Approximately one year ago Red Light Cameras went up in the city of Kansas City, MO. We were there the weekend they were turned on, stood out at the sight of the first camera, and protested. We were booed and flipped off by most drivers. Later last spring, a bill to ban the red light cameras was killed in committee.

Fast forward to three weeks ago. We held another protest on January 23^rd at the same location as the prior year. This time we came armed with information to give driver’s about the reasons why they should care about the red light cameras, how the city could actually prevent red light running without a cost to the taxpayers, and information on a new bill in the Missouri Senate to, once again, try to ban red light cameras in the state of Missouri. The January protest went over great! We handed out over 200 of our information packets and the reaction from the driver’s was very positive this time. They are TIRED of the cameras.

We decided that since the feedback was so positive with the January protest, we would do another one in February. One spontaneous idea of Liberty Restoration Project turned into a Nationwide Valentine’s Day Red Light Camera protest. We set up a facebook event calling for other cities to get involved nationwide and it worked! We ended up having 10 cities involved with the Valentine’s Day Red Light Camera protest from all over the nation. Austin, TX, Philadelphia, PA, St. Louis, MO, Santa Maria, CA, Pheonix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Springfield, MO, Savannah, GA, all joined in with Kansas City, MO to protest. This just shows what one seed planted in the minds of a few, can grow into something spectacular in only a matter of weeks.

The reasons for protesting these red light cameras is to bring attention and awareness of them to citizens that they are being installed and used under the guise of safety, when they are truly only there for revenue generation. The protests also help inform driver’s of legislation in their state that could potentially ban the red light cameras in their state. These cameras are just essentially another “tax” on the citizens, they are also unconstitutional as you are denied due process and the right to a fair trial. You cannot face your accuser when you receive a red light traffic camera.

Chicago Valentine’s Day Protests 2010: Homophobia, Red Light Cameras And Horse-Drawn Carriages

Nationwide Red Light Camera Protests to be Held on Valentine’s Day

Video of Red Light Camera Protest in Chicago

Happy Valentines Day American Traffic Solutions

Honk If You Hate Red Light Cameras

Metro Red Light Cameras Under Protest

Chicago motorists sound off against red-light cameras

Red Light Protest2

Red-light cameras stir Valentine’s Day protest

Chicago Red Light Camera Protest a Success!

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Red Light Cameras Have Got To Go

Protestors to rally against red-light cameras

Dedicated Red Light Camera Opposition

Protesters rally against red-light cameras

Video of Sunday’s Red-light ’scamera’ protest

Video: Missourians Protest Red-Light “SCAMeras”

About 30 concerned citizens attended the meeting and were from all walks of life.

To start off, we each introduced ourselves, our ward, our neighborhood and any previous involvement in city politics.

Click here to find your ward.
Click here to find your neighborhood.

I gave a short presentation on the workings of the website. Basically the settings allow for everyone to take part in their own way; since emails can be turned off, some on or all on -depending on your own level of involvement.

Mark Ogier then gave a presentation on being the public in public meetings.
Be sure to check out the witness contingency and the public meetings calendar.

It was decided to also have an activist events calendar.

Something I forgot to mention- networking is encouraged! Please feel free to promote any groups you belong to at our meetings, there is plenty of table space for handouts and I will gladly post any events on our activist calendar.

There were concerns mentioned at the meeting but we didn’t have anyone taking minutes and I don’t want to try to list them for fear of leaving someone’s concern out; next meeting we will take note of the concerns mentioned.

Please let me know if:
Any meetings or events in the city are not listed on the calendars.
You are a member and would like your blog promoted on Neighbor’s blogs.
You would like to learn more about the website and setting options.
You have a speaker in mind for our meetings
All suggestions are encouraged!

Our next meeting is scheduled for March 6, 2010 at the Kingshighway St Louis City Library. Doors open at 9:30, meeting begins at 10 and adjourns at noon.

Special thanks to Brother Bob and Darin, the two videographers that covered the first meeting.

