Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:01:13 -0700 From: spooner@doitnow.com (Rick Tompkins/Kathy Harrer) Subject: [lpaz-repost] Libertarian arrested for flyering at Anchorage gun show! To: lpaz-repost@yahoogroups.com Cc: ernesthancock@inficad.com
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>Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:22:37 -0800
>Subject: Libertarian arrested for flyering at Anchorage gun show!
>From: Al Anders <freehemp@ak.net>
>
>This has a happy ending, sort of.
>
>Al Anders was placed under citizens arrest by a secuity guard at the
>Anchorage gun show because he refused to stop distributing flyers. Al Anders
>was at the Anchorage gun show at the Ben Boeke Arena this past Saturday. The
>flyers he was distributing was about an up coming Libertarian Party State
>Convention at which an award winning author, Vin Suprynowizc, will be the
>featured speaker. Vin Suprynowizc is the author of Send In The Waco Killers
>which was named the 1999 Freedom Book of the Year by Free-market.net.
>
>Mr. Anders was standing approximately 10 feet from the entrance passing out
>flyers when Randy Smith, the organizer of the gun show, approached him and
>asked for a flyer. After taking the flyer Mr. Smith whispered something to a
>security guard. The security guard then told Mr. Anders that he had to
>distribute flyers on the sidewalk several yards from the door. Mr. Anders
>explained that distributing flyers is first amendment activity and that as
>long as he did not block the entrance he had a constitutional right to be
>there. While moving a few yards from the door seems a small matter it made a
>world of difference as to access to people. Where Mr. Anders was being
>ordered to stand was after the sidewalk split sending traffic in three
>direction. It would reduce his ability to pass out flyers by almost half.
>
>The security responded that this was private property because it was rented
>to the gun show and therefore I had to move well away from the door. Mr.
>Anders insisted his constitutional right was because the building was city
>owned and that when vendors rent the building that constitutional rights
>transfer with the lease just as an easement does when one rents beach front
>property with a well worn path to the beach. While explaining the finer
>points of constitutional law to the security guard, Mr. Anders continued to
>pass out flyers. This angered the security guard who told Mr. Anders that if
>he did not stop he would be arrested. At this point, Mr. Anders told the
>security guard that if he arrested him he would be violating his civil
>rights just as the cops did when they beat Rodney King.
>
>The security guard was unimpressed and told Mr. Anders that if he put out
>another flyer he would arrest him. When he continued to pass out flyers the
>security guard announced that Mr. Anders was under citizens arrest. The
>security guard then went inside the gun show. Shortly, the security guard
>returned with Randy Smith, the event organizer. Mr. Smith and Mr. Anders
>then argued about whether the constitution applied to government property
>that is rented for private sector events. Mr. Anders asked Mr. Smith if
>government owned hospitals could rent itself out and then perform abortions
>without the nuisance of protesters?
>
>After several minutes of arguing, Mr. Anders decided that Mr. Smith really
>would have him arrested and that rather than a protracted court battle and
>no more flyering, he chose to retreat to the outer sidewalk and continue
>flyering. Mr. Anders feels Mr. Smith knew he wa violating constitutional
>law because he had watched Mr. Anders get signature on numerous petitions at
>previous gunshots. Why Mr. Smith thought the first amendment might protect
>petitioning but not leafletting was never addressed.
>
>Mr. Anders managed to distribute over 900 flyers.
>
>
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Vin
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