Government and corrupt corporations are in need of accountability. As free individuals, you and everyone you know have the right to make that happen. Injustices happen all the time and many, unfortunately, go unnoticed.
Now that many have recognised this need, government agents and their respective agencies have been drafting and enforcing policies to essentially censor independent media – especially media outlets that have vested interests in exposing corruption. When it comes to covering news stories about government actions, if you are not NBC, ABC, FOX or MSN, your analyzation of the facts or opinion on the matter is null and void.
One way you can be an agent of liberty – a FR33agent (a label I’ve grown to like), is by aiming the camera at the corruption taking place before your eyes. We produce media everyday, on facebook, twitter, tumblr, youtube, whatever…
Take a moment away from filming your pet squirrel on mini water skis and add some meaning to what you produce. Let’s put the spotlight back on reality. Long live the free press!
Above is the video encounter with myself and the Londonderry police officer who claims audio recording him is illegal.
An unknown, because I forgot to get his name (major fail), Londonderry Police officer tried to tell me that audio recording police doing their public duty was illegal. At one point stating, “check yourself.” Since I’m already facing three counts of wiretapping, and have spent the last year caught up in court cases, I turned the camera off. I told the officer that he was wrong and left to seek the others who came to support Kelly and her TSA activism – see this video of the demonstration.
It amazes me that public officials (especially police officers) still feel they have an expectation of privacy while conducting public duties. Again how, after the national publicity Glik received and the ever growing cell phone technology, can anyone – let alone police – have any expectation of privacy while in public or open space is beyond me. If the bank on the corner isn’t filming you, the gas station is and if not those I bet someone is near by with a smart phone. Unless you’re in your own home, on your own property, you have no expectation of privacy, sorry.
The solution to this would be to rid ourselves of public servants and replace them with privately run businesses. This way when officer Londonderry tells me I can’t film the actions which I pay him for, I can simply stop paying him and find someone who provides the service I want. You don’t see me making videos about Piggly Wiggly (grocery store chain) and the bad service I feel they provide. Why is that? Because I’m able to go to Market Basket (another grocery chain) instead and Piggly Wiggly isn’t allow to force me to pay for their service (which is food distribution). If only policing were the same.
KEENE – On Friday night, Michele 7 was leaving the Fr33 Agents studio as she was handed a hand drawn flyer by Derrick J. Last night, while the police cleared the formerly occupied Liberty Plaza on Wall Street, M7 made the brochure below to encourage the 99% to opt-out of coercive and monopolistic “service” providers like governments and corporations. As an alternative to these legal fictions, this brochure by M7 and Derrick J encourages occupiers to consider agorism and voluntaryism. The non-aggression principle is also featured which according to Wikipedia is:
The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, the anti-coercion principle, the zero aggression principle, the non-initiation of force), or NAP for short, is a moral stance which asserts that aggression is inherently illegitimate. Aggression, for the purposes of the NAP, is defined as the initiation or threatening of violence against a person or legitimately owned property of another. Specifically, any unsollicited actions of others that physically affect an individual’s property, including that person’s body, no matter if the result of those actions is damaging, beneficiary or neutral to the owner, are considered violent when they are against the owner’s free will and interfere with his right to self-ownership. Supporters of NAP believe it demonstrates the immorality of theft, vandalism, assault, and fraud. In contrast to pacifism, the non-aggression principle does not preclude violence used in self-defense.
Derrick J. is on his way to Wall Street, with Cop Block’s Ademo Freeman, intent to pass these brochures out and recruit more Fr33 Agents with M7. They will be there when Liberty Plaza is under seize by the New York Police Department as the “99%” plan to take it back along with the rest of Wall St.
As with everything at #Fr33, this is brochure is open source so please share how this can be improved in the future or design your own and share it here. You can support more #occupy outreach like this by investing in Fr33 Agents.
GREENFIELD, MA – Jason Repsher, Hannah Hoffman and I agreed to try and score an interview with any/all the jurors, offering $20 for 5 minutes. One accepted and his name is Darcy Merchant, a man who “Cop Blocked” from inside the jury room. He was one of the first two jurors, out of six, who said “NOT GUILTY” from the beginning. Darcy persuaded the other jurors, allowing a united jury to deliver the “Not Guilty” verdict to the State. Darcy makes it clear that Pete and Ademo “would be in jail if it weren’t for the video.”
