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Pie-Throwing Protester Arrested

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There was a time when Americans knew how to protest a war. Now is not that time. From the Detroit News:

One protester, Ahlam Mohsen, a Michigan State University senior from Coldwater, was arrested and faces arraignment today on a felony charge of stalking, as well as misdemeanor counts of assault and disorderly conduct, Big Rapids police said. She is accused of throwing the apple pie at [U.S. Senator Carl Levin] after her friend Max Kantar made a lengthy statement at a public event at Peppers Cafe and Deli in downtown Big Rapids.

I can accept that money is speech. I can accept that mosque building is religious freedom. But if your political discourse devolves to pie throwing — or shoe throwing, for that matter — you’re just an idiot.

Senator Levin wasn’t injured by the iconic American dessert…

Sen. Levin said all the right things after the incident:

In a statement, Levin said he wasn’t hurt in the pie-throwing incident and welcomes civil discourse with constituents.

“I’m more than willing to hear from people who disagree with me,” he said. “They didn’t hurt me, but they hurt their cause even more than their own extreme words had already done.”

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It turns out that the protesters involved had been arrested before; they staged a sit-in at Levin’s offices in 2009. Until the office closed, at which point they were quietly escorted to jail.

If it all sounds so weak, that’s because it is. There is a great tradition of civil disobedience in this country, but kids these days have resorted to pie throwing. The millennials bring a certain sense of apathy even to their protests.

Levin hit with pie at Big Rapids event [Detroit News]

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