Handing Out Fliers Gets Couple Arrested

06/04/13



Guess what? Handing out fliers in protest of our national debt and how the Federal Reserve finances it will get you arrested. First amendment rights? Nope, not unless you push causes Obama thinks is okay.

Mark Passio wrote about his experience last Saturday.

On Saturday, May 18th at 3:00 pm, I was walking with my wife Barb in Philadelphia from Market Street to Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets, and handed out a few fliers about how the Federal Reserve Bank is de-valuing our nation's currency to people standing in the line at the Liberty Bell location (something I have done almost 20 times in the past). I briefly spoke to a couple of them who asked me for more information. We then proceeded to continue to walk to Chestnut Street when we were stopped by two Park Police who said that I could not hand out fliers without a permit (I had already finished handing them out actually; I had a few left in my hand, and was in the process of leaving the area).

They began citing some obscure federal regulation that I had never heard of. I calmly told them that I was peacefully exercising the Rights of Free Speech and Free Press as I was walking through the area, which are Natural Rights which can not be granted by man, nor alienated from man, and which they do not have the "right," regardless of what the terms of their "job" may tell them, to usurp from me or to stop me from exercising. I informed them that the unalienable Rights to Free Speech and Free Press were also guaranteed and protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, which, as the highest legal document of American law, certainly trumps and negates any un-Constitutional federal regulation which they were quoting to me, even under their own legal system. I calmly informed them that they were violating those Natural Human Rights by even attempting to stop people from exercising them and claiming that our Free Speech Rights can be invalidated by an obscure regulation, and by making the claim that I now need to PAY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR PERMISSION to exercise a Natural Human Right.

I then proceeded to attempt to walk away toward Fifth Street on Chestnut Street, when these Park Police told me that I was NOT FREE to walk away from them, even though I had long since finished handing anyone any fliers and had done absolutely nothing to harm anyone or violate anyone else's rights.

They appeared to be viciously angered at my declaration that I had engaged in a peaceful activity that was a Natural Right, and that they had no right to attempt to stop me from exercising it. Along with many other Park Police who had gathered while I was speaking to the original two officers.

They followed me and Barb onto Chestnut Street, violently stopped us from proceeding on our way, put handcuffs on both of us (mine were applied so tightly that I have lost feeling in a large portion of the top of my left hand and will need to see a doctor about possible permanent nerve damage), unlawfully arrested our freedom of movement for over 20 minutes, unlawfully searched my person when I told them that I did not consent to any searches, stole my property in the form of the remaining fliers which I had paid to print, and, adding insult to injury, also stole a $20 bill from my wallet, which I discovered was missing when they returned it to me, after releasing us. They attempted to give me a citation for exercising Free Speech, which I refused to take from them, because I will not admit that I did anything morally wrong or have my time wasted to "defend" myself, as my actions harmed no other being, and I was doing my duty to warn people about the de-valuation of their earnings and savings, and in doing so exercising a Natural Right which is "allegedly" Constitutionally protected in America. They told me that a warrant will be issued for my arrest if I did not take the citation from them, and I still refused.

Free Speech is being shut down in America. America is actively, right before our eyes, being turned into a Police State such as Hitler's Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Russia.

This was outrageous!

Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com...=2#FAyeC6kgWs0PdzC7.99

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so, that's you and your wife? whoa, no wonder u spam here all day. Oh and -good luck with all that .

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Wow...you are a moron!

"Mark Passio wrote about his experience last Saturday"

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you can't fool ME , eedyot! 0/5!!

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Nope...but the article sure did!

Moron!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

... and you called the Occupy Wall$treet crowd 'terrorists'.

sound like they broke a law they didn't know existed. it's still breaking the law. fact

Bills of Rights doesn't apply on federal property

Yeah, I don't remember your reaction during the "Occupy movement" being for the protesters. Man titty.

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Impeach Trump

BULL CRAP!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

The fact that this has been posted
and then reposted on at least
two "free" and public internet forums
seems to belie the premise?





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So it takes you till the last hint of your freedom is taken away before you do something about it?

Idiot!



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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

... I remember the "free speech zone" GWB created about a mile from any view.

He set the precedent.

I'm not so sure a law requiring a permit for protests and solicitations at national parks and monuments is such a bad idea.

Perhaps not everyone visiting national parks and monuments is happy to be solicited with a flyer, and some might feel entitled to visit the park without an angry crowd of protestors mucking up the whole scene.

Not to mention, thanks to the Teapublicans, they probably had to lay off the clean up crew responsible for picking up all those flyers.

You don't even know when you're being made fun of, do yo?

went right over his pointy little head! its SO easy!

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... No, in TeaPublican Land, there would be no National Parks: instead it would be the "Wal-Mart Smokey Forest".

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You mean CONSOL Enery Smoky Mountain Coal Mine

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