Police deal with dangerous leaflet monger

That is assault.

Also, the kid didn't break the law. The cops should be prosecuted under Title 18 of USC and imprisoned for kidnapping under color of law, assault, and depriving a citizen on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms under the color of law... And perhaps treason..

I'd like to see some public hangings for treason at this point.
And I'm a peace monger !

many times. Guess I should have been locked away years ago!!

That punk that put a wrist lock on the guy needs his ass whupped he really thinks he's a bad ass! The uniform cop did not even ask him to leave first. Looks to me like he was on a public sidewalk too. He definitely should sue the crap out of them, these a-holes will be the good little gestapo operatives in the new Reich...

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Don't feel too bad for the guy, he's about to get a few hundred grand in town cash. I am sure there are lawyers hunting him down for the business now.

They'd have done fine in Stalin's Russia.

It's a good thing they got there when they did, that perp almost handed somebody a piece of paper.

For three brutal elections, I volunteered to help Nader's ballot access because an Independent candidate has a right to be on the ballot, whether I like that candidate or not. SO to do that you have to grab a clip board and collect signatures.

There are professional companies that hire people to collect signatures, and these folks have areas where they send their guys. But campaigns, grassroots as Nader's has been, are nothing but caring citizens with allot of energy.

By my experience, the man who twisted the guys arm, was also the one who called the police. He was security for the theatre.

We do not have a first admendment right folks. When I petitioned, I would aske the owner or manager for permission, and even after they granted permission, a customer would HATE NADER and so I would kindly be asked to leave. And they folowed me around, so collecting signatures isn't easy and they are always looking to put you in a position where they can call the police.

I got a phone call from an inspector of a police department 300 miles from where I lived saying an assult charge was filed against me from someone they would not identify. I watched young Nader petitioners get beat up and arrested for THREE elections, and it was one reason Ron Paul attracted me... I am sick and tired of people telling me I should be shot in the head for collecting signatures, or them writing Mickey Mouse on the petition to disquality it, or rip the petition, they harrass, intimidate, and it come from BOTH parties. BOTH major parties have these party pigs they send out to stop petitions and leaflet dispatchers (very popular with hte Lyndon LaRouche crowd). Also, believe it or not, some cities you can not petition at city hall, the public library, and state or federal building, no parks, no schools.

What the leaflet distributor did wrong was not ask permission of the theatre owner/management. Here again, I got allot of signature by standing at the doors of theatres when movies like "The Corporation", or Who Stole The Electric Car.

We need a bastile day on this... fill the streets with petutuoners and leaflet distributors.

...would be dealt with appropriately in a free society.

Too bad we're not free.

one of these police to try this on the wrong person, and get layed out on the street. The reason, reflex.

to the new AmeriKa.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

Well, I guess he called that one.