The real reason gun kook Adam Kokesh canceled his armed march on DC...

[Archae]

He's in a federal lockup for assaulting a cop!

Gun-rights activist Adam Kokesh, who had planned to get thousands of protestors to march from Virginia into the D.C. on the Fourth of July with loaded rifles on their backs, has just cancelled the rally, he said earlier this week on “The Pete Santilli Show.”

The. D.C. police chief previously said that the rifle-heavy protest, which would have been in violation of D.C. gun laws, would have been met on the bridge connecting Arlington to D.C. with two police forces carrying guns of their own.

Now, instead of the originally planned protest, Kokesh called on people to gather in all 50 state capitals to protest gun regulations.

"Please don't come to Washington, D.C., this now an appeal to the state level and I think it's much more appropriate given the gravity of the situation," Kokesh said on the radio show, which was first reported by Media Matters. We shouldn't be begging the federal government to change, we shouldn't be hoping that they respect our rights because it's clear that they don't.

Kokesh is currently in a federal prison in Philadelphia for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/march-on-dc-with-rifles-cancelled

[onehandle]

1. Just another average gun culturist. nt

[Vietnameravet]

2. I think the reason is very basic

they ran out of Charmin!

[malaise]

3. Bwaaaaaaaaaah hahahahaha

[JI7]

4. another law abiding piece of shit like the ones who sent the ricin letters

upset over people wanting to take their guns .

[rl6214]

5. He just a nut job.

[kestrel91316]

6. Wow. THERE'S a law abiding gun owner for ya.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. So he spews his vile s**t on “The Pete Santilli Show", AKA 'shoot HRC in the vagina'. Nice pair.

[The Magistrate]

9. Scratch A Gun Fetishist, Sir, Find A Criminal

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even to believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

[Tx4obama]

10. Huh? Article says he is in a federal prison. That can NOT be correct. He was arrested May 20th

May 20, 2013

Philly police bust libertarian activist Adam Kokesh during ‘smoke down’ pot rally


Libertarian activist and Iraq veteran Adam Kokesh was arrested Saturday at a “smoke down prohibition” marijuana rally in Philadelphia after police moved in on the crowd at 4:20 p.m. in an apparent show of force.

In Philadelphia, marijuana possession under 30 grams is punishable by a small fine and the offense is classified similarly to a parking ticket. Since decriminalization went through, activists have taken to staging open-smoking events at Independence National Historical Park, and police have mostly just ignored them.

Sunday’s event was different, however. As police milled ever-closer to the roughly 60 to 75 demonstrators present at the national park, a man with access to the public announcement system began counting down to 4:20, urging the crowd to “light that shit” in direct disobedience to signs police placed around the area insisting that nobody would be allowed to smoke marijuana. “Fuck the law, smoke it anyway!” Kokesh shouted into the microphone. “Bring it in! Hey, everybody show some love. Make it difficult for the police here.”

A total of five people were arrested during the event. Two of them — Kokesh and “Panic Hour” comedy writer N.A. Poe — remain in the Philadelphia jail pending a hearing set for later this week, according to supporters. It’s not clear what the official charges are, but the incident happened on federal land, meaning Kokesh and Poe could face charges of assaulting a federal officer, a crime that carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

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It didn’t take long for conspiracy host Alex Jones to claim that Kokesh was intentionally targeted by federal officers due to his plans for a July 4 gun rally in Washington, D.C., which bans anyone except law enforcement officers from carrying a firearm in the city. His former group, Iraq Veterans Against the War, disowned Kokesh’s plan in a statement earlier in May, warning that the march may endanger participants.

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Full article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/20/philly-police-bust-libertarian-activist-adam-kokesh-during-smoke-down-pot-rally/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022872725

[Mr. David]

12. Kokesh kicked out of prison

From BOP.gov

1. ADAM KOKESH 69371-066 41-White-M 05-24-2013 RELEASED

[Tx4obama]

13. Prison or Jail?

Normally you have to go to court before they send you to prison

[Tx4obama]

14. That can't be the same one. The one in the OP is 31 yrs old, not 41

Adam Charles Kokesh (born February 1, 1982)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kokesh

[Pragdem]

11. Everyone that RSVP'd to that nonsense should be in federal lockup.

Scream and yell at me if you must, but I have no defense for that statement other than: I want to see it.

[loyalsister]

15. "rifle-heavy protest" meets well regulated malitia

The. D.C. police chief previously said that the rifle-heavy protest, which would have been in violation of D.C. gun laws, would have been met on the bridge connecting Arlington to D.C. with two police forces carrying guns of their own.

[Blue Owl]

16. No kooks -- should be a policy

n/t