Adam Kokesh armed march on DC

[AuH20]

I am shocked how many on the left want the march participants executed and/or imprisoned for a long time. These are some wacked out folks!

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/05/1965191/open-carry-washington-march/?mobile=nc#

 

[ninepointfive]

I am shocked how many on the left want the march participants executed and/or imprisoned for a long time. These are some wacked out folks!

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/05/1965191/open-carry-washington-march/?mobile=nc#

one of the many reasons I no longer have liberal friends - while protecting their civil liberty's they deny you both economic and social liberties. too bad I guess, cause the social libertys are common ground.

 

[silverhandorder]

People need to look up definition of civil disobedience.

 

[libertygrl]

Another take:

Armed march on Washington D.C. announced for July 4th: Is Adam Kokesh crazy, or courageous?

(NaturalNews) Adam vs. the Man activist Adam Kokesh, a Marine Corps Reserve veteran, has announced an armed march on Washington D.C. for July 4th. The event calls for protesters to carry loaded rifles slung across their backs as they march on Washington. It has been announced on Kokesh's Facebook page.

Appearing briefly on the Alex Jones Show today, Adam Kokesh explained, "This is an armed revolt against the American government. Make no mistake about it."

Is Adam Kokesh crazy, or courageous?

The mainstream media is already calling Kokesh "radicalized," although such accusations carry no credibility whatsoever from a leftist media that believes anyone who even owns a gun is a possible terrorist. So I don't pay any attention to what they call people. Most media heads are freedom-hating morons to begin with. Their voices don't even count.

So let's examine this from the perspective of the informed, liberty-minded kind of people who read Natural News:

On one hand, there's no denying Adam Kokesh has a monstrous set of cajones. Announcing such an event takes a level of courage bordering on sheer insanity (for reasons I'll outline below). But at one level, you gotta hand it to Kokesh for being willing to stand his ground on issues he believes in. If more people followed their passions and refused to be silenced by government, we wouldn't be living under a tyrannical government regime in the first place.

On the issue of gun rights, Kokesh and I agree on the principles: Americans have a sacred right to "keep and bear arms," and yes, that even means walking down the street with an AR-15 slung over your shoulder if that's your choice.

Doing so in Washington D.C., however, is currently a crime (because of DC's unconstitutional gun laws), and that means Kokesh and those who join him in the march are willing to be arrested or possibly even shot for standing their ground on their beliefs.

Again, that stance is actually commendable at a philosophical level. If you're not willing to die for liberty, you don't really understand what liberty is. But what concerns me about this march is not the principle upon which it is being conducted... it's the ease in which the whole thing could be turned into a government false flag event.

Is Adam Kokesh handing the government a perfect false flag event?

An armed activist march is all too easy to be hijacked by the government -- which is always looking for more false flag opportunities to paint gun owners as crazy nut jobs.

All you have to do is have a dozen undercover FBI provocateurs join the march, then organize a few cops to start hassling some of those conducting the march. On queue, the undercover FBI guys -- who specialize at staging false flag operations in the USA -- open fire on the cops.

Get it all on video and you've got news footage of apparent "patriots" gunning down police in D.C.

Anderson "CIA" Cooper then uses this footage on CNN to explain why Obama has suddenly declared martial law and ordered all Americans to turn in their guns to government agents who are go door to door for "public safety" reasons, just like we saw in Boston recently. "Shelter in place!"

Voila! The perfect government false flag operation to destroy the Second Amendment. And Adam Kokesh is practically handing it to them on a silver platter, through no fault of his own. There's no way to really have security for participating in this event... anyone can join up by just showing up with a rifle. How hard will it be for the government to place a few Adam Lanzas or James Holmes in the marching crowd, complete with brainwashing instructions to open fire when a particular trigger event is set off?

This is exactly why Alex Jones has never led such a march. It's far too easy for government provocateurs to hijack the march and use it to make gun owners look like crazy whack jobs (even when they aren't).

For this reason, I have to question Adam Kokesh's tactical thinking on this one. It's ballsy, yes, but also far too easy to have it all blow up in your face. And to pre-announce on live national radio that your march is, "an armed revolt against the American government" is just begging to have your march targeted with an Obama-approved drone strike.

All that being said, armchair quarterbacking is a whole lot easier than hitting the street and marching for what you believe in. So despite the fact that I question the sanity of this event -- and I think it might easily be turned into a government-run false flag event to make gun owners look like psychos -- I still have to hand it to Kokesh for having the balls to even attempt such a show of civil disobedience.

Truth be said, if more people had the courage to do what Adams Kokesh is doing (but in different ways), we wouldn't be occupied by this criminal government in the first place. My only concern is that this is giving the government an event that can be easily turned into a bloodbath that's used to blame gun owners.

Needless to say, I won't be marching on the U.S. Capitol with an AR-15. I will, however, be marching against Monsanto this May 25th, carrying a loaded protest sign.

Learn more: h ttp://www.naturalnews.com/040215_Adam_Kokesh_march_on_Washington_open_carry.html#ixzz2SclijP2r

 

[AuH20]

yeah, I can only imagine that happening, being picked off like flies one by one and that's not cool. Think of going across the bridge, and being stopped by national police on one end, while the Virginia national guard surrounds them at the rear.

