Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, was arrested for photographing the arrest of another man who had been photographing the Wisconsin Assembly.

“”We ought to have a right to take a picture,” Matt Rothschild told the conservation warden escorting him Tuesday night for ticketing.

Wearing a sign taped to his shirt that spelled out the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and provisions in the state Constitution ensuring the right to free speech and assembly, Rothschild went to the Capitol prepared to be arrested. Like many of the others who filled nearly every seat in the Assembly gallery, Rothschild said he was fed up with the arrests in recent weeks of citizens who defied the Assembly ban on displaying signs, and shooting photos and video.

“I have just had enough personally and I can’t take it anymore,” Rothschild said Tuesday afternoon.”

Comment:

Matt Rothschild adds his name to other left-liberal activists who have been arrested at the OccupationWallStreet protests, including Cornel West (October 21st) and Naomi Wolf (October 17th), both big on the lecture circuit. Before that Canadian activist and writer, Naomi Klein, was arrested protesting a pipeline project, on Sept. 2. Both the ladies looked very nice in their photos, and I just wondered, a bit mischievously, whether Citizen Jane, when she has her mugshot flashed in the dailies, ever looks so good.