I attended the “End the Fed” rally in downtown NY on 11/22.  Here’s what happened:

• I show up around 12:00.  I walk down to Liberty St. from Penn Station
• There were about 5 people there with signs complaining about the cold
• The area was completely dead so we hung out on the Chase Bank steps
• More people begin to show up
• The cops go zipping backwards down one-way streets to see what’s going on
• Eventually we decide to walk down the the Seaport as we have about 25 people and nothing is going on where we were
• We march and chant our way to the seaport
• More people show up
• We march back to the federal reserve
• We decide to march to WTC.  Cops on scooters follow us.
• At WTC the truthers start talking about 9/11
• We march back to the Fed
• More people show up
• We march to a building south of the Fed and hang out on the steps making speeches
• We march back to the fed
• We decide to march up Broadway.  Cops on scooters repeatedly ask us to watch out for pedestrians, we comply.  The cops do a good job blocking traffic for us.  I’d estimate we’re about 150 strong
• We march up to 20 something street and stop in a park
• We continue to make speeches
• Things look like they’re breaking up so I thank the police, get a burger and march up to the Port Authority bus terminal around 4:00PM

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I showed up in court today, so the thugs didn’t have to come to my house and break down the door and accidentally kill anyone … or go to the wrong house and hurt others.
The judge found me guilty of driving after suspension of driving priviledges in NH
He fined my 300 bucks … he asked when I would pay it and then said I could do “community service” and I said I could probably do that.

Yes … I am free … and I did do some driving today.
coconut … have that video on my desk by morning
I will have to find out where I can do my community service. There should be someplace where I will be helping people and not empowering the bad guys.
They didn’t get any money out of me.
I cost them money.
We had pizza.

coconut had filmed the ordeal and when released I’ll post that here. From other reports on NHUnderground.com Russell agreed to 30 hours of service at $10/hour to pay off the $300 fine. I understand the compromise of service to jail but in a way it seems to be a step backwards philosophically. When Russell was sentenced to jail for nonviolent, statute crimes he was acting under his own volition and the government people aggressed against him in order to place him in their jail. In this case he’s agreed to community service so he’s not harmed and/or thrown in jail again but this decision is made under duress. He’s going to be nonviolent regardless as that’s how he is and if he defended himself he’d likely be seriously harmed so by agreeing to community service he’s submitted to their tyrannical ways actively vs previously just continuing on and putting all responsibility on them. Not that I wouldn’t have done the same nor am I ignoring the fact he showed up to court at their request. Just pointing out the differences in approaches.

There is also this dilemma. If you go to jail you aren’t giving them the resources the government needs to survive. No wealth transfer to them. They have to expend resources in order to deal with you. While with community service, assuming you get to choose, you’d be creating wealth outside the system. Likely fighting the system for as long as possible to the point before they imprison you and then agreeing to community service, again assuming you get to choose it, would be the best route. You’d drain some government resources, bypass possible acts of violence, and create wealth in the private sector. You’d still be bowing down to the aggressors as pointed out above but in almost an agorist fashion helping bleed the beast.