AUGUSTA, Maine — A 44-year-old Maine man has been convicted of criminal trespass for failing to leave the governor’s residence during an Occupy movement protest.
Greg Fahy, a professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, was found guilty Friday in Kennebec County Superior Court. The Kennebec Journal reported that he was fined $100.
Fahy’s conviction came a day after a jury deadlocked on charges against five other defendants who were arrested after refusing to leave the Blaine House grounds last November. In all, nine people were arrested while protesting an order to end a weekslong Occupy August encampment near the State House.
Two cases remain to be tried. Of the two decided already, one defendant pleaded no contest and the other was found guilty.
hmmmmm, confused alittle. if the home is paid for from taxes from everyone who pays. isn’t that like we are landlords, and the governor is kinda like our tenant?????
True, yet try to dance a lil’ jig on the White House lawn and see where that gets you.
That would also make us the landlord of everyone on welfare living in section 8 housing. hmmm.
no
in a word, no
LOL, now there is a problem with the leap in logic.
” a professor at the University of Maine at Augusta” well that’s a shocker.
In his spare time he probably tells his students of “Philosophy and Ethics” that they will be able to find a job anywhere they want and be able to pay off the student loans in record time.
Look at me everybody, I’m a vapid self-righteous cause-head who is high on attention from doing something that is totally pointless and ineffective! Yay!
I completely get their point. It’s showing the Gov’t at all levels that ‘We the people’ have noticed how they use our tax dollars to bail out Wallstreet which put ‘We the people’ in a dire financial crisis.
If you are guilty go jury trial if not use a judge .
Put these occupy people in jail-better yet, stocks and pillars. They are just costing taxpayer dollars!
Yeah thats it, lets put the people protesting for freedom in jail instead of the pompous politicians stealing from us all….Great idea…What planet are you from anyway?
It’s a new venue called….Occupy Jail Cells!
This seems like a teaching moment, We all know that more than $100 was spent on legal fees on behalf of the Blaine House. And…..well they only want to recover $100! Now, this is a loss not a profit. The lesson here is demonstrates how the LePage Administration waste your money!!! Time for a change!
Fines are set as a punishment, not as a method for the State to make a profit. If there is a teaching moment here it is that the State needs to adjust their out dated fine schedules.
The only people wasting the taxpayers money here are the protesters who force law enforcement to arrest them so they can get their pictures in the paper and then demand a trial to try and prove a point that is meaningless in the end.
I completely get their point. It’s showing the Gov’t at all levels that ‘We the people’ have noticed how they use our tax dollars to bail out Wallstreet which put ‘We the people’ in a dire financial crisis.
Are you advocating a ‘for profit’ court system?
Looks like Fahy wasn’t lucky enough to have a friend on his jury. Hopefully they will have re-trail of the five that had the hung jury.
Waste more tax payer money on foolishness .
look they protested on our rights, tired of taxes going up, things being decreased, government pay going up, hell look at the pictures in paper, they wear expensive clothes and rolex watches. and school programs getting cut, teachers are being decreased. people are just tired of their pockets being lined and important things being cut. cuts being made, are the wrong things being cut, if they want to fix the budget they should cut their pay not the tax payers.
we, the taxpayers need to cut THEIR Pay… and the programs. I am sure there was not a single program cut that should not have been cut (assuming you are correct that any has EVER been cut).
their pay yes needs to be cut, and as for cuts. yes education their is allot of cuts, except pay for teachers. aide for seniors, that has been cut as well, cost of living is at a high, but social security for those who have been putting in for when they retire. do not make enough to to make it for the month. spending in the government is too much, too many political running the states, do not feel all of them are needed.
a difference is that there are constitutional protections and garuntees for our right to air grievances, and to assemble and to speak out against what a government is doing, and there is NO authority for the politicians to bail out some of their friends, while allowing other private companies to go down in flames.
I ama real teapartier and not really in agreement with the occupiers, but I will completely defend their right to say what they want to say. (in the right time, place and manner)
Why yes’em boy. You black folk have a perfect right to be out on this here street. Just be sure to stay on that side of the sidewalk (right place), don’t be out after 8 P.M. (right time), and don’t speak to no white folk (right manner).
Yep. You’re a real teapartier all right. How are things back there in the 1930’s ?
no, unlike you (I am certain) I taught Constitutional Law in law school
Time, place manner are the tests that Freedom of Speech must pass.
People have a right to speak on public property. Would you like it, if they brought the speakers that AC/DC uses for a concert, placed them on the sidewalk in front of your house, and blasted their campaign speeches 24 hours a day?
After 11Pm is probably the wrong time
Place… in front of YOUR house?
Manner at a zillion dB, in a residential neighborhood.
Time Place Manner has NOTHING to do with race.
nor does the TeaParty… but it is good that you are swallowing the disinformation campaign information fed to you. Shows you cannot think for yourself. And that is JUST how the “two” parties like it.
Very mature and profound reply. {rolling my eyes}