Some updates from around the city:

1/16/10 – Arlington Heights Redevelopment Meeting – Alderman Boyd speaks on Eminent Domain

1/21/10 – City Earnings Tax could be put to a vote
1/25/10 – Neighbors assume greater Responsibility for Trash in Soulard
2/04/10 – Consent Judgment orders city to remove leafleting law from the books
2/06/10 – Photos of Gateway to Liberty meeting
2/09/10 – Delor Street Plant Holders in Ward 14 – you paid for it
2/10/10 – City Budget Meeting was standing room only!
2/15/10 – Tax for Metro Link expansion
2/16/10 – Push for Local Accountability of Police
2/16/10 – Court hearing on Blighting of Northside -McKee’s Redevelopment Plan

I also wanted to share this important eminent domain petition update from Ron Calzone, if you attended the meeting, you already received the update below.

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Eminent Domain Petition Update

We are 4 ½ years into the battle against eminent domain abuse in Missouri. Our foes are powerful and well funded – largely by our own tax dollars. They fear the loss of millions, even billions of dollars in redevelopment subsidies.

As you know, last month the Western Court of Appeals ruled in our favor in the challenge to our ballot titles. They handed down their ruling in an unusually prompt fashion once we got the full case before the three judge panel. I believe that was their reaction to the evidence of the Missouri Municipal League’s misuse of the court system.

In spite of a resounding “win” in court (the three judges unanimously ruled exactly as we suggested in our brief), it came only after a year long delay. That delay was on top of several weeks of delay by the Secretary of State and AG.

That delay may prove fatal to our effort in this (2010) election cycle.

Winning the Skirmish, But Losing the Battle – Then Winning the War.

The court battle was but one of many skirmishes (albeit a big one) in this fight for property rights. We have MML’s law firm on tape admitting, that their “main objective” in bringing suit was to delay the gathering of signatures. Even in their court loss, they have won their objective. They had to break the law to do it, but they achieved it, nonetheless.

That delay greatly hindered our fundraising. Right after the ruling things looked good. In just a few days we garnered over $200,000 in pledges – but then we hit a brick wall.

Donors we hoped we could count on were understandably gun-shy. Even though we were going to have more time than our “near miss” 2008 effort, it wouldn’t have been a comfortably larger amount of time. On the other hand, the volunteer base has grown tremendously. Success, though, will depend on a combination of volunteer and paid petition circulators.

Without the cash to pay full time professional circulators, it is best to conserve our volunteer efforts for another day.

Motion For Sanctions

The intentional use of the court system for purposes of delay or adding expense to your opponent is against the law. When such abuse occurs, the law provides for court ordered sanctions – including monetary payments to the damaged party.

MML’s illegal use of the courts has cost our effort hundreds of thousands of dollars and we have filed a motion with the court asking for reimbursement. It’s probably a long shot, but if the court will award enough, and do it soon enough, we may have a chance to hire the professional circulators and make it to the ballot this November. We have not totally given up on this election cycle.

A Punt May Be Necessary

Realistically, the odds of the court reacting fast enough and strong enough to our motion for sanctions are pretty slim. More than likely we will have to begin the entire process over this fall, after the November election.

The good news is that we should not have the same problems with court delays. We will submit the same petitions and should get the same ballot titles, which have already been litigated. There will be no excuse for the courts to permit such long delays.

Although we have not scuttled the effort for the 2010 ballot, the MO-CPR board – all unpaid volunteers, just like the many volunteer petition circulators — are sensitive to & understand your sacrifices for this effort. We want to ensure that your efforts produce the most fruit, so we suggest that volunteers hold off on gathering signatures and concentrate on other helpful endeavors for this and future campaigns.

Do things like:
• Recruit more volunteers
• Scope out and document places to collect signatures later
• Organize training meetings
• Help pass legislation that will prevent the sort of court delays that hurt us so badly.

Those things will help whether we go for the 2010 or the 2012 election cycle.

The 2012 Election Cycle is Near

2012 sounds like a long way off, but it starts this November 3rd. If we punt, and the odds are we will have to, we will have a much longer, more comfortable time to collect the many signatures we need.

While it is true that we will have to put up with two more years of the injustice of eminent domain abuse, our likelihood of success will be much, much greater. We must not forget, our fight is very much like that of the Founding Fathers against King George – and they had to fight 8 long years to win freedom!

We Will Win The War!

