Some say I helped to prevent him from being maced.

Please read his testimony – it was amazing, I wish I had been there to see.

N. David Krouse’s Closing Speech in Nashua District Court

August 13, 2010 by N. David Krouse

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David K was recently in Nashua District Court for his arrest at the Nashua 420 rally during Liberty Forum. He explained to the court exactly why he did what he did that day.

Click for Audio of David’s Closing Speech and Verdict

Text of Speech:

I do not expect to be acquitted, so it is very important that I be allowed to explain the events and why they occurred on March 20th 2010. I am accused of what is essentially civil disobedience not for myself, but on behalf of another individual, so this explanation will have some personal beliefs that are philosophical in nature, please hear me out. This will take about 5 or so minutes.

Of course this trial is all about what I did on March 20 2010. But let me start with the following first;

Lewis Labatue was arrested for smoking pot, I believed the arrest was wrong, so knowing I could not stop it, attempted to delay it and to demonstrate the cruelty and violence behind the arrest. I did this by choosing to stand in front of the car that was to transport Mr. Labatue. I chose this form of civil disobedience in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther Kings teachings. I did no violence, made no effort to harm anyone, but the means I chose achieved both ends. It did delay the law enforcers aggression, and the law enforcers over the top reaction to it was classic, and demonstrated the cruelty and violence that lay at the foundation of the war on people who use some drugs better, than 80 years of preaching prohibition era rethoric. In fact, only releasing the attack dog or pepper spraying my eyes would have demonstrated the basic inhumanity of the law enforcers aggression against peaceful people better.

It is a shame to put one man in a cage for a nonviolent so-called crime, that is, to separate him from society, it is tyranny when thousands are put in cages for nonviolent so-called crimes.

The war on people who use some drugs has been going on for all of my 28 years. Every single argument I could make based on logic and fact has been repeated elsewhere ad nauseam since they were used to argue for the repeal of alcohol prohibition some 80 or so years ago. History repeats because humans are a violent species that believes the Utopian ideal that if one uses enough of the right kinds of force all our troubles will be fixed. A sad and common truism of history, is that humans rarely learn from history.

It is a shame that to right any wrong, a great deal of suffering must take place. Every new law is an attempt to ‘fix’ a bad one. Do you ever ask yourself, how many otherwise peaceful individuals were hurt by the bad law, before it was finally ‘fixed’….. How many families were disrupted, how many children cried, how many jobs lost, because it took awhile for a bad law to be fixed?….. Because humans frequently try to remake the wheel in terms of right and wrong, Our law-books are a pile of broken wheels. They are monuments of mistakes, all of them backed up with force. Right and wrong do not change just because a law enforcer tells me if I don’t comply he is going to hurt me. Right and wrong do not change because a majority votes one way or another. How can the people, any people, no matter how big the majority, make the government do what they as individuals cannot do?….. Of course, they do all the time, and that brings us back to the monuments of mistakes and bad laws leading to untold amounts of suffering.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Right and wrong, law and order, and basic societal stability are not new concepts, and are in fact thousands of years old. So when basically violent and stupid humans do occasionally learn from history, they notice customs that when followed tend to produce a more peaceful and prosperous society. These customs came to be called natural law. Natural Law understanding and acceptance was probably strongest in colonial era America, and it is deeply ingrained in the colonial era literature, and custom. Natural law concepts are found in every society and virtually every religion. This commonality is how it came to be called natural law, because it is law that is naturally occuring. Murder and theft are not illegal because some government says it should be, it has always been wrong to harm another. It is not a failure of natural law that in typically male dominated human society that rape was not always considered illegal. It is a failure of people of goodwill to stop those who would harm any women, because it has always been wrong to harm another, it does not matter what some words on paper, or some person in authority says. The same could be said of human slavery, and jim crow racism and segregation. Why on earth did it take so long to put an end to such crueltry?

Where were the law enforcers when women were treated as property, and minorities were treated as animals?….. Unfortunately they were usually upholding the unjust system. More monuments of mistakes, and a trail of tears at the base of the monument.

via N. David Krouse’s Closing Speech in Nashua District Court – Free Keene.

In complete violation of the Constitution, John Bush is arrested while exercising three of his First Amendment rights: Freedom to Peacefully Assemble, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press.

All of this happened outside of Obama’s speech on UT campus.

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via YouTube – John Bush Arrested For Protesting Outside Free Speech Zone At U.T. Austin.

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Barrack Obama visited University of Texas Gregory Gym and the Campus Police designated a “Free Speech Zone”. When Chanda asks “Who designates the Free Speech Zone?” She is arrested for Criminal Trespassing without ever been asked to leave.
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treez78

1 day ago 4

this kind of shit pisses me off!!!! thank you so much for recording this. we need information like this to keep these people in place. keep up the good work!

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CrystalTexian

1 day ago 3

I am proud they are standing up. However, they need to realize inherent rights are a part of you. The zone where speech is free, is wherever the hell you are! You don’t need the Constitution or the Bill of Rights to guarantee your rights, they were endowed by your creator. Whoever you think that may be. Rights are inalienable and inherent. Just like your life, they belong to you regardless of some government "rules".

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TheEbonicslover

54 minutes ago

@JoshuaSkye I just got me a cop uniform. I say kiss my feet feeble carbon emitter

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JoshuaSkye

6 hours ago

She couldn’t just move on and ask someone else? The cop was a jerk but she was stupid for continuing to engage him.

