talk show host BOB LINDEN arrested at anti-fur protest

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Talk Show Host BOB LINDEN Wrongfully Arrested

By Beverly Hills Cops

At " Fur - Free Friday " Demonstration

 

Radio talk show host Bob Linden ( " GO VEGAN WITH BOB LINDEN " - K-TALK AM-1150 Los

Angeles, GREEN 960-AM San Francisco, www.GoVeganRadio.com, and formerly AIR

AMERICA and NOVA M networks) was arrested by Beverly Hills cops on Friday in

front of a Wilshire Boulevard animal-skin market as Mr. Linden turned on his

bullhorn power switch and announced " fur is murder " . Beverly Hills cops

immediately charged at Linden, yanked the megaphone from his hands, and then

yanked his hands behind his back, handcuffing him, and charging him with using

amplified sound without a permit, pursuant to a Beverly Hills municipal code

which Linden calls " blatantly unconstitutional " .

 

" I can't believe it " , Linden said. " Years after I won a settlement with Beverly

Hills because of its unconstitutional practices and rights violations, here it

is behaving again like George W. Bush, creating its own rogue state, a lawless

constitution-free zone. Here we go again, having to show Beverly Hills that,

whether it likes it or not, the constitution is still enforced there. " Linden

was referring to long-standing U.S. Supreme Court decided settled law

recognizing the bullhorn as an instrument of free speech expression. Linden has

experienced a number of similar wrongful arrests associated with bullhorn usage

(which instead of resulting in convictions, have resulted in greater animal

rights free speech opportunities at such venues as the Los Angeles Sports Arena,

Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, and the San Diego Sports Arena).

 

In the current oppressive environment where we are losing our rights every day,

especially so for animal rights activists, it is more important than ever to

assert the rights that we do have. The right to free speech is so important for

those who speak for the voiceless - the poor innocent ones raised or trapped to

become the fur for sale in Beverly Hills. We need to reach people, to appeal to

their humanity. We know that if shoppers know the cruelty of fur, how animals

are confined, how they are stomped, gassed, drowned, anally and genitally

electrocuted, how maybe 40 lives are killed for one fur coat - of course people

won't want to buy it - and maybe that's why the Beverly Hills cops only let me

get three words out before arresting me. Do you think everyone who violates the

Beverly Hills code is roughly handcuffed - or is that treatment reserved only

for animal rights activists " , Linden asked.

 

Prior to the arrest, Beverly Hills cops refused to divulge the municipal code

under which Linden was being warned he would be arrested if he used the

bullhorn. Subsequently, an officer read Beverly Hills Municipal Code 4-3-501 to

Linden, to which Linden replied to the officer that none of what he read applied

to his activities and that such a code usually has an explicit or implicit

provision that such a restrictive code would not apply to those engaged in

constitutionally protected activity. Beverly Hills police arrested Linden

anyway, with a court date scheduled for early February.

 

You can help Bob Linden with his court costs, his defense, and his subsequent

lawsuit against the City of Beverly Hills for its repeated egregious violations

of our constitutional rights as American citizens. Donations for legal re not

tax-deductible, and should be made payable to BOB LINDEN, and sent to PO Box

475414, San Francisco, CA 94147.

 

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