Six months after the June 4th, 2011 Chalking 8 incident outside Manchester Police Department I was found “guilty” of a violation and told I owed $248.
Rather than pay the ransom I submitted a letter indicating that I’d sit the time.
In this video I read the text of the letter in the hope that it causes people to think about how deeply flawed is the criminal “justice” system. It’s not something that can be “fixed,” the whole structure must be changed.
Rather than allow for a group of people to exercise an exclusive monopoly on the provision of any good or service recognize that a certain title or costume doesn’t grant extra rights. Then act accordingly, so we can more quickly live in a world where individuals are responsible for their actions, regardless of where they work.
We now live in a country where the government can use Predator drones to track us without warrants, indefinitely detain us without trial, and assassinate us without charges. They do this in the name of security, yet somehow it just doesn’t make me feel any safer. I’ll tell you what does make me feel safer. Americans bought a record number of guns as Christmas presents this year, 25% of them first time buyers and many of them women.
. . .one thing is clear, people lack confidence in the state, and that’s always good news
In 2010 the G20 was held in Toronto. Security theater (police, barricades, weapons, jail facilities) was ramped-up – to the tune of $900,000,000. Over 1,100 individuals were kidnapped and caged.
No one was held accountable, but that’s not too surprising. We’re talking about an association of individuals that claim the sole right to provide protection and security. They have no competition. There’s no reason to care about customer service or worry about being held accountable for actions.
Still, some continue to pander for internal investigations, completely ignoring the fact that everyone involved – legislature, police, judges, politicians – are only interested in perpetuating and growing their claimed authority. At the direct expense of individual rights.
Watch Into The Fireby Press For Truth. Then think for yourself. How can this best be prevented? How can rights-violators best be held accountable?
Join Ademo Freeman & friends January 9th – 10:30AM – Manchester District Court
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On June 4th I was one of eight arrested outside the Manchester Police Department when at a pro-police accountability event. I was alleged to have been “disorderly” – twice. Over six months later, I was told I was “guilty” of violating an ordinance and told to pay a 248 FRN ransom.
Pete Eyre, was found guilty at the non-criminal violation level of one of the two charges. Interestingly enough, the charge he was convicted on was not the reason for his arrest, but was attached later. John Patti, who ordered Pete’s arrest but was my arresting officer, arrested us for allegedly refusing an order regarding a city ordinance violation. Neither the order nor the basis of the order were substantiated in court, yet Pete was, retroactively, in a sense, found guilty of having been in the “crime scene” and having been ordered out of it. The disorderly conduct statute is so over broad that you are automatically guilty at the violation level if you have been given what is considered a “lawful order”. By refusing the order, you are then guilty at the criminal level.
Order of events:
March 3rd, 2010 – Christopher Michlovich is beaten by four off-duty Manchester PD employees (Jonathan Duchesne, Matthew Jajuga and Michael Buckley, and Ernie Goodno). An internal investigation exonerated the actions of the four aggressors. Tom Clark (city solicitor) toed the “official” line.
May 25th, 2011 – Michael Delaney (NH attorney general) states that the Michlovich beating was “not the Manchester police department’s finest hour” but will not pursue charges against those responsible.
June 4th, 2011 – individuals gather outside Manchester PD to voice concerns about the lack of accountability, eight were arrested and nine phones/cameras were seized
October 24th, 2011 – Pete Eyre has court at Manchester District, two class b misdemeanor disorderly conduct threats, ordered to submit “memo of law” to support points argued
November 10th – “memo of law” deadline, document was received days prior
December 27th – William H. Lyons (aka “the court”) says Eyre is not guilty of the two disorderlies but is guilty of a violation. Ransom is set at 248 FRNs.
December 29th – Eyre calls “the court” to inquire how to sit the time rather than pay the ransom
I self-describe as a voluntaryist and therefore don’t want to fund the violence of the state. The state – to be specific – is just a bad idea. Everything its actors do is destructive and if not immoral, inefficient. The initiation of force, censorship, and control are its only tools.
So, I may sit at Valley Street for four days. I’ll have time to brainstorm. Read. Maybe workout. And, unless they keep me segregated, time to have conversations with other individuals harmed due to the belief in the bad idea that grants some a “legitimate” right to use force, as well as those who pretend their costume allows them to do actions wrong for you or me.
The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao Tsu
On the phone Kim even said most people “just pay.” What if everyone didn’t? What if no one took plea deals? What if everyone realized that they have nothing to fear if they’ve done nothing wrong?
The theft of houses isn’t something usually covered by Cop Block but I wanted to give it some attention because the issue today is so rampant and because Bill Bry (the victim of the theft) is a friend.
