Posted by: jdtalley | April 13, 2008

Link Roundup

Perhaps in the order they were posted:

Julian Sanchez: Hijinks Ensue

Megan Mcardle: Dancing Fools

Freedom and Shit dot org: Midnight Dance Party Arrest and Midnight Dance Party: Bopping is NOT a Crime

The Agitator: So About That Tree of Liberty… and Jefferson Arrest Update

J.D. Talley: Free the Jefferson 1

Outside the Beltway: DC Police Arrest Dancing Libertarians

Below The Beltway: Jack-Booted Thugs At The Jefferson Memorial

Fark: Apparently getting a couple of friends together and dancing quietly to your iPod at midnight at the Jefferson Memorial gets you a face plant in the concrete then a trip to detention courtesy of the US Park Police

The American Scene: D.C. Monument Menaced by Libertarian Dancers!

Get Fixxed!: Quiet Booty Shakin is a Threat to the Citizens of D.C.

Flying Hedgehogs: illegal peaceful assembly

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A Personal View of Last Night’s Events »

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[...] A few weeks ago, on Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, a group of people came up with a creative way to mark the occasion; a flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial.  The plan was to dance silently from 11:55pm till 12:05am to whatever songs you wanted on iPods.  The time was chosen to ensure there be very few, if any, visitors to the site and the iPods were chosen because we didn’t want to make a lot of noise and there would be no way for everyone to agree on a set of songs, Jefferson was all about individual rights, after all.  About 2 minutes in the park police started throwing people out for reasons that have never really been explained.  Since everyone (about 20 people) were wearing headphone and no one went with tap as their dance style of choice, noise couldn’t have been the issue.  One woman dared to ask the unaskable question, “Why?”  After having been given the answer last acceptable from a parent to a 12 year old, “Because I said so,” she asked again, and asked what rule she was breaking.  She was then arrested for “interfering with an agency function,” whatever the hell that is.  Later, a charge of “demonstrating without a permit” was added.  (You can reall all sorts of stories about it here.) [...]

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