A-N-A-R-C-H-Y in the USA?
Atlanta, Georgia
Well, it seems I’m next in line for arrest. Take a gander at this little gem:
From: Ian Goddard
Subject: Anarchist Arrested 4 Speech
A N A R C H I S T A R R E S T E D
F O R W R O N G T H O U G H T
by Ian Williams Goddard
The blurb in The Washington Times (8/1/96, A10) is sketchy,
but states in part:
PAMPHLET LEADS TO ANARCHIST'S ARREST
JONESBORO, Ga -- An 18 year-old self-styled anarchist
who allegedly wrote and distributed a homemade, anti-
government pamphlet has been charged with advocating
the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Jason Paul Moreland is being held in the Clayton County jail in
lieu of $50,000 bail. Wow!, this guy and his thoughts are clearly
seen as a significant threat to the planned order.
While authorities obtained a warrant for his arrest last Saturday,
they say they do not believe he had anything to do with the bomb
that exploded at Centennial Olympic Park. It would seem that he
is therefore being imprisoned for nothing more than his speech;
a clear violation of First Amendment protections of free speech.
Better think twice about writing that pamphlet, or questioning
government to strongly, they may have to come and take you away.
--> Ian Goddard <--> http://www.erols.com/igoddard/reality.html
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An update on this situation from 09 August, 1996:
From: leep@infinet.com (lee p.)
Subject: Re: Anarchist Arrested 4 Speech
here's a little more on the story:
'Anarchist' pamphleteer, 18, held in Clayton County Jail
Atlanta Constitution (AC) - Wednesday, July 31, 1996
By: Bill Montgomery STAFF WRITER
Section: LOCAL NEWS Page: C/7
Word Count: 326
An 18-year-old self-styled "anarchist" who allegedly peddled a free,
homemade pamphlet loaded with anti-government rhetoric and a recipe for a
gasoline bottle bomb is in the Clayton County Jail, charged with advocating
the overthrow of the U.S. government.
Clayton County police Lt. Larry Gibson said Jason Paul Moreland of
Morrow turned himself in Sunday. He had been under investigation since July
8 when authorities received a copy of a pamphlet called "Rise Above."
Police traced the pamphlets to a mail box service in a shopping center on
Mount Zion Road allegedly rented in Moreland's name.
The pamphlet was laced with with crude anti-police cartoons,
obscenities, and anarchist slogans. The one overt reference to violence was
an illustration of a "Molotov cocktail" on the same sheet with a recipe for
"soy milk" made from water-soaked soybeans, sugar and vanilla and strained
through a T-shirt.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant for Moreland Saturday after the
pipe bombing at Centennial Olympic Park, though police doubt he played any
role in the crime.
"He told us he was only interested in destroying property, and I don't
think he fully understands the ramifications," Gibson said. "Whatever he
was up to, we wanted to nip it in the bud."
For three months last spring, Moreland worked as a fry cook at Winstons
Food and Spirits in the Mount Zion Road shopping center where he rented his
mail box. Manager Gloria Shumate and co-workers said they considered
Moreland "weird,", his hair dyed various colors in a punk style.
Moreland and his younger brother, who also worked briefly for the
restaurant, "had their own thing going, but they didn't press the issue on
the rest of us," the manager added. She said the pair were fired after
management found they had set up sleeping quarters on the restaurant's
roof.
"They had food up there, and kept their pamphlets they would pass out,"
waitress Kelly Dean said.
So the question is: Why wasn’t this reported on our local news
instead of an apartment fire or another murder? Is our local news media so
cravenly deferential to the government that they would let the story of a
Georgia man being arrested for voicing his opinion go unannounced to the people
of this state?
The moral of the story: Don’t watch your local news. And call the station and
tell them you aren’t watching. Tell them that their biased reporting,
sensationalism, and total lack of a sense of what is or is not news has forced
you to get all your information from other sources.
I’ve got two words for WSB, WXIA,
WAGA, and WGNX, and they aren’t "Good Job."
Rickwood Out
(With aplogies to Brock Meeks)