Of course had he carried a placard or just stood there (as in a vigil)he would have probably also been hasseled for loitering..

A sign placed on the rear window of a car or pick-up truck would also work and might just give better exposure since it could be moved from time to time from parking spaces.

Follow his example. Do what you can...

We need many, many more Kevin Egler's, but there is a smarter way to protest with signs, and reach more people: Freeway blogging is definitely the way to get the message across. Check it out at http://www.freewayblogger.com/

I find that signs on bridges with no exit/on-ramps stay up the longest.

And don't forget, GENERAL STRIKE on Sep 11! Do nothing, buy nothing day!

George has always wanted to be a dictator but both the above are right. They can't put us all in jail---not yet.

They *say* it has nothing to do with the content... but put up some "I'm a fan of Al" or Support Our Commander signs and see what happens.

America - Gone but not Forgotten

Spread the word about this to everyone you know! Add your protests to others, in every way you can! If all you can do is scrawl an internet link on a public bathroom mirror, DO IT! If fear keeps you from standing on a corner with a sign, there are LOTS of ways to promote change. The point is to DO SOMETHING! If you can only do a little, maybe your message will trigger a thought in a person that can do alot!

Unfortunately the fear is becoming more legitimate -- http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/newsprint.cgi?file=/news2007/0801-03.htm
But, as previously stated, do what you can. Strength is in the numbers of people we can WAKE UP.

Love the Earth and She'll love you back.

If the sign was attached to its own post, then there is no law broken there. Read the ordinance carefully.

Put the traitorous swine in Gitmo and waterboard him.

I love this story and It makes a great talking impeachmnet blues Song (just made that up)
and Shane your are right on, brother and at my age 64, I am tired of taken to the streets,,, it is time for that good ol sit down strike....I remember Phil Ochs singin for us at the Quiet Knight in Chicago and it was around 74 impeachment of Nixon commin up and Phil wanted every one to put graffiti every where on the Walls (* Where the words of the profits are written on the Subway walls) thank you Paul....Impeach tthe rats!
How's that!
We can be more effective doing this then pissin off the public in the streets.
We can even vote for ourselves for Prez and if enough of us do it , it well become a movement.....and Bush will come arrest me and my cat will get hungry...
Love, Jim

If other people are posting advertisements, it seems that he is well within his rights and his day in court should exonerate him....UNLESS there is a Bush appointee sitting on the bench. This is why Bush's judicial shenanigans are so frightening!

I have another strategy that might 'wake people up.' I recently got a request for a donation to my public library. I wrote a letter back in lieu of the donation explaining why I can't spare a dime. I pointed out that I am now helping to support other family members who in earlier days might have qualified for assistance AND I am paying increasingly higher prices for all commodities because of our Iraq misadventure and this administration's policies! I don't have $$ to donate. Taxes DO pay for things!

I said that I WOULD pray for the library and suggested that they apply for 'Faith-based status' since there seems to be money for such organizations. I plan to send similar letters to many organizations that request donations. I suggested that they share my letter with the local newspaper.

Just a thought....it might be an instructive thing to do when people ask for donations!

Thank you cokids! You are so right and now they may wake up and smell that the coffee is now burnt. They are all sheepill!

Of course this ridiculous law, as enforced, is unconstitutional. This guy should also remember where he is, and what happened 37 years ago- watch out, dude!

Namaste' and Please fill me in on this General Strike day Sept.11
I believe it would get the attention,

Jim Glover, Thamk you for reminding me of the Simon and Garfunkle song, "The Sound of Silence" ("Where the words of the prophets are written on subway walls").

This song, which I loved then as I do today, is prescient by about 40 years. There is a You Tube video of Paul Simon and Art Grafunkle singing this song and giving the lyrics as it goes along. My ISP (Verizon) will not let me cut and paste the address so you are on your own.

Meanwhile, here are the lyrics:

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.

"Fools", said I, "you do not know,
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you."
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets

Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

Send yours!

«FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 2, 2007
8:21 AM CONTACT: Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Natalie Laber (202) 225-5871 (o); (202) 365-1040 (c)

Congressman Dennis Kucinich To Receive More Than 100,000 Petitions From Supporters Seeking Impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney
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Why didn't the cops just tell this man that placing a sign on public property is against the law? Why haul him off to court if not to show that any sign of disobedience toward the Bush dog is calls for imprisonment and fines? Maybe this is just the beginning of more oppression. Shutting up dissenters is the wish of the neo-cons and right wing wackos, and Mr.King Tut as well.

judi August 2nd, 2007 6:33 pm

"..Bush dog...", I like it

Remember all those fellows who would walk around or stand on public sidewalks holding a "Jesus Saves" sign? I never heard of any of them having to go to court or being fined. And isn't anyone advertising on "public property" a member of the public? After all it's the publics taxes that have paid for the parks and streets and public buildings? Where is one left to advertise other than the internet? No, we should be able to get in their face( government officials) and shout our disapproval for all the world to see and hear. The internet doesn't reach everyone when it comes to freedom of speech and live bodies always send a clearer and more definite message. Of course, our streets are being swallowed up as most folks have to go to a mall to shop and in a mall there is private property where you won't have freedom of speech. See the picture? The USA will in our time be privately owned and in time so will the Internet and there will no longer be a "public park or street or road" where one can express his freedom of speech.

I'm going off topic here to get any last minute input from people who might care: Wyoming and Idaho are about to start killing off
their wolf population, using planes and helicopters. If you care about this, please go to:
www.nrdc.org/naturesvoice/feature1.asp
There is only one more day for the public to speak. After that, it's all over for the wolves.
Thank you.

