Now You Can Help Abused Police Officers!
In response to the recent arrest and jailing of activist Michael Big Mike Tiner, who has been charged with assaulting a police officer, we have launched the Citizens Resisting the Assault of Police Officers (CRAP) medical aid campaign.
Here are some things you can do to help:
1.Write a letter to the Manchester Police.
Include your ‘medical aid’ (cartoon band-aid) with a letter explaining its purpose, and your concern over Mike’s arrest and continued jail stay. Send ‘medical aid’ letters to:
Manchester Police
351 Chestnut St.
Manchester, NH 03103
We also encourage you to call and ask about Mike, to let the police and jailers know we are still concerned about the treatment and continued detention of a peaceful man.
Manchester Police: (603) 668-8711
Hillsborough County Department of Corrections: (603) 627-5620
2.Contact your local media outlets.
Write, email, or call your local media (new stations, newspapers, radio stations, indie media) to bring attention to Mike’s situation and the CRAP campaign. (note: sending a band-aid with written letters may bring more attention to the story)
3.Write to Michael Big Mike Tiner to show your support.
Civil disobedience is not an easy form of activism; however, it is important that those who are brave enough to do it know they have support.
Michael Tiner
CCN: 46733
Hillsborough County D.O.C.
445 Willow Street
Manchester, NH 03103
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Fantastic!
Fantastic!
Your Local Police …
Your Local Police Are Armed and Dangerous
@LibertyLane301, if …
@LibertyLane301, if you’re referring to the events of this video… do you not recognise humour and sarcasm when you see it?
Faved, 5 *ed and …
Faved, 5 *ed and subbed.
The same way the …
The same way the freekeene savior Ian Freeman can own an apartment building and still claim he is homeless when he goes to vote. BOOM. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again….you people read like an Archie comic book – always know the ending.
Wait, how does the …
Wait, how does the homeless man have a basement?
You need to know …
You need to know the story before you start with the righteous stuff….. this cop is not dead. geeze
I would say Mr. …
I would say Mr. Briggs suffered an even greater assault than Mr. Tiner did, since he suffered not only loss of his liberty, but loss of his life.
Just to clarify for anyone reading this, Mr. Briggs was certainly not shot by any supporter of liberty. Such aggressive violence is absolutely unacceptable.
The problem is not …
The problem is not just showing up with a gun — people have a right to self-protection. The problem comes if you threaten use of the gun against peaceful individuals, if they refuse to obey your orders, or resist your assault.
Rights are not determined by laws — slaves, for example, had a right to be free, even when it was against federal law for them to escape.
Even the declaration of independence recognizes that rights are not determined by rulers.
I don’t agree with …
I don’t agree with yelling, let alone screaming at police, especially if they haven’t yet arrested or harassed anyone unjustly. I disapprove of those actions.
However, the fact that they were yelled at does not justify their later actions — any more than if I were yelled at, I would be justified in assaulting or kidnapping the yeller.
If the homeless man …
If the homeless man says I’m free to go as long as I let him draw some blood, then drop my drawers and let him give me an “inspection” I’m going to say “hell no”.
The only way he was going to be free to go is if he complied with their demands.
Well, I do know …
Well, I do know Michael Briggs, a Manchester, NH police officer was shot in the head and killed for simply getting out of his car to a complaint he was called to. Would this suffice your argument?
Showing up with a …
Showing up with a gun…you mean like Rich Paul just did when he showed up inside of a jail and was rude to unarmed prison guards. Smoking pot, at this moment – is not a right – HELLO? Mike Tiner was not locked up for that…..how many friggen times do we have to say the same thing over and over and over and over.
So on the vids when …
So on the vids when the police show up at 4:20 events in Keene, and people are following them, yelling, baiting and screaming in their face when they haven’t even done anything….you consider this a false euphemism. Are you here to mix and match words to one up me, or are you really serious about a “discussion”?
We have established …
We have established already our agreement that the arrest was weak, bad, crappy, a stretch…WHATEVER. However, Mike Tiner went in that cell all on his own. He could have accepted his citation in protest and simply walked out. The cops didn’t put him in there – he did. So by your logic, you think he was “kidnapped”. So say a homeless man kidnaps you – but 1 hour later says your free to go…are you going to leave – or are you going to say no, i would rather sit in your basement?
To clarify, I do …
To clarify, I do not know of, nor endorse everything anyone has done while participating in activism. I am aware of a couple cases where I believe certain individuals crossed the line. But, as far as I know, no one stuck a gun to the back of a police officer, dragged them to their car, and locked them in a cage in their basement for a month, which is what the comparable behavior would be. Are you aware of such an incident?
You should stop using double standards.
I expect decorum in …
I expect decorum in person too. The kind of decorum where you refrain from locking innocent people in cages.
Handcuffs are not ” …
Handcuffs are not “friendship bracelets”, and people have a right to smoke without getting abused. That’s the point. They also have a right to refuse immoral and unconstitutional orders, which is not being “being uncooperative and dickheads”. It’s showing up with a gun and threatening innocent people if they don’t obey your every diktat that’s being an uncooperative dickhead.
Locking someone up for sitting in the front of a bus is immoral, and so is locking someone up for smoking pot.
Throwing a person …
Throwing a person in a cage, or extorting money from them, is far from “looking at someone the wrong way”. Again, stop using false euphemisms.
workers than my …
workers than my little quips could ever catch up with. I happen to believe that if you want to have a 4:20 – then go ahead…but don’t send a flyer to the police and expect them to show up with friendship bracelets when everyone there starts being uncooperative and dickheads. Rosa Parks – please…segregation is not the question here…its smoking pot – which is fine…but a far cry from segregation. Change the law? Fine. But like you expect decorum on youtube – I expect it in person.
I have absolutely …
I have absolutely no problem with standing up for personal rights; however, it is my opinion – that the majority of freestatervids overwhelmingly show people standing up for an agenda in a most aggressive way. I just happen to be of the opinion that not ALL police or any other government worker including the librarian need to be held to the fire every time they are perceived to look at someone the wrong way. Freestaters spend more time mocking and baiting government (continued)
I suspect you have …
I suspect you have some personal or idological bias that makes you want to cast the behaviors of the police as less outrageous than they are. That’s why you blame the victim in such revolting ways. No one would say the above about Rosa Parks now, because everyone recognizes that her cause was just.
I bet there were a lot of segregationists at the time who said something quite similar. They had to demonize her, because they couldn’t tolerate the principles she stood for.