by Pete Eyre | Dec 11, 2012 | Articles, Musings, Videos
Keene now has a Bearcat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck).
Does the world you want to live in include this militaristic vehicle?
Check out this stellar overview video put-together by YouTube.com/LightspeedLiberty, which compares the Bearcat to Keene’s Fire Truck #1 [*note, only slight alterations were made for this version].
The lie peddled over and over to try to assuage the vocal widespread opposition, was that the Bearcat was as a “rescue” vehicle. Seems as though Ken Meola and his cronies read a bit too much from Vladimir Lenin, who stated, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Unlike our “protectors”, I think most of us are too smart to buy-into that misinformation.
Do you really think Keene residents would choose to pay-up to bring such a monstrosity to town??
Remind yourself, as the double-speak surrounding this issue and these institutions is prevalent – the folks who brought the Bearcat to town claim to protect you. That “protection” is done at the barrel of a gun. All Keene residents, whether they like it or not, are told “pay up” or else.
What if you’re not happy with the services rendered? How do you feel if you see a Keene police cruiser in your rearview mirror? Nervous? Anxious? Doesn’t that seem odd?
As well-intentioned as some employed at the Keene police department genuinely are, there’s no way the current policing structure can ever realize its very worthwhile goal (for a safe community). They simply lack the proper incentives.
To put it plainly, the lack of competition means there’s an oversupply of policing. And a lack of accountability.
We don’t turn to a centralized, top-down hierarchy to provide goods arguably more important than policing, such as food (without which, you’d sooner be in peril), so why believe a force-backed structure is necessary in this case?
If you think a move towards a more-militarized Keene isn’t ideal, expose yourself to some alternatives: http://CopBlock.org/Knowledge
Keene Bearcat Grant
Hopefully individual Keene police employees will think about this seriously and act aligned with their conscience, which I hope means that they’ll refuse to operate the Bearcat. That’d be a significant step. And admittedly it’d be a tough step to take, when in that “thin blue line” culture, but what does it same about ones character if opt to act according to the dictates of another rather than themselves.
As the saying goes – create the world in which you want to see. The Bearcat is here. But that doesn’t mean it has to get used. It’d be a powerful action that’d resonate with others if individuals in that environment choose not to unthinking comply, but to side with those they claim to serve and, I’d hope, with their own conscience.
That seems to me the best choice for us now, and for future generations.
Background
Keene Cop Block
If you’re outside of Keene connect your local offshoot: http://CopBlock.org/Groups
Keene Police Department
Playlist from Bearcat Unveiling
[footage from multiple individuals]
by Pete Eyre | Dec 8, 2012 | Musings, Updates, Videos
The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.
– Alexander Berkman
As more raw, relevant videos are uploaded to YouTube.com/Fr33manTVraw they will be added to the playlist embedded here.
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Keene, NH – a college town of 25K – now has a Bearcat (Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck).
Despite much community opposition, the so-claimed “authorities” brought to town a militaristic vehicle. On an early, rainy Saturday morning (2012.12.08) it was unveiled.
Keene Copblockers were on the scene.
Keene Cop Block
Background
Can the acquisition of an armored vehicle by a group of folks who claim to have a “legitimate” right to initiate force a good thing?
Perhaps the key question to ask yourself – is the trend seen here in Keene and elsewhere, toward a more paramilitary police – conducive to the type of community in which you want to live?
We all want to live in a safe, prosperous, dynamic society. Perhaps the current top-down monopoly isn’t the best means.
The purpose of capturing and posting this content is ultimately to share ideas. For more: http://copblock.org/knowledge
Not in Keene? connect with a group in your area: http://copblock.org/groups
by Pete Eyre | Nov 11, 2012 | Articles, Videos
Ian Freeman spoke with Abby Martin on Breaking the Set, a new show on RT.com, about filming police and individual rights.