For me, personally, it is disappointing to think that we may have to drag this out two more years – I would like to go on to other projects. I stand undaunted, though, and will continue the fight until the war is won! I have talked to many of you in the last few days who have expressed the same resolve.

Together we will win – we have to because at the root of it, this war is for Economic Freedom and Economic Freedom is the foundation of ALL of our liberties.

Justice for all!

Ron Calzone and the rest MO-CPR Board
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Ron Calzone, chairman
Missouri Citizens for Property Rights
33867 Highway E
Dixon, MO 65459
Phone: (573) 759-3585
Cell.: (573) 368-1344
http://www.mo-cpr.org
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Valentine’s Day Red Light Camera Protest

Red, red, red.

That’s the only color you see on Valentine’s Day.

Red hearts, red roses, red candy, red balloons and now, red light cameras?

With all the love and romance in the air on Sunday for Valentines Day, there won’t be any love being shown at the intersection of Western & Addison between 12-3 PM.

This red light camera intersection will be ground zero for the Chicago outpost of a national protest against red light cameras.

Chicago’s participation is being spearheaded by Scott Tucker, Republican nominee for Illinois State Representative in the 11th District, formerly John Fritchey’s seat.

The 37-year old Tucker has made the RLC issue an important part of his platform.

“I think it’s a quality of life issue… it’s a tax presented as public safety,” said Tucker about red light cameras. “It takes money out of the citizens’ pockets and puts it into the hands of wasteful government.”

This national protest, is being spearheaded by The Liberty Restoration Project, based in Kansas City, MO.

The group decided, after the success of a red light camera protest a few weeks ago, they’d do another one. But this time, they’d try to do it on a national scale via their Facebook page.

According to Tracy Ward, the group’s Area Director for Kansas City, it took just two weeks for the protest go from just a handful of cities to 10 locations nationwide including Chicago.

“It’s been pretty good,” said Ward of the response to their national event. “It’s a totally spontaneous national protest. It kind of blew up on us. We have over 500 people nationwide saying they may or will attend just via Facebook.”

But do protests opposing red light camera actually have any effect?

“They are a necessary part of the process to overturn the use of ticket cameras,” states Gary Bills of the National Motorists Association, an organization which represents and protects the interests of motorists. “The public protests help inform local residents about the money raised by the cameras at the expense of motorists, without any corresponding safety benefit.”

Tucker, running an uphill battle against Democrat Ann Williams, supports Senate Bill 2466, introduced by State Senator Dan Duffy, that looks to eliminate all automated enforcement cameras (red light or speed) in Illinois.

However, according to Sen. Duffy and Tucker, SB2466 is being held up in committee by Senate President John Cullerton. Tucker hopes this protest in Cullerton’s backyard, will bring some pressure to bear on the Democrat.

“It depends on how Sen. Cullerton reacts,” says Tucker when asked if he feels Sunday’s protest will have an effect. “If he sides with Mike Madigan than constituents, then constituents will suffer. If he chooses to represent constituent concerns, he will call the bill to the floor. But without some decent public pressure, this bill will not see the light of day.”

Repeated requests for comments were made to Ann Williams’ campaign office but without any response.

http://theexpiredmeter.com/?p=5156

Had enough of the red light cameras in your city? Join others across the US in “showing your love” for them this Valentine’s Day by protesting near one of your local red light cameras. LOLA Tracy Ward from the Liberty Restoration Project has initiated this nationwide protest, in response to the growing number of cameras popping up around the country.

The Liberty Restoration Project can also provide you with pertinent information to hand out to drivers, as well as other suggestions on making your area’s protest maximally effective. To contact them, find out where your protest is in your area, or to organize one of your own, visit the Nationwide Red Light Camera Protest’s Cause page on Facebook.
Written by Leah Patrick

I am pleased to announce that the Liberty Restoration Project has partnered with Texans for Accountable Government to literally take the police state head on.

After attending the Continental Congress of 2009 John Bush, executive director of TAG, and myself realized that our movement is not aware of the intrusive and destructive relationship between DHS and our local/state law enforcement.

You see, DHS has found a back door way to both militarize and federalize every level of law enforcement, and through these “fusion centers”, all levels of law enforcement basically become pledged to the war on terror.

If 2009 was the year of the Federal Reserve, we intend to make sure 2010 is the year of the Fusion Center – educating every activist in our movement and exposing their fraud against the American people.

