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How much should you charge for a photograph?Lemonade Protester Gets Assaulted, Then Threatened With Wiretapping Charges
This video has it all. A cocky lemonade protester with a camera. A pushy pseudo-bureaucrat thinking he owns the street. And a bumbling cop who creates his own laws.
It starts when activist Garret Ean sat on a public sidewalk during a farmer’s market in Concord, New Hampshire to sell lemonade during Saturday’s Lemonade Liberation Day.
A man approached claiming he owned the street, ordering him to pack up and leave.
The man identified himself as the president of the Concord Farmer’s Market, which apparently had a permit to operate on the street that day.
The man, whom Ean identified as Steve Blasdell, ordered Ean to turn off the camera.
Ean instead engaged him in a debate about what constituted vending.
At 2:48, Blasdell shut down Ean’s camera, but Ean turned it right back on.
That was when Ean turned from lemonade activist into photography rights activist, claiming he was now “a member of the press.”
And that was when Blasdell tried to grab the camera from him after first trying to grab his cooler of lemonade.
The two men squared off with Ean accusing him of assault and Blasdell claiming it was not assault because he was only trying to swipe the camera from him without touching any part of his body.
Blasdell then ran off to call police while Ean announced he was giving away “free lemonade.”
Police arrived ten minutes later with one sergeant wrongly told Ean he was violating the state’s wiretapping law by recording them on a public sidewalk.
Ean offered to show the sergeant the actual law, which he had printed on a little card, but the cop refuses, saying he is already familiar with the law.
But then the cop once again threatens to arrest him on wiretapping charges if anybody else on the street complains.
Anybody except Blasdell, apparently, because the cops walked away without doing anything, allowing Ean to continue selling lemonade and videotaping Blasdell.
The video ends by Blasdell hanging up a handwritten note on a street sign behind Ean stating that the lemonade vendor is not part of the farmer’s market.
Ean said he continued selling or giving away lemonade for another two hours, raising $19 for the “Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund.”
Comments
How is it trespassing? The farmers market is open to the public, no fee is required to enter, and he agreed not to sell.
That is because it isn't trespassing. And he was mostly on the sidewalk, so it REALLY isn't trespassing! He could have sold condoms (or given them away, as it were) and it *still* would have been OK.
I'd rather have some lemonade myself. :)
Yeah it wasn't trespassing just like your swerving all over the road wasn't bad driving and your yelling at the officer wasn't REALLY yelling.
No no no. This guy is a freedom fighter. A defender of America. A goddamn hero. He has a camera so that automatically makes him a good guy and gives him immunity from all laws.
*insert Thomas Jefferson quote here*
No, actually you are right bgwillia. He is just some asshole who thinks the rules don't apply to him.
You mean just like a cop?
BAHAHAHA. THAT made my day.
Rules are not laws. Who gives a $hit about the rules? As long as he is not breaking the law, you and your fellow, power hungry, tiny pecker colleagues need to back off. He pays your paycheck. Don't forget that. You don't have the same freedoms as a private employee.
For the LEO on this board, the most important matter in this video, that a trained LEO was ignorant of the law and based his actions on that ignorance, is not important at all.
What's stands out in this video of a trained LEO basing his actions on his ignorance of the law is that a citizen is breaking rules which, seeing as the citizen wasn't trespassing and wasn't violating wiretapping laws, only seem to exist in the LEO's head.
It's not that the LEO is incompetent, but rather that a citizen dares to point it out.
This is sadly typical and goes a long way in explaining the disdain and general lack of respect which more and more citizens feel towards LEO's, which is unfortunate for the LEO's who are not incompetent and/or corrupt.
Like shooting a hancuffed man on the ground and getting a little over a year in jail for murder, or how about the foot dragging in Ca. over a mob (6 guys in blue) beating a man to death. What a place where a costume and a decorative piece of metal gives you prosecutorial immunity for crimes that us mear civilians would never see another day of freedom if we committed.
sic semper tyrannis
You tend towards the dramatic. Don't start crying about the Oakland officer getting a fair trial or the Fulerton deal when you still don't know what happened.
