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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsGovernment Escalates Charges in Jefferson Dancing Case
By Ed Brayton
This just gets worse and worse. Radley Balko reports that the government is not only moving forward with charges against Brooke Oberwetter, the woman arrested during the little libertarian dance party to celebrate Jefferson's birthday, they're adding new (and false) charges and moving it to Federal court. The new charge is "demonstrating without a permit" but as Balko points out, the law does not apply here:
The second charge is ridiculous-the Memorial guidelines clearly say a permit is only necessary if there are more than 25 people in the group. This event didn't break 25 people.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 25, 2008 (boomark / email).
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