I saw a decrease:
"No bidders for possibly booby-trapped land" by Lynne Tuohy | Associated Press August 16, 2014
CONCORD, N.H. — No one bid for the compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons and holding federal law enforcement officials at bay for months.
We see these every few years to keep the domestic terrorism narrative alive.
Related: Brown Compound on Auction Block
Would you bet on this government?
The auction of Ed and Elaine Brown’s fortress-like home on 100 acres in Plainfield was held Friday in US District Court in Concord. The minimum bid was $250,000.
Elaine Brown’s dental office in a prime Lebanon commercial zone was also being auctioned with a minimum bid of $507,500; it didn’t attract bidders either.
Federal marshals had arranged 16 folding chairs in a courtroom at the federal courthouse in Concord. They remained empty, serving as a stark reminder of the lack of interest as Deputy Chief US Marshal Brenda Mikelson went through the motions of asking for minimum bids on both properties before the auction ended two minutes later.
Prospective bidders were not allowed to tour the properties, in part because the US Marshals Service raised the possibility that explosives or other booby traps could be buried on the residential property.
They also cited the hordes of Brown supporters the 2007 standoff attracted.
As the Browns kept federal marshals at bay for nine months, they welcomed a parade of antitax and antigovernment supporters including Randy Weaver, whose wife and son were killed along with a deputy US marshal in a 1992 shootout on Weaver’s property in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
The Browns were ultimately captured by undercover agents posing as pizza deliverymen.
Marshals said Friday that they can hold a second auction in the future.
The court has ruled that the Browns and any heirs have no claims to the properties or any assets from their sale. If the properties ever sell, the first entities to be paid would be the municipalities of Plainfield and Lebanon, which are owed back property taxes.
Underhanded, ca$h-grabbing government.
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Related: New Hampshire college cancels fall classes
It's, what else, terrorists!
You know they are coming through Canada, right?
"Scott Brown, Jeanne Shaheen in dead heat" by Joshua Miller | Globe staff August 22, 2014
The US Senate race in New Hampshire has narrowed, and Republican Scott Brown is now in a dead heat with incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, according to a new poll.
Related: Globe Declares Scott Brown Winner of New Hampshire Primary
The Granite State Poll, released Thursday evening, found Brown trailing Shaheen, 44 percent to 46 percent among likely voters, with 9 percent not knowing or undecided in a hypothetical general election matchup. The narrow gap between the two contenders was within the margin of error of the poll, which was sponsored by WMUR-TV and conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
A WMUR survey released early last month and reporting similar numbers to other polls during that period, found Shaheen leading Brown, 50 percent to 38 percent.
Pollster Andrew E. Smith, a political science professor at UNH, said he thought the shift was a result of national trends and had little to do with the candidates’ campaigns.
“I think it’s an Obama drag,” he said.
Something, sorry to say, I really am, that will be affecting all Democrats.
The new WMUR poll found only 38 percent of New Hampshire adults approve of the way President Obama was handling his job, a 7 percentage point drop from about a month earlier, while 55 percent disapprove.
And that is up here in moderates-ville.
“Neither Brown nor Shaheen had any control of that; they’re just at the mercy of what’s happening nationally,” Smith said.
I hate being the pulse of then people.
Still, both campaigns have been working to convey their message to voters. In fact, one of Brown’s campaign themes is tying Shaheen to Obama. Shaheen has sought to portray herself as someone who looks out for New Hampshire first....
Got it, gone.
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Related(?):
"Former N.H. state Senate candidate accused of sexual assault
A New Hampshire state Senate candidate has dropped out the race and is facing a misdemeanor charge of sexual assault. Police say Howard Pearl of Loudon is accused of forcing himself on a juvenile late last year. Pearl was running in the Republican primary in District 17 against incumbent state Senator John Reagan, but dropped out of the race last week. Pearl is scheduled to be arraigned Friday (AP)."
Any tribal relation to Danny Pearl?
