|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms
#18539983 - 07/10/13 04:07 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/activist-adam-kokesh-reportedly-arrested-in-herndon/2013/07/10/73dbc8c2-e943-11e2-8f22-de4bd2a2bd39_story_1.html
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms
One roommate, Ed Yealey, said he was punched in the back of the head by an officer.
They estimated 30 to 40 officers participated in the raid, and said that clothes were dumped in the center of one bedroom and a mattress was pushed up against the wall.
A video posted on YouTube that appears to show activist Adam Kokesh loading a shotgun in Freedom Plaza. Gallery
Boondoggles and busts: Big government messes: Here’s a list of a few questionable government payouts.
“It was a pure act of intimidation,” said one roommate, who would only give his name as Jeremy.
The roommates spoke in a basement studio where they work on a podcast and web videos called “Adam Vs. The Man.” They said they have about 75,000 subscribers on YouTube. A sign that said “Anarchy Ave.” hung over a flat screen TV in the studio.
One of the roommates had a handgun strapped in a holster as he talked, but all said they believe in non-aggression and that Kokesh’s views have been misrepresented in the media.
They described themselves as voluntaryist, a strain of libertarianism that believes all acts -- such as paying taxes or gun restrictions -- should be voluntary.
Charging documents filed in court Wednesday morning said Kokesh was charged with possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Schedule I narcotic, while possessing a firearm. Possession of Schedule I or II drugs is a felony in Virginia, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a maximum $2,500 fine. If convicted of possession of the drugs while also in possession of a firearm, Kokesh would face an additional minimum of two years in prison.
Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said prosecutors could potentially obtain a court order compelling Kokesh to be arraigned if he continues to be uncooperative with authorities.
(PHOTOS: Kokesh has promoted a variety of causes over the last six years.)
Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran and Internet talk show, host unveiled plans in early May to lead an armed “Open Carry March” into the District on July 4. He described the proposed event, in which he said participants would carry loaded guns across the Memorial Bridge from Arlington into Washington, as an act of civil disobedience against “tyranny.”
But the march was canceled after police said they would enforce D.C.’s strict gun laws, which prohibit the carrying of loaded weapons.
Instead, apparently, the video of Kokesh loading what looked like a shotgun was posted on YouTube on the July 4 holiday.
In an e-mail exchange with a Washington Post reporter on Friday, Lucas Jewell, the manager of Kokesh’s Internet talk show, confirmed that the video was shot on the morning of July 4 in Freedom Plaza, which is on Pennsylvania Avenue NW between 13th and 14th streets, about a block north of the National Mall.
When asked if the gun and the ammunition were real, and whether Kokesh shot the film alone or with the assistance of himself or others, Jewell declined to answer.
“For legal reasons I probably shouldn’t say if it was a real shotgun,” Jewell wrote in an e-mail. “But I have to say, it looked pretty real to me. I’m no firearms expert, but when he loaded those shells it looked and sounded very similar to a mossburg.” Jewell was most likely referring to a Mossberg pump-action shotgun.
In six years of headline-grabbing activism, Kokesh has embraced causes including peace in Iraq, free speech in the United States and the unsuccessful 2012 presidential candidacy of Ron Paul. He has invoked Mahatma Gandhi and the First Amendment, and he’s used both dancing and loaded weapons to make his political points.
“We will continue to spread the message of liberty, self ownership, and the non-aggression principle regardless of the government’s relentless attacks on our operation,” a statement posted on Kokesh’s Web site on Wednesday morning said.
“We will continue to combat its desperate attempts to crush a worldwide, revolutionary shift in the people’s understanding of the state’s illegitimacy — after all, good ideas don’t require force.”
In 2007, Kokesh was arrested at the Hart Senate Office Building wearing a T-shirt that read, “Iraq veterans against the war.” He was arrested again in 2011 when he led a group dance party at the Jefferson Memorial. He has gotten into trouble for protesting in a Marine uniform and for taking a souvenir gun home from the battlefield.
William Branigin, Aaron Davis, Peter Hermann, and Martin Weil contributed to this report.
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18539987 - 07/10/13 04:09 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
http://www.celebstoner.com/news/drug-bust-news/2013/07/10/adam-kokech-busted-in-virginia/
Adam Kokech Busted in Virginia
Comments (3) Steve Bloom Jul 10, 2013
Adam Kokech was arrested at his home in Virginia on July 9. Federal authorities raided the home of activist Adam Kokech in Herndon, Virginia last night. Police found magic mushrooms and a gun, and arrested Kokech. A former Marine, Kokech had announced a pro-gun march on Washington, DC for July 4 that never took place. However, Kokech was seen in Freedom Plaza near the White House loading a shotgun on Independence Day. Hence, U.S. Park Police led the raid.
On May 20, Kokech was charged with resisting arrest during the Smoke Down Prohibition marijuana protest in Philadelphia. Kokech's website reports that "officers used a battering ram to knock in the door after two knocks, and did not announce they had a warrant. Immediately after breaking down the door, a flash grenade was deployed in the foyer… Masked men in full 'Storm Trooper' gear flooded in and ransacked the residence… After hours of determined attempts, the safe was forced open and all items inside were confiscated.
Adam was arrested and his crew was told he was being brought to the Herndon Police department overnight… Fairfax County Adult Detention Center has stated that it has Adam in custody." According to the Washington Post, "Kokesh refused to be fingerprinted or arraigned, or to speak with court officials on Wednesday morning." He will be arraigned Thursday morning on drug and firearms charges, and has a court appearance scheduled for Oct. 2.
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
allseeingike



