KENSINGTON, Md., July 23, 2007
Vendor Arrested For "Impeach Him" Buttons
Maryland Retiree's Anti-Bush Buttons Attract Supporters ... And Police
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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.)
But while some critics say talk of impeachment in the halls of Congress merely impedes the nation's business, some vendors at the market say the hype surrounding McConnell may have helped improve business for them.
"The excitement has certainly brought a lot more people here, but not all of them are buying," merchant Keith Voight told the Post. "Hopefully, the protesters today will come tomorrow to buy."
McConnell's buttons might have some more takers in nearby Takoma Park, Md., whose city council will vote tonight on a resolution calling for Congress to impeach both President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
Also today, activists including Cindy Sheehan, will march on Capitol Hill to the office of Rep. John Conyers, asking that articles of impeachment against the president and vice president be introduced.
Meanwhile, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., a critic of the Iraq War, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he wants Congress to censure President Bush for launching a war without adequate military preparation and for lying to the public, and for what he deemed the administration's continuous assault against the rule of law.
"This administration has weakened America in a way that is frightful." said Feingold.
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See all 122 Comments"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961
Posted by GunOwnerDan at 02:54 PM : Jul 23, 2007
I'm a liberal and I agree. Hopefully I can save up for a long gun one day in this separation of wealth society.. Until then, my .40 is ready to protect my freedom.
%u201CTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 1918
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN!
Our government has been hijacked by a warmongering democrat/republican duopoly controlled by greed and big money.
Congress is nothing more than a safe-house for criminals and prostitutes.
People who profit from war, imprisonment, and torture are now controlling America.
Next there will be a fight to ban all civilian gun ownership once the first amendment is destroyed.
Tyrannical dictatorships prefer unarmed victims.
"One man with a gun can control 100 without one. Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms."
- Lenin
"All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party."
- Mao Zedong
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
-- Joseph Stalin
"On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results."
- Benito Mussolini
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered races to have arms; history teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing."
- Adolf Hitler
yeah, I've always feared the guys that sell buttons at markets.
Thank God this Mayor Peter Fosselman is making his town safer for all America.
Fear the button vendors of America!
%u201CTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public"
I feel so much safer now that free speech has officially been taken away from us Commoners.
Despite the show of U.S. support demonstrated by this astounding quantity of arms sales, Saudi Arabia%u2019s human rights record is very poor. According to the U.S. State Department%u2019s 2000 Human Rights Report, the Saudi government%u2019s "human rights record remained generally poor in a number of areas,%u201D with reports of arbitrary arrest, prolonged detention and physical abuse of prisoners. Such practices technically violate Saudi law, yet security forces commit abuses %u201Cwith the acquiescence%u201D of the government. In addition, the government prohibits or restricts freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, and religion. Since Saudi Arabia is a monarchy, there is no method or right by which citizens can bring about government change.
Guess we can see Bush and Cheney in Saudi Robes and Turbins.
More information would be helpful here. Example.
Was Alan McConnell the only person selling items here without a license?
Do maryland's vending licenses permit selling "impeach buttons"? ,if so then perhaps this gentleman should have obtained one before selling his "product"
If Maryland vending laws prohibit the selling of political objects then why are printers allowed to produce and sell political banners and signs. I suspect they would have found/invented another reason/excuse to stop McConnell from calling for Bush's impeachment in public if they neesed to.
Our government has been hijacked by a warmongering democrat/republican duopoly controlled by greed and big money.
Posted by GunOwnerDan at 03:13 PM : Jul 23, 2007
I agree 100%....
To Full-Blown Tyranny
By Stephen Lendman
7-23-7
George Bush's Continuing War on the First Amendment
On July 17, George Bush issued another of his many presidential "one-man" decrees titled "Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq." More than any other chief executive in the nation's history, this President abuses this practice egregiously as another example of his contempt for the law.
http://www.rense.com/general77/tyrc.htm
Of course, he'd have to go "underground" like the terrorist, then it would get complicated.
Nevermind.
Free speech is not a high priority in Kenisgston, not when it anti-Bush. Alan McConnell should have read the newsletter for the Kenisgston area, he would have noticed it mentions, in big letters, the fact that the Republican Party held its first state convention in Jackson, Michigan, July 6, 1854.
It is surprising with the highly rated schools in Kenisgston, they do not understand, they may stop McConnell from selling his buttons, but that is not going to make impeachment talk disappear.
Question: Why was it so easy to impeach Nixon (for wiretapping), and Clinton (for a personal indescretion), but nearly IMPOSSIBLE for someone who has caused the DEATHS of thousands of soldiers and Iraq citizens alike? Does congress tell us one thing and Bush another??
fears that the atmosphere fostered by McConnell and his supporters would create a safety hazard. (Mayor Peter Fosselman even cancelled last Saturday's market.)
- Old timer Fossile-man should be ashamed. That is what we call economical sanctions. Punish the others indirectly, for supporting McConnell. Isn't it?
- My vote would sincerely go to McConnell, if he had to run for elections.
Kensington town officials have exceeded their authority,forsworn their oaths of office and brought shame to their town and our nation.
- Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's Propaganda Minister
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
- Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's Reich-Marshall
at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
Go McConnell, and Go Takoma Park! 72% of the public is with you on this!
Posted by gunnerv1
1. Grow a brain;
2. Get a life!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER!
"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961
That 74 year young guy would be *** slapping you if you spit on him, I would love to have a ring side seat just to see that.
He may, in fact, speak for a lot of people who keep mum but think the same thing.
Dissent is the one of the higher forms of patrotism and and makes for better government.
Think for a moment where we would be is everyone fell blindly behind a leader like Bush and his cabal.
The far right is equally as frightening as is the far left.
Kensington, MD apparently has a "pre-emtive" arrest policy that allows them to arrest people BEFORE they violate the law.
Getting arrested may get him more coverage than if he had sold a million buttons.
Bravo Mr McConnell
Go brother Go !!!!!!!!!!!
Kenneth Starr was a special prosecutor appointed in DC. The prosecutor I was refering to in the one with jurisdiction in Arkansas.
Also "bypassing the court, wiretapping without a warrant and LYING about it are treasonous enough for me" you don't know much about treason if you think this qualifies. Treason involves betraying you nation to an outside force or country. Misusing words for shock value is improper at best.
Posted by CitizenUSA at 03:57 PM : Jul 23, 2007
Nixon was not impeached, he resigned peior to it and was pardoned by Ford.
It's always getting in the way and they're just trying to protect us from the terrorists! fer crist sake!
The Constitution applies only to American citizens, it is strictly a liberal trait to apply it's protections to non-Americans. If that was not your point then make one instead of ranting.
Maybe you are right about treason, but if u read the Insurrection Act, Bush is in the act of insurrection. Just a small portion of it, just in case u cannot find it:
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
fears that the atmosphere fostered by McConnell and his supporters would create a safety hazard"
Bald_faced lie. And I will say that to his face.
An insurgency, or insurrection, is an armed uprising, or revolt against an established civil or political authority.(Wickpedia)
The Insurrection Act of 1807 is the set of laws that govern the President of the United States of America's ability to deploy troops within the United States to put down lawlessness, insurrection and rebellion (Also Wickpedia)
So exactly how are you claiming that President Bush is an insurgent.
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