{"id":833,"date":"2013-05-13T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:52:11","slug":"justice-4-danny-brown-149-dollars-two-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/justice-4-danny-brown-149-dollars-two-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice For Danny Brown $149.02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for &#8220;illegal posting&#8221; of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas County Courthouse, where Julia Bates, Lucas County Persecutor, holds the fate of Danny Brown\u00a0within her poor judgment, blocking his exoneration and access to civil compensation for over 19 years of wrongful imprisonment. \u00a0Ms. Bates has stated that at this point it&#8217;s really about the money. Maybe she should run for treasurer rather than prosecutor. \u00a0As an act of poetic justice in the face of her intransigence, I will pay my fine and court costs with bills marked with &#8220;Justice For Danny Brown .com&#8221;, as pictured below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justice-4-Danny-Brown-Marked-Bills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-834\" alt=\"Justice for Danny Brown marked bills\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justice-4-Danny-Brown-Marked-Bills.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justice-4-Danny-Brown-Marked-Bills.jpg 700w, https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justice-4-Danny-Brown-Marked-Bills-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Justice-4-Danny-Brown-Marked-Bills-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist adding my two cents, as a tip, in case my main plea for justice is declined. \u00a0Typically, I write &#8220;Money is NOT Free Speech!&#8221; on my paper bills, but in this case, since it is &#8220;all about the money&#8221;, I will pay for my not-so-free speech this way.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, my stickering may not be a gateway crime (simply an escalating misdemeanor) &#8212; I see a lot of stick-ups in my future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>POSTSCRIPT: With three armed guards protecting my lone self entering the Toledo Municipal Court, a fortress of law, I knew that evildoers would scatter from their inevitable cross-fire should freedom get out of hand. \u00a0When I handed to the clerk my stack of marked bills topped off with my shiny two cents, she proferred a blank look, as if a 5 gram copper monkey wrench had been thrown into the works. \u00a0Apparently, in the give and take of life, the court is adept at take, but unfamiliar with give. \u00a0With all the tender that is legal, she rendered another blank look when I added, &#8220;I prefer to offer my two cents, literally and figuratively, in these types of transactions.&#8221; \u00a0I saved her from further trauma by re-claiming the two cents. \u00a0A wiser guy might open an IRA or something, but I&#8217;m going to continue searching for venues where my two cents is welcome.<\/p>\n<p>I have now paid my debt to society, though my rent of activism for living on this plant is still overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for &#8220;illegal posting&#8221; of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/justice-4-danny-brown-149-dollars-two-cents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,174,38],"tags":[164,334,416,268,115,635,158,402,157,359,66,291,381,107,46,290,186,19],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-top-pun","category-news","category-political-action","tag-crime","tag-danny-brown","tag-debt","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom","tag-future","tag-illegal","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-life","tag-money","tag-poet","tag-poetic-justice","tag-poor","tag-protests","tag-society","tag-state","tag-toledo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Justice For Danny Brown $149.02 | About Top Pun, News, Political Action | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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