Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards Arrested for Defying Poster Ban

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.

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[Bigsteelguy3]

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. "

Malcolm X

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "

Benjamin Franklin

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt

[Donald Draper]

That cop on the horse should have been a nazi..he was born a little late.  "Get back! Get back!" unbelievable..

[oiram48]

Wow resorting to using a horse

[dean j]

PS: And through that stupid C*nt with the hat in jail.

[dean j]

Fricken IDIOTS!!! What a bunch of loosers, defacing property. GO HOME ADAM ANT and stay there. And Keep your lackies with you.

[Anthony78J]

this shit pisses me off 

[Randy Tate]

If you're trying to communicate something - then place it in the Create Commons license, don't claim "All rights reserved".

[Schwarze Fahne]

It was an organized, peaceful press confrence that didn't require a permit. Adam simply turned around and pasted some posters onto an electric box.

The authorities took care of the rest. To quote Adam himself; "horses for crowd control, are not for crowds, they're for control"

This is a classic non-violent civil rights protest that worked for the black community in the 60s and 70s. Rosa Parks refused to loose her seat to a white man on a bus, was she a "crybaby"?

[metaltildeath]

My argument has been and always will be that if you'd like to protest something, organize peacefully, get a permit, and don't make a spectacle out of it. If you have a good message you don't need to agitate the police so that they arrest you and then hope you getting arrested will bring attention to your cause. That's the easy way out. If these people really wanted to make a change they'd work hard and organize meetings rather than organize screaming in public and annoying people.

[metaltildeath]

If only that statement was true. The level of British tyranny and modern police trying to keep the public safe are two completely different things and are nowhere near each other on the wavelength of rights being violated. Compare the Bill of Rights to the rights citizens had under British reign and then come back and tell me it's the same thing. Until then, learn more and type less. If you wish to have freedom don't support people with links to socialists and communists.

[Schwarze Fahne]

*sigh* You obviously didn't get the sarcasm. OF COURSE I'm not going to stand on the sidewalk and block people until the police arrive! A: I have morals B: The cops will never show.

You called me a liberal and a sheep? ROFLMAO. You don't know me, and you probobly couldn't even begin to understand my political perspectives. Who's crying now? Where's YOUR real arguement? I'm waiting for an educated retort, and I'm being let down every time.

[metaltildeath]

So you're basic argument is you want to be rude and do whatever you want while interrupting others because you can. Not that you have to, but it'll make you feel special because you can. You must have a really shallow life and get no attention if provoking the police in public for no reason seems cool to you. Keep crying buddy, with all the tears in your eyes you'll never realize what a liberal sheep you are.