Adam Kokesh Is In Jail Tonight: "Police Suppress Sept. 15 Anti-War Press Conference Across From WH"

[Hissyspit]

http://www.pephost.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8625&news_iv_ctrl=3361

Police suppress Sept. 15 anti-war press
conference across from White House



Above, a policeman on horse disrupts today's anti-war press conference. Below, Adam Kokesh is arrested while legally putting up a poster for September 15th; Kokesh and Tina Richards speak to the press as the put up the poster.

VIDEO HERE: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x52589

Three anti-war activists were arrested in front of the White House today after the U.S. Park Police moved to suppress a press conference called to protest the fines and threats against the ANSWER Coalition for putting up anti-war posters promoting the September 15 March and Die-In in Washington DC.





The arrested were Tina Richards, CEO of Grassroots America and mother of Iraq War Veteran Cloy Richards; Adam Kokesh, the Co-Chair Elect of the Iraq Veterans Against the War and member of Veterans for Peace; and Ian Thompson, an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition.

The press conference became a chaotic scene as U.S. Park Police interrupted the event on the basis that there was no permit for a folding table that was used as a speaker’s stand for media microphones. As U.S. Park Police officers surrounded the group, an officer on horseback rode into the crowd to disperse the media and onlookers.

Tina Richards and Adam Kokesh had announced that they would put a September 15 March to Stop the War poster on a lamppost following the press conference. The ANSWER Coalition has been fined over $30,000 in the last three weeks in an unprecedented action aimed at suppressing the September 15 mobilization. The three were taken to the Central District Substation of the United States Park Police. They will later be transferred to a jail in which they will spend the night before being arraigned in U.S. Superior Court tomorrow afternoon.

Attorneys at the Partnership for Civil Justice have filed a Free Speech lawsuit to strike down the unconstitutional postering law. The ANSWER Coalition has refused to pay these illegal fines.

Momentum continues to build for the September 15 Mass March, which will be led by Iraq War Veterans and their family members. More than 100 cities are mobilizing to bring people by bus, van and car caravan. The September 15 March will culminate with a large scale Die-In/Funeral for U.S. servicemembers and Iraqis who have been killed in this criminal war of aggression.

[nosmokes]

1. Where did my country go?

I do so wish I be there for the march on the 15th.

[NoodleyAppendage]

19. The Neocon Cabal sh*t on it and flushed it down the toilet.

America is no longer the land of the free and home of the brave. We are given the illusion of freedom and cowed by corporate masters and terror threats. We're ripe for dictatorship (if not there already).

J

[dickbearton]

34. When the police act like the Gestapo...

They should be treated like the Gestapo.

[liberaldemocrat7]

37. Do this from your living room. You will not get arrested.

When you have had enough of this misadministration proceding forth despite the unsuccessfull efforts of the antiwar movement, perhaps you will make some phone calls.


Call GOP contributor and war contractor General Electric Corporation at 203 373 2211 and ask for the public relations department. Tell the person in public relations that you want the GE CEO to get Bush to end the war in Iraq and then Bush resign with Cheney and until that happens you will not buy any GE products and that you will tell your friends about this.


For the cost of a telegram send your congressman, Senator or Mr. Bush a real message to get out of Iraq now. If they receive one of these they won't soon forget your message. It costs as much as a telegram to send this message and unlike a telegram they will not soon throw it out.


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[BigBearJohn]

2. Everybody should know about this! KICK & RECOMMEND!!!!!

[rox63]

3. Get your butts out on the streets on 9/15 n/t

[Hissyspit]

4. .

[soothsayer]

5. how do they get the cops to go along with this?

[The Vinyl Ripper]

7. Cops enjoy intimidating people..

It's what they do..

Particularly to anyone they think of as "countercultural"

[uppityperson]

55. "some" cops. nt

[mitchtv]

57. MANY cops

!

[superkia]

10. Same way the politicians go along with it, money.

Why quit your job and change your way of life when its not your freedom thats being taken, to hell with everyone else. I think thats the sad truth of it.

[tomp]

12. you're kidding right?

get the cops to go along with suppressing the left? that's part of their job. take a history lesson.

[Quantess]

31. Some Police Departments are better than others.

They are given orders from the police chief, who gets pressured by the mayor, etc. It's not just about the individual cops.
I think you're painting cops with a broad brush.

[dickbearton]

35. Some police are no better then the Gestapo...

Paint it however you wont.

[Quantess]

48. I'm not defending THESE cops at all.

But it's not fair to lump them all together. That's all.

[roxnev]

41. You are wrong

If a police officer ever does it to me I will get his name and badge no and sue the shit out of him.

[bbgrunt]

46. I keep wondering why people find it so unfathomable that the

military troops and mercenaries would willingly turn on their own countrymen. It's just around the corner, folks.

[zabet]

6. Welcome to the

United Police States of America.
:puke:

[leftchick]

8. what are the charges?

fucking fascism!

[trevjr]

16. THE CHARGES???

SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT THE F***ING CHARGES ARE 'WRONG KIND OF ADHESIVE TO PUT UP POSTERS'

YES YES, WRONG GLUE YOU GO TO JAIL!!

[warren pease]

18. I think the charges...

... had to do with an unauthorized folding table used as part of an apparently unpermitted press conference and using uncertified glue to attach the posters. No shit. At least, that's what I read yesterday. They may have trumped up some new, less hilarious charges by now, but this is from a widely circulated blog post dated 9/6/07:

<snip>
Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march.

Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations.
</snip>

Full post here: http://tinyurl.com/32eqs5

And this is a related article from the WaPo: http://tinyurl.com/3bd8xb


If every Senator and Congressperson who participated in an ad hoc press conference on public streets or outside public buildings in DC was prosecuted for blathering without a permit, the US jail population would soar from its already disgraceful, world-leading numbers.


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[snot]

50. not only that, but

I'm pretty sure I've read, they'd actually used the right f---ing glue (don't know if it's true, but).

[snappyturtle]

9. K&R nt

[goodhue]

11. this is a much bigger deal than circuit city dustup

[ComerPerro]

17. exactly, this is actually a case of cops silencing people.

[wordpix]

44. no, this is a case of trouncing on the Bill of Rights, Amendment 1 of the Constitution

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

King Pissypants would say Congress did not abridge such freedoms, he did b/c he is the "unitary executive" and "to protect Amurrica from terra."

[goodhue]

40. .

[JTFrog]

13. K&R n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. Holy crap!

I barely know what to say...this is like some fucking nightmare. Is this the United States, or are we in Nazi Germany or some fucking Twilight Zone???

FUCK YOU, GEORGE W. BUSH AND YOUR EVIL ADMINISTRATION!!!

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

15. Stop the world

I want to get off cause this shit is insane. Batshit crazy insane.

"The press conference became a chaotic scene as U.S. Park Police interrupted the event on the basis that there was no permit for a folding table that was used as a speaker’s stand for media microphones."

[wordpix]

43. should read, "as Park Police interrupted on the basis of there's no more freedom of speech or

assembly in King Gorge's Amerika." :puke: :grr:

[donkeyotay]

20. How's that saying go? Those that make peaceful dissent impossible

make violent revolution inevitable? Fined for using unapproved adhesive? Arrested for a folding table? Unbelievable. Where is our congress? They should show some solidarity with the people they represent and that quaint old document, the one that says we have the right to petition, to have our grievances addressed, to speak freely, to assemble.

[trevjr]

21. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!

They were arrested for a folding table and wrong glue to put up posters.
How can we stand for this, I am so mad.
Who gave the order for this crap?
Horses? What is this a third world country?
The cops cannot walk up and say, you cannot have this table here?
A table is illegal in a park?
They want my taxes for war and not for parks.
Chasing people with horses? Where are the water cannons?
You know 20 years ago this would have been all over the TV.
Today, CNN had
1) missing girl
2) missing plane
3) mother kills daughter

Iraq, Iran, lying? nothing.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

22. k&r

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

23. kickety kick

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

24. but is he too sexy to fly????

cause if he is, DU will be all over that like a flea on a dog's back.

KICK.

[ray of light]

25. SO...GET up and BOOK YOUR TICKETS to DC... Don't let them silence

the dissent.

We need truth and justice for a change.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

26. exactly

enough is enough.

[Hissyspit]

27. .

[hisownpetard]

51. . (Meaning, please?)

[Hissyspit]

52. I'm too lazy to type in "Kick"

as in kicking my own thread. :)

[hisownpetard]

53. Wow - I congratulate you for taking laziness to a whole new level -!! (And

people know what "." means?)

[Hissyspit]

54. It's called a period.

See, I just used one. Oops! There's another one!

[hisownpetard]

58. :

[uppityperson]

56. .

yes

[Divine Discontent]

28. will Keith Olbermann report LIVE from their tonight and tell about this???

I hope so! This is too much for me to accept right now, I'm so angry...

[TheUniverse]

29. Everyone pack it up and move to the nearest free speech zone

Because the USA is no longer a free speech zone.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

30. meh

if he really wants some attention, he should aim a little lower and go tangle with a nosy Circuit City employee. Fucking unbelievable!

[Divine Discontent]

32. don't ya all just love the cop on the horse

coming in and making the scene CHAOTIC?

[jazzjunkysue]

33. And no "coverage" by the "press"

Yet another example of the liberal media bias.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

36. 9-15-07

I'll be there next week... will you? If so... pass it on...

See you in DC, America.

[Hissyspit]

38. Did Olbermann do it last night? He's not doing it tonight. n/t

[KamaAina]

39. Obviously he didn't show the cop his receipt

:evilgrin:

"Wrong kind of glue", indeed. What a bunch of fascists! What, is glue supposed to come with a label that reads "WARNING: This Product Is Not Approved For Use On Posters In Washington, D.C."?! :grr:

[pingzing58]

42. These police officers should be ashamed of themselves. Their pics and names should be plastered

here on a wall of shame. The reason police can act like hooligans is because of anonymity. Take that away and you'll see a change in their disorderly behavior.

[Danger Mouse]

45. We wouldn't chimpy's bubble to burst...

he's so happy in his fantasy world where everyone loves him and life is perfect. how DARE these people exercise their constituional rights and threaten our glorious president's happiness??

[bbgrunt]

47. I hope they can sue the bastards bigtime..

[HuffleClaw]

49. madness. only in BushAmerika

'your honour, this man stands accused of 'possession of a table'. we the prosecution ask for the death penalty'

[bos1]

59. I know I'm not supposed to be shocked anymore, but

I really can't believe that policemen lay their hands on the mother of a soldier who has served two tours in Iraq over the issue of biodegradeable wheat paste and having a press conference. Richard conducted herself with dignity. The authorities seem to have no shame nor self respect, never mind any cognizance of basic free speech.