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Civil disobedience event ? at the Wisconsin Capitol, beginning in 10 minutes.

I received this Facebook invitation ? "Take back Wisconsin's Constitution" ? from Ben Masel, who writes:

Yesterday the police issued the first citations for holding signs on the first floor ring of the Capitol building, in contravention of the court order which directed the department of Administration to return speech options to January. individuals have been free to hold political signs in this area for at least 25 years.

It's particularly ironic thatbthe Departmet of Adminisration's sign announcing the ban on protest ias immediately adjacent to an originalcopy of our State's Constitution, open to the very section which guarantees our right to protest there.

It's tiome to reclain the public forum. Bring the largest copy of Article 1 sectionb 4 you can.

(Typos left uncorrected.)

The protest is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 12 noon on the first floor, next to the Wisconsin Constitution, which says: "The right of the people peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged."

ADDED: Masel is a Madison icon. Read more here. He says: "Life's a movie. Don't be an extra, star in your own." (With a Flip camera, everybody is a star.)

UPDATE: A new post, with video of the civil disobeyers not getting arrested.

Full post as published by Althouse on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).