New website started to support New Hampshire man jailed for defending his property

  I have written about Ward Bird–the New Hampshire man who is currently serving a 3-6 year prison sentence for defending his property–on a couple of occasions. This is a story that I will be following closely as his pardon petition works its way to the governor’s desk, and will write about as more information become available.

  Support for Ward Bird is growing in New Hampshire and while there isn’t much new news to write about, there is a new website dedicated to Ward Bird’s cause. If you are a freedom loving American who believes that the second amendment is an individual right, and you believe that United States citizens have the right to defend their families and their property I would urge you to go to Free Ward Bird and voice your support for his cause.

  Free Ward Bird has four main goals: First, to get Ward Bird  returned home through Administrative Home Confinement for Christmas; Second, to get Ward Bird a full pardon; Third, to get Ward Bird’s record expunged; Fourth, and maybe most importantly, to get the law changed so that no other New Hampshire citizen is subjected to the same travesty of justice and indignity that Ward Bird and his family have endured.

  Ward Bird is an upstanding member of the community and Boy Scout leader with no prior criminal record who was jailed on the testimony of a convicted animal abuser simply for carrying a weapon on his own property, even though the New Hampshire constitution clearly states in Article 2-a: All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state. In this respect the New Hampshire constitution reaffirms a person’s right to keep and bear arms even more clearly than does the United States constitution, there is no grey area in the New Hampshire constitution on the rights of her citizens to defend what is rightfully theirs

  The judge who presided over the case was forced by mandatory sentencing guidelines to sentence Ward Bird to no less than three years in jail even as he admitted that if it weren’t for the guidelines he would not have sent Ward Bird to jail at all. The judge was not allowed to consider Ward Bird’s perfectly clean criminal record when he sentenced him, and for that Ward Bird is serving a three year prison sentence.

  Ward Bird’s only crime was believing that his peers in New Hampshire would actually believe that the New Hampshire constitution should be taken at face value, yet his peers ignored the constitution and convicted Ward Bird for defending his property–apparently they found a grey area in the New Hampshire constitution that clearly does not exist. Ward Bird rejected a plea deal in which he would have avoided jail time, but feeling as if he did nothing wrong he decided to put his faith in his fellow man, and his fellow man let him down.

  Ward Bird must be freed; it is the just and noble thing to do and I can only hope that Governor John Lynch does the right thing if the pardon makes it to his desk. Governor Lynch must FREE WARD BIRD!