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- reiner15, on 10/10/2007, -10/+146So he didn't have a permit, therefore was not legally peddling items. Seems they did what they should have and asked him to leave and then after he didn't comply, they had to take action.
It is odd that they let him do it for months before without a permit though... - jordkett, on 10/10/2007, -10/+120He was arrested for trespassing not for selling buttons... Inaccurate...
- nico623, on 10/10/2007, -9/+63buried as inaccurate...it states in the article that he was 'aggressively' selling items that were not farmers market items.
- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -3/+56I bet he wouldn't be arrested if he had a permit...
- gottadiggit, on 10/10/2007, -53/+103I bet he wouldn't be arrested if his message was support Bush. Everything else being the same.
- EndangeredMassa, on 10/10/2007, -9/+57This is pretty silly. The title is clearly inaccurate.
His message may have been their motivation for enforcing the law, but he was not arrested for distributing his message.
Buried as Spam, because I there wasn't a more appropriate reason. - ajgv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39He was not acting as an "Activist" but as a "Profiteer." If he were an activist, he would have been giving the buttons away.
Also, he was arrested for trespassing, which is what he did when he decided to sell things at a farmers market, without a permit, where everyone else has one and paid to be there.
Buried as inaccurate. - Yamoth, on 10/10/2007, -5/+33not everything have to be political. could it be simply because they are annoying the crap out of some people over there?
- borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24who sells buttons? I always thought that was more of a giving away thing.
- TheSabre, on 10/10/2007, -6/+25Yep. But refresh the page and watch the Diggs go up and up by people that never even read the article.
- Scheissen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Aren't those buttons suppose to be free?
- Squidly, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Folks just want to sell their farm goods. Why do protesters always feel like they have to interject their unrelated 2 cents?
Go grow some radishes and buy a license to sell and then get back to us, gramps. - echinda, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20The "months" bit isn't that odd if the story is accurate - they were trying to accommodate him but after months of putting up with the guy's aggressive tactics they had to start doing things like close the market to deal with him. Clearly the guy's free speech right doesn't allow him to monopolize a farmer's market.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+23It was about the idiot that got himself arrested.
- nordberg, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21I support his buttons...
but he was trespassing. That is what he was arrested for! - HPCELarry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Geez, why do people exagarate and distort like this. He was arrested for trespassing, not selling impeachment buttons. Buried.
- Mullinator, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17See i agree with your point about the title being misleading. The rest of your post though... Not so good.
- goffy59, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17marked as inaccurate.
- Amablue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15It is against the law if you're trespassing on someone else's property.
- manicjunkee, on 10/10/2007, -5/+18Just waiting for the police state comments.
- calu99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Not just your country idiot.
- dvsbastard, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11You wouldn't know simply because without the ability to spin the story into some political article, it wouldn't make any publication... But I assure you those who try to sell products without the proper permits do get in trouble...
- jimmy72, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Burried as inaccurate, besides, it sounds like the guy was a douche.
FTA: "They keep trying to make it about their political position, and it's not about that," said Kim Kaplan, who began selling plants at the market in June. "It's about the fact that he wants to sell his buttons and get in people's faces when he's doing it." - Yamoth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Could it be that they finally got fed up with him?
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9And he had already been previously warned.
- bonjovisucks, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11Umm, he wasn't arrested for selling impeachment buttons. Next time try reading the whole article (and stop trying to make all these people into martyrs).
- GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14Impeach Bush so that people can sell things without permits?
RTFA:
"Alan McConnell, who had been selling his "Impeach Him" buttons at the Howard Avenue market for about a half-hour without a permit, lay down on the pavement after Montgomery County police asked him to come with them. After McConnell failed to respond to a request that he "please stand up," four officers each grabbed one of his limbs and carried him to the front seat of a squad car."
He could've been selling hickory-smoked horse dick for all they cared.
Tips to sucess:
1) Sell things without a permit
2) Do it consistently, and in public
3) Lie down like a two year old when confronted
4) Get arrested.
Check, check, check. Three strikes, you're out. - rwvalentine, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10how & why do you retire from math?
moron should set up his own farmers market. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Has to pay for WoW somehow.
