Russell Arrested at IRS office 7-27-06

[Kat Kanning]

I wonder who ever is running the board might want to get a private portion of the website to diclose when and where protests are going to be. That way the feds cant just look on the web and be waiting at the site to arrest people. The private portion should need a actual person to person meeting before allowed in the board to verify that they are what they say they are (freedom loving)

No.  I want everything out in the open.

[TackleTheWorld]

I agree with Kat.
I for one don't care how many moles or spies or provocateurs the government sends to us.  
They will lose their ferocity when they see our tactics are harmless, and our goals are decent.

[Dave Ridley]

composing this to send out to media and/or other forums.  Corrections of any factual errors are requested, some of this stuff i'm writing is educated guessing.  very rough draft.  other suggestions welcome.

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Keene resident Russell Kanning is on a mission.  Wearing overalls, a straw had and carrying a pitchfork, the thirty-five year old libertarian activist is out to expel the Federal Government from his city.  And, despite his lack of sophisticated weaponry, he has triggered quite a response from Washington.

Plain clothed officers and uniformed Department of Homeland security agents were present in force to meet him at noon today has he appeared at Keene's IRS office with several supporters.  But it wasn't his pitchfork or his friends that had agents seeing red, it was his handful of....flyers.

"I want them to quit their jobs," he says, referring to the one or two IRS agents that staff this part-time office on Main Street.  His flyers contain a form which he is asking IRS agents to sign, pledging they will stop working for the agency because of what he considers the "evil things" it funds.

Kanning says he is most upset by their use of tax dollars to underwrite the Iraq occupation and also displeased by their arrest this May of Plainfield resident Ed Brown, a prominent tax resister.

When Kanning entered the building, authorites quickly interposed themselves. 

"I think we could call it tilting at windmills," he joked.

After bantering with the perplexed agents for a few minutes, Russell slowly walked toward the single flight of stairs leading to the IRS office.

Officers then quickly, but carefully, placed his hands behind his back and cuffed him.

Activists from NHfree.com, including a professional videographer crowded in to document the event but were elbowed back by agents.  They then placed him, his straw had and his overalls into a DHS squad car minus the pitchfork but grinning and waving to photographers. 

He ended up being booked and released from Keene Police Department around 3 p.m., but that's where the story gets interesting (if it wasn't already).   Instead of going home, Kanning returned to the IRS office and walked straight toward the door, whereupon he was cuffed again, booked again, and released again, this time, as before, on charges of disorderly conduct.     

He says he plans to go back again tonight. 

"I never got to talk with the IRS workers," he says, "but I did get to ask some Homeland Security guys to quit."

More details on this unfolding situation are on the NHfree.com forums.

[Kat Kanning]

He says he plans to go back again tonight. 

Hey, we're not quite done with the party first.  Shorty's taking the lead on this one.

[Dave Ridley]

can someone post a link to this thread that doesn't have php session data in it?  also can someone plz remove my moderator status?

[Kat Kanning]

http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=4584.0

I removed you as a moderator earlier.

[Kat Kanning]

One of the guys warned him that there were no federal prisons in New England.  Maybe Kevin will wind up Russell's goaler.

[JonM]

A federal agent lying to you?  I am shocked.  There is a federal prison in Ayer, MA.  Minimum security camp and a high security medical center.  There was a guy who protested the School of the Americas serving time in the camp when I went there to visit a friend.

[Roycerson]

Wearing overalls, a straw had

Probably ought to say "hat"

[srqrebel]

They then placed him, his straw had and his overalls into a DHS squad car

The misspelling of hat occurred twice... 

[Tom Sawyer]

Shorty always calls his hat a had.

[FTL_Ian]

Dada, your text has been posted at HammerofTruth.com as the top story at the moment!  (With a few minor edits.)

http://hammeroftruth.com/2006/07/27/feds-arrest-heroic-free-stater/   

[lpb52]

Let us know when you guys start needing a legal or bail fund, and we'll help out.   

[slim]

Let us know when you guys start needing a legal or bail fund, and we'll help out.   

I would chip in some FRN's for a legal or bail fund.

[slim]

No.  I want everything out in the open.

Well it was just a idea, I was thinking about some of the protests we might want to be in process of the protest. If there was some secrecy with this protest Russell probably would have been able to get in to the IRS office and hand out some information. Well I guess if there will be a demand for that type of privacy then someone will fill that demand. Got to love the "Free Market"