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KingCast This American Life epiphany #6: What if they don't air the Franconia segment?

By Christopher King

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, I say. The publication chances are only 1 in 5, or 20%, but most locals who have questions for their government feel it is worth the chance, such that their concerns are aired. At least they have the feeling that the essence of their comments will be whittle away to nothing, as other media have done all too often.

Other locals of course wish it would go away, like Governor Lynch who appeared with the McKay entourage but has not once come to address the locals. Take a look.

Some say the town is "healing," to which again I say that's tantamount to putting some lipstick and a splash of drug store Maybelline a battered spouse and sending her right back into Sunday morning church choir.

These are my thoughts and this is my blawg. If you have different thoughts then please feel free to comment. Or as Evan Shaeffer told me years ago, "Get your own blog, Mr. King."

The bottom line is this:

You can't get angry with people who ask their government for information on anything, much less a double homicide with a shady character like Gregory W. Floyd getting a pass in 24 hours against both Liko Kenney and Caleb Macaulay. The March on Washington is going to occur because of the lies, unanswered questions, materially conflicting statements and incomplete investigation responses as noted herein, and as partially delineated in the new litigation, KingCast v. McLeod et al. Grafton Superior 08-E-192.

Face it: The government is not speaking about this case to This American Life about a case involving the Right-to-Know. They should state their position publicly and stand by it. After all, it's not like some highly secretive issue concerning national defense or security where you would expect the government to play their cards close to the chest. That is the story in and of itself, folks living in North Country being ignored by their government. Ouch.

PS: As noted in this comment from a U.S. Veteran, local small town police often manufacture crime, or escalate minor crimes into something worse. McKay was an expert at that and there's no denying it. Profile High School/Ryan's OC Spray. Sarah's O.C. Spray. Liko Kenney in 2003 when all he had to do was run his license and let him go. McKay probably went for the O.C. Spray or a gun back then, and Liko told him "don't even think about it," and "you can't just pick people up and drive them around in police cars for no reason," and "You cannot keep me here without Good Cause."
We know these things to be true as noted in basic Fourth Amendment principles yet the state and most major media have presented them in a way that makes most bristle only at Liko Kenney as they ignore the foul attitude and Constitutional violations cearly manifest by McKay in the stop itself. Same thing even worse on 5/11, as noted by the Veteran above.

I think about these things every time I walk past Fox Hill Park, where Judge Cyr found all of Franconia's police stops to be in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

And those things that happened in 2002/3 along with the things that happened on 5/11 and the related coverup, are reason enough for people to speak up and that is what I will do in my interview today. If it doesn't air on the radio it will most definitely air in Washington, D.C. Our veterans fight and die for this privilege dammit, so I thank them profusely as I plan to use it with impunity.

This stuff is worse than the notorious Dow Murders, in which Dick Dow, an North Country LE, almost undoubtedly murdered his wife and adoptive son -- and was cleared..... you guessed it -- in 24 hours.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on August 20, 2008 (boomark / email).