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Subject: "Got to Get Down to It, Should Have Been Done Long Ago"
http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm
"Immediately after the Kent State shooting (sometimes referred to
as the "Kent State Massacre") on May 4, 1970, Neil Young composed
the song "Ohio" after looking at photos [of the corpses of
protestors shot by the National Guard] in Life magazine. Crosby,
Stills, Nash, and Young then went to the studio and recorded the
song, which was released to radio stations shortly after the killings.
"California governor Ronald Reagan's declaration about student
protests, "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with" --3
weeks before the shootings-- helped lead America to that fateful day."
"Soon, the song's lyrics --including the lines "Tin soldiers
[=National Guard] and Nixon's coming" and "I hear the drumming" and
"we're finally on our own"-- became an anthem to a generation.
The Bill of Rights on the back of the "Ohio"
single declaring our freedom of assembly.
The B side song recorded was the funereal,
dirge-like "Find the Cost of Freedom":
I think about, 100 years ago, how my fathers bled
I think I see a valley, covered with bones in blue
All the brave soldiers that cannot get older
been askin' after you
Hear the past a-callin', from Armageddon's side
When everyone's talkin' and no one's listenin',
how can we decide?
(Do we) find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground
Mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down
(Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground)
"In some parts of the country, the song was banned from playlists
because of it's "anti-war" and "anti-Nixon" sentiments."
"Do you recall hearing it on the radio for the first time?"
"No. It was so controversial that AM wouldn't play it and FM --the
underground-- all the FM stations started playing it ... But [the
radio station executives] tried to ban it."
"In ten lines, Young captured the fear, frustration and anger felt
by the youth across the country and set it to a lumbering D-mode
death march that hammered home the dread."
"The events in Ohio seemed to mark the end of the "Woodstock
nation". "Crosby said that Young calling Nixon's name out in the
lyrics was 'the bravest thing I ever heard' -- at the time, it
seemed like anyone who stood up to Nixon [wound up dead]. Neil
Young did not seem scared at all."
"Neil Young's other anti-war anthem came when with his group
Buffalo Springfield. 'For What It's Worth' co-written by Stephen
Stills in 1966, became one of the most acclaimed anti-
[authoritarian] songs of the 1960s. The lines "Paranoia strikes
deep / Into your life it will creep / It starts when you're always
afraid / Step out of line, The Man comes and takes you away" speak
of the [fear-based] control the government had over the American
people at the time."
"Its refrain "Stop, children! What's that sound? / Everybody look
what's going down" ---
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Remember, even DEMOCRATS Nancy Pelosi and even JOHN CONYERS have
called Capitol Hill police to forcibly eject and arrest protestors
outside their office carrying "Impeach Bush" signs
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Couple Terrorized, Assaulted and Arrested
For Flying an Upside Down American Flag
Police officer recently returned from Iraq smashed into Kuhn's home,
choked husband -- and then claimed they assaulted him
Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet, July 31, 2007
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/
july2007/310707coupleterrorized.htm
A North Carolina couple who were terrorized by a police officer who
had recently returned from Iraq are now fighting back, after
sheriff's deputy Brian Scarborough broke into their house,
assaulted them and then arrested the Kuhns for the crime of flying
an upside down U.S. flag.
Mark and Deborah Kuhn of Asheville, North Carolina made headlines
last week when they were arrested for flying an upside down U.S.
flag, a commonly recognized sign of distress, in their backyard,
after police claimed they were violating a statute for "desecration
of the flag".
As is supported by the United States Flag Code as well as a similar
incident in 2001, flying the flag upside down is not a mark of
disrespect, and in fact is considered by many to be the highest
form of patriotism.
However, since 9/11 there have been several cases where individuals
have been harassed, intimidated and even arrested for inverting the
flag, by those who confuse love of government with love of country.
