Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Press Release: Toilet Re-Enactment Today


For immediate release

Date: February 6, 2013

Contact: Ms. Nadrat Siddique

Tel: (443) ***-**09

 

Toilet Re-enactment Today

Duane "Shorty" Davis, dubbed the "Towson Toilet Bomber," will lead a re-enactment of the February 2011 incident which led to his arrest and eventual political prosecution.

Background

Leading up to the case against him, Davis, a local anti-racism activist, left toilets outside the offices of public officials as a means of political protest. Only government figures he believed to be corrupt and in violation of the rights of the ordinary citizen received toilets.

Bernstein, Shellenberger, O’Malley, Young, and Welsh were among the recipients.

The toilets--personalized for each government official--were decorated with news clippings, photos and other trim. Davis left dozens of such toilets--donated by friends and supporters--outside the offices of designated officials. Only one--gifted to Assistant States Attorney Shellenberger--earned him such an extreme reaction from security, and then police, that he was arrested.

Davis was ultimately brought to trial on two counts: 1) Leaving an explosive device in front of a courthouse; and 2) Leaving a a phony explosive device in front of a courthouse. He was held for three months without bond. He went to trial in August 2011, and was aquitted of all charges. In the process however, he lost his business, his truck, his computer, and a plethora of electronic equipment. Although he has petitioned for the return of the property, his efforts have fell upon deaf ears.

Details of Re-enactment

Today's re-enactment will be a symbolic walk around the Towson Courthouse perimeter, and a recounting of the February 2011 incident. It will begin at the fountain at 12 noon. The event will highlight the need to protect and preserve essential freedoms in the U.S., in particular: artistic freedom; freedom of speech; freedom from oppression; freedom from judicial corruption and fraud; and freedom from police state terrorism.

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