All charges dropped against lemonade protesters

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The lemonade three are free.

The Superior Court of the District of Columbia dropped all charges Monday against three activists arrested in August for selling 10-cent cups of lemonade on the lawn of the Capitol building.

Will Duffield, Meg McLain and Kathryn Dill were arrested on Aug. 20 for selling the lemonade as part of National Lemonade Freedom Day — a nationwide protest formed in response to a recent rash of children’s lemonade stands being shut down by police.

Duffield, McLain and Dill pleaded not guilty on Oct. 4 to “sale of goods on U.S. Capitol grounds” — a crime that carries a maximum prison sentence of 180 days. Vending on the lawn of the Capitol is not allowed.

The three faced an additional 180 days in jail after being held in contempt of court for refusing to submit to a urine test for drugs.

The urine sample was part of a program to avoid going to trial. The court also demanded the three submit to weekly drug testing and a substance abuse class. The lemonistas said all of this was a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.

“It wasn’t a violent crime,” Dill said. “There were no victims, except all the thirsty people at the Capitol who couldn’t get lemonade because we were arrested.”

When the three appeared at court Monday, there was a new judge, who Mclain described as “jolly and friendly.” The judge announced the charges against them had been dropped.

“It was very relieving,” Dill said. “I would have probably have lost my job, and Megan and Will don’t even live close to the area.”

The judge did not say why the charges had been dropped, but Dill and McLain speculated it would have been not only costly but embarrassing to take the three to a full jury trial.

The three had also been banned from the Capitol grounds, but that, too, has been lifted. The first thing the three did after leaving court was take a picture in front of the Capitol building.

Mclain said the three have no plans at the moment for future protests, but “the next time we see some innocent person being oppressed, we’ll be there.”

Lemonade Liberators Hearing, Jury Outreach, and Rally 10/24/11

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On October 4th Will Duffield, Meg Mcclain, and Kathryn Dill, appeared before court and pleaded NOT GUILTY to their charge of “vending without a permit”. They also refused a urine sample as condition of release and as a result are in contempt of court and face an additional 6 month sentence. They have committed no crime, they are INNOCENT until proven GUILTY. No innocent person should be forced to submit a urine sample randomly. Please come support them at court, we must let everyone know this is intolerable. We can not sit idly by and let the government set a precedent that a person is guilty until proven innocent.

Monday, October 24 · 7:30am – 11:00am

7:30am- Fully Informed Jury Association Outreach
8:15am- Press Conference
8:45am- March into Courtroom 314

Please join on the Facebook Event page:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=298454553503978

 

 

 

 

Lemonade Liberators Facing Jail Time in DC

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Meg McLain, Kathryn Dill & Will Duffield were arrested on 8/20 for selling lemonade in front of the Capitol. Today they had to appear in court. They are facing jail time for selling lemonade. They also refused to submit to a urine test. Why they are being required to submit a urine sample for selling lemonade is beyond me.
They have also been banned from Capitol grounds. Please note: They have not been found guilty of anything.
If anyone knows a pro-liberty lawyer in the DC area, please let me know.

Selling Lemonade Is Not a Crime!

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Please sign up on our FACEBOOK Event Page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129646183789904

Recently, we have seen many news reports of lemonade stands being shut down by police and other government workers. When kids sell things, such as lemonade, they are learning some very important lessons. They are learning about money and about being an entrepreneur. They are also learning how to be a productive member of society. They are learning about responsibility. They are participating in free and voluntary trade with willing participants. Selling lemonade is not a crime.

On August 20, 2011, we are suggesting that everyone who has children, who believe in this message, go outside and set up lemonade stands all across the country. Even if you don’t have children, go out and buy some lemonade from a local child’s lemonade stand.

We need to stand up for our kids. We need to send a message to the world. Selling lemonade is not a crime!

Please sign up on our FACEBOOK Event Page here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129646183789904

Please Join Us At Our Facebook Event Page!