Buncombe County Sheriff’s deputy Brian Scarborough had just
returned from Iraq and according to Deborah Kuhn, was sent by his
staff Sergeant from the local National Guard to "deal with" the
Kuhns after a local resident complained about the flag -- a fact
that was later admitted on TV news. A National Guard soldier in
fatigues had also previously visited the Kuhn's to harass them
about the flag.
"This is a distress signal, we're not trying to desecrate the
flag," Kuhn told Scarborough when he told the couple they were
violating a statute. Police claimed the messages attached to the
flag were the problem, but the notes merely pointed out that the
upside down flag represented a distress signal and a warning that
the country was in danger.
Even though Kuhn took the flag down, the officer immediately
demanded that the couple show their ID's and when they refused told
them to put their hands behind their back and was about to arrest
them before the couple shut and locked the door.
Scarborough then proceeded to kick the door in, "And the next thing
we know, the glass is flying, he unlocks the deadbolt and he comes
into our house after us," Kuhn told The Alex Jones Show.
The officer then pursued Mark Kuhn through the house before
intercepting him in the kitchen and putting him in a choke hold.
Deborah Kuhn called 911 to report that the officer had broken into
the home and was assaulting her husband.
The officer then pulled out pepper spray to which Mark Kuhn
responded, "Are you going to spray me in my house?" before
Scarborough whipped out his billy club and the Kuhn's ran out of
the house into the street, pleading for help from their neighbors.
"Nine police cars showed up, they whipped out the Tasers, they said
'get down we're gonna Taser you' added Kuhn.
The couple were handcuffed, arrested and bundled into a squad car,
to the protests of numerous neighbors who demanded to know why the
Kuhns were being incarcerated, but were told to leave by police.
Contradicting the police's account of the incident, that Buncombe
County Sheriff’s deputy Brian Scarborough was injured when the
Kuhn's slammed the door on his hand, Deborah Kuhn vehemently
maintains that Scarborough smashed the glass of their door with his
bare fist before breaking in, a description which is backed up by
three other eyewitnesses, one of which appeared on TV later that day.
The Kuhn's are now also being charged with "assault on a government
employee" - meaning that the new definition of assault is if a
police officer cuts his hand by breaking into your house and
putting you in a choke hold - you have assaulted him.
Scarborough claims that Deborah Kuhn slapped him while she was on
the phone to the police, but the audio file of the call (listen
here) clearly contradicts this.
They each face over a year in prison.
The Kuhn's case is similar in many ways to that of Kelly Rushing, a
man from Lyon County Kentucky, who was arrested and charged for
handing out videotapes of Ron Paul videos to police officers.
Rushing was later found not guilty of the offence of "terroristic
threats" but continues to be harassed by police.
It also mirrors the case of an Alabama man, who was arrested in
2004 for displaying a sign in his yard that read "Our Courts System
is a Joke," under the pretext that it was illegal to criticize the
authorities.
We are encouraging our listeners and readers to call the following
number and remind the officials concerned that this is not Russia
or Nazi Germany, and that officer Scarborough's conduct was
shameful and an insult to everything America is supposed to stand for.
Scarborough's experience in Iraq of kicking down doors and taking
innocent people to camps is not something that should be brought
back to America, and the charges against the Kuhns should be
dropped immediately along with a formal apology issued.
Sheriff Van Duncan's Office: 828-250-4503
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Kent officer tickets man
for 'Impeach Bush' sign
James Ewinger
Plain Dealer, August 09, 2007 http://www.cleveland.com/news/
plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/portage/118664980199160.xml&coll=2
Kent (Ohio) - A soft-spoken teacher posted the words "Impeach Bush"
in a public garden, and Kent police cast him as an outlaw.
Today Kevin Egler is fighting that in Kent Municipal Court, and the
case is emerging as a free-speech issue of interest well beyond the
boundaries of placid Portage County.
Police ticketed Egler for unlawfully advertising in a public place
because he put up a free-standing sign near the intersection of
Haymarket Parkway and Willow and Main streets.
