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Ohio Man Arrested After He and His Wife Protest Military Recruiters In Library
Tim Coil is a Gulf War veteran with PTSD. In early March, he and his wife visited the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library in Ohio so that his wife, Yvette, could study for a test and he could do some reading. While they were there, they saw two military recruiters approaching potential enlistees in a nearby room. Yvette Coil wrote some messages on 3x5 cards: "Don't fall for it! Military recruiters lie," and "It's not honorable to fight for a lying president." She says that before she displayed the cards through the window, she asked a volunteer for permission. The volunteer directed her to a staff member who said she could display the cards as long as there was "no confrontation."
There was a confrontation. One of the recruiters asked who put the cards in the window, and Coil said she did it. He then asked for her name, which she refused to give. He then told her and her husband that they could not display the cards anymore. At that point, Mr. Coil questioned whether his freedom of speech was being curtailed, and the recruiter went to find the library director. Ms. Coil placed more cards against the window.
The library director told the Coils that they were disturbing library patrons and could not continue displaying cards. Ms. Coil mentioned that she was a library patron, and the recruiters were disturbing her. The police came and arrested Mr. Coil for disorderly conduct. He has refused to make a plea, and he has refused to pay $100 in court costs. He will appear in court on June 5.
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If you would like to help the Coils, please click on this link.
http://www.motherspeak.org/articles/coils.php
You can contact Library director Doug Dotterer here: dougdotterer@yahoo.com
Unlawful curtailment of "Freedom of Speech" and double standards for citizens for telling the truth and making it known.
They were truly in a 'Public Lie-bary' that the Federal Government was using for private enterprise interests only.
Our public library system MUST NOT be allowed to become an agent for the government! We MUST write our reps and senators to ensure that such a breach is never tolerated in America.
This is becoming the norm in the land of the free. Unfortunately, all too many Americans still don't want to know what U.S. officials don't want to tell them. It's much easier to continue walking in blind numbness and reassuring themselves with, "It can't happen here. This is America." However, the American public should once and for all realize the type of regime they have got. They should be made aware of the outrageous treatment going on in Cuba and all the other filthy jails and prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and other places where innocent have been locked up for years without charges, tortured, humilated, forcefed, for the purpose of propaganda, fomentation terror hype, hate, fear, patriotic feeding frenzy to control the hearts and minds of a misled and gullible nation. In fact, the history of supressing dissent in the U.S. is long. For instance, Roger Baldwin, future cofounder of the American Civil Liberties Union, was imprisoned for protesting the war and refusing to fight. Nor was he alone. Observes Hagedorn:
"Baldwin was one of thousands of Americans in jail in November of 1918 for violating the 1917 Selective Service Act or for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 or its amended 1918 version, known also as the Sedition Act, which condemned dissenting voices that allegedly threatened the security of the nation at war. In October one man had been sentenced to six months in the workhouse for saying he preferred Germany's kaiser to President Wilson. Another was sentenced to ten years in prison for delivering speeches in which he called conscription unconstitutional. Yet another received a twenty-year sentence and a fine of $10,000 for telling a Liberty Bond salesman that not only did he not want to buy any bonds but he also hoped the 'government would go to hell.'" Is this the lesson Bush gives to the rest of the world? How in hell does he want his country to lead?
Fascism is alive and well in this country.
It is bad enough that we have operational JROTC gunranges in the basements of all Omaha, Nebraska high schools but now we can't go to the library in peace either?
I have been fighting to get the gunranges and other recruitment toys (such as the flight simulators that are rountinely parked in front of our schools)out of the public education system to no avail in "Bush-happy" Nebraska.
Thank you for providing info so we can help the Coil's.