Matthew Rothschild: Another Person Arrested for “Impeach” Sign

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from The Progressive, via CommonDreams:


Published on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by The Progressive
Another Person Arrested for “Impeach” Sign
by Matthew Rothschild


Watching Melissa Etheridge on TV at the Live Earth concert persuaded Jonas Phillips and his wife, Kindra, to go out and do something about the Bush Administration’s abuses.

So they made a cardboard sign with “Impeach Bush Cheney” on it.

And they held that sign on the sidewalk of the Haywood Road Bridge over I-240 in Asheville, North Carolina, on several different occasions this summer.

Like Kevin Egler of Kent, Ohio, who was arrested for illegal advertising with his “Impeach” sign (see http://progressive.org/mag_wx081307), they got in trouble for theirs.

One day at the beginning of August, Kindra was standing on the bridge sidewalk at about 4:00 p.m., Jonas says, when she was approached by an officer.

“She asked him whether she was doing something wrong, and he said no, but that he’d gotten a complaint from one person who called in four times,” Jonas says.

Jonas held the sign up three or four times in the mornings, around 7:30, for about 20 minutes, since the bridge is near where he works, he says.

On August 15, he’d been there for about ten or fifteen minutes when a police car pulled up and parked behind him.

Officer Russell Crisp asked for his ID.

“I obliged,” Phillips says. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/30/3512/