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Please visit the Lemonade Freedom Day Facebook Event page and let us know if you will be able to attend. It is good to get an idea of how many people are attending. Click here to get to the event page and click that you will attend: FACEBOOK LEMONADE FREEDOM DAY EVENT

Lemonade Liberators discussion on Free Talk Live

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Lemonade Liberation discussion on Free Talk Live

Book: The Lemonade Crash

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The Lemonade Crash is a funny, smart, and timely children’s poem-story about an enterprising young boy named Mike McGrand. Mike opens a Lemonade stand that is so successful it attracts the attention of the General Lemon Company executives – who want to franchise the little operation across the nation. But “big business” can also have big problems – and Mike is about to get a crash course on how to use money wisely!

Please visit the website here: http://www.thelemonadecrash.com/

HOMELAND SECURITY THEATER – The War on Lemons

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The War on Lemons

THE WAR ON LEMONS

by Bill Forster – administrator on August 22, 2011 at 12:01 am

When Life Gives Lemons… apply for a food & drink permit with the Board of Health, a peddler’s license with the state, get fully insured and make lemonade!

These girls are now running the prison toilet lemonade ring in Cell Block D

Nothing warms the heart quite as much as a story about a bunch of girls who want to spend their summer having adventures at the local water park. They buy some ingredients, set up a lemonade stand and earn some money for their summer of fun. In the end they learn about being self sufficient, they learn the value of a dollar and they learn that working hard for the things you want makes it all that more special. Then they are shut down by the police for operating a food service establishment without a proper business license and permits.Think I’m joking? I’m not. What’s more, this isn’t an isolated incident. This is becoming a trend across the nation. In most of these cases the cities cite ordinances pertaining to health inspections.


- 4 year old Abigail Krutsinger of Coralville, Iowa
- Three girls in McAllen, Texas
- 7 year old girl in Oregon
- 10 year old in Miami Beach, Florida raising money for charity
- Cancer charity’s lemonade stand in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 8 year old in California
- Wilkes-Barre, PA threatened a Brownie fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina
- 10 and 12 year olds in St. Louis, Missouri trying to save money for a computer
- 9 and 11 year old in Salem, Massachusetts
- 7 year old in St. Paul, Minnesota’s
- 9 and 10 year old in New York
- Midway, Georgia
- Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Naples, Florida
- Maryland

The list goes on. They have even gone after kids selling Girl Scout Cookies. I love Girl Scout cookies! Especially those Mint Chocolate ones!

Last Saturday, August 20th, 2011, some folks decided to protest this craziness on Capitol Hill. They set up a lemonade stand in front of the Capitol and sold some lemonade. They were then arrested of course.

This left me a little sour. They stood up for freedom and are now sitting in jail for their beliefs. Oh well, you know what they say, when life gives you lemons…

Here are some of the nice Lemonade Liberators Meg Mclain, Kathryn Dill and Will Duffield being arrested for selling 10 cent lemonade! Visit lemonadefreedom.com for more!! …Land of the free, people!

 

 

 

THE DAILY CALLER: Capitol Police arrest Lemonade Freedom Day protesters

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hey set out to sell ice-cold lemonade, but now three Washington, D.C. protesters might need some legal aid.

Capitol police arrested three people Saturday afternoon for selling lemonade on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building. They were participating in “Lemonade Freedom Day” — a national demonstration against a spate of recent lemonade stand shutdowns by police and health inspectors.

According to the D.C. group’s Facebook event page, three lemonistas — Meg Mclain, K.n. Dill and Will Duffield — were taken into custody by Capitol Police. A spokesperson for the Capitol Police said they were each charged with failure to obey a police officer, unlawful conduct and vending without a permit.

The protesters were selling lemonade on the Capitol lawn, rather than the sidewalk. The selling of any item on Capitol grounds is prohibited. A video of the protest can be seen here.

 

READ MORE HERE: http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/20/capitol-police-arrest-lemonade-freedom-day-protesters/

VIDEO: Children defy police in Washington, purchase lemonade at Capitol

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Meg Mclain, Kathryn Dill and Will Duffield were arrested yesterday for selling LEMONADE in Washington, DC…Children were disobeying authorities. Great job guys!

Patronize these Lemonade Stands August 20th, Lemonade Freedom Day

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At least 10 families wrote in to let us know where they’re selling lemonade for Lemonade Freedom Day. Above is the map. If you’re in the area, please patronize these fine folks! If you want to be on the map, email me at me@georgedonnelly.com.

