances Act. When marijuana was first outlawed it was done so in a constitutional, albeit shady, manner. It was prohibited the same way way alcohol was during the prohibition by raising the taxes for it requiring you to obtain a marijuana tax stamp. All of these stamps were locked away so no one could actually obtain one, but at least from a legal standpoint the government was obeying the constitution.

Then Nixon came along with the same mentality as George W. Bush has about the constitution. “It’s just a G. D. piece of paper.” Nixon trashed the constitution in a number of ways during his administration but by far the worst thing he ever did to the American people was signing the Controlled Substances Act. This act does harm to the poor, the sick, and the downtrodden in a too many ways to get into here, but lets leave it at the fact that this is not a political issue, it is a constitutional crime. That should be enough to infuriate any patriotic American.

But it doesn’t infuriate many Americans, does it? Why? Because we have to keep kids off drugs? It’s a proven fact that it is easier for kids to buy illegal drugs than it is for them to buy alcohol or tobacco. The reason for this is that alcohol and tobacco are regulated and illegal drugs are not. A seller of illegal narcotics doesn’t care how old someone is, they care about turning a profit.

Let’s be fair, though, legalizing marijuana is an easy argument and this article is about legalizing all drugs. So let’s take cocaine. Cocaine was used for many years in things like cough medicine and you rarely heard of any cases of kids or anyone for that matter abusing cough medicine. Now cocaine is illegal and what goes in our cough medicine: Sudafedrine. What is sudafedrine used for making: Meth. People find a way to get what they want no matter how many laws say they can’t have it.

Heroine is something worth mentioning here as it was actually created by the company Bayer. Yes, created. You may know that heroine is derived from the opium plant but you don’t get heroine from opium alone, you have to add chemicals to it. It was used again for cough medicine and also in certain pain remedies.

Many people like to make the argument that alcohol is okay because it has been so ingrained in our culture for so long. They don’t seem to realize that so were many other drugs until the 1970’s. Pharmaceutical companies figured out that to get patents on drugs they could make money on that they would have to eliminate other certain substances from the market. The “War on Drugs” is just a scam to make a few greedy individuals some more money at the expense of the American people.

Don’t be confused. Advocating the legalization of now illegal drugs is NOT an advocation for drug use. I don’t know anyone who thinks that doing drugs is good for you and I don’t know anyone who would say that everybody should be out doing drugs. This is a matter of individual liberty and the basic freedom to make your own choices in life and not have them made for you by people that don’t even know you.

Where: 2nd Floor Keene City Hall

When: Thursday August 19th @ 6:45 P.M.

Who: Open Container Activists, Onlookers, Press/media

Rules:

All participants drink when:

1. There’s a call to order

2. A bureaucrat claims to do something as “The City of Keene”

3. Everyone stands up

4. The City Council votes for Violence

5. A vote is unanimous

6. A council member says the phrase “master plan.”

7. They plan to  do something “for the children.”

9. Raise your glasses (drinking not needed) if someone suggests rolling back the size, scope or enforcement power of the government IE supports more liberty/freedom

Feel free to join us with the beverage and container of your choice. If you have feedback or input on the event, please join us in the discussion thread or the Facebook event page.

Anyone who wishes to come out in support of this event is invited, drinking or not,  with or without cameras. This week will be bigger and better than the last game. Hopefully the city council will leave us alone.

See you tomorrow night!

Lew Rockwell, the founder of the Mises Institute and the most popular liberty-oriented website in the world, LewRockwell.com, has endorsed Keene’s activism! In an hour-long interview on Keene’s syndicated talk radio show, Free Talk Live, Lew called Keene “The northern capital of libertarianism” and suggested it was the “epicenter” of NH liberty activism. Lew identified himself as an “enthusiastic supporter” of the Free State Project, saying, “I definitely endorse the Free State Project”. About Keene, he said “[i] especially like what you guys are doing in Keene”, adding that activists “do amazing things here”.

Thank you Lew for your visit to Keene, the great interview, and the excellent endorsements. I’m adding them to the top of our Endorsements section of the 130 Reasons to Move to Keene!

All able bodied Americans ages 18 to 42 may have to report to Obama for 2 years of forced labor, NY government using Google Earth to find illegal swimming pools, the federal government requiring colleges to stop illegal file sharing, and a man wrongfully convicted of rape 27 years ago will be held in jail for an extra day so he doesn’t “freak out.”

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Liberty-minded people called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss KPD’s lemonade stand crackdown and the city council drinking game. Local activist supporter David calls in to share his thoughts about Keene’s liberty activists. One of the local “dissenters” group calls in as well.

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Please join us for our weekly chat and calling sessions on Saturday mornings from 9a-12p. 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.

David K was recently in Nashua District Court for his arrest at the Nashua 420 rally during Liberty Forum. He explained to the court exactly why he did what he did that day.