Registered: 04/06/11
Posts: 2,832
Loc: elgin ill-miami fl
Last seen: 2 years, 6 months
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18540095 - 07/10/13 04:37 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
sucks for him that is shitty. im surprised they havent done something more drastic to him though
|
Synthe
Gatorade me, bitch!



Registered: 11/10/12
Posts: 7,961
Loc: Three bags of Funyuns
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18540255 - 07/10/13 05:13 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Honestly, I think he's just stupid. It's too bad he got busted over a few shrooms, but he kinda provoked a confrontation with his actions.
I mean, he wants taxes to be voluntary? We'd be a third world nation inside of a year.
--------------------
|
gulper2323
Unknown Landscape Climber



Registered: 06/17/12
Posts: 1,282
Loc:
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: Synthe]
#18540577 - 07/10/13 06:31 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
When you think about it, it's kind of surprising he has been raided for drugs until now. Wasn't he the guy who made that video showing how to buy DMT off SR, and then later created a video showing the DMT that he got in the post? Like showing how to get on an use SR. is one thing, showing the drugs that you ordered to a very large audience on YouTube is asking for trouble IMO
|
dysphoria
lost soul


Registered: 06/04/03
Posts: 1,651
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: Synthe]
#18540581 - 07/10/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
"...I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -eugene v. debs.
--------------------
|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: dysphoria]
#18540673 - 07/10/13 06:48 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
He also has several videos of himself smoking DMT
Also a youtube channel called Adam vs the man
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
tealeaf
Just Touch It


Registered: 09/21/06
Posts: 2,907
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass] 1
#18541815 - 07/10/13 10:51 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
He has gotten into trouble for protesting in a Marine uniform and for taking a souvenir gun home from the battlefield.
guess we have come a long way from wwII because they mailed EVERYTHING back to the US
Quote:
Honestly, I think he's just stupid. It's too bad he got busted over a few shrooms, but he kinda provoked a confrontation with his actions.
imo, thats a LOAD of shit! we need more people like this dude to stand up and speak out against injustices instead of falling in line behind a police state like you are.....
|
FleshCap
FleshCap



Registered: 11/10/08
Posts: 685
Loc: Cali Underground
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: tealeaf]
#18541921 - 07/10/13 11:18 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
I'm not all familiar with Kokesh, but I just knew of him as a Gun Rights Activist.
So this guy is an open supporter of Psychedelics as well?
--------------------
|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: FleshCap]
#18541945 - 07/10/13 11:25 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18541967 - 07/10/13 11:28 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
Rewindicus
Silly Goose



Registered: 06/05/11
Posts: 5,491
Last seen: 2 years, 6 months
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18542359 - 07/11/13 02:06 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
He got what he wanted hes a martyr for his cause. Unfortunately its much easier to rally/protest/spread valuable information when not in jail.
Hes made so many incriminating videos that will most likely be used against him. Plus guns and drugs in same house? Right after you shoot a video of yourself loading a gun in public? Amateur hour stuff there. Hes definitely getting jail time.
-------------------- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”- Dr. Seuss "Too much of a good thing, can be wonderful!" - Mae West "If you have nothing nice to say about anyone, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
|
durian_2008
Cornucopian Eating an Elephant



Registered: 04/02/08
Posts: 18,037
Loc: Raccoon City
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: Rewindicus]
#18542795 - 07/11/13 06:56 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
At first, he seems like a daredevil, performing stupid, human tricks for the entertainment of onlookers. But, the most valuable information, here, is that all of his acts were mundane, do not have the magical notoriety of taboos. This is like exposure therapy for the phobic or superstitious.
|
lowbrow
Paddy Time!!!!


