Armed March on Washington Abandoned. . . . In Favor of Treason!

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**rubiksnoob**

The guy behind the armed march on DC, Adam Kokesh, has decided that "American Revolutionary Army" should instead march on all 50 state capitals and demand the immediate dissolution of the Federal government. Apparently if this doesn't happen within one year, violent revolution will be the only recourse.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/29/2075191/leader-of-armed-march-on-washington-calls-for-revolutionary-army-to-topple-government/?mobile=nc

The full text of Kokesh's letter from http://freeadam.net/2013/05/24/adam-kokesh-march-50-state-capitols/:

“When a government has repeatedly and deliberately failed to follow its own laws, violated the fundamental human rights of its citizens, threatened the sanctity of a free press, created institutions intended to eliminate privacy of communication, waged war at the behest of special interest that threatens the public safety, killed hundreds of children with drone strikes, imprisoned and destroyed the lives of countless individuals for victimless crimes, stifled economic opportunity to maintain the dominance of the financial elite, stolen from the people through an absurd system of taxation and inflation, sold future generations into debt slavery, and abused its power to suppress political opposition, it is unfit to exist and it becomes the duty of the people to alter or abolish that government by whatever means necessary to secure liberty and ensure peace.

“A new American revolution is long overdue. This revolution has been brewing in the hearts and minds of the people for many years, but this Independence Day, it shall take a new form as the American Revolutionary Army will march on each state capital to demand that the governors of these 50 states immediately initiate the process of an orderly dissolution of the federal government through secession and reclamation of federally held property. Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

“The time to sit idly by has passed. To remain neutral is to be complicit, just doing your job is not an excuse, and the line in the sand has been drawn between the people, and the criminals in Washington, D.C. While some timid souls will say that it is too early, that we can solve this problem through democratic means provided by government, that current levels of taxation are reasonable for the services provided, and that the crimes of this government are merely a tolerable nuisance, it may already be too late.

“While there is risk in drastic action, the greater danger lies in allowing this government to continue unchallenged. So if you are content with the status quo, stay home, get fat, watch the fireworks from a safe distance, and allow this Independence Day to pass like any other. But if you see as we see, and feel as we feel, we will see you on the front lines of freedom on July 4th, 2013 for this, The Final American Revolution.”

Signed, Adam Kokesh, May 23, 2013 from a cage in the Philadelphia federal prison.

Anyone familiar with the legality of calling for armed insurrection?

**hotsauceman1**

*Sits on porch sipping tea*
This will be fun.

**purplefood**

Isn't that what the guns are for?

**Jihadin**

Share...the....tea....Airborne.......

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Why was he arrested?

**rubiksnoob**

Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Why was he arrested?

He was arrested during a pro-marijuana rally.

**Troike**

Well I'm just glad that he realised how silly an armed march on Washington would be. This is much more reasonable.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

rubiksnoob wrote:
Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Why was he arrested?

He was arrested during a pro-marijuana rally.

Can't say I expected that

**Jihadin**

Can imagine it was a mello arrest eh?

**rubiksnoob**

Jihadin wrote:
Can imagine it was a mello arrest eh?

He was charged with resisting. . . they must have taken away his snacks.

**Jihadin**

CHWAST he went Zombie mode......

**d-usa**

He seems angry for a pot head...

**daedalus**

Oh my. This will end well.

While I agree that there need to be massive changes done to overhaul the government, dissolution of the Fed. is, uh, extreme.

I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with 5000 people.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

It's like a new miniatures game. You might wait to play and invest your time and money in it until there's a large enough playgroup already.

**motyak**

daedalus wrote:
I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with ~~5000 people.~~every true american

I beg to differ, the patriots will rise and overthrow tyranny.

**Goliath**

But in the last thread everyone said that an armed march on Washington would be totally peaceful! I cannot believe that someone who would march on a nation's capital could possibly want the government to be overthrown. I simply won't have it said.

Yeah. Not that surprising really.

**azazel the cat**

Man with crazy idea turns out to be crazy; proposes new crazy idea that is slightly more obviously so.

