Penalties For Screaming In Arizona

Woman punched by Cop in Flagstaff, Arizona

Does anybody else remember when it was legal to be human in America? One can be arrested in Arizona for screaming, or in the case of the video above, punched in the head. So much for freedom of speech and religion.

In the 1980's I was a volunteer suicide prevention counselor for Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's hotline in NYC. I doubt that even he could comprehend that one could go to jail for going outside and screaming 

"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME".

Awhile back I called my local police station and asked the question 'If I go outside and scream could I be arrested?' The police told me yes I could be arrested unless I own property and screamed on my own property.

So I didn't go out and scream since the consequences were worse than the pain experienced. Even though I've had 2 major and a series of minor brain seizures in the last 2.5 years, one a grand mal that killed me, I'm keeping the stress down, pushing it inside. It's the law.

Two Brain Seizures In AZ In Six Months - Is USA South West Being Fried? from J. Nayer Hardin

After this election, where it's illegal for me to vote due to Voter ID laws passed in 2010 (I was legally registered to vote before that), the urge to just scream is powerful once again. One does not have to do anything to be framed for a crime for whatever reason the police decide. Out here the police are not above planting evidence as documented in the video below

 

"Uploaded on Oct 15, 2010

Video shows Arizona police officer Richard Chrisman involved in shooting planting crack pipe on homeless woman. Said it was 'just for fun'. Officer Richard Chrisman is on a list of 'problem police officers' years before his involvement in a deadly shooting."

So, I am doing my best not to be at the mercy of police who terrorize citizens for sport. Since the time to deal with a crisis, like the police planting a crack pipe on me like they did to the woman above, I am working to be able to have a right to honest speech. Not yelling fire in a crowded theater, just the right to go outside and make noise. 

Since I tried the police office, who would make the decision to execute me or not if I screamed, I called my local prosecutor's office. They told me that the penalties for a scream if someone calls the police (I would not know that until after I screamed) are:

Minimum - Nothing (not counting legal fees and lost time in jail).

Maximum - up to 3 years probation, $2,500 fine (plus the cost of an attorney) and 6 months in jail.

In both places I was referred to AZ state revised statue 13-2904 

http://law.justia.com/codes/arizona/2005/title13/02904.html

"2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §13-2904  Disorderly conduct; classification

A. A person commits disorderly conduct if, with intent to disturb the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person, or with knowledge of doing so, such person:
1. Engages in fighting, violent or seriously disruptive behavior; or
2. Makes unreasonable noise; or
3. Uses abusive or offensive language or gestures to any person present in a manner likely to provoke immediate physical retaliation by such person; or
4. Makes any protracted commotion, utterance or display with the intent to prevent the transaction of the business of a lawful meeting, gathering or procession; or
5. Refuses to obey a lawful order to disperse issued to maintain public safety in dangerous proximity to a fire, a hazard or any other emergency; or
6. Recklessly handles, displays or discharges a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
B. Disorderly conduct under subsection A, paragraph 6 is a class 6 felony. Disorderly conduct under subsection A, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 is a class 1 misdemeanor."
 
When I read that again I called the prosecutor's office back to get their definition of the word "intent", since my intent would be to relieve stress, a leading cause of death in America, not to disturb the peace. 

Laughing, praying and screaming can be at the same decibel level, so now that I think about it, since I laugh loudly, I'm going to have to get a grip on that. I was asking for the guidelines for how do the police determine "intent". 

The prosecutor's office did not know, told me they already answered my question and I was referred to 

www.azbar.org

I'll update here if they get back to me. Sent them this article's link and note

"http://nayerpod.blogspot.com/2016/11/penalties-for-screaming-in-arizona.html

What is the definition of "intent" in AZ state revised statue 13-2904

"A person commits disorderly conduct if, with intent to disturb the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person, or with knowledge of doing so, such person:"

If my intent is to relieve the pain pressure from the series of seizures I've had but it disturbs the peace, can the local police legally execute me if they think the phone is a gun? I've never had nor will I ever have a gun, so if they execute me tonight for posting this, I AM NOT SUICIDAL, I JUST NEED TO SCREAM! THIS ELECTION IS TOUGH ON MANY PEOPLE."

