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Noble 9 December 7, 2022

Terese Grinnell and the Noble 9 (Updated 12/7/22)

On October 13th, Governor Sununu and his Executive Council were voting on whether to accept 27 million dollars from the federal government. The money came with strings attached that would enforce quarantines and other Covid precautions.

Terese and other freedom fighters went to the meeting to silently protest the federal money. While sitting peacefully in the audience, not saying a word, 9 individuals were unlawfully arrested without any explanation.

What happened specifically?

At the arrest, the Council and Governor were speaking, but the audience (including Terese and the others in the Noble 9) were silent.
Then, out of nowhere, the State Police escort Terese and Frank Staple out of the room, bringing them behind a curtain.
A few minutes later, there were shouts from behind the curtain. Both Frank and Terese were questioning their arrest.
Next, the State Police were arresting more and more people sitting in the audience. Again, none of them were doing a thing.
Afterwards they were all informed that they were arrested for disorderly conduct.

I encourage you to watch the video (https://youtu.be/jpgGHQTcfgg ) from their arrest and write a summary for yourself at the end of this post.

Terese Grinnell – Arrested for saying “Amen”

Terese’s warrant for her arrest actually stated that she had uttered, “Amen.” This violates her 1st Amendment rights to the freedom of:

speech (She is allowed to say anything she wants if it doesn’t defame or slander another person.)
religion (She can say things that refer to religion.)
assembly (She had the right to be at the Executive Council meeting.)
petition (She has the right to tell the government when they are making a mistake.)

Watch Frank Staple (One of the Noble 9) Talk about the Arrest

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tjtXKCmpxog%3Ffeature%

5 Hearings on the Arrest

Terese and the other members of the Noble 9 have been asked to go before a judge five times over the past year.

I, myself, went to the fifth hearing of the arrest. At that hearing, the judge watched the video of the arrest and didn’t know what to say. Yet, their request to dismiss the case was denied, and the case was pushed to trial.

Disqualifying the State Attorneys

The case was set to go to trial, but it was postponed because it came to light that the state attorney was working for the Department of Safety, rather than the State Attorney’s office. So, the attorney that represents the Noble 9 field to disqualify the state attorneys.

Read the post on disqualifying the state attorneys.

Change of Judges

In the video that I linked, Frank Staple points out that following the 5th hearing, the judge, Judge McIntyre who presided over the first five hearings recused herself from trying the case. It appears that watching the video evidence and pushing the case to trial was too much for her.

Conclusion – Join the fight – Terese and the Noble 9

There is no reason anyone should be arrested while sitting peacefully. There is no reason a judge should see nothing in a video and push it to trial. Furthermore, there is no reason the state would fight this case with an attorney from the wrong department.

We must keep our government accountable for their actions.

Join the fight and stand with Terese and the Noble 9.

DHHS November 30, 2022

Who fights for the disadvantaged?

My question is: who fights for the disadvantaged? That’s what I want you to ask yourself as you read the story of Adam Cordano and other children who suffered at the Sununu Youth and Services Center.

Last week, I sat down with Adam Cordano to talk to him about what he experienced in the NH state foster care system and at the Sununu Youth and Services Center. Adam is one of many plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Sununu Youth and Services Center. The lawsuit alleges that state employees sexually and physically abused many children who were detained at the center.

I will just highlight some of my takeaways from the interview. I encourage you to watch the whole interview to hear Adam for yourself.

The foster care system needs to be overhauled.

Adam stated that he was constantly running away from foster parents because he always felt abused.

The abuse was not always physical, but it was emotional. The reason for that is that he was always one of many, many foster care children in a house and he was treated like a paycheck.

One family had ten foster children and four biological children. They fed the foster children state rations. While the biological children ate store-bought food.

Because he was made to feel less, he ran away, and he did that repeatedly.

Can I trust the law enforcement community to take care of disadvantaged peoples?

After running out of foster homes to live in, at 13 years old, Adam was forced to live at YDC, which is now called the Sununu Youth and Services Center. At YDC, he was sexually abused repeatedly by Stan Watson. Stan would come into his room in the middle of the night and force him to have sex.

He reported the abuse to Joe Peters, the unit manager, but Peters refused to send Adam to the medical facility for an exam. Instead, he talked to Stan about it. After that, Stan beat Adam for reporting him.

