Posted on 11/23/2006 6:44:51 PM PST by Kimmers
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A group of zombies have risen up to claim the city of Minneapolis and Hennepin County violated their free rights and discriminated against them.
The six adults and one juvenile who were arrested while impersonating the undead in July filed their lawsuit Thursday.
The ragged group were arrested for "simulating weapons of mass destruction" during a dance party near the Minneapolis entertainment district.
Police alleged that wires protruding from the zombie's backpacks could have been bombs or were meant to imitate bombs. It was later learned the wires were actually radios.
The adult zombies were jailed for two days before police and city attorneys said there was not enough evidence to charge them.
The lawsuit claims the zombie event was intended to "satirize contemporary commercial culture" and the arrests violated the partygoers rights to free speech.
City officials did not return a call to the St. Paul Pioneer Press seeking comment on Wednesday. City offices were closed on Thanksgivi
I know of whom you speak and I agree.
The problem here is that they weren't perps.
The worst thing they might have been guilty of was going to a bad costume party, but when I think about some of the costume parties I have been to, this one seems pretty tame.
And this weapons of mass destruction BS is a complete crock.
After having seen how the Patriot Act has been misused and every two-bit drug dealer is now somehow connected to "terrorism" to both justify police tactics and to increase poenalties, I am now 100% against it.
If we want a special law to go after muslim fanatics who want to kill us, I am for it. When LE turns around and uses that law against common criminals, they have fouled their own nest, and we should take that tool away from them. And, any success that the muslim fanatics have because the tool was taken away can be laid squarely at the feet of the ones who misused it.
At least most of our college professors, actors, democratic leaders would need to fear them.
"After having seen how the Patriot Act has been misused and every two-bit drug dealer is now somehow connected to "terrorism" to both justify police tactics and to increase poenalties, I am now 100% against it."
It's hard to disagree with you.
Thomas Jefferson, blessed be his name, never used smile icons, sarcasm tags or other literal indication of having tongue-in-cheek in his writings, for using these would have been considered a gross insult to the reader's intelligence. Now, if he wasn't a conservative - then who was? And therefore we are to follow his example as far as it is within our powers..
Minnesota...a good place to be from. FAR AWAY FROM...
See, that's just what I'd have expected an America-hating, Muslim-loving, terrorist-buttsmooching...where was I going with this again? Oh, yeah, you Bush-hating Islamist-coddlers make me sick! You think we should just lie down for the terrorists and take away all the power the federal government has to deal with them! You think we should just repeal the Patriot Act, which would mean countless criminals we could under that wonderful-loved-by-patriots-hated-only-by-anti-American-types-law vaguely tie to terrorism legally because they use somewhat tangentially related schemes or methods--even if their intentions were clear and not remotely terror-linked--would go free! You want that? I bet you do, you Osama-lovin' Al Qaetite weasel, you! Go back to Canada, you hippie!
But it's too late to say you're sorry...
My first thoughts exactly!
You need to read Max Brooks' new book, World War Z, a first person chronicle of the world wide zombie war.
It's actually a very entertaining book.
I love it! Funniest thing I've read here in a long time.
Have a cup o tea, kill Phillip, pick up mum, go to the Winchester..
If they are Romero style zombies, the only way to kill em is to destroy the brain.
This can be accomplished by head shots from firearms, decapitation, or just beating the undead subjects head in with a baseball bat, club, or large blunt instrument.
Of course, that works with liberals too..8-)
I thought "Ugly and Stupid" was a Class B Misdemeanor...
Actually, if you dunk that one in some water for a few minutes, she would come out as cute as a button...
Has he taken any time, to show, to show you what you need to live? Tell it to me slowly.
BWAHAHAHAH!
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