If you loved last week’s debut of AKPF #1, you’re going to be anxious for next week after you see the latest episode of Cheshire county’s hottest new variety series. Now available through AquaKeene, Free Concord is pleased to present episode 02, Monolith.
1. 00:10 Opening AKPF/ATHF Crossover Ska Theme
2. 01:40 Graham introduces the first submission by Trotting Bear Studios Martial Arts and Fitness Center
3. 02:22 Nintendo Mario Super Robin Hooding Video Game
4. 06:07 Fancy Pants People’s science universe hour with special guest Michio Kaku
4. 14:09 The latest from the Rich Paul trial courtesy http://freeconcord.org
5. 28:22 Closing credits with Sarge Stern and MJ
Special guest host Graham Colson reps the AKPF #1. Ep. 03 premieres May 27 2013.
Prince John, on behalf of his court jesters and their enforcement units, has penned a desperate response to the global outpouring of support received by Robin Hood and the Merry Men following the royalty’s frivolous lawsuit against us. Through a royal proclamation published in Saturday’s Sentinel, the Prince builds upon his deceitful characterization of individuals that he first perpetuated in a Keene Sentinel cover story over a month ago. Prince John continues to demonize those who participate in Robin Hooding, conflating our actions to ‘intimidation’ and ‘harassment’.
Court Jester Thomas Mullins
Considering the amount of self-righteous fluff sandwiching the Prince’s sentences, royalty seems to understand the extent to which they have dug themselves into a hole with a baseless lawsuit against six activists. Whatever the city’s true motives, we can trust in our leaders that this action had “nothing to do” with revenue. “The city has no interest in whether or not these or other individuals wish to pay the parking meters, and no claim about this practice is made in the legal action…This is definitely not about parking meter money. On behalf of your mayor, Kendall Lane, your elected city councilor, and your dedicated city employees, we are all honored to work for you and this wonderful community,” MacLean assures. Fancying himself an omniscient ruler of his subjects, the Prince even alleges that he can peer into the minds of those he sues. Weaving two different interpretations of the motives of the Merry Men, the Prince begins,
By now you are all aware that the city of Keene commenced legal action against six individuals who have been conducting and coordinating a six-month campaign of pursuit and intimidation of the city’s parking enforcement officers with the stated intention of eliminating their employment, and with them a department of city government.
Through these words, one infers that the Prince has evidence that Robin Hood and the Merry Men have overtly stated an intention of “eliminating [the enforcers'] employment”. As an individual merry man, I have never stated an intention to eliminate any particular person’s employment, and I would doubt his royalty’s ability to prove that any such statement was ever made on behalf of Robin Hood and the Merry Men. But just then, John contradicts himself.
Contrary to these individuals’ stated motives, and apparently accepted without much question by some in the media, this activity is not about placing coins into parking meters.
The Prince has become so drunken with authority that he cannot even get the alleged story of his subversive subjects straight! Is Robin Hooding officially about filling meters and saving the civilian population from tickets, or terminating the employment of otherwise replaceable enforcers?
Though the city’s lengthy, vague lawsuit makes no attempt to restrict the six defendants’ access to parking enforcers outside of their duty, Prince John alleges in his proclamation that the lawsuit was motivated “…against these individuals after the pursuit and harassment began to extend to the officers even while they were off duty and on their own time enjoying the city as ordinary citizens”. How the stakes have escalated! In their own lawsuit, one of the parking enforcers cites one instance in which he had a brief unwanted encounter with one of the participants in Robin Hooding while off-duty during enforcement hours. Though this incident had nothing to do with Robin Hood of Keene, the Prince would have the citizenry believe that individuals are coordinating the disturbance of city employees in the course of their private lives. If this were the case, it would certainly be grounds for criminal charges of harassment, as defined by NH RSA 644:4. But the Prince knows that no matter how much he may desire it be so, that even in his own courts, nothing done by the Merry (wo)Men could possibly classify as criminal conduct. It seems slanderous that royalty would be permitted to throw around criminal language such as ‘harassment’ without even trying to qualify what behavior fits this criminal description. I can say with confidence that at no time while I have been out filling meters for the good people of Keene, have I ever engaged in behavior that was intended to harass, demean, or dehumanize any of the city’s parking enforcers. And, in all of the time that I have spent filling meters and not harassing parking officers, not once have I observed Prince John among the people on the streets. In the true spirit of a conceited elitist, royalty made no attempt to negotiate with the Merry Men before attempting to throw them all under the legal bus. Fortunately, the burden of proof is on his highness, and despite his fallacious allegations, we have yet to be presented with evidence of any specific incident of harassment against any of the units under the Prince’s employ.