The following is our interview with Darcy Merchant, Cop Blocking Juror from Orange, Massachusetts:
Talley.TV: What points were the 6 jurors deliberating?
Merchant: Whether he intentionally sent the telephone conversation. That was a big sticking point.
Talley.TV: How did the jury reach it’s “not guilty” verdict?
Merchant: We started to talk about how if you were surrounded by a couple of police officers and prison guards you could possibly forget that you were attempting to make a phone call during all the confusion.
Repsher: You said that when [the 6 person jurory] first met it was a 4 / 2 [split]?
Merchant: Yeah, 4 / 2 to convict.
Repsher: Wow, Unbelievable.
Merchant: Yea, it was pretty close.
Repsher: 4 / 2 against?
Merchant: 4 / 2 for them to go to jail.
Talley.TV: For both of them?
Merchant: Yes.
Repsher: Oh my gosh.
Talley: So what swung [the vote] around?
Merchant: The Video Tape. I believe that [Ademo] could have been confused. I don’t think that [Ademo] was intentionally trying to wiretap. That was my point. They ran the tape a couple of times and everyone eventually agreed.
Talley.TV: So do you think that because Pete and Ademo took video that it [proved their innocence]?
Merchant: It helped. They would be in jail if it weren’t for the video.
Talley.TV: How did the defense and prosecution handle themselves?
Merchant: The defendants got the police officer to admit he lied, or was at least wrong on a couple of occasions. I don’t know if you really want to call him a liar but that’s how I felt.
Talley.TV: What about the prosecution?
Merchant: I just didn’t think he did a very good job.
Talley.TV: Why do you think the prosecution pushed the case?
Merchant: Because he didn’t like you guys, didn’t like your t-shirts. Didn’t like what you thought. They were mad at you. That’s my personal opinion.
Talley.TV: He’s probably really mad right now.
Merchant: Probably. Those are the breaks.
[ Ademo walks up and asks more questions and Darcy gets him up to speed. Ademo agrees to give Darcy a Cop Block t-shirt. ]
Merchant: We threw out the testimony of Dodge because you got him to either admit he was wrong or that he lied on at least two occasions.
Merchant: The way the statute was worded you had to willing do it. You have to think about it. I was just stuck on the fact that once they were around you it would be pretty simple to forget you were making a phone call.
Merchant: I didn’t believe that just because I hear a recording that – I didn’t know where it came from – I mean, honestly, I don’t know if you got to the police station and they recorded you because they were pissed at you. Just because you have a badge doesn’t mean I believe what you have to say.
The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund has agreed to help fund more jury outreach. Typically it will be in the Shire, but our first successful interview with this approach was in Greenfield, MA where the “State” was prosecuting Pete Eyre and Ademo Mueller for allegedly wiretapping some public servants. You can learn plenty more about this case at CopBlock.org/Greenfield or Pete’s recent blog post with footage from the trial thanks to Beau Davis of Liberty on Tour.
The weekend after the trial, Ademo had the random opportunity to meet up with Darcy Merchant in Keene. Many liberty activists work to improve their effectiveness in outreach. Pete and Ademo’s targeted outreach to those 6 jurors proved that our ideas can connect with jurors. Chances are, many of them may have been the victim of government violence or knows someone who has. Lets hope that more jurys will have their Darcy Merchants standing up for transparency against a state that takes away rights instead of protecting them.
GREENFIELD, MA – Jason Repsher, Hannah Hoffman and I agreed to try and score an interview with any/all the jurors, offering $20 for 5 minutes. One accepted and his name is Darcy Merchant, a man who “Cop Blocked” from inside the jury room. He was one of the first two jurors, out of six, who said “NOT GUILTY” from the beginning. Darcy persuaded the other jurors, allowing a united jury to deliver the “Not Guilty” verdict to the State. Darcy makes it clear that Pete and Ademo “would be in jail if it weren’t for the video.”