"New Hampshire officers fired after assault" Associated Press July 24, 2014
Two Seabrook police officers caught on tape roughing up a suspect at police headquarters have been fired, and two others have been punished. Foster’s Daily Democrat reported that Officer Mark Richardson, who was seen slamming the suspect’s head into a wall, and Officer Adam Laurent, who pepper-sprayed the suspect, were fired. Richardson has also been charged with assault in the Nov. 11, 2009, incident at the Seabrook police station. In surveillance video, Richardson is seen shoving Michael Bergeron, 19, into a wall. Bergeron had been charged with driving while intoxicated and possession of drugs. Other officers said Bergeron was struggling and uncooperative when Richardson forced him into the wall."
What is the black-white situation there, and where was all the media coverage?
Also see: N.H. officers fired after alleged assault to file grievances
Yeah, AmeriKan police don't so that stuff.
"NH high court reverses conviction of getaway driver" Associated Press August 16, 2014
CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Supreme Court reversed the robbery conviction Friday of a woman who was barred from testifying about past episodes of violence or threats by the boyfriend she said coerced her into being the getaway driver.
Ashley Hayward of Newport was 19 when she was charged with being an accomplice to robbing the Baymont Inn in Lebanon Jan. 10, 2012. She was convicted that September.
Hayward’s lawyer was permitted to present evidence that her boyfriend, Tyler Dodge, threatened to beat her on the night of the robbery if she did not drive him and another codefendant. Hayward had worked at the Baymont briefly, leaving the job a month before the late-night robbery, which netted the trio $220.
The justices in their 4-to-1 ruling said the trial judge was wrong to bar Hayward’s testimony about prior threats and violence by Dodge, including holding a knife to her throat. As part of her defense, Hayward argued that she was under duress from Dodge’s threat when she agreed to drive.
The majority noted that Hayward bore the burden of proving she was under duress, and the trial court’s ruling allowed the state to gain ‘‘a misleading advantage.’’
‘‘Dodge’s prior threats and violence were relevant to the duress defense because they tended to make it more probable that the defendant acted under a reasonable fear of imminent death or serious bodily injury,’’ the majority wrote. ‘‘The trial court deprived the jury of evidence necessary to its assessment of her duress defense.’’
Justice Robert Lynn dissented, saying he did not think the trial court’s error rose to the level of reversing Hayward’s conviction. He said Hayward offered no proof that the threats and violence actually occurred.
The court ordered a new trial.
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Sorry for dodging most of that article. Time to accelerate my posting:
"Police say 2 bikers clocked at 128 miles per hour
Police say two motorcyclists were clocked at 128 miles per hour in a 55 mile-per-hour zone on a New Hampshire highway. State troopers received a complaint about 6:30 p.m. Saturday about a group of motorcyclists operating recklessly on Route 101 near Exit 9. Two bikers were arrested as they entered Interstate 93 south in Manchester. Rembert Zambrana, 34, and Erin Crete, 31, both of Litchfield, were charged with reckless operation and transportation of marijuana. They were released on bail and are due to appear in Manchester District Court on Oct. 6."
And now the three tiers of New Hampshire ju$tice:
"N.H. to open second court for veterans; Sessions focus on treatment of unique issues" by Lynne Tuohy | Associated Press August 18, 2014
NASHUA — New Hampshire’s first court dedicated to helping military veterans charged with crimes won’t be its last.
Veterans’ advocates and health care providers will meet this month to begin planning a similar court for Grafton County, near the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Vermont.
The first session of the Veterans Behavioral Health Track program was held last week in Nashua District Court, where three veterans facing various misdemeanor charges faced a judge.
Among them was Jimmie McNeil of Nashua, who served in an Army Rangers combat support division unit from 1981 to 1984 and in the Army Reserve for nine years after that.
McNeil, 50, was originally charged with felony theft for stealing $584 from a Nashua restaurant when he quit as kitchen manager over a long-running wage and overtime dispute. His crime was reduced to a misdemeanor, and he was referred to veterans court.
The complete militarization of this society continues. I'm not against vets, either; it's just the law is the law. So now we have military courts for terrorists and special military courts for soldiers, plus too big to jail people and then the rest of us under the yoke of arbitrary US justice.
He told the Associated Press he trained hard as part of the elite military unit, and the notion to fight, kill and not take any guff from anybody ‘‘was pounded into our heads every single day.’’
