UPDATE: 5/18:
He's FREE!
On Saturday, May 18th Adam Kokesh was kidnapped by federal thugs and imprisoned on false charges. Adam is the host of a popular talk show titled Adam vs the Man. He is a libertarian ex-marine who adamantly speaks against the federal governments illegal activities. Not too long ago Kokesh called for a peaceful open carry march on D.C. in order to reenforce our rights as Americans to carry a gun. Not to mention to call attention to the fact that the Supreme Court already ruled that the laws banning open carry in D.C. are unconstitutional.
So with all of this as the back story, last Saturday Kokesh and his crew were at a marijuana rally in Philadelphia in order to bring attention to the failed drug war. During his keynote speech goons in costumes surrounded him and dragged him off to prison. Their reasoning, according to the court records is that he "assaulted a federal officer" they also decided to add on resisting arrest. Go ahead and do me a favor, watch the video below and see for yourself just how peacefully Adam went along with these goons.
For a week now Kokesh has been held in solitary confinement. Along with one of his partners in "crime" N.A. Poe. The two of have been held as political prisoners on bogus charges. Poe was actually just released recently, but Kokesh's destiny is still up in the air. The idea behind the arrest is to keep them away from their audience and hopefully destroy the open carry march. Their secondary goal is to hit him with a felony so they can take away his guns. Due to the fact that he would not answer questions in regards to where he lives and how many guns he owns, bail has been denied. Along with the fact that the judge claimed he had past drug issues.
So when being arrested it is now policy to ask about someones possessions? Do you own a car? Do you own a television? Do you own a set of knives? Do you own guns? None of this has anything to do with his arrest and should not have anything to do with the decision to set bail.
As Adam stood in front of the judge for a second time and was asked if he would like a court appointed lawyer, he stood silent and refused to answer. Talk about having morals and sticking to them. Why answer a question from a criminal who is only trying to make you incriminate yourself? Why admit to needing a lawyer when in reality this is all a hoax and no matter what lawyer he gets the court system already has sentenced him for all intensive purposes.
As of yesterday the goal of the federal government to stop the armed march has backfired. The latest statement from Adam Kokesh reads as such:
“When a government has repeatedly and deliberately failed to follow its own laws, violated the fundamental human rights of its citizens, threatened the sanctity of a free press, created institutions intended to eliminate privacy of communication, waged war at the behest of special interest that threatens the public safety, killed hundreds of children with drone strikes, imprisoned and destroyed the lives of countless individuals for victimless crimes, stifled economic opportunity to maintain the dominance of the financial elite, stolen from the people through an absurd system of taxation and inflation, sold future generations into debt slavery, and abused its power to suppress political opposition, it is unfit to exist and it becomes the duty of the people to alter or abolish that government by whatever means necessary to secure liberty and ensure peace.
“A new American revolution is long overdue. This revolution has been brewing in the hearts and minds of the people for many years, but this Independence Day, it shall take a new form as the American Revolutionary Army will march on each state capital to demand that the governors of these 50 states immediately initiate the process of an orderly dissolution of the federal government through secession and reclamation of federally held property. Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
“The time to sit idly by has passed. To remain neutral is to be complicit, just doing your job is not an excuse, and the line in the sand has been drawn between the people, and the criminals in Washington, D.C. While some timid souls will say that it is too early, that we can solve this problem through democratic means provided by government, that current levels of taxation are reasonable for the services provided, and that the crimes of this government are merely a tolerable nuisance, it may already be too late.
“While there is risk in drastic action, the greater danger lies in allowing this government to continue unchallenged. So if you are content with the status quo, stay home, get fat, watch the fireworks from a safe distance, and allow this Independence Day to pass like any other. But if you see as we see, and feel as we feel, we will see you on the front lines of freedom on July 4th, 2013 for this, The Final American Revolution.”
Signed, Adam Kokesh, May 23, 2013 from a cage in the Philadelphia federal prison.
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