NH Brass Balls

After calling the police chief to announce his intentions, he walked around a Manchester park for a couple of hours asking people why marijuana is illegal, while holding a bud of it in his hands.

Cassidy displayed courage in the face of gender oppression when being arrested for walking around topless to protest indecency laws that affect women in Keene, NH. While the males around her were also topless, they were not detained. Cassidy was able to remain calm and even got the arresting cop to agree that she had some valid points.

Charlie tried to attend the public arraignment of Mike Barskey, but before he could even walk into the courtroom, Jesse was confronted and arrested for not removing his hat in the courtroom. Still outside the courtroom, in the lobby, Charlie attempted to ask the bailiffs about the hat-wearing rule: why did it exist? what law allowed such a rule to exist? etc.

For their performance in "The Candia Horse Caper" as seen on the Ridley Report, wherein our heroes, Cooper and Beth, stopped the SPCA agent deputy known locally as "Steve" from coming on the property, and also stopped the police reinforcement, and wherein Cooper ended up being taken for a ride by the Blue Light Gang.

At the arraignment for Dave Ridley in Keene on April 13, 2009, David was one of 6 activists who refused to leave the courthouse lobby when ordered to by a cop. David heard Sam screaming in pain in another room and he remained in the lobby and quietly, peacefully asked about Sam's welfare and sat on a bench.

Ian tenants have had a couch on their front lawn for 2 years, but just recently a city government official, the Couch Enforcer, sloppily wrote a ticket for "code violations" and littered it on Ian's property. When Ian didn't respond, a second ticket was issued, doubling the fee to $200.

Ivy Walker drove in New Hampshire for over a year without registering her vehicle or having it inspected, and subsequently turned a trial for such run-of-the-mill charges into a major headache for the State.

The idea of burning a flag is well-known and not new, but Jesse's take on it was extra potent. He burned a United Nations flag, a United States flag, and a New Hampshire flag simultaneously. And he did it in public...the day before a national election...on the same street-corner as many US-presidential-candidate-supporting sign-holders.

In the same court and with the same judge that had him arrested about a month previously for not removing his hat, Jesse refused to remove his hat in the court. He presented his constitutional argument to the same bailiffs, who told him he had to remove his hat. Then he told the clerks and they said that the judge demanded Jesse filled out a motion.

While being searched to enter the public courtroom for the arraignment of Dave Ridley, which Kurt recognizes as an unconstitutional search, Sam Dodson was arrested and shoved by cops in a room and Kurt and others heard Sam screaming.

Barskey was pulled over for speeding and cited for that, for driving without a NH driver license, and for his passenger having an open container (an empty beer bottle).

Despite his innocence of carrying a loaded gun in his car, and despite ample "reasonable doubt" he presented to the judge, the judge found him guilty of 4 of the 6 charges - including the gun charge! (the other 2 charges were null-proc-ed by the prosecutor).

A cop gave Nick a speeding ticket and Nick fought it. In court, Nick refused to use the court's terminology regarding who he was. The judge wanted to know if he was Nicholas J Ryder, and Nick only said "That is the name on my drivers license" and "That is what people call me." Nick also challenged the story the cop gave, essentially calling the cop a liar.