Oathkeeper e-mail on the Adam Kokesh Nazi-style crackdown

[The2ndAmendment]

This came to my inbox just this afternoon:

Thoughts On Police Raid On Adam Kokesh

by Stewart Rhodes, founder and president of Oath Keepers


Editor's note: Adam Kokesh was arrested by a blitz of militarized SWAT officers in a massive over-play of berserk power. Below are a few excerpts from Stewart Rhodes' latest article at Oath Keepers' national website. The entire article is packed with key perspectives on the Oath Keepers mission and why Oath Keepers uses intelligence instead of raw passion in the battle to save the Constitutional Republic. Learn exactly *why* Oath Keepers refused Adam Kokesh's request that we support his armed march on WDC. Please read the entire article here:

Oath Keepers » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the Police Raid on Adam Kokesh ? and On His Canceled ?Armed March? on D.C.

Excerpts:

The U.S. government is playing with fire. This is yet another example of police using unnecessary military assault tactics on a suspect to merely serve a warrant, that vastly increase the chances of someone being killed or severely injured. There was no hostage. This was not a case of a barricaded suspect who refused to come out. This was just an arrest. One mistake, one perceived false move by anyone who happens to be in the home, and they are shot. And bursting into an armed man's home in the middle of the night is also a great way to get shot. Just doesn't make any sense. They could have arrested him while he went out for a morning Starbucks, or went out for lunch or dinner. And it would have taken just a couple of detectives to conduct such an arrest on the streets. No need for a 20 man SWAT team to enter his home, in the middle of the night, where the risks to all are greatly increased. No need for an armored vehicle and helicopters. No, this makes no sense if their only concern was making a safe arrest. This was a show of force. An example. A lesson.

The more illegitimate and absurd the arbitrary rule of Leviathan, the more it violates our natural rights, the more it has to make examples out of anyone who dares to openly defy it by means of civil disobedience or nullification. You can, and should, expect more of this, and more severe examples. When a government steps outside of its limited delegation of powers that were intended to secure liberty and "becomes abusive of these ends," it will of course lose the respect, consent, and willing cooperation of increasing numbers of the people. There is now a large, and growing portion of the American people who correctly see this current regime to be every bit as illegitimate and unjust as the one our forefathers took up arms against in 1775. Such a government, which violates the rights of the people and thus no longer has the loyalty, respect, and consent of the people, can rule only through force and the instilling of fear - just like the British Crown and Parliament.

And this current regime is making the same mistakes the Crown made. Rather than recognizing any of the grievances of the people as legitimate, and backing off from its violations of our rights, it is doubling down on them, and asserting even more power, and using enforcement methods that increasingly make it obvious that it sees we the people as its current and future military enemy, as it treats us "As If An Enemy's Country" - like an occupied, conquered enemy nation. How else do you explain the detention of U.S. citizens Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi as "enemy combatants", the NDAA military detention and trial provisions, warrantless domestic NSA spying, drone strikes on Americans, and the gross violations of the Fourth Amendment we saw in Boston after the bombing in April, or the calls to treat the bombing suspect as an "unlawful combatant" under the laws of war? They are all claims of power to use the international laws of war on us. And that claimed power will not, and already has not, been limited to use against Muslims. It is meant for all of us, which is exactly why the NSA has been mining metadata on all of us. All of us are considered part of the conquered enemy population - just like in Afghanistan or Iraq. Not just some of us. All of us. All are suspect. All (except the most vetted and trusted minions) are potential "terrorists" or "insurgents" and all will be monitored, tracked, and metadata profiled. There will be a "file" on us all because they know that what they are doing is contrary to the rights of us all, and any of us, or all of us, may join the resistance to their plans, at any time. They correctly assess us all as potential military adversaries precisely because they intend to violate the rights of all of us. And you can bet they are prioritizing who is the greater threat, with veterans, retired police, and gun owners considered a threat because of their training and competency at arms alone. And of course they also place all constitutionalists of any stripe - Ron Paul supporters, Chuck Baldwin supporters, libertarians, Constitution Party members, John Birch type conservatives, traditional Barry Goldwater conservatives, etc., - right up there at the top of the lists of "threats" because all such people adhere closely to the principles of the Founders' Republic - to classical liberal ideas and ideals on immutable natural law and inalienable rights that must be defended at all hazard. And to chill, suppress, and prepare to stop such people from resisting, those who control the federal government and their fellow travelers at the state level are resorting to precisely the same totalitarian methods and tools used by oppressive regimes throughout history, from King George to Stalin.