Click for Audio of David’s Closing Speech and Verdict

Text of Speech:

I do not expect to be acquitted, so it is very important that I be allowed to explain the events and why they occurred on March 20th 2010. I am accused of what is essentially civil disobedience not for myself, but on behalf of another individual, so this explanation will have some personal beliefs that are philosophical in nature, please hear me out. This will take about 5 or so minutes.

Of course this trial is all about what I did on March 20 2010. But let me start with the following first;
Lewis Labatue was arrested for smoking pot, I believed the arrest was wrong, so knowing I could not stop it, attempted to delay it and to demonstrate the cruelty and violence behind the arrest. I did this by choosing to stand in front of the car that was to transport Mr. Labatue. I chose this form of civil disobedience in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther Kings teachings. I did no violence, made no effort to harm anyone, but the means I chose achieved both ends. It did delay the law enforcers aggression, and the law enforcers over the top reaction to it was classic, and demonstrated the cruelty and violence that lay at the foundation of the war on people who use some drugs better, than 80 years of preaching prohibition era rethoric. In fact, only releasing the attack dog or pepper spraying my eyes would have demonstrated the basic inhumanity of the law enforcers aggression against peaceful people better.

It is a shame to put one man in a cage for a nonviolent so-called crime, that is, to separate him from society, it is tyranny when thousands are put in cages for nonviolent so-called crimes.

The war on people who use some drugs has been going on for all of my 28 years. Every single argument I could make based on logic and fact has been repeated elsewhere ad nauseam since they were used to argue for the repeal of alcohol prohibition some 80 or so years ago. History repeats because humans are a violent species that believes the Utopian ideal that if one uses enough of the right kinds of force all our troubles will be fixed. A sad and common truism of history, is that humans rarely learn from history.

It is a shame that to right any wrong, a great deal of suffering must take place. Every new law is an attempt to ‘fix’ a bad one. Do you ever ask yourself, how many otherwise peaceful individuals were hurt by the bad law, before it was finally ‘fixed’….. How many families were disrupted, how many children cried, how many jobs lost, because it took awhile for a bad law to be fixed?….. Because humans frequently try to remake the wheel in terms of right and wrong, Our law-books are a pile of broken wheels. They are monuments of mistakes, all of them backed up with force. Right and wrong do not change just because a law enforcer tells me if I don’t comply he is going to hurt me. Right and wrong do not change because a majority votes one way or another. How can the people, any people, no matter how big the majority, make the government do what they as individuals cannot do?….. Of course, they do all the time, and that brings us back to the monuments of mistakes and bad laws leading to untold amounts of suffering.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Right and wrong, law and order, and basic societal stability are not new concepts, and are in fact thousands of years old. So when basically violent and stupid humans do occasionally learn from history, they notice customs that when followed tend to produce a more peaceful and prosperous society. These customs came to be called natural law. Natural Law understanding and acceptance was probably strongest in colonial era America, and it is deeply ingrained in the colonial era literature, and custom. Natural law concepts are found in every society and virtually every religion. This commonality is how it came to be called natural law, because it is law that is naturally occuring. Murder and theft are not illegal because some government says it should be, it has always been wrong to harm another. It is not a failure of natural law that in typically male dominated human society that rape was not always considered illegal. It is a failure of people of goodwill to stop those who would harm any women, because it has always been wrong to harm another, it does not matter what some words on paper, or some person in authority says. The same could be said of human slavery, and jim crow racism and segregation. Why on earth did it take so long to put an end to such crueltry?

Where were the law enforcers when women were treated as property, and minorities were treated as animals?….. Unfortunately they were usually upholding the unjust system. More monuments of mistakes, and a trail of tears at the base of the monument.

Natural law is taught in the bible, and was socially accepted and generally followed and taught to the next generation, in fact, you were without doubt, taught it as a child, and of course is reflected in the following places:

The Jewish and Christian bible write them as love your neighbor as you love God, do not bear false witness, do not kill, do not steal, Do undo others, etc. Natural law concepts are found in every society and virtually every religion. This commonality is how it came to be called natural law, because it is law that is naturally occuring.

The United States Declaration of independence is a bible of natural law thoughts and affirmations. It refers to “unalienable rights”, and “laws of nature”, and a clear recognition that government can become destructive to these ends.