"Mear" civilians aren't tasked with arresting criminals. Police officers are.
Nemo me impune lacessit
Johnny Troll: "Nemo me impune lacessit"
Except on the internet. Right J Troll?
{sigh}
Every village has their idiot. We are blessed to have several.
Meh, the internet is the internet. That's why you get to run your mouth so much here without getting smacked down.
I'm sure you are meek and mild when dealing with police in real life though. That makes it understandable that you want to act out your fantasies of bucking authority in a safe setting.
In other words, JL, "step outside and say that", right? Typical thuggish crap.
Police do not have any more right to "smack down" a person than any one else. That's actually what is going on here; the war between fascist cops and citizens.
Long live the revolution!
And then you woke up...
So you act out your fantasies of attacking women on the internet for the same reasons I suppose?
HH: "Specifically, your response to the blog here addressing the reporter and how she got elbowed in the chest. Just for asking the police chief a question.
And you saying she deserved it. And the Pigs had a right to do it. "
JTroll: "Yep. She did and the cops did have the right. Twist it all you want but being a woman doesn't make you any more exempt from the rules than being an asshole with a camera."
http://www.pixiq.com/article/ohio-congressman-bans-cameras-from-town-hal...
Now that is one sick and twisted troll. Thank you JTroll for exposing yourself for what you really are.
With all of your comments you are getting the thumbs down. Is that the same as you running your mouth here and getting smacked down. And learn how to spell. It is the (I)nternet.
Oh no! You mean I am getting thumbs down on my post? How ever will I handle it? Seriously, I could not care less about that and I find it hilarious that you think I would.
Oh and when you ask a question, that sentence is supposed to end with a question mark, not a period.
Learn proper punctuation if you are going to play the internet professor.
"You tend towards the dramatic" is some kind of cover for license to beat up people who say things you don't agree with, right? Nothing "dramatic" about gang-beating (to death) your bosses, is there? THEN we hear 'disturbing the peace', don't we, you complete monstrous asshole. As a matter of fact, jerk-loser, everyone is tasked with arresting criminals INCLUDING public servants who regularly break laws and 'disturb the peace. Yeah, that's you in the daily non-performance of your "duties". "Don't know what happened". Yeah, because criminals in blue costumes will make sure such facts never get out. Too bad your (low) level of intellect still allows you - and ALL government control freak types - to breath. Freedom would not suffer if that were not the case and the world would be a much better place.
So John, when was the last time you arrested a criminal? I arrested two people last night.
Take a deep breath before you stroke out.
Are you suggesting the police should have ejected him from the farmer's market based on an assumption of what might be granted in the Farmer's Market Association's permit in order to avoid having to determine whether he was allowed to give away lemonade? They would have to look at the permit and determine if giving away lemonade could constitute trespassing. That means that looking at the concept of trespassing doesn't simplify anything. Perhaps that's exactly what they did.
Facts that we do know include the officer saying recording audio in public constitutes wiretapping. The definition of oral communication in NH states there needs to be an expectation of privacy. Isn't that a problem?
That is because you erroneously believe so. The farmer's market doesn't get to enforce unconstitutional bylaws even if it enshrines them in its codebook.
"I have a copy of the wiretapping statute if you'd like to see it."
"No thanks, I'm familiar with it."
Apparently not, but still pretty well handled.
"Well officer is you WERE familiar with it then you wouldn't have illegally threatened me with arrest, perhaps you should brushup on it for the future, would you like my copy?"
At least he wasn't dumb enough to actually arrest him, qualified immunity is pretty shaky for cops on this topic..
Woman recorded cops after harassment claims ignored:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-woman-recorded-cop...
I think this was how WWI started.
The guy is a dork. He should have paid to join the Farmers Market or left. I'm sure the opportunity to join was extended to him and edited out.
This isn't about kids selling lemonade at Farmers Markets or in the National Mall. These people are hurting the Lemonade cause with their actions which are just to bring attention to them. This is about kids selling lemonade in their driveways and being harassed to do all kinds of silly things to be able to do it.
