Who Is Sam Dodson?

[Pat K]

Sams story made it onto the Lew Rockwell blog.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026530.html#more

[Lloyd Danforth]

Nothing when you google his name except the regular 'choir' sites like Rockwell and Nolan.

[Atlas]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026530.html. Also @ http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=190538. Looks like the story is starting to get some traction in the broader libertarian movement.

Edit - Oops, this was already posted in the civil dis section. Sorry for the duplicate.

[Atlas]

Oops, should've looked here before I posted this in the general discussion. Pat, you are quite the early bird

[Russell Kanning]

that is a very helpful article that will get out the news to our kinds of people
maybe after 6 months and more kazoo antics by the keeniacs ... it will make it in other news outlets

[slave_3646]

News of Sam's situation is also on the DailyPaul.com

Here's the link http://www.dailypaul.com/node/91412

[TobyFMTV]

The Keene Sentinel covered this story on the front page of today's paper:

http://www.keenesentinel.com/articles/2009/05/17/news/local/free/id_356129.txt

Get the story in front of more people! Digg it!

http://digg.com/politics/Free_Stater_Jailed_Indefinitely_Without_Food_or_a_Trial

[Russell Kanning]

good article

[AntonLee]

looks like the AP has picked up the story

[jzacker]

Is it Dodson or Miller? 

[dalebert]

Is it Dodson or Miller? 

Sam goes by Dodson.

[Russell Kanning]

i only know him as SamIAm or just Sam ... it was good enough for his friends

[Kat Kanning]

I am concerned that Sam has lost SO MUCH WEIGHT.  I was thinking it over this morning.  The normal process of a fast is the first ~three days, you're hungry and your body is tearing down everything to get vital nutrients.  After this initial period, your body switches into a protein saving mode - you're not hungry and you're not breaking down your body that fast.  This second mode especially conserves vital tissue in organs and such.  I'm really concerned that Sam drinking the milk only has kept him out of that second mode.  He's awfully thin now.  Does he plan to die if they don't let him out?

[Free libertarian]

The Keene Sentinel covered this story on the front page of today's paper:

http://www.keenesentinel.com/articles/2009/05/17/news/local/free/id_356129.txt

Get the story in front of more people! Digg it!

http://digg.com/politics/Free_Stater_Jailed_Indefinitely_Without_Food_or_a_Trial

Thanks for posting the link...I sent an e-mail to the sentinel reporter thanking him for writing the story.

[dalebert]

I am concerned that Sam has lost SO MUCH WEIGHT.

The paper mis-quoted him (likely mis-heard him) and reported 116 lbs when he said 160 lbs. So he had lost a lot of weight- 20 lbs from his starting weight. Also, Sam ate yesterday after seeing the article. I think he felt like the media was finally responding in the way he had hoped the hunger strike would accomplish.