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7A market--where he had been told he needed a license, where he had been told he was harassing people, where he had decided to ignore the rules that everyone else abided by.
- Gaki, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Man, you are just a bona fide *****, ain't ya? Welcome to the block list, jerkoff.
- charlie55, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11inaccurate. he was arrested for trespassing, not selling buttons. please stop being a gang of ***** idiots, you are ruining digg.
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Well, it appears he pushed the wrong buttons!
- bigjimslade, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Maybe a 9/11 conspiracy nutjob will post some new supposedly secret footage showing George W. Bush flying the actual console controlling the remote control airplanes that day.
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11He broke the law, acted like a tool when he was confronted, and was harassing people repeatedly over time. Even though we like his buttons, he pressed all the wrong ones!
- BGFeltenink, on 10/10/2007, -9/+14A permit for selling buttons. Yeah, really ***** free country here.
- chrisbachmann, on 10/10/2007, -4/+9Look up the town on a map. It's just north of the DC beltway. Between Kensington and DC is a town called Chevy Chase. It's where the DC WASPs traditionally lived. Heck, they didn't even allow Jews to live there until that practice became illegal. Well, Kensington is kind of like the middle class version of that. Muckrakers like this guy are feared because it tarnishes their image. The local pols are more interested in property values rather than political positions (usually). Dissent is unfashionable while nationalism is fashionable. It should be noted that extreme nationalism is unfashionable as well. It's more about appearances rather than politics.
- flanaganiii, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I've run into this guy a lot at the Tacoma Park farmers market, but never the one that is in Kensington (right by my house). He is not a particularly personable fellow. He sticks the button out at you, and when you try to take it, he says that it "requires a donation" of $1 to promote impeaching Bush. I personally felt like it was a bit of a con, but I think he really believes it. He just doesn't believe it enough to put his pocketbook into it.
Being a regular Digg reader, I personally believe it's f*in hilarous that this guy made Digg. Kar-rayzzee. - darrenpauli, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6If he was getting in farmer's faces selling pro Bush buttons without a permit and performed the same protest, I would assume he would still be sitting in the back of the squad car. I vehemently support free speech, and I personally think Bush is a *****, but the police aren't lackies of Bush and are there to enforce the law. Radical left or right wing acts only degrade political clauses, despite their exposure, which further polarises debates and hinders any chance of reasonable discussion. And for ***** sake shut up about Ron Paul. Concentrate on the story.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9He should have used the word "idiot." Maybe you could have puzzled that one out.
- qsqueeq, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Damn. I wish I could undo my fat-fingered digg of your comment.
- aukxsona, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I was. I don't need a friggin permit. It must be the northern Nazi states he was in.
- corwin155, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5lame its not about selling the buttons, its that he didnt have permit to sell them and was bothering customers
- CourtesyFlush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Rationalization.
He was arrested for trespassing.
He was arrested for failing to obtain a permit.
The type of buttons sold is irrelevant to the arrest.
The headline is a purposeful distortion.
"It's not lying when WE do it!" - Bamborzled, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I call them trolls.
- explorer1972, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Any market like this that I've been to requires vendors to pay for their stall and/or contribute part of their earnings to the organizers. He apparently didn't have the permit to sell, so he was not allowed to sell there. The land where the market is held is probably private as well, otherwise he couldn't be trespassing. I agree that if he was quietly selling "Support the Troops" buttons, no one would have raised a fuss over his illegal activity, but someone did and he was rightly ushered out. On the other hand, if this was a free speech issue and not a free enterprise issue, then he would have been quite justified in GIVING away the buttons as long as he didn't harass people while doing it.
- cfulp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I don't know if you've ever sold things in a Flea Market centerblack, but you need a permit. He was selling these buttons in a market. They told him he needed a permit, asked him to leave, and he didn't. He deserved what he got. If he was giving them away for free, then that's a different story.
- rwvalentine, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5i'm getting together some truthers like you for a reality program
are you interested? - cfulp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yes, a permit for selling buttons...at a market. Are you really surprised? I know when I sold stuff at a Flea market in florida, I had to pay a guy for a permit.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4He's a ***** troll, stop getting so butthurt about it.
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