Not really news here.

**Ahtman**

rubiksnoob wrote:The guy behind the armed march on DC, Adam Kokesh, has decided that "American Revolutionary Army" should instead march on all 50 state capitals and demand the immediate dissolution of the Federal government.

He gets today's award.

motyak wrote:I beg to differ, the patriots will rise and overthrow tyranny.

Except for when they don't, of course, and I think we all know in this case the patriots are the Americans the are facepalming when they read the article. We facepalm for god and country.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

Rand Paul 2016

**motyak**

Ahtman wrote:

motyak wrote:I beg to differ, the patriots will rise and overthrow tyranny.

Except for when they don't, of course, and I think we all know in this case the patriots are the Americans the are facepalming when they read the article. We facepalm for god and country.

That's an awesome captain america image. And I was kidding (I'm pretty sure you got that but just wanted to be clear)

**Valion**

Clearly this guy's a Jeffersonian.

Thomas Jefferson, to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 1787 wrote:Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachussets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

**Jihadin**

We facepalm for god and country.

Um.....sure.....

**Ahtman**

Jihadin wrote:
We facepalm for god and country.

Um.....sure.....

Why do you hate America?

**Jihadin**

To many deployments...became dellusional...my spelling went to Hell...same with my grammer at times.....couple times I broke down and cried....had to get a new focus.....so I no longer do what I do for God and Country...stopped that around 2004 and went with

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**Monster Rain**

daedalus wrote:
Oh my. This will end well.

While I agree that there need to be massive changes done to overhaul the government, dissolution of the Fed. is, uh, extreme.

I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with 5000 people.

Unless they happen to be Unsullied.

This man sounds like a lunatic, but I doubt he'll be charged with Treason.

**Frazzled**

daedalus wrote:
Oh my. This will end well.

While I agree that there need to be massive changes done to overhaul the government, dissolution of the Fed. is, uh, extreme.

I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with 5000 people.

Lets play his game. Try him for treason. Hold him without bail as a flight risk.

Time to end this crap. Now.

**MrMoustaffa**

*reads OP*

*bangs head against desk repeatedly*

**daedalus**

Frazzled wrote:
daedalus wrote:
Oh my. This will end well.

While I agree that there need to be massive changes done to overhaul the government, dissolution of the Fed. is, uh, extreme.

I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with 5000 people.

Lets play his game. Try him for treason. Hold him without bail as a flight risk.

Time to end this crap. Now.

Doubtful. He's a nutter, but too public to be a harmful one. He exists for entertainment purposes only. At this point, he'll get struck down for something only embarrassing enough to discredit his movement, making them appear in the public as backwards 'muricans.

Not saying this is untrue or a bad thing. I'm picturing youtube videos similar to OWS era of him and his movement, dressed up in their finest camo amidst so many discarded Coors lite cans, being pepper sprayed outside various City Halls. Difference between the two is that he will be rabble rousing outside an area notorious about being twitchy about rabble rousing, and at least college campuses have a time-honored tradition of ineffective protest. OWS could have had a point and a purpose would they have organized better and not had the media smear them. I have a feeling this guy would not be doing what he is if a Republican was president.

motyak wrote:
daedalus wrote:
I'm not sure that's a demand you can make with ~~5000 people.~~every true american

I beg to differ, the patriots will rise and overthrow tyranny.

Americans will only throw down the shackles of oligarchy when the last American can no longer afford their Iphone and Big Mac.

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Err, but don't get me wrong. When that time comes, man, will we be ready.

**JWhex**

Yeah we all know how well things turned out for the states that tried to leave the Union the last time.

These kinds of crazy people really make me wonder what happened to them that made them delusional. Were they sane at one time or have they been nutters from birth? They are of course easy to mock but part of me does feel bad for them because they are so far from reality that they are just hopelessly disconnected from the rest of us

**daedalus**

Well, one things for sure: There exist pockets of the population who are unhappy enough with the way things are unfolding that they are making a public nuisance of themselves.

That's not happened on a wide scale that I can think of off the top of my head since 'Nam.