More evidence the post 9/11 national security establishment has morphed from defenders of freedom into protectors of illegitimate power as a man protesting outside a bank is arrested for "terrorist threats."
From CBS News:
An Occupy Easton protester faces an attempted bank robbery charge following an arrest at an organized event at a bank – during which the “Occupier” was holding a sign that reportedly read “You’re being robbed.”
According to The Express-Times, Dave Gorczynski allegedly held cardboard signs outside a Wells Fargo Branch that read, “You’re being robbed,” while the other said, “Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob a country.”
Occupy Easton reports on their Facebook page that Gorczynski “was at the bank protesting the theft of our tax dollars, our homes, and our economy by the criminal banksters.”...
According to the group, Dave faces two felony charges including Attempted Bank Robbery and Terroristic Threatening and one misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct.
I guess those Iraq War protesters were actually against offering to give blood in exchange for petroleum. Oh wait that's an obviously ridiculous interpretation of
that sign.
Also should the Tea Party protesters be arrested for threats of sexual assault? Or physical assault.
If only there was some part of the constitution that protected protesting, an amendment or something. Oh well.
Update: The bank robbery charges were dropped though the terroristic threats and disorderly conduct charges remain.