Learn more about our initiative here: www.operationdefuse.com

This project will involve:
1. Visit every fusion center in the nation, interviewing staff for our new radio show Rise Up Radio (on micro broadcasts in cities all across the midwest including Stl, OKC, and Austin starting January 1!!!!!!).
2. Coordinate simultaneous open records requests to every fusion center in the country during National Sunshine week in March.
3. Conduct community forums in each state to educate the public while building harmonious relationships with local law enforcement (humanize) - these will be live streamed.
4. Provide a central location for each state to display their open records documents… a Patriot Fusion Center of our own www.libertyrestorationproject.org/wiki
5. Filming for a documentary on fusion centers.

How you can help!
If you want to help out in anyway please consider becoming an Operation Defused sponsor or even the coordinator for your state .

The dollars and cents:
Our biggest expense will be gas and food – So far we have arranged free housing accommodations at every location we have pursued (thank you)!  We know how to stretch a dollar, every penny will help.  (You can donate to our chipin @ http://operationdefuse.com/) Thank you Cissy for being the first to sponsor us!

We’re also in need of a donated or loaned scanner we can take on the trip to immediately upload any documents we get, a Verizon Wireless air-card so we can live stream our events and our radio show, and a donated or loaned GPS so we don’t get lost on the road!  The full estimated cost break down will be posted shortly only our website.

Save the Date Kansas City: December Tuesday 22nd, 2009
We will be kicking off “Operation Defuse” with our annual LRP Christmas Party to be held on Tuesday December 22nd from 6pm-8pm at http://thegustolounge.com/.  Big thanks to Sergio and Steven for donating the space to us and supporting our cause!  A local friend of the movement is also providing DJ services for the event!

Your $10 donation is appreciated at the door!  (if you cannot donate, please come anyway!)

Come ready to hear what LRP has in store for 2010 – we will be making waves bigger than you’ve ever seen!

We are still looking for a donor to provide finger foods and a few kegs so our supporters can mingle and learn while having some fun   Let me know if you are willing to sponsor us in that way (we can get you down as an ODF sponsor)!

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php#/event.php?eid=229388609971&index=1

Save the Date Austin: December
Our second event will be held in Austin, TX on December 28th.  TAG will be holding their annual Christmas party at Bagpipes Pub and Brewery where we will kick off the Southern tour of “Operation Defuse”.

“Operation Defuse” Southern  Tour
During the week between Christmas and New years, Catherine Bleish and John Bush plan to visit every fusion center in Texas.  On January 4the we will be testifying in the Austin City Council hearing on fusion centers and then we will take off for our next stop, Phoenix.  We will be driving through the south hitting fusion centers in AZ, OK, LA, GA, AL, MS, TX and, of course, MO.

Keep an eye on www.operationdefuse.com for the official dates/event locations as they develop.

“Operation Defuse” Missouri
Kevin Kobe, KC Area Director for LRP will be coordinating the Missouri components of Operation Defuse.  In February we plan to hold mirror MIAC hearings in the same cities our legislature held theirs.  Because LRP feels their report was nothing more than a whitewash, we intend to take liberty loving state rep candidates across the state of Missouri so they may listen to the public and develop a strategy to combat the intrusive nature of fusion centers once in office.  We will be inviting law enforcement, the media and the general public to contribute. The goal is to live stream these events on the web.

I can guarantee you the report out of this liberty-candidate committee will NOT be a white wash.

You can learn more by visiting www.operationdefuse.com

Thank you all for your support – I can’t wait to experience liberty in OUR lifetime!

Shoulder to shoulder we stand,
Catherine

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

blog: http://www.donttreadoncat.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DontTreadOnMe

Freedom reaches across party lines.

http://www.ammoland.com/2009/11/24/mayors-against-illegal-guns-wants-to-a-secret-list-to-keep-you-from-buying-guns/

The gun banning front group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, headed by New York’s Mayor Bloomberg, came out with a full page ad in the Washington Post recommending that the Federal Government now link the secret No Fly list to National Instant Background Check System (NICS) and use this to prevent gun owners on the list from buying guns.