In the United States Constitution most of the Bill or rights outline principles that are directly derived from natural law, including the most ignored amendment in the US Constitution the 9th amendment that states:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Ratified 12/15/1791.

and or course the N H Constitution has the following to say:

Article 1. [Equality of Men; Origin and Object of Government.] All men are born equally free and independent; therefore, all government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent, and instituted for the general good.
[Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights – among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin.
[Art.] 3. [Society, its Organization and Purposes.] When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.
[Art.] 4. [Rights of Conscience Unalienable.] Among the natural rights, some are, in their very nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience.
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

With the influence of the great writer Richard J. Maybury, I have distilled the basics of natural law into the following 3;

1. ‘Do not do unto others’ as you do not want done to you. (The basis of Reciprocal Rights, Mercy and Equality)
2. ‘Do not commit fraud’. (Contractual Law, basis of stability and long term planning)
3. ‘Do not encroach’ on other individuals or their property. (Tort Law, basis of peace, goodwill)

Natural law tells you not to harm, it does not tell you to be nice, or to give your money to others, or to do what your mother wants you to do. It is essentially negativist in concept, to harm is an action, or in the case of negligence, unwise accidental action, and if no harmful actions are done, than you have justice, as well as peace, goodwill, and general prosperity. If I assault a person, or threaten to assault a person, or interfere with the peaceful and private activities of another, I am guilty of violating natural law. However, if I interfere with a person who is actively harming another who has harmed no one, I am in fact, attempting to uphold natural law. If government law tells you to harm another individual who has harmed or threatened no one, then defiance of government law is compliance with natural law. This is not anarchy, but rather it is the basis for a profound respect for human rights and natural law.

The destruction and damage to peoples lives far in excess of anything a drug itself does, must stop. Drug prohibition has gone on long enough and must end, and the struggle to end it must start somewhere. Since redress seems to be ineffectual, to quote the NH constitution;
The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. As the ends will always be influenced by the means used, and frequently dictated by the means, I have chosen peaceful civil dis., openly, honestly, and while it is hard to have brotherly love for a violent oppressor, I hold no malice towards them.

In Summary, the Law Enforcers harmed Mr. Labatue by arresting him for a crime in which there is no victim. In doing so the Law Enforcers were committing aggression against him, thus violating natural law. I believe the individuals who work for the state of NH have been in rebellion of natural law long enough, and that it was time to exercise the Right or Rebellion by doing peaceful civil dis in the form of blockading the car being used to transport Mr. Labatue to a cage.
I am sorry that I inconvenienced the law enforcers, and I am glad that no injury came to them, despite the anger of my friends that day who were witnessing. As part of my civil disobedience I will not pay fines to an aggressive gov’t so that they can continue to aggress, but I will accept jail, or community service that does not benefit any gov’t agency.

Last night a group of peace-loving activists decided to spread their message using sidewalk chalk, a medium constantly used on the sidewalks of downtown Keene, and which can be removed by a light rainfall or lawn sprinkler.  However, according to the always factual Keene Sentinel, when used to apply pro-peace messages to pro-violence monuments, this once harmless and not even semi permanent art form takes on the properties of vandalism.

Central Square defaced By Kyle Jarvis
Sentinel Staff

Published: Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Civil War Monument in Central Square was defaced with political messages.

The monument, which features a statue of a soldier, was discovered this morning to have been drawn on with sidewalk chalk.

“Obama lied,” and “stop paying taxes” were written in chalk, along with “taxes>theft” and peace symbols.

A peace symbol was also drawn on one of the cannons in the park, and a fuse box had the words “stop paying taxes.”

Several other statements were also written in chalk on the sidewalks in the park, including “innocent people don’t belong in cages,” and “no victim, no crime.”

It’s unclear whether the messages written in the area of the monument are related to those written on the sidewalk, or whether the same people were involved.

The chalk was washed off the monument this morning.

See the article here.

Here are some photos of the beautiful activist artwork that brightened up Keene Central Square.  More can be found at the Keene Central Square’s Nightcap Facebook Page. Here’s a direct link to all the photos.

Here’s a PDF of a letter that Capuzzo sent me from jail in Massachusetts. I’ve just shipped him a copy of Dr. Mary Ruwart’s “Healing our World” and Lysander Spooner’s “No Treason”. You can give him something to do in there by sending him (and other NH activists like Rich Paul) mail via mail-to-jail!

On WKBK yesterday morning, politician Bob Guida, who is running for “US Representative” was on with Al Kulas. As much as I wanted to ask him about his desire for a police state (”immigration” being his excuse), I decided to go with secession questions. Here’s the archive.

Keene Sentinel columnist Steve Gilbert has written a piece appearing in today’s paper:

So what do you make of Free Keene? Any idea what it wants?

The local group — it may or may not be an arm of the N.H. Free State Project — gleefully moved into City Council chambers last week with its so-called “Keene City Hall drinking game.”

In it, several members of Free Keene wanted to give the appearance of drinking bottled beer during the City Council meeting, though “not a beer” was printed on the labels.

As expected, the mayor, city councilors and police were unable to ignore what most of us would consider a spectacle of disrespect and took action.

Two people at the meeting were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, a commonplace result of the group’s actions over the last year or so.

