Bizarre ‘Dance Party’ Protest at Jefferson Memorial Ends With Violent Arrests

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Bizarre ‘Dance Party’ Protest at Jefferson Memorial Ends With Violent Arrests

Unbelievable that anyone would be ok with what happened here.


http://conservativebyte.com/2011/05...jefferson-memorial-ends-with-violent-arrests/

Adam Kokesh is the man that Michelle Malkin called “an anti-war smear merchant in GOP clothing.”

He now hosts a “libertarian” TV show for Russia Today called “Adam vs. the Man.”

Nothing like a high-profile stunt to boost viewership.

Adam and company have professed outrage over the 2008 police action after a group of Libertarians stae a flash-mob dance event at the Jefferson Memorial. A later court ruling upheld police action:

In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion on the matter, Judge Thomas B. Griffith wrote that dancing in the memorial is “prohibited because it stands out as a type of performance, creating its own center of attention and distracting from the atmosphere of solemn commemoration that the Regulations are designed to preserve.”

“Outside the Jefferson Memorial, of course, Oberwetter and her friends have always been free to dance to their hearts’ content,” Griffith writes.

 

[steph3n]

wow those reactions are crazy, those people call themselves americans?! wanting to kick people out like that wow. I fully support them being americans and airing all the idiotic things they care too, I like to avoid idiots.

 

[Agorism]

I've noticed that females just hand cuffs put on without incidence, but the men always get body slammed.

Just saying.

That's just the natural order of things I guess. Too bad there wasn't a grassy area they could protest on since they know they are going to get body slammed.

Question- should you resist the body slam and try to fall slowly or is that resisting arrest, but I suppose if you are getting body slammed in the first place they are already going to get you with resisting arrest so there no harm in slightly more resistance I suppose.

 

[Golding]

I'm surprised to find that this actually has been a legal battle that's been going on for years, with federal courts actually upholding less than two weeks ago that dancing at the Jefferson Memorial is indeed illegal. Of course, one would think that the mall cops at the Jefferson Memorial, being familiar with their beat, would actually be able to cite such a law. One would think that even the mall cops at the Jefferson Memorial could see how harmless dancing could be and just let it go.

The symbolism of a group of people being tackled and arrested for expressing themselves before a statue of Thomas Jefferson is awfully loud. I get the reaction of "how stupid of Kokesh to do this", but after seeing the video and reading more on the decisions preceding this event, it looks like he stumbled upon yet another cordoning of "free speech" into "zones" that require pre-approved permission. Good for him, I say.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Can't dance at the Jefferson Memorial (irony be thy name -- man had the least glorification swearing in ever...namely non-existent!), but you can stake tents in the Wisconsin State House for weeks!

 

[Lucille]

The Sovereign Man at zerohedge:

* If you have ever doubted that freedom is on the decline, just watch this video recently shot at the Jefferson Memorial of all places.

 

[kylejack]

I've noticed that females just hand cuffs put on without incidence, but the men always get body slammed.

Just saying.

That's just the natural order of things I guess.

Well, she put her hands behind her back. One other guy did, but then the other demonstrator came up and locked arms with him, and of course Adam kept dancing and didn't put his hands behind.

Still doesn't justify the body slam, but that's why they went down different.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Well, she put her hands behind her back. One other guy did, but then the other demonstrator came up and locked arms with him, and of course Adam kept dancing and didn't put his hands behind.

Still doesn't justify the body slam, but that's why they went down different.

I bet the rent-a-cop felt good doing it too.

 

[doodle]

Adam Kokesh is the man that Michelle Malkin called “an anti-war smear merchant in GOP clothing.”

I personally don't care what that ugly neocon piece of smearstink crap thinks. Neither did I care when she had said that RP did not belong on stage in GOP debates.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9yOgLP7Lkw

 

[Agorism]

You could tell how much stronger Adam was when the cop couldn't bent his arms

 

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