Last month a few of us from Keene traveled 45min south to Montague, MA* (right next-door to Greenfield) to join others in helping Bill move out the rest of his furniture, welding supplies, and appliances. He had been given an eviction notice, to be “served” by employees of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, based on what Bill considers a fraudulent mortgage issue related to the robo signature controversy.
For over four years Bill, assisted by friend Jeanne Golrick, had successfully won in court (aka mounted an effective defense) to keep his house. He views this latest theft as temporary. His words, written in chalk on a scrap piece of metal on the side of his welding building sums it up: “We are out! At this time.”
Below are two documents Bill shared with me that are related to his situation. I would have shared a third but I wouldn’t upload due to “security” reasons…
Last January when at Keene district court I was thrown to the ground then carried to a cage because I wore my hat. Last Thursday over coffee I had a conversation with Jim Cemorelis, the person who did the throwing.
Over three hours we had a freewheeling discussion that touched on the Keene community, activism, rights, the role (if any) of government, the provision of courts and law enforcement, philosophy, books, families, and single-issues like firearms and drug prohibition.
Some people have communicated that such meetings are a waste of time – almost likening the other party to “the enemy.” While I appreciate such feedback I disagree. As I wrote on a previous post:
There is no benefit to write-off an entire group of people based on their place of employment. . . Don’t you think it likely that some of those individuals [cops] might, once exposed to new, better ideas, shed their old, worse ideas? Like anyone else the average cop has been exposed to a lifetime of pro-State, defer-to-authority rhetoric.
When our conversation kicked-off Jim noted that there was probably only a “minutia” of things that separated our perspectives. With the glaring exception of how we each subsist, I found that statement was pretty accurate. We both want to live in a safe, prosperous community, where individual rights are respected – the question is how is that best-achieved?
In the least our chat allowed for personalization, which means ideas shared will likely be given more weight. And while I haven’t heard that Jim has yet moved on from the Keene police department, based on how we parted ways, I’m hopeful our conversation will continue. .
The latest of a seemingly never-ending pattern of double-standards claimed by those who wear badges: According to one witness Dayle Long, employee of Riverside Co. sheriff’s dept., told a fellow bar patron: “‘You don’t want to do this; you’re a nice guy’. And he shot him.”
An off-duty police officer has been charged with executing a man in a sports bar – after an argument over a game of darts.
Riverside County sheriff’s deputy Dayle Long, 42, allegedly shot Samuel Vanettes, 36, three times, leaving him to die on the floor of the bar in Murrieta, California.
It is reported that Long, who had been drinking alone, struck up a conversation with Vanettes and his friends at Spelly’s Bar and Grille before the shooting.
An altercation allegedly broke out after the police officer told one of the friends ‘I’m better at darts than you are’, Chris Hull, 39, told Patch.com.
‘My buddy says, “Aw, you suck at darts”. (The man) says, “That’s why I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want to do”.’
Hull tsaid his friend asked; ‘Really, you can do anything?’
The police officer then pulled out his gun, Hull claimed and after the group repeatedly asked him to put it away he ‘pops three rounds into my friend Sam’.
The ten-year department veteran appeared at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley in a red prison uniform, on Friday charged with murder.
Vanettes, a gas station cashier, was trying to keep the peace in the bar when he was gunned down, John Hall, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s office, according to Patch.com report.
Long and another man were in an argument when Vanettes had stepped in to break up the fight.
‘He came in to act as a peacemaker and ended up getting shot,’ Hall said.
He added that the victim was unarmed and showing no aggressive behavior.
According to a family member of the victim, who spoke to the LA Times, Vanettes was at the bar with his sister, her boyfriend and another friend when he started playing darts with Long.
‘They were getting along good,’ the relative said Vanettes sister had told.
‘When the cop started having more whiskey, he started getting belligerent.
‘He lifted his shirt up and showed his gun. Sam was standing by the dartboard.
‘He said, “You don’t want to do this; you’re a nice guy”. And he shot him. That’s what I’m told.’
If convicted, Long could face 50 years to life behind bars.
It’s important to remember that all cops aren’t evil. I’m not anti-cop. Individuals, including Dayle Long (whether the allegations against him are true or false), are responsible for their actions. That means everyone – no matter their place of employment – should be held accountable for their actions.
If we really want to mitigate such atrocious rights-violations it won’t happen from another “civilian review board” or internal investigation but from a systemic change. The Statist Quo changes only when we each change our own outlook.
Live free and refuse to grant anyone authority simply because it’s claimed. Real change happens not at the ballot box but one mind at a time. When no one claims to be a master and no one allows themselves to be a slave.
The current “law enforcement” model is provided at the barrel of a gun. “Customers” are forced to pay or else. The lack of market signals means perverse incentives. Think for yourself:
The video, by YouTube.com/StormCloudsGathering, speaks candidly and persuasively at its intended audience: individuals who work in police or the military.
