Corruption Rises to the Top

Free Keene ^ | Sam Dodson

[citizenredstater9271]

On April 14th 2009, I was filming in the second floor lobby of Keene City hall. According to an unsigned document on the wall filming is prohibited. I was arrested and cuffed over a silver bracelet seen in the background of the video.

I dropped to the floor and as they dragged me around the bracelet was cutting into my wrist causing excruciating pain. Eli Rivera, now running for sheriff, found this rather amusing. This video depicts the events that happened before my camera was turned off.

A few months later Activist Kurt Hoffman was taken to the same back room where according to Rivera, he fell while trying to escape. No felony escape charges were ever filed, and according to Hoffman and a witness, Rivera tackled him, putting Hoffman in a wheelchair for several weeks.

[count-your-change]

So why did you film if filming is prohibited?

[Neidermeyer]

Perhaps since it was a public building and apparently the sign was inadequate in that it didn’t quote the statute making it a legal rule; either way it should have resulted in a polite “please turn the camera off” request, not jail ... I’m willing to bet there is a security system recording away in that building right now... shouldn’t the head of security be jailed?

[DariusBane]

So why does city hall deserve a regulation like that? Are politicians so afraid of disinfecting sunlight? Your simplistic question assumes that legitimacy flows from city hall.

From what I have seen in my 42 years of life legitimacy is NOT a feature of government.

city governments and city hall are a weird collusion of cops, courts, attorneys, bail bondsmen, tow truck operators and politicians. The politicians seem to have relatives who are cops, tow truck operators, bail bondsmen and attorneys.

All this goodness packaged into the nicest building in town.

So let's not pretend that legitimacy flows from city hall. We are not children after all.

[count-your-change]

Or more to the point, Sam is a civil disobedience “activist” and being arrested is exactly what he wanted to happen. Like his driving without a license was.

Now it's poor persecuted Sam, Where are the pictures of him swathed in bloody bandages from his bracelet ordeal?

Poor Sam, Too young to have been a part of those golden days of sit in protests and flower power, but he does try.

[count-your-change]

” We are not children after all.”

Some act like it. They call themselves “activists” as if that excuses whatever they wish to do.