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Children Arrested for Selling Lemonade at Capitol

Monday, August 22, 2011 | Subscribe to Video Updates

In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations as are used to shut them down, several activist gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell lemonade and were arrested. While the officers were technically on solid “legal” ground in shutting down the stand, they behaved inappropriately by any standard numerous times, using intimidation tactics on protestors and observers, and harassing members of the professional media. The willingness with which children and tourists participated by purchasing lemonade in disobedience of the police instructions is an indicator of how little respect the general public has for government in general, and specifically police when enforcing unjust laws. Gives me hope for America. For those who are complaining about the public property not being used for its intended purpose, part of the point of this that the government should not be using public property for the glorification of government when it could be better used to serve public interests. Excessive vending at the capitol (or without a permit in any public space) would surely be preferable to 22.5% unemployment. Free the economy!

Original footage by Dustin DeLelles, Clyde X, Luke Rudkowski, Adam Kokesh
Video editing by Dustin DeLelles

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Bogusbob

This is public property (tax funded) and we see “it takes a village of cop”s to kick these folks off of public property. Your tax $$ at work. What next? Was that the obama bus in the back ground??
- Carpenter
  
  In the vid where they had the cop agreeing, they should’ve asked, “Just where is your limit, sir? How ridiculous a law will you enforce? Today lemonade stands on public property, but what if tomorrow it’s for wearing mismatched shoes or long hair or…. God forbid, not having health insurance? Will you then, just ‘do your job’ and lock folks up?”
  
  And yeah, the female cop who paw swiped the camera…committed assault and should be prosecuted or sued in civil court.
- Floyd
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlgTwp93E48
  
  Ronald Reagan – “We the People”
dawn

For GOD’S sake, what have we become?A land of vigilantes.
These nice young folks were on the grounds that belong to
the people!!! Innocently selling lemonade for a dime a cup.
Then the thugs, the police, get involved and arrest them and
they are the ones that then cause all the ruckus and meyhem.
Are we not allowed to do anything civil any more without
the police and or govt. taking over? I applaud these young
folks for standing their ground. Don’t stop!!
Andrew

the lemonade sellers must be the new terrorist. that would explain the sudden police state actions against the 7 – 14 year old lemenade stand operators.
- Old Moses
  
  No, it’s just that children must never learn anything about capitalism. They may grow up “misguided” in life and develop a desire to support themselves. Allah forbid.
- Evermyrtle
  
  If they had been terrorist those interferring would have bought all of the lemonade and then taken the children dinner and then a movie. That is the way of America, today.
- seabee combat vet
  
  Did nappy sic em on these kids?
Walker

Heil Obama!
Heil Obama!
Heil Obama!

Walking Tall
BuckOfama

If they were black they would already have been invited to the White House for a beer.
AliveStillKickin

Selling crack is ok but lemonade is nixed?
Have you ever seen what lemonade does to kids?
Thank God we have these brave officers to rid us of this dangerous element.
Rambo Part 1
Robert Perschall

That female cop was basically assaulting the camera person over and over.
SFC (Ret) John W. Harvey

If the Govt displayed the same diligence toward the drug dealers they would be commemded for their good efforts.
- http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
  
  Ditto Sarge!
  Drug dealers & border enforecment.
Pitts

My GOD! What has this country come to? It’s time for the American People to take back control of the Capitol again. Obama, and Maxine and all of the Hillary Bunch have had their say! Now it’s our turn comming up!
2012 is coming soon enough!!
Yellow Eagle

What complete hogwash!!! Doesn’t the anonited one claim to want to promote free interprise????? It sure looks like it!!! An for the cops, aren’t you ashamed of yourselves!!! Everyone else is!!!
Mikl

makes me proud to be an American. Seeing justice be done by our capitol police.
- brett
  
  This is a ‘tongue-in-cheek’ comment, right?
- Evermyrtle
  
  I think Mikl was jesting, surely he was jesting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- weldr1
  
  I’m hoping theres a ton of sarcasm in this statement
- http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
  
  THE children could have done a better job at marketing & saved theirselves some trouble.
  viz: Ask for a waiver & name their product Obama Kool-Aid.
  