I get a ton of mail from the Dems asking for money. Since the buckling on the war and the infuriating
"impeachment is off the table," I've been throwing them unopened into the recycling bin. While it omproves my bank balance, it doesn't do a thing for my soul. So, I printed up a bunchof stickers:
"Take Two Impeachments and Call Me in the Morning".

If they are disappointed when they open their envelopes, it's nothing to what I felt after my high hopes
in November.

YOUR WEBSITE IS CONFUSING!

Free speech is only available in the U.S. if you clear it with the corporations.

Faux news has argued that they can broadcast things they know are lies because of freedom of speech and press.

This guy is getting a big hassle for political speech - THE ENTIRE POINT OF FREE SPEECH IS THAT INDIVIDUALS CAN ENTER INTO POLITICAL DIALOG!

This is man is a true patriot.

Mr. Egler was helping out peace marchers who were traveling through his community the day he went to court. They both have websites:

Mario Penalver, recent University of Chicago graduate and poet - marchofthepeople.org/blog/?p=309

Brother Raymond and Brother Elliot, two young Christian ministers - www.beitshalomministries.org

All three marchers were with Mr. Egler as he went to court and lent him moral support.

$hrub is guilty of so many things one would have a long time listing them. Is he and Deadeye as dumb as they appear? A"C" student passed the GRE and got into Harvard--What are the chances someone with A's but no money would get into Harvard Business School? Nil and next to none. The good old USA has put the Idiot in Chief there; NOW all the voters need to admit they made a mistake appointing him. He has broken every law in the Constitution and Congress does nothing. It is like a willful child with a lazy parent. At least go on the record as having tried; Send the same bills to him every chance and he will eventually capitulate. Don't increase a dime, add more benchmarks he has to reach. Sad that Congress is broken and does not want to fix itself. We MUST protect and DEMAND Congress at least attempt. When they plead the Fifth, put them in jail until they tell the truth, period!!! As for the Attorney General, IMPEACH him NOW!!! When we cannot put signs out, we no longer have a democracy; we have our own dictator, wimps in Congress, and the Supreme Court loaded with men of Bu$h's ilk. Gag!!! Impeach and Convict this yahoo NOW!! At least go on the record under oath that you tried to stand up to these dictators.

KENT, OHIO...like in KENT STATE?..."4 DEAD IN OHIO"
WE'RE THE "VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA"
GOTTA REVOLUTION...UP THE REVOLUTION
ITS TIME FOLKS...TIME TO MOBILIZE
EVOLUTION, REVOLUTION...ALL WE ARE SAYING...

I live near Kent and work in Stow, Ohio. I have enjoyed seeing his Impeach sign come and go on a fence by the restaurant where I eat once a week, El Campesino. Though I always wondered who was doing this, I am glad to know who he is though I hate to see that he is being fined for his expressions.

Oddly, Kent is the town where the four students were shot back in May of 1970 and we are having trouble using the newly-built library to show the movie, War Made Easy by Norman Solomon. First off, they want 50 bucks to use the Kent "public" library, and second they said we cannot show the movie there since it is a politcal event.

We are planning to convince them to change their policy since we feel that it should make no difference who uses the "public" taxed supported library, that by the way pays the for the salary of the library head. The Board needs to know what democracy looks like, but as we have seen in many spheres in America since 2000, the chill of suppression is rampant as the pot of fear is stirred in many ways.

If y'all are interested, here is the website address of the aourt action. http://www.co.portage.oh.us/pa/pa.urd/pamw2000*o_case_sum?38375775 cut and paste into your browser.

I'm sure we can get together the $125.00 in costs for him. If there is a fine, it will prbably be posted on the site.

Also note that his pre-trial is set for August 9 at 3:15 and his trial at 11:15 on August 16.

And here is the contact information for the court:

Portage County Municipal Court
Kent Division
214 S. Water St.
Kent, Ohio 44240

Kent Court
Judge John J. Plough
Tel. 330/678-6170
Fax 330/676-0961

Bailiff

Tel. 330-678-0947

Deputy Bailiff

Tel. 330-678-6170
Prosecutor
330-678-8137

Portage County Clerk of Municipal Court

KENT BRANCH
Phone: 678-9100 FAX: 677-9944
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Monday through Friday

Turn out for support or you can start calling now. And faxing. How about faxing copies of the Bill of Rights to the Court?

Oh -- and here is the website for the city ordinances of Kent (in case you are interestsed): http://www.kentohio.org/pdf/2007replacement-part%205.pdf

impeachment is too good. string em up.

What in the world is going on in Ohio? Just Thursday I read on a blog at Huffington Post, that a court in Ohio took away a mothers custody of her child and gave it to the father because she is a pagan. I really don't believe in any religion, but what is the difference between believing a guy that got nailed to a tree is ok, but believing in mother earth is evil! Those folks in Ohio have got a lot of work to do with the people who they elected to make decisions.

Freedom of what?

I played in a band years ago. We did a show in Kent with another band that violated this same law. It wasn't one handbill, but several hundred, stapled to utility poles throughout downtown. The police arrived at the bar demanding to know who was responsible. The appropriate person stepped forward and was grilled about his intentions of wallpapering the town. Here's the point - he wasn't cited. He was given the opportunity to remove the handbills from the city-owned poles.

This man posted one sign in a public garden for a political (protected) purpose. The other instance was someone posting several hundred for a commercial (specifically banned) purpose. One was punished, one was not. It makes you wonder if the Kent PD would have given Martin Luther a ticket for nailing an advertisement to the church door.

My senior park is known for hassling residents if they post political signs on their rented lot sites. I've never directly challenged it. I just park my car with the bumper stickers, including "Impeach Bush", facing the road and fly my flag with a photo of planet earth from the porch. We do what we can.

sad this can happen @ Kent State...