Egler said the officer who cited him July 25 asked: "Why don't you
put the signs in your own yard?" Egler said his response was that
he's a taxpayer and views the public space very much as his yard.
At 45, Egler is too young to have experienced the heyday of anti-
war activity in Kent. He was only 8 when Ohio National Guardsmen
shot and killed four Kent State University students during a campus
protest on May 4, 1970. He went to the university a decade later,
putting out an underground newspaper and acquiring an accounting
degree.
Egler and about a dozen friends and associates have placed hundreds
of anti-war messages around Ohio and neighboring states over the
past 10 months. He said the effort is fueled by the notion that
President Bush's military response after the 9/11 terrorist attacks
was both illegal and immoral.
The ticket in Kent represents the first serious legal challenge to
the campaign, Egler said. (He said he was ticketed for littering in
Columbus after a sign he placed on a bridge blew over.)
Egler said that when he was stopped in Kent, he asked the police
officer how his sign differed from Realtors posting signs on public
property saying "This way to the house for sale." He said the
officer asked, "You don't know the difference?" but never explained
what it might be.
Columbus attorney Bob Fitrakis, Egler's lawyer, said there is a
difference: The real estate sign is commercial speech, and Egler's
sign is political. Commercial messages do not have anywhere near
the legal protections that political speech does, he said.
Fitrakis does extensive legal work on First Amendment issues and is
the publisher of the nationally recognized online publication
freepress.org. He said this is the first Ohio case of its kind that
he has heard of, because most prosecutions for political signs
occur when someone defaces a building with paint or graffiti, but
not a free-standing, easily removable sign. Until now.
But Ohio politicians - including judges running for re-election -
get a great deal of latitude when it comes to posting their
campaign signs, and Fitrakis said he is not aware of any instance
in which a mainstream politician has been hunted down and
prosecuted for the act.
COMMENTS
this type of action is happening more and more around the
country...we are in deep shit and most aren't paying attention...
--patnkansas
People, we are fast losing our right to speak our minds - to ticket
this man when in ALL poticial races, there are signs put up
EVERYWHERE - is absolute bull dinky. Folks, how many more of our
rights are we going to sit by and watch be taken away?
IMPEACH - remove the incompetents from office NOW!
--angry_diane
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? The Red, White and
Blue Flu. National Strike.
http://www.truthmove.org/forum/topic/567
Almost 2 pages of current links!
And here's a simple flier too!
http://www.usgeneralstrike.org/
Lets spread the word, just as this brave man has done.
--Bladerunner
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Anti-war protesters arrested
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/Antiwar_protesters_arrested/
20070317-115354-3959r
WASHINGTON, March 17, 2007 (UPI) -- The late-night start of a rally
against the U.S. war in Iraq resulted in dozens of protesters being
arrested by police outside the White House.
The demonstrators handcuffed about 11:30 p.m. Friday were among
about 100 people who appeared on the sidewalk to pray in a planned
act of civil disobedience, The Washington Post said Saturday.
The group was part of a crowd of about 3,000 that had gathered at
the Washington National Cathedral for a service marking the fourth
anniversary of the war and timed to coincide with the 40th
anniversary of the 1967 march on the Pentagon against the Vietnam War.
Protest leaders hoped tens of thousands of people would show up for
a march Saturday afternoon that was to take demonstrators from the
Lincoln Memorial, across the Arlington Memorial Bridge, to a
Pentagon parking lot. However, inclement weather was a possible
factor.
One protestor whose son was killed in Iraq, Celeste Zappala of
Philadelphia, said she was at the rally, which was sponsored by
Christian Peace Witness for Iraq, to serve "as a witness to the
true cost of war, the betrayal and madness that is the war in Iraq."
God's Politics Blog -- More Than 200 Arrested in Christian Peace
Witness
http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/03/duane-shank-more-
than-200-arrested-in.html
With much hard work and prayer -- and despite frigid temperatures
with rain and sleet -- the Christian Peace Witness for Iraq was a
moving and inspiring event. More than 3,000 people gathered at the
Washington National Cathedral and then walked in a candlelight
procession nearly four miles to Lafayette Park across from the
White House, where more than 500 additional people (who had watched
the service in an overflow location at the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church) joined them.
