Salute the Freedom of Assembly Today! Visit a Tavern!

EconomicFreedom.org's Sean Malone posts a timely video starring Reason columnist and Keep Food Legal honcho Baylen Linnekin that explains why the freedom of assembly was enshrined in the Constitution's First Amendment.

And how early patriots took advantage of coffee houses and taverns to meet and discuss the sorts of activities that led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Take a look at "Lagers for Liberty."

Bonus: Linnekin is guest-blogging over former Reasoner Radley Balko's must-read site The Agitator. Check it out, whydontcha?

Comments

[Mr. FIFY]

Salute the Freedom of Assembly before the Teams make it an act of treason

FIFY'd. No charge, as usual.

[MSimon]

Celebrate acts of treason:

The Official Beer Of The Revolution

[Caleb Turberville]

Hopefully, the next revolution will be organized at McDonald's...preferably during McRib season?

[Mr. FIFY]

Not if the Food Police get their way; McRibs would be considered both unhealthy AND unpatriotic.

And sure as hell not in NYC, if you want a soda larger than sixteen ounces, which is also unhealthy and unpatriotic.

[Caleb Turberville]

Oh, too bad.

I was going to offer to throw in for the meals and weaponry if you'd throw in so everyone could have a McFlurry.

[Mr. FIFY]

I doubt Missus Obama would approve of McFlurry consumption... for anyone other than herself, that is.

[sloopyinca]

I notice you left out her reaction to the McRib's.

RAAAAAAACIST!!!!!111!1111!!!1!!!

[Mr. FIFY]

Oh, my. Did I also microaggress and other her?

[sage]

Those aren't ribs. It's spam with BBQ sauce on it.

[Baylen Linnekin]

Not McRib. McJito. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7iJFaCR7g

[Zombie Jimbo]

I really think that 2 oz of rum is not enough in that recipe. Any time I drink from a Grimace or Mayor McCheese tumbler, I need at least 4 oz of rum.

Mayor McCheese was a filthy statist anyway.

Damn sight better than Bloomburg though.

[sloopyinca]

You know who else used taverns for political assemblies?

[Mr. FIFY]

Larry: "What's a beer-hall putsch?"

Curly: "You putsch your beer down and you reach for the pretzels! Nyuk nyuk!"

[sloopyinca]

Moe: Listen, you fucking nitwits. We're here to start a goddamn revolution, not mince about with pretzels.

[Mr. FIFY]

Hey, now. Don't fuck with the Stooges, man. They helped us defeat Schicklgruber, y'know.

[Mr. FIFY]

"mince about"

Why do you hate gays, sloopy?

[sloopyinca]

Um...I wasn't implying Curly and Larry were the ghey. I thought it meant to dissect something into very small pieces. Yeah, that's what I meant. That's the ticket.

[sloopyinca]

Don't fuck with the Stooges, man.

I'd never do that. As a matter of fact, here.

[Mr. FIFY]

God love ya, sloop.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Cliff Claven?

[Mr. FIFY]

"It's a little-known fact there, that yer ancient Mesopotamians invented the internal-combustion engine..."

[Bitter Taxpayer]

I'm not celebrating anything. Today is a day of mourning.

[Suki]

And how early patriots took advantage of coffee houses and taverns to meet and discuss the sorts of activities that led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Someone should title a book after the Declaration. Maybe use a clever play on words, perhaps with a clever homonym.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Sounds like a dud.

[robc]

Lagers for Liberty? Sounds too german.

Lambics for Liberty! Now that has a nice ring to it. Spontaneous fermentation is more libertarian anyway, right?

[Res Publica Americana]

An Internet -- you have earned it. *Hands Rob a shiny, diamond-encrusted Internet*.

[robc]

He says they've already got one!

[MSimon]

Too German? Drink this beer to cleanse your palette.

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[GettiYetti]

OK yeah that makes a lot of sense dude.

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[James Otis]

I don't know how any American can celebrate Independence Day when everybody knows we're slaves in a totalitarian regime. Freedom of assembly is a sick joke if I can't buy a hot junior-high cheerleader a drink in a bar any time I bloody well please while smoking crack with her kids.

[Res Publica Americana]

MNG? Is that you?

[James Otis]

I'm James Otis, one of the Revolution's great thinkers before I went insane. I also predicted my own death...by lightning strike! How awesome is that?

[MSimon]

And Drink The Official Beer Of The Revolution

[Brutus]

Eat lead, commmie faggots!!

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