Food Not Bombs activist arrested and charged for feeding people
Eric Montanez arrested and charged with feeding the hungry.
Food Not Bombs, a 'radical' group in the US have made headlines all over the planet this morning.
21 year old activist, Eric Montanez, has been arrested in Miami for feeding hungry people. Apparently, Montanez decided to become a criminal, as he thought that feeding people was more important than trying to sell stuff to them.
Montanez, broke the law by attempting to feed a group of 30 people, in violation of a law that states that feeding groups of more than 25 people is illegal. Apparently poverty, homelessness and starvation, tends to put people off, in regard to splurging out for luxuries in the shops of Florida.
Montanez will be the first person ever to be prosecuted under this law.
Police took samples of the stew that Montanez presumed to feed people with. In Florida, in order to feed groups of more than 25 people, one needs to secure a special permit. One can only be issued a special permit twice a year.
Well done Food Not Bombs and Eric Montanez.
There are many such laws in the US. For example, in Atlanta, it's illegal to give a starving person a sandwich that you prepared at home.
How long will it be before we catch up with these progressive laws, in good ole, flexible and impressionable Ireland?
Related Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN05171935200...70405
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Saturday April 07, 2007 14:30
by Seán Ryan
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1That link is incomplete and does not work. So I tracked down these original reports on that site
Activist arrested while feeding homeless in downtown Orlando
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk...story
Arrest is first under homeless-feeding law
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-homeless0507apr05,0,...story
Orlando Freed activist returns to feed Eola homeless
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/community/news/southofdo...story
Just a correction...Eric Montanez was arrested in Orlando, FL.
just wanted to make a correction on the article. eric was arrested in orlando not miami. the two are quite a ways away from each other. easy mistake. thanks for posting the article
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/fnb_resists.html
Eric Montanez