Keene, New Hampshire, Continues Legal Fight Against Free Staters Paying Meters, Speaking to Th

[Keith and stuff]

Keene, New Hampshire, Continues Legal Fight Against Free Staters Paying Meters, Speaking to Their Meter Enforcement Agents
Brian Doherty|Oct. 6, 2014 7:37 pm
http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/06/ke...ues-legal-figh

The Keene government will not let this go. Keene still claims that the entire city is a 1st Amendment Free Zone. Reason gets it wrong, also. Keene isn't suing just free staters. Only about half of the people named in the lawsuit are free staters. Only one of the people even does Robinhooding, as far as a know, and he isn't a free stater. The city government knows this. It couldn't care less about the facts.

The text might be confusing because Brian quotes stuff a couple of times and I didn't bother to fix the formatting. If it confuses you, just click on the link.

The city of Keene, New Hampshire, continues to spend its citizens money trying to prevent local Free State Project activists from daring to pay expired meters and talk to meter enforcement officers, as reported in the New Hampshire Union-Leader:

The city’s appeal of the dismissed lawsuit against ‘Robin Hooders’ is set to come before the state Supreme Court this month...In the city appeal, [city hired attorney Charles P.] Bauer argues that the Cheshire County Superior Court erred in finding the Robin Hooders’ actions are protected under free speech.

“The defendants do not have a First Amendment right to create hostile conditions that are intended to force municipal employees to choose between suffering daily and ongoing harassment or quitting their jobs,” Bauer states in the appeal filed with the Supreme Court in June.

The city filed a lawsuit in May 2013 against six citizens who are part of a group who have dubbed themselves Robin Hood of Keene....All but one in the group admitted to patrolling downtown armed with video cameras and pockets full of change to fill expired parking meters before a city parking enforcement officer can issue a ticket....

Then the city filed a second suit in September 2013 seeking monetary damages from the citizens. But:

In December, both civil lawsuits by the city against the group were dismissed by Cheshire County Superior Court judge John Kissinger.

In his Dec. 3 decisions, Kissinger granted the group’s motions to dismiss based on their argument that it was within their constitutional right to free speech.

I blogged in May about the state's earlier failed efforts to punish Keene's anti-meter maid activism in court.

[JK/SEA]

In Seattle's downtown, they use these meters that use your debit/credit card....

[Keith and stuff]

In Seattle's downtown, they use these meters that use your debit/credit card....

What about poor people that don't have a bank account or good credit? Does Seattle hate the poor?

[phill4paul]

[jbauer]

So I'm lost. I can gift $13,000 per year per individual without filing an additional tax form. It matters not how i chose to give it. Be it cash, property or quarters at a time.

The city is still getting their fee to park at a public parking spot

What else do they want?

[Jackie Moon]

Generally speaking we are upstanding law-abiding citizens, give or take what happens behind closed doors in the neighborhood of Sunset and Gower on occasion, but it would appear we really stepped across the thin blue line during the run of the late great jackass TV show when Danger Ehren donned a pink tutu and pranced hard—so hard—around the streets of Portland, Oregon, bestowing quarters upon those parked souls in need of a helping hand.

Little did we know this was actually a heinous crime on par with certain forms of manslaughter and, perhaps, human organ trafficking on the black market, but you're going to have to take into account I don't know $#@! from peanut butter when it comes to the long, short, or baby arm of the law. By the way, should you or anyone you know be in possession of a baby arm, I salute you, but that's beside the point, the point being this is just another half-ass reach around on yet another random ass news story to break wind in America:

http://www.dickhouse.tv/dickhouse/20...y-fallout.html

[ClydeCoulter]

So I'm lost. I can gift $13,000 per year per individual without filing an additional tax form. It matters not how i chose to give it. Be it cash, property or quarters at a time.

The city is still getting their fee to park at a public parking spot

What else do they want?

I know you already know, but I'm going to say it anyway.

You must follow the rules that are put in place by those who are smarter. /sarc

You must pay when you don't follow the rules. /sarc

Only bad people let their meters run out, good people have a reserved parking spot. /sarc

The city needs revenues and bad people should supply them. /sarc

[Schifference]

[GunnyFreedom]

It's the freedom to be offensive, not the freedom from being offended.

[GunnyFreedom]

This just proves that it's not about parking revenue, but compliance with authority. You will be their slave, or you will be their prisoner.

[Suzanimal]