July 31, 2006: Russell arrested

[Tom Sawyer]

Went over to Concord to show support for Russell and the ones he leaves at home, Kat and Kira. Love and help to you two... just let me know anything you need. William would like to help deliver KFP newspapers.

Major Therrien was out front and greeted me by name... I said 'so you read the forum'.

Seems to be a decent man who has experience with the State Department overseas dealing with terrorist bombings etc. He is just another cog in the big machine... the government has thousands of pages of laws that create such a tangled web... we are at the mercy of our government and it agents. None of the individuals have to feel guilty for their part... "Just doing our job."

I told him that we on the forum were peaceful and were working for change. He seemed most interested in the mission of protecting federal facilities.

I told him that I was afraid that Homeland Security and ICE were the foundations of a police state. I know that the fear of being on some watch list and spooks tracking me has stifled the exercising of my political beliefs. Most people I know are afraid of our government... 'I can't go to that event... they might be watching.' Public dissent is corralled and intimidated. Things that were lawful when I was young, now will get you hard time. It is illegal to live as my father and his father lived.

The people given the task of protecting us now have the power to control us... the young ones are the ones that worry me the most. They don't even remember being free. When I was a boy, if they came to arrest you they didn't drop you and dominate you. They told you you were under arrest and they calmly took you away. But thanks to the war on drugs everyone is treated this way.

Anyway, tired and sick of being afraid. Thanks Russell for trying to show folks things they didn't understand about our system... it is a blunt instrument best used against thieves and violent people.

--End of rambling rant--

Tried to get a shot of them transporting Russell out of the courthouse, but I think they just waited me out. I think I saw a vehicle leave as I rounded the corner... wanted Russell to see a supporter as he left, no luck.

Just going to hang my head and weep now.

[Jared]

Just going to hang my head and weep now.

don't worry man. we'll get there!

[Mrs. Concious]

Major Therrien was out front and greeted me by name... I said 'so you read the forum'.
Seems to be a decent man who has experience with the State Department overseas dealing with terrorist bombings etc. He is just another cog in the big machine... the government has thousands of pages of laws that create such a tangled web... we are at the mercy of our government and it agents. None of the individuals have to feel guilty for their part... "Just doing our job."

Tools such as Therrien are guilty of breaking organic law and in a very big way.  These criminals are breaking with constitutional law and peoples lives are being devasted and lost because of it.  Russell is in jail for exercising freedom of speech because an individual cop made the decision to not uphold the constitution and instead uphold a law that is in direct opposition to the organic law of the land.  Cops are not authorized to break the fundamental laws ergo are breaking the law.

He (Therrien) seemed most interested in the mission of protecting federal facilities.

Translation:  Therrien believes that security of federal facilities trumps all American rights and will not hesitate to shoot and kill anyone, peaceful or otherwise, when he perceives them as a threat.

Federal police have complete contempt for the constitution because the document limits their powers and the powers of those that control these thugs.

It will soon be a federal crime to even mention the word, "rights".

[tracysaboe]

The new Digg story has hit the front page!

I saw that. I think it's important for us to defend him in the comments too.   

They still keep spouting off that he took the pitchfork in with him -- and he didn't.

Tracy

[aries]

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

That article wasn't put in there for us to quote when we are feeling revolutionary. It was put there to remind us to get up and do something. Keep that in mind as we watch Russell's predicament unfold.

[fourthgeek]

Until our "good old boys in blue" are materially working on our side, their pro-liberty sentiments are little more than political seductions, hardly more trustworthy than the politicians themselves.

[Minsk]

Until our "good old boys in blue" are materially working on our side, their pro-liberty sentiments are little more than political seductions, hardly more trustworthy than the politicians themselves.

I wouldn't even go that far. They don't have to be actively pro-liberty, just have to refuse to be actively anti-liberty.

[shyfrog]

I Dugg the story on Digg and then blogged it on my LiveJournal

[aries]

Until our "good old boys in blue" are materially working on our side, their pro-liberty sentiments are little more than political seductions, hardly more trustworthy than the politicians themselves.

It never hurts to reach out to those who disagree with you.
I would much rather see 100 police refuse to come to the side of liberty than see 100 libertarians never offering a hand to them.

[slim]

It never hurts to reach out to those who disagree with you.
I would much rather see 100 police refuse to come to the side of liberty than see 100 libertarians never offering a hand to them.

How true and we need to remember that most of the people do not know what they have lost or they do not relize what freedom really stands for. Decades of misinformation and straight out lies can begin to sound true. I don't know if I am a minority but I would look at just returning to the constitution as a giant step toward liberty.

[Barterer]

Thank you Russell.  Normally I try to do something every day to work toward my move to NH.  You've inspired me to work harder so I can get there faster.  In the meantime I'll send the KFP a little boost

[Recumbent ReCycler]

The jail where he is being held is only a few miles from my home.  I will try to see if they will allow me to visit him.  If anyone else plans to visit him, please let me know.  Perhaps we could meet up before the visit.

[fourthgeek]

Until our "good old boys in blue" are materially working on our side, their pro-liberty sentiments are little more than political seductions, hardly more trustworthy than the politicians themselves.

I wouldn't even go that far. They don't have to be actively pro-liberty, just have to refuse to be actively anti-liberty.

I don't think that there's much of a neutral position. You either enforce the law or you do not. I hate to say it, but you're with us or against us when it comes to enforcing a law. Judges could be somewhat neutral by giving reduced sentences, but cops are the hands of the law, and ultimately dictate if it will be enforced or not. The only way that a cop could be "nice" to us without completely being for or against us would be to act a bit more gently when throwing activists into their slave-cages.

[Jared]

The jail where he is being held is only a few miles from my home.  I will try to see if they will allow me to visit him.  If anyone else plans to visit him, please let me know.  Perhaps we could meet up before the visit.

i'd like to at least see if i could go. let me know when.

[bwisok]

Wow,

Regardless of what anyone thinks of the particulars of Russell's defiance, it's clear the state has overreacted.  This is a great opportunity to put public pressure on the confiners/judges/prisonmasters/powerelite.  Definitely write to Russell every day at:

Russell Kanning
c/o Strafford County House of Corrections
266 COUNTY FARM ROAD
DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03820

And call every day at:

603.742.3310

to make sure they know we're keeping track.  Be polite, but be persistent.  Try to establish a personal rellationship with whoever answers the phone or the mail.  They are people, too, by necessity.

This is the latest info I've seen of his whereabouts, contact info.  If I'm wrong, someone please correct.  I'll be calling early tomorrow, well today, 8/1, to check it out.

Russell, I may not be on the same page with you regarding tactics or even strategy, but I'm in the book.  We'll use this incarceration to maxium advantage for the cause.  I would like to ask someone to post here a link to the brochure Russell and other tried to present to the government officials.  It is PERFECT!  Please, someone find and post on the forum for distrbution in the planet's forums.

Thanks,

Brian