Over the course of Robin Hooding, I’ve experienced each parking enforcer on their own better and worse days. Whether I have spent a shift having a jovial conversation, in silence, or on the receiving end of petty insults from a parking enforcer, I have reciprocated nothing but positive energy. Shame on Prince John for spreading negativity and misinformation about individuals whom he has never so much as invested one minute to learn from.
On last evening’s episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Robin Hood of Keene is introduced and summarized, with Garret’s hair seeming to perplex Questlove. Featuring footage from a Good Morning America piece which had aired earlier in the day. Segment begins about 4m30s into the program. For those having trouble viewing through hulu, a direct link to an .mp4 of the bit was posted to dropbox.
In an entry published two days prior, you may recall reading about two theatrical monologues delivered at the state house which prompted a response from the Concord Monitor and from satirical blogger Susan the Bruce. And now, after one week’s wait, both performances are available on the internet for your viewing pleasure! Through the powers of Vimeo, you can see and hear both of the performance pieces as stand-alone orations, in addition to versions accompanied by their cinematic inspirations. Many thanks to Adam and Edgar for interjecting some culture into the otherwise drawn out and dreary budget hearing. Mr. Sutler’s performance is entitled The Law’s Coming (also with cinema overdubs).
It began with front page stories in the Union Leader and Keene Sentinel. Also in newsprint was a brief summary suggesting more coverage to come in the Concord Monitor. When the Washington Times ran a piece on the internet yesterday morning, articles began spreading like wildfire. It became a global story this afternoon after being picked up by the UK Daily Mail, which included screencaps and footage from the Fr33manTVraw channel. Robin Hood and the Merry Men have filmed four segments with competing television news programs as a result of the story’s proliferation on Tuesday. In order of their recording:
YouTube user ThePoliticalPort responded to the flood of news about Robin Hooding with a video in support of the activity.
Coverage from 15 May 2013:
ABC News has run a an article that was reportedly featured on the Good Morning America program, sourcing the WMUR report. WRAL in North Carolina also features the WMUR content.
Erin McClam of NBCnews.com has penned an article featuring the excellent video content from WHDH 7 Boston.
Last Thursday, I spent a good portion of the day at the New Hampshire state house, waiting to film a dramatic performance by two artists identifying themselves as Adam Sutler and Edgar Friendly. It was a harrowing experience, as the budget analysis is among the most drawn out public hearings in the state each year. Bureaucrats and their supporters from around the state gathered to plead for their slice of the pie.
Adam’s testimony went over the heads of most as it was the first one called following the dinner break. Edgar was called hours later, and his presentation drew the suspicions of the senate panel chair, who questioned its relevance to the budget and called for an end to the performance after two minutes.
The record of these performances is scheduled to appear on the internet shortly, but in the meantime, the Concord Monitor’s Ben Leubsdorf and satirical blogger Susan the Bruce have published their own analysis of the theatrics. From the Monitor:
The Senate Finance Committee got punk’d Thursday night.
The committee’s public hearing on the state budget was already past the four-hour mark (en route to a final running time of six hours) when a man who had put his name down as Edgar Friendly was called to testify.
He spoke and then shouted for a couple minutes about democracy being a “dying giant” and wanting to be able to choose his own food at a greasy spoon diner. Eventually, Sen. Chuck Morse told him to get lost.
“You’re done, okay? You’ve had your two minutes,” said Morse, a Salem Republican and the panel’s chairman. The man continued to yell for a bit, then stormed out of Representatives Hall.
Here’s what we know: Part of the man’s rant came from the 1976 film Network, and another portion was verbatim from the 1993 classic Demolition Man. (Edgar Friendly is the name of Denis Leary’s character in the latter movie.)
“Friendly” was being filmed during his testimony by Garret Ean, a former Republican House candidate and blogger at FreeConcord.org. Ean said the man was a performance artist – in fact, the second of two who spoke at the hearing.
Garret Ean is affiliated with the Free State Project, the cult that is moving 20,000 people here to take over our state, dismantle our state government, and threaten to secede. There were other members of the FSP present in the House chambers for this hearing.
It wasn’t just the committee that got punk’d. It was every NH resident who took the time to drive to Concord and testify. It was every resident that loaded up a wheelchair, and packed a bag full of supplies and medications they would need to sit there for hours, while they waited to testify. It was every resident that brought a child. It was the family that brought 2 ASL interpreters for their deaf son.
We know the FSP has no respect for NH government. Now we know they also have no respect for the people of this state.
