Man Faces Littering Charge For Putting Up 'Impeach Bush' Sign

[OhioChick]

Source: Newsnet5

POSTED: 9:20 am EDT September 6, 2007

KENT, Ohio -- A Kent man who put an Impeach Bush sign reading "Impeach Bush" on public property is due in court Thursday.

Kevin Egler faces littering charges.

The initial charge against Egler was for violating an advertising ordinance. That charge was dropped.

The littering fine carries a maximum penalty of $500 and 60 days in jail.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/14056772/detail.html

[Kutjara]

1. Surely, all he has to say is that his intention all along...

...was to retrieve the sign after a certain period. It's not littering if you aren't throwing something away. Just like you're not littering when you park you car on the street. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

2. What a crock!! "Littering" for putting up a protest sign. I would be interested to see how many

advertisement posters were hung up and around that town.

[panader0]

4. or election campaign signs.

[go west young man]

9. When he shows up in court he needs to bring photo evidence

of campaign signs as you say and ask the judge why there's a double standard and how many public officials were arrested during the last election for littering with their political signs.

[acmavm]

11. Or garage sales

[demnan]

3. We have several of these cases

one in Kensington, MD where a man tried to sell "IMPEACH HIM" buttons at a Farmer's Market and one in Richmond VA where a woman was arrested during a July 4th parade wearing an Impeach Him Sign.

Link to the arrest in Kensington:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2405554419320847487&hl=en

[superconnected]

17. This is absolutely scary. I didn't realize free speech was under this much attack.

[AtLiberty]

5. On the sunny side, his message is getting much more mileage...

Before it was just a sign on the grass. The message was reaching a few thousand people at most.

Now it's national news and reaching millions.

We owe these authorities our thanks and a round of applause!

[AX10]

6. The bureaucrats strike again!

:puke:

[wtmusic]

7. 'Kay, now if the sign had said, "Stay The Course in Iraq"

is it littering?

[GliderGuider]

8. I have to agree with the authorities

I mean, think about it. If the poster has Bush's face on it, don't you think it belongs in the dump?

[Dr. Strange]

15. The poster?

Or Bush's face?

[superkia]

21. No it would be better attached to the back of a urinal!

[spirit of wine]

10. This case will be thrown out

but will get more attention for it being so absurd, and a complete waste of time.

A win-win situation for us. Conservatives show their idiocy by these types of double-standard laws that will not apply in the actual world.

[cosmicone]

12. I agree

They can never convert political and protected free speech into litter. Even Scalia would agree hahaha

[earthside]

13. Does He Have A Receipt for the Sign?

How do we know if Mr. Egler didn't steal the sign from Circuit City in the first place?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1746129#1747712

:sarcasm:

[Zodiak]

14. LOL

I tried to interject a few words into that thread about why people mght be upset about this and basically the race card was pulled on me. I am done with that thread, but I think a couple of DUers on that thread need a time out.

[here_is_to_hope]

19. someone wanted to race ya? Vroom Vroom!

Sorry, just had to, saw you racing another du'er in my little minds eye...:silly:

[Occulus]

20. LOL

You. Are. Bad.

:spank:

[John Q. Citizen]

16. My e-mail to James Silver (the guy who brought the littering charges)

Hi;

I just wanted to thank James Silvers for keeping impeachment in the national news and on the national agenda.

Without this kind of publicity the endeavorer would be much more difficult.

Thanks again, and remember, Impeach Chaney first!


[e-mail]
This is the e-mail address of the Law firm Mr. Sivers works at. There was no e-mail address at the Kent city listing for him.

[1monster]

18. Protected speech. Those who hate the freedom to free political expression are trying

any, all, and every means possible to put a stop to it...

[Imagevision]

22. The dude should get help and get a lawyer and post story to Michael Moore's website