[Yhslug] Re: [Team] OT: Civil disobedience from a local Linux advocate and political gadfly

[Kevin Cole]

A follow-up to my earlier message from last week:

ALAN "IMPEACHMENT" MCCONNELL BUSTED

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/21/AR2007072101235.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2405554419320847487

    "Watch 74-year-old Alan McConnell stand up and then lay down for his
    country before being busted at the Farmer's Market in historic
    Kensington, Maryland. It seems he had the audacity to sell a few
    impeachment buttons and signs to willing citizens without a license
    on property of questionable ownership (public? or private?). Thanks,
    Alan."

Kevin Cole wrote:

> [A bit off-topic for these lists, but for those of you who don't know
> Alan, he's been active enough in the area LUG's to earn himself an
> address ending in tux.org. He also established the Linux-PE[1] mailing
> list at tux.org, designed to get Linux onto politicians radar.  He's a
> regular at FOSE and helped with the effort to get into the
> Congressional NetCaucus Tech Expo on the Hill  He's interested in
> Linux in education and was involved in an early push for spreading
> Edubuntu around.  But he has other interests... ;-) Read on. The
> following is taken from the Washington Peace Center's Activist Alerts
> for this week.  -- KJC]
> 
> References:
> 1. http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-pe
> __________________________________________________________________
> 
> ** Saturday, July 21st at 10 AM
> 
> Support requested for Alan McConnell's civil disobedience for
> impeachment at Kensington Farmers' Market this coming Saturday
> morning. After selling his "Impeach Him" buttons at the market for
> several months without incident, Alan was told two weeks ago that he
> could no longer do so. Alan had intended to violate this order and
> risk arrest this past Saturday but when the City of Kensington heard
> about that they took the extreme step of canceling the Saturday
> Farmer's Market. Certainly the city will not do that again and Alan is
> determined to make his point this weekend by being dragged off if need
> be. The Washington Post, Montgomery County Centennial and Gazette, the
> City Paper, and WPFW have all expressed interest. If you can make it,
> please show up. The Farmer's Market is on Howard Avenue, about three
> hundred yards east of Connecticut Ave.
> 
> For more information: DebbieTolson at aol.com
> __________________________________________________________________

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