And just last week, Attorney General Eric Holder endorsed this legislation on behalf of the Obama Administration. Fortunately for US gun owners, Congress has failed to act and that is why Bloomberg’s MAIG is now pushing to connect the two.

According to the Government Accountability Office, over the past five years people on the terrorist watch list, also called the No Fly List bought guns more than 850 times. This is a Secret List kept by the federal government that has no rhyme or reason as to who gets on it and no known way to get off it.  Remember, this is the same secret list that the late Senator Kennedy was listed on for a period of time, preventing him from flying on commercial airlines.

In addition to the No Fly list MAIG is also calling for closure of the imaginary Gun Show Loop Hole and a repeal of Tiahrt Amendments which require the FBI to destroy records of approved background checks performed on gun purchasers within 24 hours.

ACTION 1: Check the Mayors Against Illegal Guns website and see what Mayors belonging to MAIG live in your state and call them and demand they resign from a group that’s mission is banning legal gun ownership and infringing on your second amendment rights. http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/

ACTION 2: Write your congressman and demand that they Vote down any attempts by the Obama Administration and MAIG to introduce any bills that would allow the secret government No Fly list to be linked with the National Instant Background Check System.

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There’s an $8 billion redevelopment plan for North St Louis- and city residents are footing the bill!

The developer is taking family’s homes with eminent domain and your money with an unprecedented $400 million TIF (tax incremental financing). The largest TIF is St Louis City history! And all the while we are cutting funds for police, firefighters, transportation, schools and projects like the Ballpark Village.  Everyone can agree the northside needs redevelopment but this plan just doesn’t add up.

I am working with several community groups from the city to gather signatures for the petition.  If you are a registered voter in the city of St Louis and would like to sign petition, please contact me.

Here is more info on the petition-

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=189986&catid=3

Here is the latest article on this matter-

http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/11/16/daily24.html

Please make sure your friends in St Louis city are aware of where their tax funds are going!

Thank you,

Kelly Owens

314.583.0875

After going through an unlawful arrest and detention, it is easy to feel defeated by the system. (read part 1 here and part 2 here)

While I am frustrated that the prosecuting attorney has yet to sign off on my charges (so I’m technically STILL not charged, although I spent 5 hours in jail and had to post $750 bond), I am feeling very optimistic about finding a resolution – let me tell you why.

While in jail I learned that many of the women incarcerated do not understand their rights. They do not understand the Constitution or how our country was formed, nor do they understand the proper role of government or law enforcement. They have accepted police abuse and targeting as a fact of life. One girl, after arriving, said, “well I better kick back and enjoy a few free meals, I’m sure I’ll be here a few days”. Why were these women in jail? Most were unable to afford the property tax on their vehicles and were swooped up off the streets and incarcerated, the remainder were for other issues surrounding the use of a vehicle. None of them had hurt anyone or damaged/stolen any property. Doesn’t sound very free to me.

In response to the situation found in Maplewood, the Liberty Restoration Project is excited to announce that we are sponsoring a FREE four hour Constitution Course for the citizens of Maplewood. This course will be taught by Scott Wood who teaches Advanced Constitution courses for the Riverbend 912 group and will take place at the Maplewood Library on November 14th from noon to 4pm. You can RSVP here: http://maplewoodconstitutioncourse.eventbrite.com.

For the past 3 weeks we have gone door to door in the community of Maplewood handing out fliers for the course. We also have fliers up in 9 area businesses. The response from the community was overwhelmingly supportive. Not one person disagreed with our course of action, all stating that Maplewood Police have a reputation that is NOT favorable, although most folks we spoke to made sure to clarify they DO support fair law enforcement (so does LRP).

What action will I be taking personally?
1. I have received 4 minutes of the surveillance footage, and am picking up the rest today or tomorrow. I have also requested and received the Oath of Office of the arrest officer (he was a rookie, sworn in May 26, 2009).
2. I have filed a complaint against the city of Maplewood and the arresting officer – I have already met with Internal Affairs over this matter. My entire conversation is recorded, I will try to post soon.
3. I have filed a complaint against the city of Richmond Heights and the officer who treated me so poorly in jail, they have not responded yet.
4. I am working closely with Fox Channel 2’s investigative reporter – big things coming Stay Tuned.
5. I have found a first amendment attorney who is going to represent me pro-bono. Both offensive and defensive. Gear up.