  “Take a sip for Socialism”
  - http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
    
    “One cup of our lemonade will make you a Collectivist”
    
    Collect Calls, Collect welfare benefits, etc
Pissed off in Wyoming

UNBELIEVEABLE , Talk about an over abuse of power . This should of never happened . Walker I think you hit the nail right on the head
ZEKE HEIL , ZEKE HEIL .
- Chris
  
  Who the heck is Zeke Heil? Is he a comic book character or something?
MichaelB

I am a Republican and do not believe that the Constitution is a “living document” that must change with the times and circumstances. The laws governing commerce are for everyone. It requires a license to sell anything on Capital grounds. Get a license and then sell your lemonade. NO ONE will then keep you from being there. Redefining “public property” to meet your needs and suit your purpose reminds me of a former president.
AliveStillKickin

Meanwhile…..A “flash mob” was robbing and assaulting 3 elderly ladies a block away.
No suspects have been identified yet as the cops were busy arresting violent, terrorist lemonade dealers.
Honors for bravery beyond the call of duty are forthcoming.
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray stated “Yowza”.
- http://www.kidon.com/media-link MalikTous
  
  ‘Obama flew, Mayor Gray knew, TURK 182!’
Uncle Pat

I think the cops were pissed off because none of them had a dime ! In DC they are use to getting what they want handed to them !
http://www.kidon.com/media-link MalikTous

Canned Heat ‘Sic ‘em Pigs’
Frank Zappa ‘Mama Mama’

If I was a cop there I’d have brought a vendor’s application and had one of the organisers fill it out. End of incident. The police action was unwarranted and stupid.
- http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
  
  The children should have offered free doughnuts to the officiers with the lemonade.
  They would have gotten a warning ticket perhaps.
tweety

This is obviously a symbolic gesture and a symbolic response. Small business harassed and eventually put down by government lackeys. Truly a microcosm of our present state of affairs. Wonder is Sasha and Malia sell lemonade?
- BuckOfama
  
  They sell copies of the Communist Manifesto and Little Red Book, annotated and signed by their daddy.
- catman
  
  Since it would be beneath their dignity to seel lomonade, I doubt seriously if it would ever happen. However, that being said, just the kicks and giggles of it, lets say they did open a lemonade stand. It would indoubtedly be placed in the rotunda of the capitol building with SS guards about to maintain order, etc.
  “License??? Who needs one. Our daddy is the president. We can do anything we want”.
randellmd

Gotta be those same Ron Paul loons that danced at Jefferson Memorial. This is immature and not the right way to fight for freedom. You can’t fight freedom by breaking and disrespecting the laws of the land. DUH!!!
- Evermyrtle
  
  Sounds like Communist Oigs to me! Not the lemonade sellers, the sc-lops!!
- Vicki
  
  Anti-freedom laws are the very laws that we have a duty to CIVILLY disobey. The vendors of the lemonade did a superb job of executing their duty to disobey unjust law CIVILLY.
  
  Other than the one officer who committed assault and battery several times against a member of the free press, all the officers also remained civil as far as I could see.
- http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
  
  Right Randllmd!
  
  You cannot fight for freedom by disrespecting the law of the land much like the illegals are fighting for their so called right to break into the USA. It would have gone much better for the children if they belonged to some designated PC group.
  LOL
http://www.Saltshaker.US Dave Leach

Excellent point at the close of the article, about this being an example of regulations that shut down business. I own a small business and dread having to go back to college to learn the new regulations I would have to meet, if my business grows enought that I would have to hire somebody! In Mexico I see businessmen whose inventory is on a card table. Those kinds of businesses are illegal here. (And there, they face shakedowns from bureaucrats.) Yet that is the kind of freedom that set our economy free. There is NO compelling, or even rational, reason for prohibiting lemonade sales to willing customers, or for most regulations.
- JEC
  
  If these kids had of been serving cool aid instead, the the law dogs would have been ok with it.
  - Evermyrtle
    
    Indeed and would have as happy as larks!
amishron

It seems as though America is becoming like Russia where people don’t have freedom. It’s time to kick the Communist Obama out & get our freedom back.
- Evermyrtle
  
  What do you mean by becoming?? I think we have it covered!!
http://googlechrome David

The cops that they were terrorists by their looks. To the osloba administration 75% of the citizens are terrorists.
Jimmy

Unlike kids selling lemonade on a street corner, these people set out to cause a stir. They knew they needed a permit, and where they could/couldn’t vend products. While I don’t disagree with their actions, it would be better received as a protest.

I found the police-men to be kind, and only enforcing the laws that they vowed to uphold. The police-woman, on the other hand, had a very large ‘johnson’ that she wanted to sling around, and definitely had something to prove. She should be charged with assault, this is not the kind of police we need handling innocent citizens.
- John P. Centonze,D.D.S.
  
