DC Dance Party Success

by | Jun 5, 2011 | 30 comments

Not all of yesterday’s activism news was bad. The third DC Jefferson Memorial Dance Party was a tremendous success with hundreds attending and dozens dancing. Police did not make arrests and the dancers were unmolested for a solid fifteen minutes. Finally, the police did make a move and shut down the entire memorial, moving the people, like cattle, out of the area. Some have critiqued the activists for not staying put, but I still say this was a win. Most people are just not ready to be arrested, and I don’t blame them for obeying and leaving. Even for those pros like FK’s Meg McLain, who was in attendance, why get arrested in DC? What’s the point? It’s not like things will change there. Besides, how long does one have to dance to have won? Fifteen minutes is a lot of dancing, and a lot more than last week. Adam Kokesh is right – the state blinked on this one.

Here’s the video, courtesy America’s most liberty-friendly TV news network, RT:

Here’s one from Reason.TV: (more…)

Union Leader Reports on Manch Mass Arrests

by | Jun 5, 2011 | 0 comments

Manchester’s first ever mass-arrests of liberty activists makes the Union Leader:

MANCHESTER — Protesters wrote anti-police slogans with chalk on the city’s police station Saturday, leading to eight arrests, police said. The fire department hours later hosed off the colored chalk that police considered graffiti.

The arrests — including those of three people who gave out-of-state addresses to authorities — came a day after some of the same people followed police on patrols Friday night and filmed them making traffic stops.

“They’ve been ratcheting things up here,” Sgt. Todd Boucher said Saturday night. “They crossed the line when they started writing all over the building.”

One of those arrested, Neal Conner, 24, of 6 Freses Pond Road, Deerfield, said Saturday’s protest was promoted on Facebook. Police said people associated with the Free State movement were involved. Conner declined to say who organized the protest, but a website, copblock.org, was written in chalk, and Conner presented one of its business cards. The website monitors police activities and sells T-shirts with slogans such as “I Don’t Talk to Police, I Record Them.”

Conner said Manchester police should be expecting future protests.

“The police will be hearing from us,” he said outside the station after his release from custody. (more…)