Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards Arrested for Defying Poster Ban

[proud2BlibKansan]

On September 6, 2007, Adam Kokesh (IVAW) and Tina Richards (Grassroots America) were arrested in Washington, D.C. for defying a federal government ban on posting promotional material for the September 15th Antiwar Rally, to be held in this city. The rally is sponsored by the ANSWER coalition. The arrests took place at the corner of H. St. and Jackson Place NW, near Lafayette Park, just north of the White House. Mr. Kokesh is the co-chair elect of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Marine Mom Richards is the CEO of Grassroots America. The activists placed promotional posters on a traffic box, which supposedly falls under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Interior and the National Parks Service. Recently, the District of Columbia government imposed draconian fines on the ANSWER coalition for placing political literature around town. As a result, the ANSWER coalition has filed a lawsuit in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of the local government's action. For more background on this important First Amendment issue, go to: http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageSe..., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXkow..., http://www.ivaw.org/ and http://grassrootsamerica4us.org/.

Also arrested at the scene by the Park Police was Ian Thompson. He is with the ANSWER coalition's LA division. Mr. Thompson is also an attorney.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0

[AX10]

1. What ban is this?

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. The ban against free speech. It's another chapter in the sign war against ANSWER in DC

First it was the wrong kind of adhesive. The city fined ANSWER. ANSWER filed a lawsuit. Then today there was this incident.

[leftchick]

2. I just saw their photos on yahoo!

Is is fascism yet??

:(




Tina Richards, with Grassroots America Mother of Marine group, screams from a patrol car in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, after she was arrested by Park Police officers for placing anti-war posters in the park. Richards is the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)



A Park Police officer, right, arrests Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2006, in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, after he put up anti-war posters. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)



A Park Police officer, left, arrest Adam Kokesh, second from left, of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group, and Tina Richards, third from left, of the Grassroots America Mother of Marine in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007, as they were putting up anti-war posters. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)


http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/1479/im:/070906/480/4d1a075489e34d98a93db84699d3881e

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Oh. My. God.

I can't help but think of Tina's daughter. She's 15. Hope she wasn't there to watch this. :cry:

[AX10]

6. Stupid "Mules of the State"!

:puke:

A War Veteran v. some lowly bureaucrat!

[TomInTib]

5. OK, where do we send donations for their defense fund?

This is outrageous.

I have been reading some about this, but evidently I am naive enough to think that they would not actually be arrested, but maybe just cited.

Naive is not a word that I have ever used to describe myself.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Here

http://grassrootsamerica4us.org/Donations.html

[TomInTib]

9. Thanks, I just sent some money.

I am thinking about trying to round up a few hundred vets, meet up in DC and do the same fucking thing. Let them arrest us all.

This thing has me totally pissed off. I think it was the Yahoo slideshow thing that did it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. You're a good man, Tom

:hug: I know Tina and Adam appreciate what you are doing.

[TomInTib]

11. Actually I am not that good a person. But I cannot stand idly by...

while bad people do terrible things to the truly decent ones among us.

I cannot and I will not.

[TomInTib]

8. Here is a slide show from Yahoo

If you can bear it..

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070906/photos_ts_afp/116d91ad007105ffb8e0d196a9443126;_ylt=AiGyEBcpruQfW9zW4_CRznPZa7gF

[goodhue]

12. thanks for posting this

I wasn't aware that this was going on

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. You're welcome

[MarkJM506]

14. Fascism?

I've never posted on this forum before, but I watched the youtube video and couldn't help but say anything. My true belief and support in unalienable rights is about as strong as anybody's. As is my abhorrence for the current administration. The right to protest, the right to freedom of speech and expression are integral to America's prosperity. Don't kid yourself, though. It is vandalism when you GLUE a poster onto public property. Whomever was responsible for that particular piece of property (Department of Public Works, etc) would have to clean up the mess. I absolutely guarantee that if the protestors had picketed, or perhaps taped the poster onto public property, then no arrests would have occurred. The second the poster was GLUED it was damage of public property. Get off your high horses.

[Lasher]

15. Do they have a right to paste the signs on the electrical box?

I have seen posters glued like that to the sides of paper boxes and other surfaces. It looks like they would be hard to get off. I don't know if people should have a right to do that.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602483.html

[seemslikeadream]

16. Did I hear someone say

The police would never go along with Martial Law?

[superkia]

19. Thats the saddest part about it all! Sellout your neighbor for a buck.

[Supersedeas]

17. send in the Brownshirts

[goodhue]

18. this strikes me as a much bigger deal than showing receipts at big box retail

where is the outrage?