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« Reply #30 on: April 15, 2009, 10:58:51 AM » |
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Sam is more crazy than Lauren. I hope he doesn't starve to death.
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George Donnelly
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« Reply #31 on: April 15, 2009, 11:05:30 AM » |
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Sam is inspiring. Can't wait to see what he has to say about all this.
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Mike Barskey
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« Reply #32 on: April 15, 2009, 11:08:15 AM » |
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Reminder: please send Sam letters in jail! It is likely that the jailers will not deliver the letters to Sam at the moment because he is not cooperating with them, is not processing, etc. But it is important for the jailers to know that Sam is not alone or forgotten - that they are being watched. Also, the jailers will either give Sam his letters later or when they release him, or they will return the letters to the original sender (mail-to-jail) and I can give them to Sam later. Thanks for supporting Sam! Mail-to-Jail |
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« Reply #33 on: April 15, 2009, 12:21:10 PM » |
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Ivy reports that Sam is in on a $10,000 cash-only bail.
Also, they were planning on assigning him a court-appointed attorney who can act on his behalf without his permission, so Ivy will step forward as his representation to prevent them from taking that step. Sam is in no way required to accept this, but we figure it is better than the state attorney doing things in Sam's case without his consent.
I don't know how well I communicated that.
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« Reply #34 on: April 15, 2009, 12:36:15 PM » |
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Ivy will step forward as his representation to prevent them from taking that step
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Dalebert
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« Reply #35 on: April 15, 2009, 02:14:00 PM » |
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I met Ivy at Panera today. It was a great excuse to procrastinate on the comic a little bit and roller-blade in the beautiful weather. My car is in the shop.
She's trying to help while also being careful to respect Sam's wishes, which we are unfortunately unable to be 100% sure of because we can't communicate. He may not have been told clearly that it was not a court-appointed lawyer and I KNOW he would refuse that because their loyalties are compromised by their oaths and obligations to the court. I would too. Then again, they may have expected some kind of concession from him to even meet with her and I think he plans to hold firm on refusing any sort of demands from them. That would be my best guess as to what happened.
One thing I was thinking is that I've been wanting to do some general prisoner outreach and I wonder if we can find out how many victimless crime "offenders" are there and see if we can arrange to meet with any of those. Even though they're not one of our own, so to speak, my heart goes out to those people. They don't deserve this treatment. When one of our own goes to jail, it tends to remind me that I've wanted to do this. Maybe we'd even be lucky enough to at least pass by wherever Sam is and be able to wave.
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FTL_Ian
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« Reply #36 on: April 15, 2009, 04:06:54 PM » |
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Great idea. You'd have to talk to Superintendent Van Wickler about that. As of now he has not returned my call from today or Monday.
I saw him on the street in Keene a couple of weeks ago and we had a nice conversation, so I'm not sure why he's not calling back.
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Dalebert
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« Reply #37 on: April 15, 2009, 04:15:17 PM » |
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I would like to repeat my desire for a peaceful-activist cost counter for the Free Keene website. Right now, the aggressors of Sam and the others are wracking up all kinds of costs for tax payers that they deserve to know about. That money is coming out of our economy and being wasted during hard times.
I'll do what I can to help get this going but I honestly have no idea how to get started. Coconut, you seem to be in tune with that sort of thing. Any idea how to determine some reasonable approximation of the costs their incurring? It doesn't have to be perfect. In fact, if someone complains about our figures, we can use whatever information they provide to make it more accurate.
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Dalebert
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« Reply #38 on: April 15, 2009, 04:25:51 PM » |
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I just spoke with an officer at the Westmoreland jail and he says that they are holding someone under the name "Dodson" and that mail addressed as such should reach him. They aren't holding anyone under the name "John Doe".
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Mike Barskey
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« Reply #39 on: April 15, 2009, 04:39:25 PM » |
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Thanks for the research and news, Dalebert!
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Sams Dad
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« Reply #40 on: April 15, 2009, 04:41:09 PM » |
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Do you know if the Keene police executed a search warrant at his house today?
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Kevin Freeheart
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« Reply #41 on: April 15, 2009, 05:09:42 PM » |
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Umm...
What is the charge of "POSSESSION OF PROPERTY WITHOUT SERIAL NUMBER"? That's one of the charges being pressed against "John Doe" who was arrested at Keene District Court, which I am pretty sure is Sam.
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You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: an allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power. -- J.R.R. Tolkien (Author, "Lord of the Rings")
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« Reply #42 on: April 15, 2009, 05:49:30 PM » |
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VanWickler never called me back either. I left a message for him after being effed with by Officer Hodge... evening shift.
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Dalebert
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« Reply #43 on: April 15, 2009, 06:20:15 PM » |
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My concern was related to the trumped up charge of no serial number crap.
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George Donnelly
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« Reply #44 on: April 15, 2009, 09:44:30 PM » |
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Listening to FTL ... It seems like the cops are playing a waiting game. To counter that, we need to bring pressure to bear - constant and ever-increasing pressure.
I wonder if we should call news organizations, the ACLU and similar organizations, etc?
I wrote Sam a letter and am asking ppl to do the same via my blog and my 1K person twitter network. Tomorrow I'll call the jail and probably write about that. I'll make a donation to the CD Network (if PayPal will work with me, dislike them).
What else? From afar this seems like the road to success is all about getting the word out (unless Ivy's Habeas Corpus petition works - hope so).
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