NH Liberty Activist, Ian Freeman, Arrested on ID Charges

April 13, 2014

Ian Freeman, a nationally syndicated radio broadcaster and Free State Project supporter from Keene, will be arraigned in May.
A well-known activist in New Hampshire’s liberty community who is also a nationally syndicated radio broadcaster was arrested by the New Hampshire State Police yesterday on allegations he “obtained multiple identifications” from the NH DMV.
Ian Freeman, 33, of Keene, was arrested at 3:21 p.m. on April 11, and charged with unsworn falsification and prohibitions.
According to a press statement from Troop G of the New Hampshire State Police, Freeman allegedly used different names to obtain the IDs and after an investigation, was arrested in Keene and charged. He was released on personnel recognizance bail and will be arraigned on May 14.
No other information was available at post time about the arrest.

Freeman addressed the arrest on his Free Talk Live broadcast on April 11, calling the misdemeanor charge “a ridiculous technicality” in the law concerning an attempt to officially change his legal name to “Ian Freeman” while still being able to drive (his legal name is Ian Bernard).
NH Liberty Activist, Ian Freeman, Arrested on ID Charges [continued]



Kidnapping is Poor Customer Service (Why I was arrested yesterday.)

by Ian Freeman
If you’ve been reading the Free Keene blog for the last year, you know that in Summer of 2013, the NH DMV suspended my driving “privileges” indefinitely, until I got a NH driver’s license. You also know that for many years I have been using the name Ian Freeman without going through the probate process to change my name legally. In my interactions with the state and city, this name-change-in-fact has had mixed results. I was able to successfully register to vote as Ian Freeman and run for office under that name, but most courts would not recognize my name change. Though, there were a couple exceptions, including Concord district and MA’s Palmer district courts. However, most robed men would refuse to recognize it, even though I would cite NH supreme court decision Moskowitz vs Moskowitz that makes it pretty clear that one can change one’s name in NH without probate court, simply by using the new name. They just ignored the decision.
Since I had been ordered to get a drivers’ license under threat of violence, I decided that would be a good time to do a legal name change. (I’d actually tried this a couple of years ago but was stopped when I was arrested for going to court. That no trespass order for which I was arrested was eventually thrown out and the case against me dismissed.)
The DMV had told me my “privileges” would be suspended as of Nov 5th. After that, there was a short window of time where if I got their license, the $100 re-instatement fee would not apply, so I was in a hurry to get it done. The probate court process was simple and relatively quick for government work, but of course, I was paying them $105, and they tend to be more efficient when getting paid. I got the official name change document from the probate court on November 7th and went down to the DMV to get the NH drivers’ license.
I figured I had everything required – old license, voter ID under the name Ian Freeman and name change document from probate, but no – turns out there was an unwritten requirement: they wanted me to go to get some sort of document of name change from Social Security, and agency with which I want no business. I went home to do further research and determined that if I changed my name in the DMV system AFTER getting their license in my birth name, that no Social Security document would be required for that, so the next day I returned to the DMV and turned in my FL license under the name Ian Bernard and got the NH DMV temporary license. I had no idea that this was a criminal offense, and the DMV ladies never advised me of such. They recognized me from before and were well aware I had changed my name legally to Ian Freeman, as I had given them the probate document they day prior. I informed them that it was my intention to change my name on the license eventually, but in the interests of time, I wanted to just get the license right away under my Bernard name. I had no reason to believe this would be later considered fraudulent by the state police! So, the license was issued, I got the hard copy a couple months later, and figured the job was done.
Kidnapping is Poor Customer Service (Why I was arrested yesterday.) [continued]

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OH My....but people with no ID are let go!!!!