Next, Stan asked Adam’s case worker, Evelyn Blaze to let him be Adam’s foster dad. Adam told Evelyn that Stan was raping him. She told him that if he didn’t go with Stan, he would be forced to stay in King Cottage, a prison-like facility at YDC.

Without a background check or the usual hoops that foster parents need to go through, Stan was allowed to bring Adam home.

After some time of living with Stan, Adam got fed up and decided to hold Stan at gunpoint. The cops were called, and he told the cops what was going on. That’s when Stan’s dad, the chief of police from Merrimack (a different county from the arrest), stepped in. He told Stan that if he talked about what went on, he would never see the light of day.

So, Adam went back to Stan’s house.

According to Adam, Evelyn Blaze became the head of DCYF.

Where are all the good people at YDC?

If Adam had trouble learning, they would cuff him to a poll and put him in seclusion. How did that help Adam learn anything? Why didn’t someone step in and say, stop hurting these children?

Adam said that he was forced to wrestle other boys naked at YDC. Then, if a child was hurt, they brought them to medical. At medical, the workers never questioned why children were always getting hurt.

Why did it take so long for these things to get out?

Stan probably abused more children, not just Adam. Yet, why didn’t those children come forward after getting out of YDC?

If they did, what happened to their complaints?

Were the complaints treated like Adam’s complaint? Are we not a country that believes in innocence until proven guilty? Why were these children treated like liars if they reported their crimes?

Is that how the state treats all children who came forward with claims of abuse?

Why did it take so long for the state to investigate these crimes?

If there are over 300 people that have come forward to add their names to this lawsuit, many people have surely come forward in the past to report abuse.

Why did it have to take a class action lawsuit brought by so many people to get the state to investigate and question the system.

Who is fighting for these children?

Adam obviously felt very alone. His foster families used him as a paycheck. His case worker didn’t fight for him. Workers at the state facility were abusing him. When he reported crimes, his crimes were dismissed. The police threatened him if he spoke out.

Who was he supposed to turn to?

If you want to read about the horrors that went on at the Sununu Youth Center and other facilities for disadvantaged youths, check out this NPR article.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-10-05/8-more-lawsuits-allege-sexual-and-physical-abuse-at-nh-ydc-and-contracted-facilities

Interviews November 30, 2022

What happens in NH prisons?

Do you know what is really happening behind NH prison bars? To find out what goes on there, you would need to talk to someone who was on the inside. Frank Staples could help you with that. He was there and is willing to share his story with us.

Frank Staples is a freedom fighter who stands up for the oppressed and is not afraid to ruffle a few feathers. While sitting silently, he was one of the nine people arrested for disorderly conduct on October 13, 2021 at an Executive Council meeting.

Frank’s story started in foster care. Then because he got into some trouble, he was forced to live in the Sununu Center. After that, he was apprehended for selling drugs and he was put in the county jail while he waited to go to trial.

In jail, the guards came up with many reasons to give Frank a lot of punitive segregation time, which landed him in solitary. He spent a year and nine months there.

Frank kept asking why he was there, and eventually, they told him that he asked to go to the hole.

After he told me that, Frank found a probable reason for his solitary. He was using the jail’s kiosk to report and document abuse. Then, he was banned from using the kiosk.

Next, Frank refused to go to court, so while handcuffed and shackled, Frank was beaten, dumped in his cell on his face and left there for 5 days before he was sent to medical.

After that incident, Frank started to fight back more inside the jail, destroying sprinklers and irritating the staff.

Although there weren’t any legal grounds to send Frank to the state prison, one day he found himself being sent to prison. To warrant prison before a trial, the guards said that he had been assaultive towards staff.

At the state prison, he spent 5 years in solitary.

I asked Frank how he got through those years, and he said that books were important to that. But, for a time the guards weren’t allowing any of them to have any books. Frank fought that because it was in the prison policy that they could have books. He ended up being tasered and kicked in the face.

Frank said that the warden probably didn’t know about what was going on. He let the guards do whatever they wanted, unless it caused him trouble.

Watch the interview with Frank Staples

https://odysee.com/@AbsoluteDefiance:5/SununuHouse:2?&sunset=lbrytv (Full-length interview with Frank Staples)