Rights for the Undead.

AuthorBalko, Radley
PositionFree speech for zombies - Brief article

SEVEN ZOMBIES will be dining on a premium cut of brain after winning a $160,000 settlement from the city of Minneapolis. The seven--actually live human protesters in zombie garb-were arrested in 2006 during the city's Aquatennial festival for limping through a shopping area to protest excessive consumerism. Police arrested the group, confiscating one fake zombie's real artificial leg, detained them for two days, and charged them with "possession of weapons of mass destruction," apparently a reference to a homemade microphone and speaker system that someone mistook for a bomb.

The zombies, who were...

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