Here are Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman on the group of libertarians who were arrested for dancing at the Jefferson Memorial to iPod music for the 3rd President's birthday.
They were arrested for "causing a disturbance" which seems like a rather dubious charge seeing as they weren't making any noise and weren't directly bothering anyone else, only moving around. Theis seems like a classic example of a charge used by the police against people they just don't like, be they poor minorities or annoying college age libertarians (Perhaps the two biggest threats in the typical cop mind) - We could call it the seatbelt law of the federal memorial.
Needless to say, I encourage anyone and everyone to dance at the Jefferson Memorial in protest of this injustice. Jefferson would be annoyed, and perhaps Hamilton would also. I don't think Adams (our current greatest Founding Father) would be though.
Here's the arrest:
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