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Brad Jardis, Epping PD offi­cer and Anti-prohibition activist was kicked out from Law Enforce­ment Against Pro­hi­bi­tion for refus­ing to obey an immoral law and arrest peo­ple who use mar­i­juana for med­ical rea­sons. Ear­lier this month, Jardis cited his oath to uphold the con­sti­tu­tion of New Hamp­shire as super­sed­ing any laws that con­tra­dict it in a post on FreeKeene.com. In a let­ter writ­ten to Jardis, Jack Cole, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of LEAP states that Jardis, “cho­sen to vio­late the oath you took on join­ing the police depart­ment; to enforce all the laws of the fed­eral and state gov­ern­ments in which your police depart­ment has juris­dic­tion.“
Full Let­ter below & Dis­cus­sion on the Free­Keene forum:

Dear Bradley Jardis,

I have tried but am unable to reach you by telephone.

It has come to LEAP’s atten­tion from the below blog entry, that you have
cho­sen to vio­late the oath you took on join­ing the police depart­ment; to
enforce all the laws of the fed­eral and state gov­ern­ments in which your
police depart­ment has juris­dic­tion. And worse, you are call­ing on other law
enforce­ment offi­cials to vio­late their oaths of office.

This is the oppo­site of what LEAP requires of our rep­re­sen­ta­tives. We have
always said that we will in no way ask that any law enforcer decline to do
his or her duty by refus­ing to enforce the laws as they are cur­rently
recorded. That would be uneth­i­cal and wrong. What we do call on them for is
take action on their off-duty time to help us change those laws.

Because you have so bla­tantly stepped over that line, your actions have
caused peo­ple to lose respect for our orga­ni­za­tion, which leads to a loss of
our cred­i­bil­ity within the pub­lic, the media and the pol­i­cy­mak­ers; the very
peo­ple whom we are try­ing to con­vince to change these laws.

The Exec­u­tive Board of Law Enforce­ment Against Pro­hi­bi­tion was made aware of
your actions in their Jan­u­ary 22, 2010 Board meet­ing. They were unan­i­mous in
their deci­sion that you must no longer rep­re­sent Law Enforce­ment Against
Pro­hi­bi­tion while espous­ing this belief.

As Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of LEAP, I there­fore am noti­fy­ing you that,
effec­tively imme­di­ately, you are to stop refer­ring to your­self as a speaker
for or mem­ber of LEAP in your pub­li­ca­tions, inter­views, and pub­lic or
pri­vate addresses.

Sin­cerely,

Jack A. Cole
Exec­u­tive Direc­tor
Law Enforce­ment Against Pro­hi­bi­tion
121 Mys­tic Avenue, Med­ford, MA 02155
(781) 393‑6985 LEAP Office (781) 393 2964 FAX
(781) 396‑0183 Home Office (617) 792‑3877 Cell
jack­a­cole [at] leap [dot] cc www.leap.cc

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Videos from Sam’s Trial are being uploaded now that the trial is over. Video of the first part of the trial on 7/31 has been posted on youtube. Addi­tional videos will be posted below.

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New FSP Mover, “Big Mike,” being inspired by Keene activist Andrew Carroll’s Mar­i­juana protest ear­lier this year decided to do some­thing sim­i­lar yes­ter­day: walk around Man­ches­ter with a Mar­i­juana bud in his hand.

After leav­ing a mes­sage for the Chief of Police in Man­ches­ter, Mike held a mar­i­juana bud in his hand at vic­tory park. He asked peo­ple pass­ing by if peo­ple should be jailed for hold­ing just the bud like he was. After no police showed up, he walked to the police sta­tion, bud in hand, to ask the police there the same ques­tion. After show­ing the sec­re­tary the mar­i­juana bud and wait­ing a half hour for a police offi­cer to answer his ques­tion, he left.

You see the orig­i­nal story at Free­keene, and the forum post.

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Marc Emery is a mar­i­juana activist who is being impris­oned for sell­ing mar­i­juana seeds on the inter­net. Ral­lies are being held world­wide in sup­port of Emery, and there is one in Keene, NH. Bring a friend a show your sup­port for mak­ing plants legal again. Respond at the orig­i­nal Face­book post.

Date: Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 19, 2009
Time: 2:00pm — 5:00pm
Loca­tion: Cen­tral Square
City/Town: Keene, NH
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