Comments on: Free Paul Addis

By: Kevin Evans

Kevin Evans — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:52:46 +0000

That stencil tag should decorate BMHQs neighborhood –a mocking specter!

Before another eternally long “who’s really guilty” argument thread starts, read this in its entirety first.

http://laughingsquid.com/paul-addis-pleads-guilty-to-burning-man-2007-arson-charges/#comments

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:05:03 +0000

It’s sad really because Paul does have a medical condition which requires medication. Regardless of who arrested him (the BLM did but some within the BRC Org pointed him out- a cop /helping/ the establishment) he was medically unstable at the time. There was no jailable harm done because of his crime. In fact it breathed life in to the event.

The failure is with the court in that they don’t get people treatment but instead imprison them.

By: Flint

Flint — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:16:24 +0000

“So he’s in jail and the people that run Burning man have became a cop calling establishment?”

I’m inferring that what you might be saying is that the Burning Man organization put Paul Addis in jail. That would be an incorrect assumption. Due to the arson happening on federal land, the BLM Rangers arrested him with out the intervention one way or the other of the LLC.

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:10:31 +0000

So he’s in jail and the people that run Burning man have became a cop calling establishment?

Kinda like the hippies turned yuppies in Berkeley?
They’ve became what they hate?

That’s pathetic…..

By: PeteP Goldie

PeteP Goldie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:05:59 +0000

I didn’t do it, officer. It was already stenciled when I got here.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:04:02 +0000

Kind of ironic, as BM did try to “free” Paul Addis at the trial. They tried to persuade the judge to send him for psych treatment, as opposed to jail.

By: Phil Stripling

Phil Stripling — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:01:28 +0000

Free Paul on the playa:
http://civex.smugmug.com/photos/199460298_b2MZz-M.jpg

(Notice the Man is missing in the background; this stencil was up before the Man was replaced. Burners are _fast_!)