  I agree with Jim. You know these people only wanted to provoke an incident!
  I also feel that we should encourage an entrepreneurial spirit but I don’t have a problem with a permitting system to practice that spirit otherwise there could be chaos.
  I also feel that the policewoman in the video should be fired on the grounds that she assaulted those people with cameras. She,by her actions, gave the impression that she felt her behavior was reprehensible and she did not want these actions recorded! I wonder what would happen if the police were recording something and somebody repeatedly swatted there camera away.
  - Vicki
    
    “I don’t have a problem with a permitting system to practice that spirit otherwise there could be chaos.”
    
    So you think that freedom is asking mommy (government) for permission to do something beneficial for your fellows? May I suggest there are many other countries where you can enjoy such submission.
    
    ——————————————–
    “Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard… why should I trade one tyrant 3,000 miles away for 3,000 tyrants one mile away?”
    - Mel Gibson as Mr Benjamin in The Patriot.
    - John P. Centonze,D.D.S.
      
      Okay Vicki! How pleased would you be if someone set up their lemonade stand on a public road right at and and aligned with the middle of your driveway, there-by interferring with your ingress and egress. My bet is you’d be on the phone in a split second calling the police.
      - Vicki
        
        You would loose your bet. I would ask them to move on to the sidewalk beside the driveway and out of the street were they and their customers might be hurt by traffic.
        
        Btw nice waste of bandwidth using a red-herring argument.
        
        The astute observer will notice that the lemonade stand was not positioned to interfere with anyone’s egress or ingress.
      - http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
        
        The ACLU, ACORN, SEIU, ACT-UP, Southern Poverty Law Center et al are all past masters at “provoking incidents” to advance their agenda & yet we’re upset over some kids running a lemonade stand.
        LOL
Bill

Too bad the government does not see fit to invest the same money in arresting tax dodgers. No, not rich people, ILLEGALS who work and dont pay taxes – How can you when you dont have a valid SS#? And use our schools, and hospitals, and drive without insurance. All of which are serious infractions of the law.
- Evermyrtle
  
  If it had been illegals selling lemonade, the police would have bought lemons, ice, cups, and napkins and brought them to the sellers and blessed them and each policman/woman would hav bought lemonade to go!!!
Gene

“Nannyism” at its best. Back in the 50′s we set up lemonade and Kool-Aid stands along the sidewalk on hot summer days and made small fortunes (for an elementary school kid). Today they need “health inspections”, permits, licenses, tax certificates and God knows what else. God knows the bureaucrats don’t know. How far we have fallen as a nation and a people to let this happen, much less continue.
Stan

I certainly am no fan of government intrusion on the rights of We the people, nor government over regulating bussiness large or small. However I have to agree that these people knew that they were breaking ordinances governing their activity. It was a planned disobedience.

I further dislike misleading and false reporting. THe headline states Children arested for sellling lemonade. People old enough to have tattoos along the length of their arms are not children. People old enough to grow a beard are not children; they may be someone’s “Child” but they are not children. THey all knew and understand that they were there to cause a disturbance, which they did. THey steadily pursued their actions amongst older adults with them shouting “don’t be intimidated”; they were fully complicit in the disobedience.

As far as the female policewoman, she put her hand on the camera lens; which by the way if you look you will see a microphone fixed to the camera up to the lens. Thus the sound of her had against the lense. There was no police brutality there; I am certain the criminal element in our society would love for the courts to say that putting a hand on a camera lens is brutality.
- Vicki
  
  “They all knew and understand that they were there to cause a disturbance, which they did.”
  
  They caused no disturbance. They exercised their DUTY to CIVILLY disobey.
  
  They were civilly resisting unjust authority. I just hope that they demand a jury trial and get an honest jury who will nullify the law by refusing to convict. (FIJA.org)
  - Charlie
    
    I agree Vicki! I look forward to the day when all public parks are filled with illegal aliens pushing carts selling snow cones, churros, bacon dogs, and corn on the cob slathered with 80 degree mayonnaise. I think a few dozen people hawking boot leg DVD’s and counterfeit purses would be a good addition too. I think the government and police should have no powers to regulate or control such behavior, because it is the right of those people to accost my family and I when I visit the capital or any public park my taxes pay to maintain. I want the whole country to look like East Los Angeles! Screw the rule of law! Viva Vicki!
    - http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
      
      Your comment may happen sooner than you think with the Obama Aministrattion exercising “prosecutorial discreation” to let illegals stay in the USA.
      aka: backdoor amnesty.
  - Stan
    
    Vicki, they were there to provoke the police into aresting them, hense Civil DIsturbance. They advocated the people to not be intimidated by the police… they were promoting civil disturbance, to disobey the Police officers.
    
