Lauren Canario arrested and possibly Kat also

[TackleTheWorld]

Lauren's citations

[Tom Sawyer]

Video of the event
Thanks for the camera work FTL_Ian

Well done TTW...
Your best work so far. Kind of cinematic.

[error]

They're only up to 758 citations issued? For how many years? This obviously isn't making them that much money.

[KBCraig]

Wow, they're really reaching, aren't they?

   Preservation of Property (41 CFR 102-74.380). All persons entering
in or on Federal property are prohibited from:
    (a) Improperly disposing of rubbish on property;
    (b) Willfully destroying or damaging property;
    (c) Stealing property;
    (d) Creating any hazard on property to persons or things;
    (e) Throwing articles of any kind from or at a building or the
climbing upon statues, fountains or any part of the building.

    Conformity with Signs and Directions (41 CFR 102-74.385). Persons in
and on property must at all times comply with official signs of a
prohibitory, regulatory or directory nature and with the lawful
direction of Federal police officers and other authorized individuals.

[error]

Plead not guilty. I have GOT to hear how they justify those.

Also make a motion to allow the press to come in and videotape the proceedings.

[KBCraig]

Video of the event
Thanks for the camera work FTL_Ian

Outstanding!

[Rocketman]

I think any message containing "taxes" and "torture" is highly appropriate, strategically as well as morally.

I only think the taxes=torture argument gets taken too far when it's dubiously implied that others (e.g. Ed Brown) are motivated by their disdain for torture.

This is a way to expose the very worst evils of government -- more power to you.

[Kat Kanning]

  Thanks Lauren!

[coffeeseven]

A duo of dangerous dolls dissenting the dogma of dictators. Great video!!

[Kat Kanning]

http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=579&Itemid=36

[Bald Eagle]

    Conformity with Signs and Directions (41 CFR 102-74.385). Persons in
and on property must at all times comply with official signs of a
prohibitory, regulatory or directory nature and with the lawful
direction of Federal police officers and other authorized individuals.[/b]

Plead INNOCENT.  Don't show ID, don't give a name, don't assume that YOU are the accused.
What does CFR define "persons" as?
What does "comply" mean?
What does "official" mean?
What is a "sign?"
What do "prohibitory, regulatory and directory" mean?
Why do they phrase it, "signs of a prohibitory, regulatory or directory nature" instead of "prohibitory, regulatory or directory signs?"
What is "lawful?"
What is "direction?"
Who are "authorized individuals"? Who authorized them?  By what law or statute?

Did the govt agents who arrested Dave, Kat, and Lauren swear oaths?  Do they know what that oath was?  Can you get them to recite it in court?  If they won't - RECITE IT FOR THEM to get it into official court records.  Did they post any sort of bond?  Who is that bond being held in trust with?

[FTL_Ian]

Well done TTW...
Your best work so far. Kind of cinematic.

I agree.  TTW is a very good editor, and shooting in anamorphic widescreen helps give it that cinematic feel.   

[FTL_Ian]

Posted to Free Keene:   http://freekeene.com/2007/07/23/feds-arrest-activists-at-keene-irs-building/

[Bald Eagle]

Was I correct in understanding that a copy of the Constitution is displayed on the wall inside the building?  Get some clear stickers with "REVOKED"  "CENSORED"  "REPEALED"  "OVERRULED" "NOT APPLICABLE" "NOT FOR PUBLIC USE" "VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY TYRANTS" or with just a bunch of red lines, and stick them over relevant parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.   "I guess this living document is finally dead"   


I love how they like to cuff people and then drag them all over the place.

I think it would be fun to be sewn into a leather jacket with small spikes all over it so they couldn't grab me tightly or pull very hard.  Learn all the ninja pressure-point locations and put a spike right over it with a washer or wide leather backing on it, so they can't go crushing nerves for fun.

Even more hilarious would be to have somebody pull a Starchild, and show up in some outrageous outfit - already handcuffed in something plush and furry.     I'd like to get a few choice photos of that and send them to the ICE guys wives and coworkers. 

Dress up in something equally outrageous that they'll have an amazingly difficult time restraining you in.  A fat suit.  The tin man.  Plate mail.  The Thing from the Fantastic Four.  Schmoo.  An Amoeba.  The boy in the plastic bubble.  Protest inside a giant hamster ball.  Let's hire a contortionist and have him protest from inside a really heavy steel or lead box.  Let's see how they handle arresting a quadruple amputee distributing mouthbills.

Some of these guys seem genuinely unhappy with dealing with the protesters.  Show up with T-shirts printed up with something like, "I USED TO HAVE A JOB LIKE YOURS, AND IT SUCKED.  I QUIT AND AM A LOT HAPPIER NOW."  Give them a business card with a job placement agency.

Distribute ... wait for it ... FOOTbills. 

Dress up like a duck or a platypus and distribute ... billbills.
Hell, I'll do it and it will be a Billbillbill.    

The Amoeba could distribute pseudopodbills.  I just want to hear them all try to say that in court.  Hand then out with several pseudopods at once and they'll be pseudopodiabills.  Correct them at every opportunity.

Have handbills delivered to each individual IRS employee at their job - by US MAIL. 

Strap a big inflatable raft to your back underneath a breakaway shirt, and connect the activation cord to a big stack of handbills you're distributing.  When they confiscate them - WHOOOOOOOOOOSH!  You instantly generate a "FREE RUSSELL KANNING" protest float and simultaneously make them crap their pants.

Wear a zillion helium balloons and ankle weights.  When they try to arrest you, slip off the ankle weights and fly away.

Protest on stilts.  Distribute handbills with one of those reacher/grabber devices.
http://www.productsforseniors.com/proddetail.asp?prod=HEA168

Protest as Jesus, already "nailed" up on the cross.  We need a whole damn video crew, photographers, and reporters who simply WILL NOT STOP asking questions for that one.  Make the cross out of one of those rolling basketball-net stands, and then rip the wheels off it once it's in position.  Use some kind of titanium device or make an epoxy resin cast with chains inside to prevent them from cutting Hey-Seus off the cross easily.  Keep asking why they're not prepared with a roof rack.

Protest in hip boots with cement blocks cast onto the feet.  Drop off the protester with a hand-truck.  Wear a T-shirt proclaiming, "The Mafia wants their FEDERAL PROTECTION SERVICE money"

Dress up like a porcupine - COVERED IN REAL QUILLS.  Carry a Live Free or Die sign, or an FSP Gadsden flag. 

Build an armadillo suit and roll up into a ball when they try to arrest you.

Find someone harmless but truly insane.  Give them a handfull of handbills and let them loose in the IRS building.  See what they do with someone who has NO IDEA what is going on or what they're doing and just responds to everything with a big drooling smile.  Make sure he's got a complimentary FREE (your favorite activist) T-shirt. 

Project a handbill through the window and onto the wall inside the building with a slide projector or overhead projector.  Or with one of those really cool concert lasers.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Thanks for all of these wonderful ideas Bill