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bambam4LSU

7 hours ago

she totally understands the English language…3 times the cop told her to nicely fuck off,, she harassed the cop.. shut up and list twocan chew.. ,,, she got what she deserved…. get over it…

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mckdlee

8 hours ago

They are God given unalienable rights. Civil rights are from the government and can be taken away. Wake up America!

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Elisafaith13

15 hours ago 2

"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." – President Ronald Reagan

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Elisafaith13

15 hours ago

Although our fellow patriots will be released as of midnight tonight, we must contact the Austin Police Department as stated above and DEMAND a full public apology and also contact the Travis Co. DA and demand that all charges be dropped immediately! We are not a police state!

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Elisafaith13

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UPDATE "John, Chanda, Dan, Robin all getting out at midnight for $20 bail a piece by midnight tonight, collection taken up and bail is covered  ..THERE SHOULD BE AN UPRISING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS!! I cannot BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING IN MY CONSERVATIVE STATE!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSE! SHAME ON THESE OFFICERS-VIOLATING THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!!

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Elisafaith13

15 hours ago

Obummer cronies at work…POLICE STATEin OUR COUNTRY HAS STARTED  (HEROES) Chanda Seymour and John Bush have been arrested for exercising their rights of free speech and peaceful assembly at the Obama event in Austin! Please contact APD @ 512-974-5000; and let them know what you think of them violating the first amendment. You can also call Travis Co. DA Rosemary Lehmberg @ 512-854-9400

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wetweasel56

15 hours ago

This is Obama administration in action!

Change, Hope! You Liberals were duped!

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me262jet

16 hours ago

Cops like that are real tough on a woman. If it were a big biker dude they would have backed off. ……Also, WASHINGTON IS FUBAR…….

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via YouTube – Aug 9, 2010- Anti War Activist Chanda Panda arrested for Free Speech on UT Campus.

Love you, baby!!!!!!!! I got my second dog tag yesterday from tarrin for my second arrest in Nashua, NH.

I drew this in the car as john and I drove back to texas from new hampshire..

Babb had just picked up Donnelly after his release from federal prison in Pennsylvania.

“They singled me out for special treatment,” Donnelly told the Libertarian News Examiner.

George Donnelly Freed by
his federal captors late
Thursday (photo courtesy
George Donnelly)
He sat in a cold holding tank for hours and was, purposely he believes, the last person to be processed. Then he was given the archetypal orange jumpsuit and placed in “the hole” for the night.
George Donnelly, a Fr33 Agent contributor and Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) activist, had been shooting video of a peaceful FIJA outreach project Tuesday with friends and fellow libertarians Julian Heicklen and Jim Babb when he was jumped by US Marshals, forced to the pavement, had his camera wrenched from his hands, and hauled off to jail.
Libertarians responded fast and forcefully to the illegal abuse of Donnelly. Not only were his actions clearly within his human and Constitutional rights but a Department of Homeland Security document makes it clear that taking photos on federal property is not illegal.
Libertarians performed admirably online in getting the word out and publicizing Donnelly’s illegal seizure. It’s impossible to cover all of the news and websites in the spontaneously formed “Free George” movement so the following must serve as a sampling.
The Ideas & Minds website posted a full page Free George Action Alert that featured photos and quotes from the Libertarian News Examiner article, “Fed Marshals violently arrest FIJA activist, violate DHS policy” along with links to the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund and such Free State websites as New Hampshire Porcupine (audio announcement) and Free Keene among many others.

Read more here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-26370-Libertarian-News-Examiner~y2010m5d13-George-Donnelly-freed-from-federal-captivity

Brooke Kelley educating some Obama supporters, then getting arrested by Obama’s secret police for speaking.

CopsOutofControl — August 14, 2009 — Police Brutality: How does a law-abiding mom driving home with two kids end up being Tasered, handcuffed and arrested — while her children are left alone for 40 minutes in the car, waiting for someone to come get them?

Thats a question that Audra Harmon hopes will be answered by a lawsuit she has filed against the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriffs Department. In the process, she and her attorney told TODAYs Meredith Vieira Friday in New York, they hope to spur a debate over whether police should be carrying Tasers at all.

The suit, seeking unspecified monetary damages on an array of charges including false arrest and police brutality, has been filed, said attorney Terrance Hoffman, to bring awareness not only that anybody can be a potential victim, but also awareness to the police officers who have the Tasers to be a little more judicious and think it out a little more before they use this kind of device. Then the overall picture is whether or not Tasers should be used in law enforcement.

See the whole story here:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/3241443…

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CopsOutofControl — March 24, 2010 — University of Wisconsin Milwaukee March 15, Anthropology professor Kathleen Foley Winkler argues with a student then calls the police.

The student identified as Robyn Foster, yells back and forth with Foley Winkler who remains off camera, reportedly arguing over the wording of a question on a recent exam.

Things got heated and when a fellow student told Foster to sit down. Foster allegedly threw a water bottle compelling the professor to call campus police. That’s when an unnamed fellow student and intern at a Milwaukee TV station began recording the incident.

Campus police arrived and within seconds violently forced Foster to the ground as she was preparing to leave the classroom. Foster now faces a charge of disorderly conduct.
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The student identified as Robyn Foster, yells back and forth with Foley Winkler who remains off camera, reportedly arguing over the wording of a question on a recent exam.

Things got heated and when a fellow student told Foster to sit down. Foster allegedly threw a water bottle compelling the professor to call campus police. That’s when an unnamed fellow student and intern at a Milwaukee TV station began recording the incident.

Campus police arrived and within seconds violently forced Foster to the ground as she was preparing to leave the classroom. Foster now faces a charge of disorderly conduct.
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