    This was a set up to provoke the police into aresting them, that is plain to see. No sympathy here.
    - http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
      
      I would call this a good Saul Alinsky tactic to expose injustice as we baby boomers learned back in the sixties.
      POWER TO THE PEOPLE BABY.
Charlie

It seems the “lemon liberators” set up a stand they knew would be shut down and continued with the intent of being arrested in support of their “cause.” They even brought along video cameras to capture the publicity event. It seems this was a victory for everyone: The people who wanted a cup of lemonade got it, and the “protesters” who wanted to get arrested got arrested. Good work all around.
Bell

I’m proud these kids stood up. We all may have to stand up pretty soon …with God beside us and let what I call evil know that we the people are not going to stand for any more of their bullying, rules and control. They are to serve us…the people. It no longer is going to be the other way around.
CommieKiller

Do I foresee a Lemonade Party/Tea Party alliance?
http://Yahoo Bruce the Grizzly

Stan, you make some good points, But, I think that if you have been whatching the none LSM stations, you would see how the cops have harassed children of 6 to 12 years old, and so these young people where protesting that abuse. Now as for that female cop, when she pushed that camera back at the face of the camerman the camera could have been pushed into the face and broke, causing serious eye or face damage, so is assult by a police officer, because it was done on purpose. What I saw was she abused her power just because she had on a badge, gun and had some rank, I have seen that type before and they become a disgrace to the uniform and what it stands for.
To top It off the cops busted the young pepole because they didn’t have donuts with the lemon aid and they didn’t get both free.
God Bless America and Our Troopsd Past Present and Future.
Keeping to My Oath Locked Loaded and Keeping My Powder Dry.
Get the US Out of the UN and the UN out of the US
Traitors in our Gov

Those people knew going in they were going to be arrested, hence the video camera, so no sympathy from me here.. But while we are on the lemonade point, the thing that gets me is when they do this to a little kid who is on his/her own street selling lemonade to buy a new wagon or bike. That is what irks me the most. Trying to teach a child about money and being self-sufficient just to have a person who works for the government come and tell a 10 year old he/she can not earn money to buy a new bike or wagon..

Forget that, but these boys and girls knew exactly what they were doing…

I would have sold the lemonade for a penny if I was trying to make a point, or a dollar and all profits go to a foundation for the brave men and women who are fighting for this country,, That is how you make a point and make it stick!!!!
TIM

Welcome to Obama-nation, Thugocracy.
- http://juan-gilberto@hotmail.com El Lobo Solo
  
  I guess the children forgot to offer a cut of the proceds to Obama Czar Cass Sunstein.
  LOL
teadog

Isn’t it a shame that the govt. can choose which laws it enforces. Won’t enforce the laws established to arrest and deport illegal aliens, but chooses to shut down a kids lemonade stand. Bet obama’s daughters could sell drugs in front of the white house and the cops would only be there for crowd control.
- Ridgerunner
  
  teadog you have nailed it. Everywhere Obama goes people should line the streets and give the Nazi salute!
ken

Can you sell a cup of PEAS?
Tinman

One day those jackboots will be on the wrong end of a gun and then justice will be done!
ravingapache

No doubt, these kids planned this act of civil disobedience and had the guts to carry it out. Perhaps there were some adults with them goading them on to not be intimidated and there to support them as well. Regardless, the point was well made – a government left to its own devices will ultimately use its power to harm its own people. To protest the unjust laws in our country is a fundamental right of our freedom. Peaceful protest in any form, including selling lemonade is still protest. How interesting it is that the people of “Occupy Wall Street” have been left alone for their protest but children were harrassed by police for the god-awful practice of selling lemonade. When people become unruly and or begin to act violently, then the police should step in. The assault by the officer against another person was committed for the purpose of trying to goad the guy into striking back. Well it didnt work and we got to see the shameful act of an unruly officer on tape. No doubt, had the camera man (boy) had of acted differently, his camera and would have been taken away (another violation of rights) and he would have been incarcerated. Hats off to these kids for doing the right thing in the face of oppression. btw- we saw them taping the source of the lemonade from purchased jugs. Violation of health codes? Doubt it! So shameful. The Capitol Police are there to protect one thing… their right to abuse power.