Man arrested for gardening common area

[RedMarineNex]

@ArePenguinsAwesome Wrong! You share joint ownership with every other person in the Commonwealth. Only a civil action by the Commonwealth can prevent you from using public land. i.e. the other owners must prevent your action by injunction. Your withering ignorance of common law is why your country has become a fascist shithole.

[logik316]

@RedMarineNex

Common law has mostly been rendered obsolete by statutory law.

[RedMarineNex]

@logik316 Even so, it could only be a misdemeanor, not a felony, unless the state enacted legislation to change common title. It would be unusual, but certainly possible in the US. You want to give away 600 years of rights earned under common law for statutory legislation enacted by Kleptocrats and Plutocrats, be my guest, but please don't export this BS to the rest of the world.

[RedMarineNex]

@ArePenguinsAwesome Why not?

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@ArePenguinsAwesome you can if they force you to pay a tax for it.

[allthingsinexcess]

We can't just go and start digging up public property!! What a fucking moron...

[Tyronethe24th]

Brave police officers putting their lives on the line to protect us.

[sparrow053]

This sounds like the kind of thing the opposition would do to give us a bad name.We cannot destroy public property it's against the law! Let us know when this happens for planting on YOUR PROPERTY!

[shadowblack1987]

Huh... you need a permit to do this stuff... don't you?...

[permalove1]

He should try out some no-dig gardening projects.. you can't get arrested for digging without a permit, at least.

If anyone is interested in doing that, look up Ruth Stout and "no dig" on you tube.. or "lasagna gardening."

[SpringChatty]

these scummy bastards need something up their arses

[healmond]

well no duh ur gona get arested! you don't own the property what'd you expect? with out rules every one would be getting into fights about why the city ppl dig up the garden you plant on their property which they would'ev given you. if you just said it was for a good reason!!!!! is it soo hard just too ask?

[tittyfestival]

i'm sure you can go to your park and propose to have a community garden, or to help out with it. you can't just make a garden wherever you want though.

he didn't get consent and it wasn't his own property. so i mean he has no excuse.

[waterboardbush]

Actually, I think the man was perpetrating violence on the collective, by gardening in space that was not just his to use. I think he was trying to frighten the public, by showing his power to use everyone's property for himself, without respect to the collective will.

[Membrane556]

Any electrical conduit or pipe should be buried 24 to 48" depending on how deep the frost line is or what is known as frost heave will destroy it.

So his gardening would be of no danger to any infrastructure that is up to code unless he was planting large trees.

[Stink808]

Some of the people within your movement are more damaging to it than helpful. Do you want to fight just to fight and piss off people or do you want real change and help move the government towards a position that is favorable to freedom lovers? Its going to take skill, compassion, understanding and education. Ridley really has a good mind for it but I've seen many in these videos who really hurt the cause by entrenching or pushing away the adversaries instead of drawing them closer.

[brothermikefan]

It's called a "common area" not a "person in a yellow shirt's area." He's trying to make something private out of something that's public. He's trying to steal land from the people so he can plant his own little garden. That's not liberty; that's theft. If the community says they want a garden there then he'd be more than welcome to put it there. He's gotta ask first.

[petroniaskho]

use video next time and ditch the goofy promos ... they diminish your message completely

[del0griffith]

why don't you people get jobs instead of coming up with new ways to get yourselves in shit for not following the rules...

[tracehd1]

the govn't follows rules right? Like giving big banks bail out money that we said NO to...that's legal right? Taking that bail out money and buying other banks..that's legal right? Not telling us where the rest of that money went...that's legal right? I could go on with the un-lawful bus. that they have done just recently... but I have a feeling your always right...

[RE4uk]

@del0griffith

So you like to follow rules, you consider yourself a slave yes? You don't like ppl telling you what to do but you don't mind the government telling you what to do? Who make these rules & why do they get to break them while the rest of us get arrested?

What if the next rule made is that you must be neutered, would you be ok w/ that?

[videocruzer]

if you dont understand the numbers how can you understand the risk?

find out what they have proved about the ill health effects from wireless.

[uturniaphobic]

on possible fix might be above-ground-gardening...grow in the back of old trailers or something

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I can't wait to take on the Keene police.

George Vreeland Hill

[dl4825]

one nation under god?the fedreal govt does not walk with god but walks as god?!!!NOT GOOD!!!we cant grow crops or raise cattle?how about fishing and hunting?

[washingtoncapitalsss]

people do this all the time in canada

[Decebal825]

the stupid promos are getting on my nurve

[ANGLEBOOT]

There man arrested for gardening common area in this video.

And the only place I can find it on the net is at your web site and YT.

Makes it look like total maded up crap just to make a video to me.

[diggingforgold]

Of course. That's completely logical. We all know that if it you can't find something on the Intertubes, it must never have happened in real life. It therefore is "maded up". ;-)

[TheRoadHome]

I love the Ridley Report!

