Apathy Online

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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Police block Sec­tion of NH 10

Accord­ing to local accounts, Police in the Swanzey, NH area pulled over a dri­ver who responded vio­lently, injur­ing one offi­cer. The offi­cer then shot and killed the dri­ver. Accord­ing to the Union Leader (http://bit.ly/1C2B00), the inci­dent was drug related, but some details are con­tra­dic­tory and sketchy at the moment.

Police at the scene would not com­ment, but only said there would be more infor­ma­tion in the morn­ing, and that no civil­ians were allowed in the .8 mile stretch of Route 10. Route 10 was block from as early as 8pm Sat­ur­day evening, from Kemp­ton Road through the South end of West­port Vil­lage Road, in West­port NH. A few cars were seen attempt­ing to travel through the closed off area, but were detoured by the police.

Locals also noted that Police respond­ing to the scene were dri­ving fast and reck­lessly, nearly col­lid­ing with a pickup truck.

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