Breaking the Set on Facebook
Abby Martin on Twitter
In late Oct. Freeman drove from his Keene, NH home an hour south to support friend Jay Noone, who’s house was scheduled to be sold at a tax auction. Freeman questioned those who facilitated the theft and the sale of the property. Rather than have a civil conversation, Ray Tenczar put Freeman in handcuffs and claimed he was being “disorderly.”
Watch the video below. And if you want, watch the raw video.
Freeman, host of the nationally-syndicated Free Talk Live, is active with FreeKeene.com, the Shire Society, the Free State Project, CopBlock.org and Keene Cop Block.
More of Ian from 2009 via Motorhome Diaries:
by Pete Eyre | Aug 25, 2012 | Updates, Videos
Shire TV, a weekly news and opinion show that airs on Cheshire TV in beautiful Keene, New Hampshire on Monday evenings at 7pm, included on their August 13th, 2012 episode a segment on Ademo’s trial that had happened earlier that day.
In this clip, anchors Beau Davis and Ali Havens, who were among those present at Hillsborough County Superior Court to support Ademo, provide a good recap and share their insight on the situation.
DONATE TO HELP ADEMO APPEAL (Thanks in advance!) https://www.wepay.com/donations/108662
Background: http://copblock.org/freeademo
Murphy Assault’s Harrington: http://youtu.be/j_uaC-0pXPs
Ademo Calls Public Officials: http://youtu.be/sEhFwI6IyMU
Murphy Comments on Assault: http://youtu.be/GgKm26Q4QEk
Edited Trial Video: http://youtu.be/v1nyJnryjrM
Raw Trial Video: http://youtu.be/Ec61iZh47_g
by Submission to KeeneCopBlock.org | Jun 27, 2012 | Articles, Events, Musings
Last night after my Blogtalk Radio show, Voluntaryism Volunteers, I traveled to the local 24 hour convenience store in Peterborough, NH, which is the town I live in. While chitchatting with the clerk, a man came into the store. He looked quite frazzled and sunburned. The clerk and I were talking, when the man stated vociferously that he hated New Hampshire and was moving back to Ocala, Fl. I commented that I had just moved to NH from Tampa, Fl. He then proceeded to relate the following story:
Earlier that night, he was traveling home from work, he works at a farm. He had just worked 14 hours straight, he was tired and sunburned. He swerved a bit on the road and aPeterboroughpolice officer pulled him over. The officer accused him of using drugs and the man told him that he was just tired and hungry from working so long. The man then told the officer that he had an unloaded gun locked in his glove compartment. The officer then harangued him about the gun, telling him he needed a permit to have the gun. The man stated that he did, in fact, have a conceal carry permit issued inFlorida. The officer kept harassing the man over the gun. The officer then ordered the man out of his car and then proceeded to tear it apart with the consent of the man. He was released without further detainment or arrest.
After I heard the man say he consented to the search because “I had nothing to hide”, I recoiled and told him that he should never, ever consent without knowing his rights. I then told him about knowing your rights and to google knowing your rights. I had a brain-dead moment and should have told him about www.flexyourrights.org! (Thanks to Julia for helping me with remembering this site!) He stated nonchalantly that he would think about it. I told him that he should learn this for himself and then pass it on to everyone he knows. He shrugged and said he would think about it.
On another note, Sunday evening after PorcFest, I gave a potential mover a tour ofPeterborough. He and I discussed the police inPeterborough. He stated that he heard glowing remarks about my fair city’s police department. I have never, in the little over 4 months that I have lived there, had any run-ins or even interactions with the police. I mainly see them at night and at festivals. I have only seen the police at traffic accidents, not one pull over yet, in Peterborough, at least.
Dublin police are another story altogether! Yesterday on my way home, I was talking to my mom on my cell phone. I had my speaker ear buds in and was holding my phone in one hand. As I passed the rotary in the heart of Dublin(which is an uber tiny town), a police officer noticed me and jumped in behind the car directly behind me. The officer then proceeded to follow me to the Peterborough town line, where he slinked back to his lair! LOL! I have noticed over the last few months, that, outside of Keene, I see the most cops in Dublin, NH. It seems this tiny town needs a lot of revenue to support it.