While the main group of people continued walking around the White
House with candles, more than 200 crossed Pennsylvania Avenue to
pray on the sidewalk and were arrested.
An Associated Press story was printed in more than 200 publications
around the country, and there was a good AP video, Christians pray,
march for peace. Other news services included United Press
International and Cox News. The Washington Post and National Public
Radio ran pieces on Saturday morning. The New York Times included
two sentences in a longer story about Saturday’s protest at the
Pentagon. And the service was covered by CNN and Local News on Fox
5 in D.C. - thanks to Katie Barge of Faith in Public Life for
YouTubing these! Watch them here: CNN
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Vendor Arrested for “Impeach Him” Buttons
By: Nicole Belle on Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 at 5:55 PM - PDT
KEYEtv.com (CBS)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/24/vendor-arrested-for-
impeach-him-buttons/
A 74-year-old retired mathematician who sells anti-Bush buttons at
a Maryland farmers’ market has become a symbol of free speech to
some people. Others say Alan McConnell is a nuisance.
McConnell was at the market in Kensington as usual yesterday,
selling buttons that say “Impeach Him” He has sold the $1 buttons
for months; he told The Washington Post he uses the money earned to
pay for “Impeach Them Both” yard signs.
Town officials had previously warned McConnell about peddling his
political wares at the market (he is accused of being “aggressive”
in his pitch), and had cited him for selling merchandise without a
proper permit.
McConnell was also warned that he would be arrested if he returned
to the market, even though it is public property.
McConnell showed up this weekend, when police arrested him and
forcibly carried him to a squad car. A crowd of about 40 McConnell
supporters booed the arrest, chanting “Free speech!”
McConnell was charged with trespassing; he faces 90 days in jail
and a $500 fine
Officials said kicking him out has nothing to do with politics but
with fears that the atmosphere fostered by McConnell and his
supporters would create a safety hazard. (Mayor Peter Fosselman
even cancelled last Saturday’s market.)
It’s getting harder and harder to recognize this country some days …
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War Protester Pulled from Oswego County Parade, Arrested
by Charles McChesney
Post-Standard (Syracuse NY), July 16, 2005
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0716-06.htm
Mark Harris, a 20-year veteran of the Air Force, was not pleased to
see a sign-carrying Iraq war protester in Thursday night's Mexico
Volunteer Fire Department Field Days parade.
What he saw happen to the man, though, raised some questions for
him and, he said, his children.
An Oswego County sheriff's deputy pulled Joshua A. Davies, 23, of
25B North St. in Mexico, out of the parade and charged him with
disorderly conduct. Davies had been walking in the parade carrying,
Harris said, an "Impeach Bush" sign and another sign calling for an
end to the war in Iraq.
Harris said he saw Davies get searched, handcuffed and put in a
sheriff's patrol car. Harris said Davies was kept in the car until
the parade ended about 45 minutes later.
"My kids watched it," said Harris. "Some asked, 'Can they do that?' "
They were talking about what the deputy did, not the protester. And
it wasn't just children asking the question, Harris said. "There
were older people, senior citizens, saying it too."
Oswego County Sheriff Reuel Todd said Davies was arrested because
he was a spectator who jumped into the middle of the parade. "He
was not entered in the parade," Todd said.
"We had a complaint that he disrupted the parade," Todd added. "He
was arrested and released on an appearance ticket."
A man who answered the phone at the Mexico fire station, who
declined to give his name, said Friday that all anyone had to do to
be in the parade was ask permission.
"I felt bad that he was there," Harris said of Davies, "but I
thought he had the right to his opinion."
"This was a signal to the kids that you can't do that here," Harris
said. "Dissent, I mean. I thought that's what being an American
means - the right to protest, to speak your mind."
Davies could not be reached for comment.
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