[cw2992]

digging permit? man if thats freedom? you can keep NH!!

[Blegemoth]

See, this whole video is a perfect example of why everyone is going to wind up in FEMA camps.

[midevalcheese]

Drop the commercials.

[watcher8o]

I'm not sure how this action was liberty oriented. Was this an unused lot or the middle of a park? It probably would be more reasonable to donate the land and then turn that into a co-op. Just staking a claim to publicly held land isn't a good idea in my opinion.

[mcgrawtim123]

How would Sheriff Andy and Deputy Barney Fife handle this crisis?

[AwakenedByTyranny]

I see a new bracelet coming that has on it "WWABD?" (What Would Andy or Barney Do?)

[LumpyRevolution]

Yeah, that arresting officer "Maxfield"... well, I don't like him. I think he's a Nazi.

[whoo689]

Oh, god, coops. The "humane" liberal alternative to free-market capitalism on one end and state communism on the other. Of course, coops are always grossly inefficient and don't produce much or make much profit, if at all. No economy could last on 100% coops.

[watcher8o]

I don't know about basing an economy on it... but coops have met with success as neighborhood projects in my city. They can help supplement the diets of people who generally eat fast food. They introduce many people to enjoying the "fruits of their labor" and untaxed manual labor. The also play a good part in bringing community members together. Nothing wrong or "Liberal" with that... Don't be so dismissive. You're not being forced to cooperate unless the government is behind it.

[GloriousCoconut]

Watcher, You are 100% correct. The issue in Keene is that the city government gave a private organization $5000 for a "feasibility study" for a new Co-op. That is the issue, not the fact that a co-op might exist.

[odigity]

Great job building up your collection of stock photos and video clips for people and places, Dave. It's really paying off.

[kmassabe]

supercool, I would have liked to see this

[SILENTNATION1]

Yeah right...with all the vacant land in Keene to do a "community garden", he tills up a pedestrian path in the middle of a small park, of which is intended for use in events like music etc,...gonna be kind of hard to sit down in this park with this moron's big huge garden (of which I doubt highly he would have taken care of...just another dumbass attempt to film the local PD to put on his bigtime 200 view youtube channel......GIVE ME A BREAK.

[LumpyRevolution]

Wow, -4 so far. Social proof says "you suck!"

Cool. I just fed a troll.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

I just made it -6 Lumpy.

[AwakenedByTyranny]

I just made it 7. What a jerk.

[SILENTNATION1]

Yeah - -7 red negatives - I feel so ashamed...7 NUTJOBS felt compelled enough to thumbs down my super duper comment....a mere ant fart on a richter scale of activism. Perhaps I will care enough sometime to sign into 10 youtube accounts and give me 10 thumbs up....but then again....WHO CARES. The funny thing is...you actually know me...and LIKE me...oh the irony.

[LumpyRevolution]

I like you? Please explain.

[Taors]

Good job, Jesse.

[asdfqwerty2000]

Maybe the town hall isn't up to code. Would it be surprising?

[mojdfiv]

I agree with the other posters, the comment about electrical wires is ludicris. Electrical wires are ussually put at a depth of around 4 feet or deeper except where they come up into buildings.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

I think that's one of the coolest acts of civil disobedience that I've seen yet. But no no no, we can't have free food growing now can we. I wonder how many people in need Keene could have fed with that $5000 they spent on their absurd study. They shouldn't have spent it in the first place. It's a mad world.

[P3rf3ctStorm]

Yeah, I think Andy sent Barney out to investigate. I hope he only has one bullet in his pocket.

[mrethrift]

I think Andy might...head...over there himself.

[CurtHowland]

I heard he was going to do this on FreeTalkLive, glad he went through with it.

[webovisionca]

by code the electrical lines shouldn't be installed within gardening trowel depth. lol. That's ridiculous.

[webovisionca]

maybe his seeds needed to be planted 2 ft deep?!

[watty024]

no seed needs to be planted two feet deep. do some research before you beak off.

[CurtHowland]

I think it was supposed to be a funny comment.

[watty024]

well how the hell was i supposed to know! lol

[webovisionca]

yep. simply sarcasm. sorry for not being more obvious. lol

[MooseOfReason]

Maybe the cop thought Jesse was planting potatoes? Lmao.

[webovisionca]

lmao. park a car with a garden on it in front of city hall and plug the meter 24/7

[AtheistUndergrad]

I would thumbs up this idea a million more times if I could. A large wagon would be even better. To me, the sign of a good civil disobedience protest idea is one that makes me laugh as well as makes the proper statement.

[JenniF00F00]

wow

[1420truthseeker]

Yall should have just started a raised bed garden and container gardens.

[webovisionca]

great idea. lock your bick up downtown and plant tomatoes all over it

[webovisionca]

'bike'