Like a recurring dance, Free Keene’s members routinely challenge — you could even say taunt — local police to arrest them as they straddle the line of the law.

Sometimes police move in and make arrests; many times they don’t.

Their actions haven’t directly endangered the public, but they do potentially tie up police if more serious situations are developing across the city. And that has happened.

Free Keene members want to wring publicity out of their actions, from stories in the press to videos they shoot themselves and post on their website, freekeene.com. No doubt they’d love to catch the police in a moment of anger, trip them up, so to speak, and capture it on camera.

It’s pretty obvious the police, in turn, are using restraint. It’s like a strange cat-and-mouse cartoon, with the mouse trying to tempt the cat into something foolhardy.

Free Keene members also appear regularly on Cheshire TV, host a syndicated radio talk show on WKBK and are regular callers on talk shows hosted by others.

Hard to say how many people are Free Keene members, but the same dozen or so are consistently seen and heard in a city of more than 22,000.

At the Pumpkin Festival last October, when the daily “4:20” pot smoking protests were percolating in Central Square, hundreds of festival-goers watched police arrest four people accused of smoking marijuana in front of city hall.

In the interim, we’ve witnessed several demonstrations of disobedience, including the recent baring of breasts in Central Square.

Thursday’s “drinking game” seems to have ratcheted things up a bit. The story was picked up by the Associated Press and went national — I read it on the websites of the Houston Chronicle and Toronto Sun. It’s a great way for Free Keene to attract recruits from around the country.

Free Keene’s own detailed website is updated constantly and the “drinking game” right now is a huge feature, complete with video. And since the first one was such a success, well, you know what’s coming.

“Plans are in the works for the next City Council drinking game, Aug. 19th, 7 p.m. Mark your calendar, it’s going to be a special event,” was posted this morning.

So what do you think of Free Keene?

In talking with many people in breakfast nooks over the weekend, ball games during the week and downtown at lunchtime, it seems the group doesn’t have much public support.

Interestingly, “petulant” is used quite a bit. Many say they are perturbed that group members are trying to embarrass Keene. And there is anger that Central Square is often used as the group’s staging area.

When you see online reader comments in out-of-town newspapers, it’s apparent quite a few people think Keene is bubbling over with “loonies.”

Free Keene uses the phrase “peaceful evolution,” in describing its goals. Liberty, individual rights and less government are all blanket catchphrases under that philosophy.

As for the Free State Project, an initiative to attract 20,000 pro-liberty activists to New Hampshire, it seems considerably tamer than Free Keene. It claims its primary goal is to get like-minded people to move here, but emphasizes not through civil disobedience.

You can see the philosophical similarities and differences through their websites.

Both even double as quasi chambers of commerce, as they try to attract new members. The Free State Project touts 101 reasons to move to New Hampshire and Free Keene touts 130-plus reasons to move to Keene. Dozens of them highlight the best our regions have to offer, outside of government and politics.

Free Keene even has these nuggets on its website: “Keene cops not as nasty as bigger cities like Manchester.”

And, “Keene bureaucrats tend to not be as unfriendly as bureaucrats in other cities.”

But here’s the kicker, and the absolute truth:

“Establishment confused, angry, and unsure of what to do about liberty activism in Keene. … It must be frustrating to be a bureaucrat or politician in Keene.”

Here’s the video the people calling themselves “The City of Keene” don’t want you to see:

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After reviewing their city council rules, city ordinances, and state laws; Dale Pregent seems to have made up the rules barring alcoholic beverage containers (not containing alcohol) in order to target free speech. When the Police Chief Ken Meola is unable to determine what is in the closed containers held by Ian  Freeman and Sam Dodson, they were arrested for refusing to consent to search. The video clearly shows, Heika – who consented to the search – being told “your fine”  as she remained in the meeting drinking from her bottle.

Let’s not forget they did all of this on live TV with the community watching.  Plans are in the works for the next City Council Drinking game, Aug. 19th, 7pm. Mark your calendar, it’s going to be a special event.

Keeniac Adam Mueller IS Uncle Sam:

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See more vids at LibertyonTour.com

Our friend, super activist, and Keene resident Rich Paul continues to sit in jail (on purpose) in brave protest of the horrible drug war that infects our society.  The drug war is the justification used by the government to steal a great deal of our freedom and is from my experience largely attributable to why so many people feel that the police hurt more than help.  Like many brave souls before him, Rich continues to live without freedom so that one day a bad law/policy may come to a crashing end.

A Free Talk Live website contributor (thanks Xpansive) has submitted the following video to the new and improved FTL website which allows the listeners to suggest show content.  I find the video touching…  and I think that everyone, especially drug war supporters, should watch it.  If you do not want to use mind altering substances, that is a respectable decision…   just please don’t attack peaceful people who choose opposite.

Click here to view the embedded video.