If we do this, we should see it through towards completion. If the cops or feds grab one of us they will be warned appropriately. Rent-a-cops and feds operate under the false assumption that they can act without repurcussions for their actions. With the scales balanced, it's suddenly not so simple. Also, the entire event should be littered with cameras, especially those head mounted types.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

1,000 people isn't enough if Muammar Obama decides to sic the police/military on them.

 

[JK/SEA]

so i suppose slinging a pressure cooker over your back wouldn't be cool then....

 

[cajuncocoa]

so i suppose slinging a pressure cooker over your back wouldn't be cool then....

Pretty sure the whole country is now a pressure-cooker-free zone.

 

[Czolgosz]

The tactics to resolve an unopposed school yard bully are the same. Enough talk.

 

[AuH20]

The tactics to resolve an unopposed school yard bully are the same. Enough talk.

That's why I think they'll call on the National Guard. Those DC cops will be in way over their head at an event like this. They're fooked if it escalates. Ganging up on perps and giving out tickets for infractions is more their speed.

 

[Pericles]

One fire cracker of a backfire could set it off. The trouble is even if you went there with the idea of a total peaceful march once the shooting starts even the peaceful person will be forced to fire in order to save his life. With a thousand or more men the forward collumn is going to be far enough away that all the middle and rear guard is going to hear is that pop then yelling and screaming and more pops and then the mass rumors swirling back throught the ranks. Some people will want to run, others will be angry and want to join the fight while others stand in uttershook paralized in place.

And that is what happens in real military units - amplify X 10 for an unorganized mob.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

One fire cracker of a backfire could set it off. The trouble is even if you went there with the idea of a total peaceful march once the shooting starts even the peaceful person will be forced to fire in order to save his life. With a thousand or more men the forward collumn is going to be far enough away that all the middle and rear guard is going to hear is that pop then yelling and screaming and more pops and then the mass rumors swirling back throught the ranks. Some people will want to run, others will be angry and want to join the fight while others stand in uttershook paralized in place.

Would a fire cracker in a group of armed policemen have the same effect?

 

[shane77m]

 

[klamath]

Would a fire cracker in a group of armed policemen have the same effect?

Absolutely.

 

[Lucille]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...2-aa9e-a02b765ff0ea_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz

An Internet talk show host is trying to gather protesters to march into the District on July 4 carrying loaded rifles, prompting a warning from D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier that her own armed force will meet them at the border.

“If you’re coming here to protest government policy, great,” the chief said Tuesday on her monthly appearance on NewsChannel 8, reacting to the group’s plan to cross the Potomac from Arlington National Cemetery. “If you’re coming here to break the law, we’ll take action.”

Lanier added, “There’s a pretty good chance we’ll meet them on the D.C. side of the bridge.”

So will the U.S. Park Police, Sgt. Paul Brooks said. If the protesters go through with the march, Park Police will be waiting for them at the District line, which happens to be on U.S. Park Service property, near the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge.
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He said he wants to work with law enforcement and hopes that Lanier will make an exception to the law and grant his group safe passage, and even a police escort, through the District.

Brooks, with the Park Police, said guns are not allowed in the cemetery in Arlington. But he said it appears the group plans to start just outside the cemetery gates, along Memorial Drive. He said the organization has not sought a permit, as required for demonstrations on National Park Service property, but Kokesh said on the web site he does not intend to get one.

Lanier said on the television program that city representatives are willing to meet with Kokesh and other leaders “to facilitate whatever they want to get accomplished in a legal way.” But, she said, “passing into the District with loaded firearms is a violation of the law and it will be treated as such.”

 

[torchbearer]

game on.

 

[klamath]

And that is what happens in real military units - amplify X 10 for an unorganized mob.

Yes. Did air assualt missions in iraq where you plan for weeks if not months then do dry fire drills, sand tables, briefing on top of briefing squad leaders checking and rechecking soldiers equipment status all with the same instructions. "Do not chamber live rounds until you are out of the helicopter on the ground! The danger of an inadvertant discharge in the helicopter can take the helicopter down or kill one of your fellow soldiers."
Then one of the idiots would, under the cover of darkness lock and load a round and have his weapon in condition red because the minute he hit the ground out of the helicopter he would have an inadvertant discharge.

 

[tod evans]

Testicle check....

 

[KingNothing]

Has there been any talk of this being a free speech issue, too? Local laws are discarded all the time when the enforcement of such a law would be seen as stifling free speech.

To that end, it would be tremendously ironic if Adam were allowed to do this because he is expressing a political belief, permitted under 1A.... and not because the very next amendment affords him the freedom to carry.

 

[Michigan11]

Brooks, with the Park Police, said guns are not allowed in the cemetery in Arlington. But he said it appears the group plans to start just outside the cemetery gates, along Memorial Drive. He said the organization has not sought a permit, as required for demonstrations on National Park Service property, but Kokesh said on the web site he does not intend to get one.

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