If you want to help in anyway, feel free to get in touch

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
816.868.8806
Catherine@libertyrestorationproject.org

http://edmartinforcongress.com/ed-martin-announces-enough-is-enough-tour/

Ed Martin Announces “Enough is Enough” Tour

Ed Martin Announces ‘Enough is Enough’ Tour in Response to Pelosi-Carnahan 1,990-Page Tax Increase, Government Takeover of Health Care
St. Louis – Ed Martin today announced he will be launching an “Enough is Enough” tour to highlight Nancy Pelosi’s radical 1,990-page tax increase and government takeover of American health care. Ed Martin is running to replace Russ Carnahan, the incumbent Congressman who votes with Nancy Pelosi 99 percent of time and endorsed the 1,990-page plan without reading it.

“Nancy Pelosi has announced a 1990-page Obamacare bill that is a giveaway to liberal special interest groups and a takeaway from families and seniors” said Ed Martin. “Everywhere I go in the district people tell me they want a representative in Congress who will stand up for them. Russ Carnahan isn’t listening to them, but I am. I have printed out this behemoth bill and am taking it with me as I visit with Missourians so we can send a message to Nancy Pelosi and Russ Carnahan that ‘enough is enough.’”
Ed Martin will spend the week bringing the Pelosi-Carnahan-Obamacare bill to the people. His tour will include visits with patients, doctors, seniors, small businessmen and women and students. It will include public “Ask Ed Anything” meetings within the district.

Mere hours after Pelosi publicly offered her 1,990-page bill, Congressman Russ Carnahan gave his support ostensibly without reading it. This blind support for higher taxes and a government-takeover of health care follows in Carnahan’s role in the Congress as being “not high maintenance” as described by Nancy Pelosi when she came to St. Louis to raise money for Carnahan on October 3, 2009.

For more information and specific details on the “Enough is Enough” please contact Brenda Madden Kimberlin at (314) 496-1799 or (314) 256-1776.  Updates on tour stops will be made via twitter @ed4congress

Learn more. <http://edmartinforcongress.com/ed-martin-announces-enough-is-enough-tour/>

Part 1: The “Arrest” (or kidnapping)

The story of my arrest is ironic at best. After exhausting myself with my volunteer work the past few months I decided to take a few days away from the cell and email. So when Josh and I left for Maplewood for his court date, I left my camera and cellphone at home. How many times have I said you should ALWAYS be armed with a camera? Yeah, listen to me eat those words through this story.

We arrived at the Maplewood courthouse and there was a line out the door. Maybe 45 people standing in the late dusk dark. Josh got out of the car and I parked it. When I arrived. It was cold, I regretted only wearing a hooded sweatshirt and the infant in line in front of us had tears on her cheeks because of the wind. It was misting on and off that entire day. Every one’s court time said 6:30, yet we were standing outside despite the ticking clock and colder/darker surroundings.

In line folks joked about leaving a note on the door that said “we arrived to our appointment at the schedule time, where were you?”. Or “Its 7:15 sorry we missed you”. Everyone in line that we spoke to were there over a traffic violation – lots of unregistered plates (all citing they could not afford property tax on the car, yes, that’s right, the state of Missouri taxes us hundreds of dollars per year to own a car, AFTER we’ve paid sales tax on it. Sucks), lots of failure to pay for car insurance (maybe if they didn’t have to pay property tax they could afford insurance!), almost everyone had been pulled over to or from work.

They let about 15 people into the courthouse and the group moved forward. We all stepped up onto the patio area where it was lit so we didn’t have to stand on the dark sidewalk (there was room now that the others went in). A police officer came out and started demanding the folks line up against the wall. I was talking to a girl a few years my junior about the situation, who I later learned is named Kimberly. I said “Line up, show us your papers, give us your money; Welcome to the New America”. The officer heard me say that and asked me to repeat it. I repeated the comment and he walked toward me asking “does any body have a leash for her, if so put it on her”. Kimberly, the girl I was talking to, shouted, “Did you seriously just say that? Are you implying she’s a bitch?”. The officer then walked up to us and said, “do you want to go to jail tonight”? I asked “for what”, he said, “I will make something up”. I turned and asked the crowd if they had just heard that. They responded in chorus, yes! and he then repeated “I will make something up!” – Kimberly was saying something while this was going on (it was inaudible to me), he turned to her and said, “I know who you’re here with I have something for you” and pointed right at Kimberly – she said, “What are you threatening me?!?” – he walked back inside.