The following is our interview with Darcy Merchant, Cop Blocking Juror from Orange, Massachusetts:
Talley.TV: What points were the 6 jurors deliberating?
Merchant: Whether he intentionally sent the telephone conversation. That was a big sticking point.
Talley.TV: How did the jury reach it’s “not guilty” verdict?
Merchant: We started to talk about how if you were surrounded by a couple of police officers and prison guards you could possibly forget that you were attempting to make a phone call during all the confusion.
Repsher: You said that when [the 6 person jurory] first met it was a 4 / 2 [split]?
Merchant: Yeah, 4 / 2 to convict.
Repsher: Wow, Unbelievable.
Merchant: Yea, it was pretty close.
Repsher: 4 / 2 against?
Merchant: 4 / 2 for them to go to jail.
Talley.TV: For both of them?
Merchant: Yes.
Repsher: Oh my gosh.
Talley: So what swung [the vote] around?
Merchant: The Video Tape. I believe that [Ademo] could have been confused. I don’t think that [Ademo] was intentionally trying to wiretap. That was my point. They ran the tape a couple of times and everyone eventually agreed.
Talley.TV: So do you think that because Pete and Ademo took video that it [proved their innocence]?
Merchant: It helped. They would be in jail if it weren’t for the video.
Talley.TV: How did the defense and prosecution handle themselves?
Merchant: The defendants got the police officer to admit he lied, or was at least wrong on a couple of occasions. I don’t know if you really want to call him a liar but that’s how I felt.
Talley.TV: What about the prosecution?
Merchant: I just didn’t think he did a very good job.
Talley.TV: Why do you think the prosecution pushed the case?
Merchant: Because he didn’t like you guys, didn’t like your t-shirts. Didn’t like what you thought. They were mad at you. That’s my personal opinion.
Talley.TV: He’s probably really mad right now.
Merchant: Probably. Those are the breaks.
[ Ademo walks up and asks more questions and Darcy gets him up to speed. Ademo agrees to give Darcy a Cop Block t-shirt. ]
Merchant: We threw out the testimony of Dodge because you got him to either admit he was wrong or that he lied on at least two occasions.
Merchant: The way the statute was worded you had to willing do it. You have to think about it. I was just stuck on the fact that once they were around you it would be pretty simple to forget you were making a phone call.
Merchant: I didn’t believe that just because I hear a recording that – I didn’t know where it came from – I mean, honestly, I don’t know if you got to the police station and they recorded you because they were pissed at you. Just because you have a badge doesn’t mean I believe what you have to say.
The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund has agreed to help fund more jury outreach. Typically it will be in the Shire, but our first successful interview with this approach was in Greenfield, MA where the “State” was prosecuting Pete Eyre and Ademo Mueller for allegedly wiretapping some public servants. You can learn plenty more about this case at CopBlock.org/Greenfield or Pete’s recent blog post with footage from the trial thanks to Beau Davis of Liberty on Tour.
The weekend after the trial, Ademo had the random opportunity to meet up with Darcy Merchant in Keene. Many liberty activists work to improve their effectiveness in outreach. Pete and Ademo’s targeted outreach to those 6 jurors proved that our ideas can connect with jurors. Chances are, many of them may have been the victim of government violence or knows someone who has. Lets hope that more jurys will have their Darcy Merchants standing up for transparency against a state that takes away rights instead of protecting them.
GREENFIELD, MA – Surrounded by supporters in front of the Mobile Authority Resistance Vehicle (MARV), Ademo Freeman and Pete Eyre discuss the “NOT GUILTY” verdict that six jurors delivered to disappointed employees of the State.
In a historic decision, jurors sided with the freedom activists over the law enforcers who attacked Pete and Ademo, eventually kidnapping and caging them for video recording. This may lead to more activists beating the system in court as well as in the streets. I’m working on a video where we interview the juror who told the other 5 members of the jury that he would have sat there all day to ensure that Ademo and Pete went free.
The photo below shows some of the 60+ people who showed up on either or both of the two days Pete & Ademo were on trial in Greenfield, MA:
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