So that is an EXCUSE for CRIMINAL CONDUCT, huh?
And WHAT an INDICTMENT of the GLOBAL KILLING MACHINE known as the US military.
‘‘When you get out, it doesn’t stop,’’ McNeil said softly. He explained that the restaurant owner’s refusal to pay what he had promised ‘‘put me in that defensive mode.’’
There are about 160 veterans’ courts nationwide. The first was founded in 2008 in Buffalo by Judge Robert Russell after he noticed increasing numbers of veterans on the docket of his drug and mental health courts.
Jo Moncher, chief of community-based military programs for the state Department of Health and Human Services, said the mental health courts operating in many counties are not enough. She said veterans have unique issues.
But Obummer has billions to toss around fomenting coups and bombing countries over damnable lies. Can't take care of the vets like he promised, but the whistle has been blown on that story and all is silent now.
‘‘They’re exposed to the horrors of war,’’ Moncher said. ‘‘They’re exposed to seeing men and women lose their lives.’’
And you wonder why I am so vociferous in my opposition?
She said many cope with depression, substance abuse, sleep disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder after leaving the service.
The veterans court will focus on intensive treatment to help get veterans back on track and keep them from repeating their crimes.
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Don't veterans already get enough special treatment?
"Also on Friday, an adult from Conway, N.H., was diagnosed with another, more serious mosquito-borne virus: Eastern equine encephalitis. It is the first human case of Eastern equine in that state since 2009, said the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services."
Ebola coming next?
"Divers seek Hinsdale, N.H., mother and daughter missing since 2001
Divers were searching near the Vernon Dam in Hinsdale Tuesday as part of an investigation into the 2001 disappearance of a teenager and her mother, authorities said. Bethany Sinclair, 15, and Tina Sinclair, 36, were last seen together in Chesterfield on the weekend of Feb. 3-4, 2001. Tina Sinclair had last gone to her job and Bethany had last gone to school on Feb. 2, 2001, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said. The searches on land and in the area of the dam, expected to continue Wednesday, were sparked new technology, authorities said."
"Drowned man, 19, was from Dracut, police say
Police have identified the 19-year-old man who drowned Sunday while swimming with friends in the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock. State Police said Nicholas Sann of Dracut, Mass., was swimming with five other people Sunday afternoon when he jumped into a spot with swift currents. Several people tried unsuccessfully to rescue him. Members of the Woodstock Police Department located Sann in about 12 feet of water. Efforts to resuscitate him failed, and he was declared dead."
Related:
Monument to John Smith’s 1614 mapping voyage dedicated
Portsmouth block becomes sacred ground
Woman wants grave ransack charge dropped
Best to lay this post to rest now.
Don't veterans already get enough special treatment?
"Also on Friday, an adult from Conway, N.H., was diagnosed with another, more serious mosquito-borne virus: Eastern equine encephalitis. It is the first human case of Eastern equine in that state since 2009, said the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services."
Ebola coming next?
"Divers seek Hinsdale, N.H., mother and daughter missing since 2001
Divers were searching near the Vernon Dam in Hinsdale Tuesday as part of an investigation into the 2001 disappearance of a teenager and her mother, authorities said. Bethany Sinclair, 15, and Tina Sinclair, 36, were last seen together in Chesterfield on the weekend of Feb. 3-4, 2001. Tina Sinclair had last gone to her job and Bethany had last gone to school on Feb. 2, 2001, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said. The searches on land and in the area of the dam, expected to continue Wednesday, were sparked new technology, authorities said."
"Drowned man, 19, was from Dracut, police say
Police have identified the 19-year-old man who drowned Sunday while swimming with friends in the Pemigewasset River in Woodstock. State Police said Nicholas Sann of Dracut, Mass., was swimming with five other people Sunday afternoon when he jumped into a spot with swift currents. Several people tried unsuccessfully to rescue him. Members of the Woodstock Police Department located Sann in about 12 feet of water. Efforts to resuscitate him failed, and he was declared dead."
Related:
Monument to John Smith’s 1614 mapping voyage dedicated
Portsmouth block becomes sacred ground
Woman wants grave ransack charge dropped
Best to lay this post to rest now.
