Wednesday, August 28, 2013

BREAKING: Adam Kokesh Has Been Denied Bond Once Again

Kokesh has broken the rule for protests that can lead to prison time: Limit protests to only situations that can get you minimal prison time.

His protest was the type that can get him serious prison time and it appears the government is not playing around with him. If they are not granting him bail at this point--after 50 days already in the slammer, serious jail time is coming, if he is found guilty.

(ht Travis Holte)

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  1. Ridiculing people who stand up for their liberties is not going to help people stand up for their liberties.

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    1. The idea is not to ridicule Kokesh, but to point out dangerous and ineffective protest methods.

      Getting locked up is not very creative, anyone can do it immediately on a thousand different issues. Mises and Rothbard showed a much more effective way.

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    2. He got put in jail for doing something he has every right to do.

      At some point you're not going to be able to move without breaking the law, and the laws are designed to erode our liberties piecemeal:

      An excerpt from
      They Thought They Were Free
      http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

      "Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’

      "...

      "Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

      "And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

      "...

      "Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

      "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked

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      "But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

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  2. He can only hope for a juror or jurors willing to nullify. Once his trial is set, perhaps some brave men and women can pamphleteer the courthouse with leaflets on jury nullification during jury selection.

    The Fully Informed Jury Association has pamphlets and the like here: http://fija.org/document-library/activism-organizing/

    Informing potential jurors of their right to nullify may be considered illegal in some jurisdictions so check with local laws before you take the risk.

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    1. @ edward

      Unfortunately, that's never gonna happen. They have jury selection down to a science, which guarantees they will come up with 12 lemmings.

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  3. When protesting the government, one should always ask oneself how is this is gonna play with the soccer moms. Soccer moms aren't big on loaded guns.

    Further, until that time when you are pretty sure that there are a lot of potential jurors out their ready to laugh at the prosecutor, don't do things that will surely piss off most jurors.

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    1. Think about the puppies! :D

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    2. I do think about them. I told that to Krugman. When someone mentions "Lincoln", they should immediately think of the slaughter of doggies.

      http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/everyone-has-an-ideology/?comments&_r=0#permid=109

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  4. The GREAT Scott Horton warned Kokesh back in May about the wisdom of Kokesh's plans.

    http://scotthorton.org/2013/05/28/52713-adam-kokesh/

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  5. While it's not happening here, Im still somewhat amazed at the conservative clowns who still continue to call Kokesh a shill or government provocateur. If you look at the some of the comments on his latest video you'll get what I mean

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBVXmiB2s7k

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  6. I put this in the same category as Irwin Schiff's carefully reasoned tax protests; whether or not he is correct, it is not wise to have a one-person revolution.

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