Registered: 09/12/08
Posts: 9,820
Last seen: 14 hours, 26 minutes
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: Synthe]
#18542973 - 07/11/13 08:11 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Synthe said: Honestly, I think he's just stupid. It's too bad he got busted over a few shrooms, but he kinda provoked a confrontation with his actions.
I mean, he wants taxes to be voluntary? We'd be a third world nation inside of a year.
The income tax goes directly into bankers' pockets. None of it goes to bettering our government.
-------------------- Amanita86 said: Sui is trying to mod right now. Kinda like a newborn calf tryin ta stand fer the first time ain’t it..
|
durian_2008
Cornucopian Eating an Elephant



Registered: 04/02/08
Posts: 18,037
Loc: Raccoon City
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: lowbrow]
#18543084 - 07/11/13 08:48 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Synthe said: ...he wants taxes to be voluntary? We'd be a third world nation inside of a year.
Quote:
lowbrow said: The income tax goes directly into bankers' pockets. None of it goes to bettering our government.
By some figures, taxation exceeding 9% results in a Ponzi scheme economy, meaning it continuously fails without regular transfusions.
Consider that the money's value is purely rhetorical, it is minted by fiat, but they need yours.
No-name tax haven countries, where banks are charged a nominal fee for their privilege, attract vast amounts of wealth and maintain infrastructure, which puts ours to shame.
|
egodeathflux
Guttersnipe



Registered: 02/02/10
Posts: 3,854
Loc: The Stygian Pits
Last seen: 1 year, 6 months
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18543091 - 07/11/13 08:50 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Never heard of him, more stupid US laws and men playing around with guns. USA, USA, USA, USA...!!!
-------------------- "Atrophic interludes weave through my life far too often, for me to fight the biggest enemies" "Standing on the corner of 5th and Vermouth"
|
durian_2008
Cornucopian Eating an Elephant



Registered: 04/02/08
Posts: 18,037
Loc: Raccoon City
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: durian_2008]
#18543150 - 07/11/13 09:05 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
It's a tool, no different from a saw or screwdriver -- not a cursed, magical object.
|
Sillyputty67

Registered: 10/06/12
Posts: 2,239
Loc: Netherlands
Last seen: 9 years, 8 months
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: tealeaf]
#18543904 - 07/11/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
tealeaf said:
Quote:
He has gotten into trouble for protesting in a Marine uniform and for taking a souvenir gun home from the battlefield.
guess we have come a long way from wwII because they mailed EVERYTHING back to the US
Quote:
Honestly, I think he's just stupid. It's too bad he got busted over a few shrooms, but he kinda provoked a confrontation with his actions.
imo, thats a LOAD of shit! we need more people like this dude to stand up and speak out against injustices instead of falling in line behind a police state like you are.....
This pisses me off. You say because we dont want to sacrifice our lives and families, and freedom so we can tell the man to not police us in violent, ineffectual, naive,and haphazard ways, that we are falling in line...
The gov is a juggernaut. Its been broken since before we were born. You can stand in front of it and watch what happens. The OP dude did.
You can do that. Go to prison, be a hero... Yadda Yadda etc....
Ill do permaculture, barter instead of sell, and do all things to get off the grid, and keep my productivity from being converted into american dollars to be taxed.
It dosnt take much to resist. Yes we live in a police state. Dont say im part of the problem because i dont see eye to eye with you.
Everyone has their own angle, and id rather people did it peaceable, my way.
If everyone stopped using money, how much power does the gov have?
Imagine owning a wealth of usable resources, and you determine their value, rather than little electronic 1 and 0's, that you let other people tell you how much is worth.
Sheep collect and horde money. Real people feed themselves, collect and produce valuable necessities, and live comfy, off of untaxed produce.
What is happiness? The dream they sold you, or the one you make for yourself?
-------------------- 1) Everything I ever posted or say is a lie.
Edited by Sillyputty67 (07/11/13 01:09 PM)
|
LiquidGlass
Glass Blower


Registered: 07/08/12
Posts: 5,288
Loc: Pee En Double You
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: Sillyputty67]
#18543935 - 07/11/13 12:58 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
This pisses me off. You say because we dont want to sacrifice our lives and families, and freedom so we can tell the man to not police us in violent, ineffectual, naive,and haphazard ways, that we are falling in line...
The gov is a juggernaut. Its been broken since before we were born. You can stand in front of it and watch what happens. The OP dude did.
You can do that. Go to prison, be a hero... Yadda Yadda etc....
Ill do permaculture, barter instead of sell, and do all things to get off the grid, and keep my productivity from being converted into american dollars to be taxed.
It dosnt take much to resist. Yes we live in a police state. Dont say im part of the problem because i dont see eye to eye with you.
Everyone has their own angle, and id rather people did it peaceable, my way.
If everyone stopped using money, how much power does the gov have?
-------------------- Some art I've made Glass Art Gallery
  I was raised a christian and was a stone-faced acid head - Ken Kesey
|
my3rdeye



Registered: 08/10/12
Posts: 4,354
Loc: Canada
Last seen: 3 years, 16 days
|
Re: Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18544645 - 07/11/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
I had no idea the how to order DMT from silk road video guy was the same as the lunatic loading his gun in DC and making terroristic threats I saw on disinfo. I don't care about gun rights but DMT doesn't need crazy people as a spokesperson. When I saw that video I immediately thought I should call the FBI, then I realized for sure many other people would have already.
|
|