When Sending Shit To a Politician Is Even More Outlawed Than It Already Is, Only Retired French Professors Will Still Be Doing It

Nick Gillespie | January 18, 2007

Isn't this exactly the sort of vibrant political discourse that Tocqueville celebrated about America?

Kathleen Ensz is accused of going inter her backyard, getting some dog poop, and then placing it in an unwanted political mailer and slipping it under Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave’s door.

The 63-year-old Ensz, a Democrat, was angered by repeatedly receiving political mailings from the Musgrave campaign.

Ensz is a retired French Professor from the University of Northern Colorado. She claims her action was a form of political protest.

But Musgrave’s people don’t see it that way.

Prosecutors in Weld County filed a misdemeanor charge of “use of a noxious substance” against Ensz.

More here.

I'm not going to take sides in this, but here's a word of advice for Ensz: If former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who's got time to kill now that his latest client--Saddam Hussein--was himself killed--offers to represent you at your trial in May, pull a Charlie Manson and do it yourself. You can't do worse.

Comments

|1.18.07 @ 2:06PM|#

Reading this article filled me with deja vu

|1.18.07 @ 2:06PM|#

Reading this article filled me with deja vu

Warren|1.18.07 @ 2:08PM|#

Oh my gosh.

CLEAN UP, aisle 7!

|1.18.07 @ 2:12PM|#

It appears that this blog entry has been paid a visit from US Department of Redundancy Dept. SWAT TEAM.

Has anybody seen the dog?

|1.18.07 @ 2:19PM|#

Not only that, but it gives me deja vu.

thoreau|1.18.07 @ 2:20PM|#

Not only that, but it gives me deja vu.

Yeah, and I could swear I read something like that before.

|1.18.07 @ 2:43PM|#

Either this post was doubled, then the dupe removed while I was posting in another thread or you all are yelling into a canyon.

As for the political protest, at least she didn't threaten the congresswoman before mailed the poop. That could have landed her in some serious shit.

|1.18.07 @ 2:43PM|#

I'm embarrassed enough at having considered myself a Democrat when I was 18 (cough, Dukakis). If I still believed in all that juvenile crap at age 63, I certainly wouldn't tell anyone!

|1.18.07 @ 2:45PM|#

Maybe I'm wrong to think she admitted as much to the police. They may have got the goods on her from a warrantless wire-tap. I'd plea insanity.

Triumph|1.18.07 @ 3:13PM|#

These are very nice campaign flyers . . . FOR ME TO POOP ON!

clone12|1.18.07 @ 5:09PM|#

Would sending dog poop without the attached Musgrave mailer make the county prosecuter drop the "noxious substance" charge against her?

Just asking.

Rhywun|1.18.07 @ 5:39PM|#

Merde! If I replied with shit to every repeated piece of unwanted mail I received... well, there just aren't enough dogs in my vicinity to "stuff" the envelopes.

|1.18.07 @ 5:45PM|#

That's why she sent it to a multiple offender.

L\'air du temps|1.18.07 @ 8:27PM|#

"noxious substance"

Isn't he guilty of the same charge?

Rhywun|1.18.07 @ 11:27PM|#

That's why she sent it to a multiple offender.

Most of my junk mail IS from multiple offenders. I have to good sense to just toss it, though.

Rhywun|1.18.07 @ 11:28PM|#

er, "the" good sense