The Kallenbachs of Rockford, Illinois wrote in to say:

It will be very exciting for us, if I may relate a situation that has taken place on our street over the summer, Round-A-bout intersections are a new thing in our area and we just had one installed very near to our location in conjunction with 7 plus million dollar road improvement, many people including myself thought it totally unnecessary, but as we all know government does what government wants, so our intent is to also exploit this boondoggle along with the Freedom to have a lemonade stand, our intent is to donate our profits either to Special Olympics or with telethon time fast approaching, Muscular Dystrophy, no decision has been made yet.

And the Stewarts of Marietta, Georgia want you to know that:

We will be selling lemonade on Aug. 20th off Johnson Ferry Rd. and Paper Mill Rd. at the entrance to Column Gate Subdivision on Gateside Place across from the NASA Soccer Fields in Marietta, Georgia. My daughter has sold lemonade twice, once with homemade from scratch peanut butter choc chip cookies! She has also sold cucumbers from our garden! She is hoping to raise money for summer camp next year. Come see us!

With 4,500 participants, Lemonade Freedom Day is shaping up to be quite an event. Please join us. Make lemonade with your kids and share it or sell it with your friends and neighbors. What could be more fun, social and wholesome on a hot, summer day! (And after the day is over, let us know how it went by commenting here.)

STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY: When Life Gives You Lemons, Liberate Them!

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When Life Gives You Lemons, Liberate Them!

This May 1947 ad in Life Magazine depicted a boy named Butch with a “leminade” stand that he had made, because he was trying to earn money to purchase a bicycle.  The ad continued that Butch would succeed because he had “energy, vision…and the habit of working hard for what he wants.”  The ad concluded by using Butch as a symbol of what made America an economic powerhouse and reminded the reader that America’s “most valuable natural resource lies in the ambition and initiative of Americans like Butch.”

But that was 1947.  In 2011, the initiative and creativity of children has found them on the wrong side of the law.  After a flurry of cases where lemonade stands were shut down for failure to obtain a permit or other similar offenses, husband and father of two Robert Fernandes got the idea to organize Lemonade Freedom Day this Saturday, August 20th.  Mr. Fernandes wanted to bring attention to how even mundane, quotidian activities like children setting up a lemonade stand are increasingly becoming matters of the state.  Children and their parents along with activists are being encouraged to set up lemonade stands in towns across America to declare their lemonade independence.  Several larger events are planned in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Houston.

While lemonade may be a small matter on the surface, what it reveals about the nature of the government is very intriguing.  Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that human nature contained a certain propensity “to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.”  No clearer example is needed to support this than a child’s lemonade stand.  Children learn very important lessons about voluntary interaction through the process of becoming a lemonade stand proprietor.  They learn that through industry they can make a profit.  But the way to make this profit is by creating a product that your customers willingly purchase from you.  This fundamental market process is the essence of how humans cooperate in society.  When the government shuts down a child’s initiative, what lesson is being conveyed?  What is the government doing to the kernel of creativity that is being fostered within their young spirits?

In an interview with Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund, organizer Robert Fernandes worried that, “Too often, young children are taught to obey the authorities. They are taught not to even dare to question them. Just do as they are told. I challenge this notion with my children, and I encourage other parents to do the same…We need to encourage their free and curious minds”. The free and curious mind of a child is the spirit of individuality that lies within each human.  Every time the police show up and tell seven-year-old kids that they have to put their lemonade stand away, because they have broken the law, a little bit of their free and curious spirit dies.  In several of these instances, the children were afraid of going to jail for their actions.  Our children today are being molded into conformity, and the state claiming the right to regulate a lemonade stand contributes to that process.

The bulwark of a free society is free individuals.  Individuals who have within them a cultivated sense of independency – people who are free and know so!  If we are to ever see a free society, we must start with teaching our children what that freedom entails.  Their creativity, ingenuity, and imagination are  fundamental parts of their human development, and this expression of individuality must be defended.  Emma Goldman wrote in “The Individual, Society, and the State” that the “genius of man” is just another term for personality and individuality, and that individuals “paved the way for every human advance, for every step toward a freer and better world; in science, philosophy and art, as well as in industry, whose genius rose to the heights, conceiving the ‘impossible’, visualizing its realization and imbuing others with his enthusiasm to work and strive for it.”

American children desperately need the lessons that come with running a lemonade stand.  This Saturday, stand with them- for lemonade and for liberty!