When he came back out he walked up to me and said I had two minutes to leave or he would arrest me. I said on what charges, you said you would make something up! I told him he had no right to make me leave as I had done nothing wrong and that he was supposed to be upholding his oath the to Constitution and protecting my first amendment instead of trying to take it from me.

When he walked inside I grabbed a pen and piece of paper and wrote down that I had just been told I would be arrested on made up charges and handed it to Josh and asked him to have the crowd sign it if he came back out. I asked everyone if they would support me if I stayed and the crowd said yes. A few said it was not worth it, but I told them I had to stand my ground and exercise my constitutional right to SPEAK!

Three officers, in violation of my first amendment protection of speech, ran out onto the patio, surrounded me, lifted me by my right arm as it was twisted behind me and slammed me into the railing. Kimberly started shouting things like she’s “just a girl” and “you dont’ have to hurt her like that”. While the officer cuffed me, another pointed a taser gun at Kimberly’s chest (I later found out Kimberly has had a heart attack previously). Kimberly told he cop, “you will NOT use lethal force against me”. She left the grounds of the courthouse in fear that she would be further attacked.

At this point I was escorted to a cop car – the entire time I asked repeatedly why I was being arrested and if he had taken an oath to the Constitution and if he understood that he was violating my first amendment.

I was put in the car where I spent the entire time with my face in the ear of the cops talking about the Constitution and OathKeepers.org – the officer in the passenger seat told me he “did not remember if he took an oath to the Constitution”.

They put me in a holding cell by myself at first. I did not stop talking about the Constitution and how they could not take my right to speak freely away, I chose to assert that right despite the cuffs and bars.

I was wrongfully arrested for saying something the officer did not like, that was bad enough, I will summarize my experience in jail in part 2 and you will see with absolute certainty that our “justice” system has become a mechanism for the state to extract money from the peoples by force. And they literally do think of us as animals (evident by the leash comment).

Here are all the sections of the Missouri Constitution that were violated during my arrest and bailing proceedures. Many more were broken during my time in their cage.

Article 1 Section 2: That all Constitutional government is intended to promote the general welfare of the people, that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit to happiness and the enjoyment of the gains of their own industry… To security to these things is the principle office of government and that when the government does not confer the security, it fails in its chief design.

Article 1 Section 8: …..Every person shall be free to say write or publish or otherwise communicate whatever he will on any subject…
- I was told to leave the property of the Maplewood Courthouse in violation of my god given, constitutionally protected, 1st amendment right to practice free speech. I was subsequently put in a cage like an animal for refusing to obey an unlawful and unconstitutional order.

Article 1 Section 9: People have the right to peaceably assemble for the common good and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances by petition or remonstrance.
-The comment I made was reflective of the sentiments of the entire crowd forced to stand outside in the cold, dark wind. We did not chose to assemble there, but we were peaceful and expressing our grievances vocally.

Article 1 Section 10: That no person be deprived of life, liberty or pursuit of happiness without due process of law.
-Maplewood police attempted to deprive me of my liberty (free speech) by violating their oath to the Constitution and arresting me for refusing to obey an unlawful order after that same officer said he would “make up charges” to arrest me, they also deprived me of my liberty by putting me behind bars and preventing me from pursuing happiness by putting me in a cage. I was never told what I was arrested for. My mother was told I would not be charged at all, yet held for 24 hours. The Maplewood police at one point apparently had the intention of holding an innocent person behind bars without pressing charges for an entire day.

Article 1 Section 20: That all persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties except for capitol offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great.
Section 21: That excessive bail should not be required nor excessive fines imposed nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.
- I was voluntarly in line at court to accompany someone else, there was no reason to beleive I would not show up to my court date. A bail of $750 when you were not only entertaining the idea of not event charging me at all, but telling my family and friends that there would be no charges, seems quite excessive. Also considering the bail set for my boyfriend who had three charges was only $500.