@Duane, civil disobedience against an unjust law doesn't HURT a cause...it HELPS a cause!
Here, let me hand you this US History book and show you how that works... *sigh*
You may be right that he should obtain permission to sell lemonade during a farmer's market festival from the permit holder, but what about the camera? That's a separate issue that both the police and the farmer's market manager were incorrect about.
Oh look... Johnny Troll is back!
He just hates it when people refuse to bow unquestionably to the inflated sense of authority some Police have.
The Farmers Market may in fact have a Permit for the street; but that permit most certainly does not apply to the sidewalk. An important distinction, and probably the only reason the CPD didn't arrest him.
I have engaged in Free Speech exercises alongside a local Farmers Market that were most unpopular with the President of that Farmers Market; but there was nothing they could do so long as I didn't conduct those activities on "their" street.
@bgwilla: "Garret was trespassing, depending on the boundaries of the event granted by the permit..."
Trespassing in a public place? Wow, I guess all those parents with their kids were trespassing too.
(sheesh, I'm really starting to worry about all the idiotic people posting idiotic statements. Y'all are probably the idiotic people who keep voting idiotic idiots into public office...)
Pixie can we get an update on your criminal charges?
(I can see others don't care but whatever... LOL)
Bart, I have rec'd my "notice to appear" from the Gov't, it is for Sept. 12th (thankfully thats a Monday, so I can spend the weekend at Zion & Bryce. More National Park visits --- YEA!) :)
I hope the charges are dropped by the US Attorney that day! If not, I will be requesting a court-appointed attorney. As it is now, I have most of my ducks-in-a-row to *prove* that I was the victim on an illegal "terry stop" perpretrated by Park Ranger Steven Powers, and that both my 1st and 4th amendment rights were trampled on that night.
Hey, thanks for asking!
Your welcome but you do know I'm rooting for the government on this.......
You must really think I'm a real dummy if you think I've forgotten who you are Bart. And I'm no dummy.
But I have high hopes you'll change your mind one day. You spend enough time here, I think osmosis will occur eventually... :)
Don't get your hopes up on the osmosis, I will never like criminals.....
... Or reality. Or common sense. Or the Constitution.
Or breathing from your nose instead of your gapping mouth. Or Photography. Or Life, Liberty, Freedom... Happiness.
You do however like to go down on cops in public without hesitation or shame.
I guess everyone has their little quirks. Huh, Johnny Troll's sock puppet?
@hhamlet
*yawn*
That's the best you've got... copying me from yesterday?
You are nothing but an internet joke at this point.
How old are you Hammy, 12?
Watch out Bart! Hambone will get upset and his little brain will lash out by calling you nasty names! Then he will ignore every point you made.
By the way Hamhock, I am still waiting for you to address that you acknowledged the fact that police officers do have the right to protect themselves and that you conceded that point to me.
Whenever you are done yawning and stomping your feet...
Johnny Troll: "He is just some asshole who thinks the rules don't apply to him."
Handyhamlet:"You mean just like a cop?"
Bart JLaw Sock Puppet: "How old are you Hammy, 12?"
Why?
You cruisin' for date Freakshow?
(PS it's "you're", as in YOU ARE.) lol~
No.
I'm asking him if he is cruising for underaged victims. Not telling him he is.
:)
Mr. Miller:
The text of your description places the filmed event in Concord NH, but the link for the Concord farmer's market describes the farmer's market as a project of the Pacific coast farmer's market association and lists contact info in Concord, CA. One of these elements is not correct.
Thanks for sharing this important story, and for your work on photography and filming freedom!
My bad. It was in NH. I just removed the link. Thanks for the heads up.
since when is it trespassing to be on a public sidewalk?
Since some idiot decided it's illegal to "give away" lemonade next to a lemon stand. :)
Since some idiot decided it's illegal to "give away" lemonade next to a lemon stand. :)
Thank you Bgwilla, for facts and not fantasy. Some posters here get very upset when reality clashes with their utopian dream of anarchy.
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