Homeland Security nabs Free Stater from home

[Twist_U_Up]

This is Amerika!! The Nazis are taking over

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=36

A member of the Free State Project, Russell Kanning, was arrested recently for attempting to distribute a flyer to IRS agents in his home town asking them to quit their job. The flyers contain anti-war content, criticism the Bush administration for its erosion of civil rights, and a form resignation letter addressed to President Bush, which he is asking IRS agents to sign. Kanning remains in a maximum security and will not be allowed visitors. The Free State Project recently passed 7,250 members more than 1/3 of its 20,000 person goal.

[ixion]

1. uh, arrested for what?

:wtf:

[MadHound]

2. The only thing that I can possibly concieve of is trespassing

But given that it *should* be a public building, I'm with you, :wtf:

But hey, that's our DHS, on the spot and on the job, protecting all of us from those dangerous, um, flyers:eyes:

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Chilling shades of Schenck v. United States

In 1918, Charles Schenck passed out flyers described the draft -- newly created in the United States in response to WW I -- as an unconstitutional violation of the 13th Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude and advised recently drafted men to refuse to submit to this violation of their rights. As a result, Schenck was arrested, charged and convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, which made it a felony to obstruct the draft. The United States Supreme Court upheld his conviction, claiming that the First Amendment did not protect speech meant to inflame or incite because "hen a nation is at war many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right." The ruling also gave us the famous (and oft misquoted) "fire in a crowded theater" ruling.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States