Manchester PD & Bureaucrat Outreach

September 8, 2011January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 1446 Views Ademo Freeman, brian blais, chalk the police, cop block, greg muller, kim demers, linda disilvestro, lisa galicia, manchester police department, New Hampshire, Pete Eyre, robert cuhna, steven olson, timothy soucy, vicki ferraro, video

One does not remedy a problem by ignoring it, but by proactively addressing it.

Our problem: frivolous charges stemming from the Chalking 8 incident. Our solution: transparency and winning in the court of public opinion.

Last week I distributed our press release announcing our return to Manchester to the solicitors office (where Greg Muller, the person who is pursuing charges against me, Ademo and six others, works), the mayor’s office (to keep him in the loop about how taxpayer dollars are being wasted) and the police department (where John Pattie and colleagues, who kidnapped us back on June 4th, are employed).

I also sought to learn how to acquire “official” policies and information about our apparent chalk-inspired round-up but found that, despite I couldn’t get much more than “fill out this form” or “talk to that person” or an outright “nope.” Perhaps the “partnership” between the folks with badges and those without that police chief Dave Mara points to may not be tangible as claimed.

I’m still waiting for someone(s) employed at Manchester PD to do what they know is right and not remain silent about the treatment of the Chalking Eight. Who will be the first to act according to their conscience?

Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.