Regardless, LORD BLESS YOU!

Paul Mooney - Lead The National Conversation On Government

I have issues with the federal government regarding corruption and global warming.

I understand in these times if this is too heavy for the politically correct Paul Mooney but I pray that he and other comics of conscious take the reigns as we endeavor in a journey of truth.

Heroic journalist Chauncey Bailey, who spoke truth to folks who needed to hear it, was executed on the streets of Oakland this week for writing against the Nation of Islam (like what happened to Malcolm X - another show). There is always risk in speaking truth.

Yet, those who remain, must continue to use every opportunity to promote ‘what’s going on’ so we can solve our problems and party hearty.

9/11 was an inside job and those folks are still in office. The media lies to us damn near every day with the fable of the 19 lucky Arabs when the military was away at war games. Will somebody please run the video tape of the buildings being exploded and talk with Alex Jones of Prison Planet.

Also the problem of World Trade Center Illness has not been addressed. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of folks were exposed to the toxic soup called the World Trade Center.

Toxic energy like oil, nuclear, coal and others thrive with our government taking a payoff in the form of gas tax. Government policy of acceptable pollution levels has created global warming (toxic energy approved), their greed created crack (Iran Contra), the rapid advancement of AIDS (And The Band Played On) and other diseases with an environmental, food or stress root. For supporting documentation read Dark Alliance The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb and And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts and William Greider. And what about environmental racism in New York and other places?

The money that has gone into the Iraq wars for oil should have been put into maintaining and improving the country, i.e. roads, schools, health solutions, computerization (i.e. public grades 1-14 daily lessons and correction service – text books delivered no charge as ebooks and hardware provided if needed). Criminal decision making, or as it was called in the old days, treason, like revealing the identity of a CIA agent or failing to have adequate levees for a Cat. 2 hurricane. Another court show is what happened on the Danziger Bridge that resulted in those folks being executed.

The Constitution has been raped, the Bill of Rights wronged, and freedom perceived as an impossible concept in modern times. They’ve shortchanged the school system and wonder why more young Black men are in jail than college. They made parenting illegal by denying a parent the right to spank (not kill) their children and ask why the living dead are populating the gangs. Not all children need to be spanked, but for sure there are many who do.

Our government sets acceptable levels of poison in our food, water and air, without cross checking their interaction. Our rampant disease crisis reflect the toilet known as our unchecked food supply. It is illegal for farmers to test for mad cow according to Howard Lyman, the Mad Cowboy.

The clean energy, a biomass champion, hemp, is illegal to grow. A simple step of growing massive amounts of hemp on 20% of unused federal land will suck the excess CO2 from the atmosphere, which by whatever source it got there, needs to be reduced.

I urge you to read HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing for more information on the subject. I also recommend speaking with Bruce Margolin, Esq. about what laws are in the way from us at least trying to save ourselves from the ravages of global warming.

Hemp is key to solving global warming and must be made legal now. We’ve made nature illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. An immediate restoration of the family farm system could manage and profit from growing and selling the hemp crops. Uncounted unemployed can find business and employment opportunities. In some environments we’re talking 4 crops a year because hemp grows fast and can be converted on site to energy and/or shipped to create 50,000 other constructive uses like building materials, paper, fabric, etc. Indoor growing should be encouraged with tax credits given for cleaning the air. Legalizing and taxing at 20% will more than cover global warming related costs.

The federal government has no action plan in place in case the bees don't return next year. Hemp is a wind, not bee pollinated food source. Yet, we have to import hemp from other countries when we could grow our own. For more on hemp foods and medicine, I recommend you contact Sister Somayah Kambui of Crescent Alliance Self Help For Sickle Cell .

Of course I have a long personal list of problems I have with the folks writing the laws that we are subject to without having read or been informed of their contents. This just covers a few of the main points.

The congress people don’t even read all the laws they pass, yet we are expected to live by them.
Enough is enough.

Personalities to consider to answer or grow from the charges are found in the White House, the Industrial/Military/Congressional complex that Eisenhower spoke of in his farewell address, the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Food and Drug and Education. I’d recommend the Department of Justice but........

Plan 7 generations ahead.

Thanks for your consideration. We are overcoming now.