Posted on 07/10/2013 5:29:47 AM PDT by Biggirl
Police searched the Northern Virginia home of libertarian activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody, according to a news release posted on Kokesh’s Web site.
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Had no idea....I did that!!
Thanks for the laugh!!
At my expense!! Ha!!
Ah, just funnin’ with you.
It would be interesting if quilting was a hobby of his.
Under the influence of mushrooms, he’d probably make interesting quilts. With his “room mate”.
....snicker...
Obviously he and his room mate wanted to be caught with the mushrooms. Make a statement and all that.
He didn't attend white supremacist meetings?
Sorry to bore you.
>> “Sorry to bore you.” <<
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You disgust me.
You’re just as much a bigot as you think Weaver is.
The fact is that Weaver isn’t a bigot, he just has some views that I don’t share. He’s an honorable, and generous man.
I’m not saying you aren’t, but I’ve never heard of him calling you a jerk.
I don’t care what Randy Weaver believes.
I don’t care what Kokesh believes.
I care that the gestapo feels free to destroy the unpopular. Like most Americans, you don’t.
No worries..!!
I can only assume that you are one or more of the below:
1. Very, very young and just graduated from off color comic books/computer games. Or maybe not graduated.
2. Smoke weed and/or eat (or whatever they do with) mushrooms, just like your hero Kokesh.
3. Are a libertarian who believes in a fantasy utopia that appeals to numbers 1 and 2 - a fantasy world where all vice is legal, fine and dandy and all the Evil Bigots who don’t like the homo agenda are dead and/or imprisoned. Funny thing about utopias - any that managed to get implemented all result directly in Hell on earth.
lol... +1
I just feel very intolerant and bigoted lately.
Intolerant of idiots and bigoted against fools and knaves.
That’s the way God made me - tra la la!
bump
You’re reading my mind.
I found a website that gave some facts about Kokesh, and my opinion is that the matter of being arrested and then being demoted from Sgt back to corporal for bringing a gun that he purchased back to the states may have been his motive for starting the escapades.
And i will say that being in any kind of demonstration including a peaceful march is not up my alley, the only thing i get involved in bodily is going to the polls and voting.
And of course being involved in these threads, but if i was forty younger what would i do?
But from what i can see, most of the trash against this guy is not facts but only a lot of opinion from the facts.
For instance that some money is said to have come from the Russian government for his talk show may be a fact but the reasons are not facts but just opinions.
Many people would think it a contradiction to be anti war and pro gun activist at the same time, i do not see it that way.
When he went to war he was all gung ho for the us but he changed his mind, it may have been the personal matter of being demoted but he may have got to thinking that the war had nothing to do with freedom but rather who dictates what freedom is and who make the rules.
People take freedom in this country for granted, mostly they are hard working law abiding people who never have much occasion to get on the wrong side of the law.
But when it happens even if innocent of any wrong thinking it can put them into turmoil even much more than some of us who have known all along of the policies that are bringing in the police state mentality.
So i can see why some people would call him a nut but i can also see the other side of the story.
LJ, your item #3 best describes not libertarians, but LIBERTINES!
Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams are good examples of actual libertarians, as they know that their liberties stop where the needs of responsible others begin.
Does either Sowell or Williams advocate the “legalize all vices” the way the LP platform does, or the totally open borders/anyone can walk in no questions asked? I haven’t read enough of their writings to know those particulars. All I know is what I’ve read on the LP site, articles from Libertarians posted here (like the one in ecstasy because of the SCOTUS “gay marriage” decisions), and debating (to debase a good word) with libertarians on FR.
One of my main gripes with them is that when I ask them something like “Okay, you don’t the fedgov to pass laws against drugs, prostitution and so on. I’m fine with that, it’s not the fedgov’s domain. How about states passing such laws?”
99% of the time the libertarian NEVER EVER answers me. Ever. Only once I can remember. They claim they’re for states rights but most of them seem to want the states prohibited from any laws against the most vicious vices. And the claim that this is somehow “constitutional” and in line with the original intent and writings of the founding fathers is nothing short of lying duplicity.
Anyway, there’s my rant for the day.
You’re talking about the “Libertarian Party,” which is technically not what most would cal libertarian.
The Libertarian Party is, much like the Democrap party, out to destroy the American way of life.
A true libertarian is the ultimate American Patriot, as they mostly subscribe to the same virtues and liberties as Yeshua.
You don't debate. You call names. You never addressed why it's OK to arrest someone for what they ARE rather than what they DO.
You forgot "live in your Mom's basement" and "tinfoil hat".
Okay; but why does the LP platform appear to be espoused by so many people who call themselves libertarians, large L or small?
Why not choose another word? And the fact that large L or small libertarians on FR seem to be in 100% agreement with the LP platform shows that libertarianism as a philosophy seems to be almost entirely obscured by the LP platform. So why not use another word for “libertarians” who do not agree with the Libertarian Party on a lot of stuff?
It’s too murky and I rarely if ever see libertarians on FR disavow the LP platform.
....and any abuses of power committed against him can be committed against any Freeper here.
“You need to learn to thing rationally. Until you do, you are very boring.”
Hmm?
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