Hi all,
My name is Dan Binnun, I was born in keene in 1985.
I lived here through high school, i am a product of the keene educational system
I now work as an engineer in town at Markem-Imaje (formerly Markem, before conglomocorp bought and ruined the culture there)
Basically, i have long noticed that Keene is severe need of change - i want to help you folks out, demonstrate, do whatever i can to help people wake up socially - if anyone can email or PM me with contact information of who to get in touch with that would be great.
I welcome whoever PMs me to come to my home (in Keene) and smoke some tobacco water pipes with me, enlighten me as to what i can do to help, and help me meet more like minded people.
-Dan
I should add a bit about my general disposition
I am very anti Big Brother, it sickens me that privacy has gone by the way side - it sickens me that PEOPLE DON'T CARE that their freedoms and privacy have gone by the wayside.
I think its absolutely horrible the atrocities that public officials (if you can even call them that) get away with, and the crimes that police (protect and serve…not so much) partake in and are not punished for.
They are simply there (IMO) to steal money to give to the state, so the state can waste it.
I would love to meet people that share similar views - make new friends basically, i cant get on the same level as the corpo-whores i work with, they all make me sick, with their "human capitol" lingo, concern for benefit of the company instead of the people they work with, and general "drone-ness".
Anyways, looking forward to hearing from some people.
-Dan
Well, Dan, I hate to break it to you, but you're not really "from" Keene.
The Keene Sentinel and the "Free Keene from Free Keeners" groups have found that "Free Keene" is composed entirely of outside agitators from other states who moved to keene to drink beer and smoke pot and promote anarchy in the town common. So, you obviously don't qualify.
;) ;D 8)
Welcome aboard, Dan! And as KBC said, maybe you should move away for a day, and the move back, because thre are those who are convinced that we are all recent wash-ashores 
Hmmmm…
I did live in CT during my college years, in hartford.
Does that count???
Also, since when does the keene sentinel have any journalistic ability or credibility…must have been prior to 1985.
Where have you been this whole time? When I visited Keene I was shocked at how few people had ever heard of freekeene or the liberty activists. I mean, for crying out loud, Keene is a small town. With the kind of stuff the Keeniacs do everybody within a 30 mile radius of Keene should know of freekeene. It's sad that more people in other states know more of freekeene than actual Keene residents. Anyways. I wish I were in Keene now, I'd drop by at say hello.
Good luck, dude! You've got a great group of people who will welcome you with open arms. I definitely don't have that in California, which is why I plan on being in your neck of the woods soon.
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It's sad that more people in other states know more of freekeene than actual Keene residents.
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Seems good to me.
I guess I was afraid to join the cause to be honest.
I'm very paranoid of big brother, I always bucked the system, and recently I've realized to make a difference you have to take action, not just talk.
So I found the youtube 420 videos and thought, "those are my kinda people"
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It's sad that more people in other states know more of freekeene than actual Keene residents.
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Seems good to me.
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I agree. It supports the notion that it's a few noisy people who are afraid we're going to be effective rather than this idea that those mostly calm, quiet 420 events are somehow massively disruptive to everyday life in Keene.
Actually, the least significant thing about me is where I live, so now that I have visited Keene, I consider that to be my home town. The location bigotry is promulgated by teh political hacks who seek varying degrees of enslavement of people based on location. I am currently in Kuparuk, AK, and I own a residence in Wasilla, AK, but as long as the liberty activists are strong in Keene, I consider that my home.
Hi Dan!
I too have been here almost my whole life.
I also work in the label/barcode industry. I realize Markem-Imaje does much more than that now, but they are also one of our distributors/customers
[quote author=elkingrey link=topic=4314.msg47846#msg47846 date=1290925776]It's sad that more people in other states know more of freekeene than actual Keene residents. Anyways. I wish I were in Keene now, I'd drop by at say hello.
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Are you really surprised? Most people are too busy with their own lives to pay attention to things happening around them.
[quote]I also work in the label/barcode industry. I realize Markem-Imaje does much more than that now, but they are also one of our distributors/customers[/quote]
Eh…we dont really do much more than that - we print date codes and bar codes on consumer goods. Bottom line of the business.
Where do you work?
[quote]Are you really surprised? Most people are too busy with their own lives to pay attention to things happening around them. [/quote]
This is sadly true - trivial, but good example…
Do you have any idea how many of my friends from college STILL use facebook and farmville and that garbage even after knowing they sold their private information?
How foolish can you be?
[quote]Where have you been this whole time? When I visited Keene I was shocked at how few people had ever heard of freekeene or the liberty activists. I mean, for crying out loud, Keene is a small town. With the kind of stuff the Keeniacs do everybody within a 30 mile radius of Keene should know of freekeene[/quote]
I stated in an old post of mine that you guys in keene wont be going anyplace to fast if you do not have the publics support.Smoking in the common is all well in good but,dont you think that its going to look bad to quite a few people and,who are those people?Theyre the public.Open carry litter pick up,that stuff is great.Thats for the common good of everybody,keep it up.This winter why dont you try having open carry free snow shoveling for the elderly.Winning public support is 90% of the battle.Just my 2 cents worth.
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dont you think that its going to look bad to quite a few people and,who are those people?Theyre the public.
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Which people are not the public?
I think you get my meaning 
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I think you get my meaning
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The only meaning of yours I got is that the opinions of some people matter more than the opinions of other people.
Or put another way, "everyone is the public, but some people are more public than others."
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[quote]Where have you been this whole time? When I visited Keene I was shocked at how few people had ever heard of freekeene or the liberty activists. I mean, for crying out loud, Keene is a small town. With the kind of stuff the Keeniacs do everybody within a 30 mile radius of Keene should know of freekeene[/quote]
I stated in an old post of mine that you guys in keene wont be going anyplace to fast if you do not have the publics support.Smoking in the common is all well in good but,dont you think that its going to look bad to quite a few people and,who are those people?Theyre the public.Open carry litter pick up,that stuff is great.Thats for the common good of everybody,keep it up.This winter why dont you try having open carry free snow shoveling for the elderly.Winning public support is 90% of the battle.Just my 2 cents worth.
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You should do that!
That's not what he said.
It's pretty clear that if you piss everyone off, not only are you not going affect the body politic, you won't even win hearts and minds. If it looks like you're just a bunch of snotty kids who want to drink and smoke pot, and who refuse to get along in society (that's the message people get from that - when you break laws), they won't ever consider your positions. Even if the damned federal government does finally go bankrupt, and new governance needs to be established, and you've got a chance for a fresh start, the libertarians' wet dream, one of the first things people will know for sure is that YOUR ideas are NOT the ones to be used. The first thing they'll do is go after you if they feel like they have to.
Do I sound like I'm presuming too much? Well, I'm not. Statism is thoroughly engrained in the vast majority of people's minds. And they view following the law as one of the most basic ways of getting along with everyone else in society - not your guys' strict, weird definition of non-agression, property rights, or what have you. They view flouting the law as a sign that you are not willing to work together with other people in a society.