Enjoy this piece in its entirety: Oath Keepers » Blog Archive » Thoughts on the Police Raid on Adam Kokesh ? and On His Canceled ?Armed March? on D.C.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Now that the 500 Zimmerman thread are gone.

 

[Katzndogz]

Kokesh is a druggie, who cares. He deserves whatever happens to him.

 

[R.C. Christian]

You completely missed the point retard.

 

[Gardener]

Kokesh is an attention whore, pothead, hyperbolic cry baby just looking to start shit he won't finish.

Cities have the right to ban open carry of loaded firearms. Its called local sovereignty.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Kokesh is a druggie, who cares. He deserves whatever happens to him.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

They should send two apache helicopters, 4 tanks and 120 feds to every house and apartment in Chicago and Detriot WHERE THE REAL FUCKING CRIMINALS ARE>

 

[Gardener]

Kokesh is a druggie, who cares. He deserves whatever happens to him.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

They should send two apache helicopters, 4 tanks and 120 feds to every house and apartment in Chicago and Detriot WHERE THE REAL FUCKING CRIMINALS ARE>

So you want the authorities to do to entire cities what you are whining they did to one man?

I wonder what the OathWhiners would say about your suggestion.

Oh, I forgot. They don't care about tyranny and fascism when it happens to black people.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Kokesh is a druggie, who cares. He deserves whatever happens to him.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

They should send two apache helicopters, 4 tanks and 120 feds to every house and apartment in Chicago and Detriot WHERE THE REAL FUCKING CRIMINALS ARE>

So you want the authorities to do to entire cities what you are whining they did to one man?

I wonder what the OathWhiners would say about your suggestion.

Oh, I forgot. They don't care about tyranny and fascism when it happens to black people.

No, you interpreted compete wrong, and obviously you are very new to these boards, because you would know that I'm as much a Libertarian as ROn Paul and more-so.

I'm trying to put what that moron said into perspective. He just said it is ok to use MILITARY MIGHT on druggies.

EDIT: Yep, you joined July 2013.

Also, did you realize that I was the OP and I'm an Oathkeeper?

 

[Gardener]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

They should send two apache helicopters, 4 tanks and 120 feds to every house and apartment in Chicago and Detriot WHERE THE REAL FUCKING CRIMINALS ARE>

So you want the authorities to do to entire cities what you are whining they did to one man?

I wonder what the OathWhiners would say about your suggestion.

Oh, I forgot. They don't care about tyranny and fascism when it happens to black people.

No, you interpreted compete wrong, and obviously you are very new to these boards, because you would know that I'm as much a Libertarian as ROn Paul and more-so.

I'm trying to put what that moron said into perspective. He just said it is ok to use MILITARY MIGHT on druggies.

EDIT: Yep, you joined July 2013.

Also, did you realize that I was the OP and I'm an Oathkeeper?

Why should I care if you are an OathKeeper?

Am I required to respect them because you are a member?

I've read their agenda and their grievances. They are paranoid and stupid.

No offense to you.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

No offense to you.

No offense to you, but you overtly contradict yourself.

First you say it is ok for this to happen to Adam Kokesh

But then you say it is not ok for this to happen to black people.

Are blacks above the law?

Or should NO one receive this sort of treatment from the government?

I'm hoping you go with option Number 2.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

I've read their agenda and their grievances. They are paranoid and stupid.

They are composed a hundreds of thousands of Military, Police and Firefighters, who have done much more in one year in their life than you can ever amount to.

Now take a Neg you mooching Libtard.

 

[Gardener]

I've read their agenda and their grievances. They are paranoid and stupid.

They are composed a hundreds of thousands of Military, Police and Firefighters, who have done much more in one year in their life than you can ever amount to.

Now take a Neg you mooching Libtard.

Mooching Libtard?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

While the use of force to apprehend Kokesh went beyond absurdity, I am no fan of Kokesh these days. He's over reactionary and brash and the guy needs to learn to pick and choose his battles more wisely. In my opinion he does more harm to the liberty movement than help.

 

[Gardener]

Kokesh wanted to get arrested. He wanted SWAT teams to come busting down his door so he could cry and bitch about being a victim.

He got what he wanted and what he deserves. Hopefully he'll spend a few years in prison.