What Art said sums it up for me as well.

Merged.


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The Traveler

The other day he arrested at a marijuana protest for basically no reason and supposedly they're trying to charge him with 10 years in prison for assualting a police officer, even though the video showed no assault of any kind

Did that really happen or is he the one claiming this? I'm getting the feeling the real and complete story is not presented here.


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The Traveler

I've seen a few things from this guy and I think hes a little full of himself but that also comes with this whole youtube fame thing, so w/e. But I really feel that guys like him and Joe rogan are essential in this world. Joe rogan brought me to dmt, I was clueless and gained enough knowledge about dmt to find this place and then excel. So I thank Joe Rogan and Adam because there videos reach out and touch people in all walks of life.
Good on him for risking his butt to help people because that's really all it is.

And maybe he would benefit like we all do from using this site so when he spreads the word he does it in a way that doesn't make him look like an uninformed sheep at times.

I don't like him anymore than you do. I said "supposedly" because i didn't know for sure at the time if that was the actual charge being pressed against him.

But there is a video of his arrest and it showed nothing illegal being done on his part IMO. And apparently

"According to court documents, Kokesh was charged Monday with assaulting and impeding National Park Service Rangers."

http://www.huffingtonpos...ted-video_n_3308644.html

From what little i know about him, I don't like many things he has done but i respect his efforts as an activist in some ways and I don't think we should be so quick to just assume without even looking into it that there is probably something else going on with the story because of the mere fact that we don't like his dmt videos etc

Universecannon et al: I know that he was planning an (illegal) open-carry gun march on Washington DC in the coming weeks: the idea being that thousands of people would gather and peacefully march on the Capitol with loaded firearms displayed on their person.

I've been hearing a lot about that, having spent the last few days in the greater DC area. In his words:
"We'd rather die standing then live on our knees."

According to the HuffPo article, he was actively encouraging protestors to smoke cannabis and to 'make it difficult for the police.' He also resisted arrest (apparently), and I think that's what they are officially booking him with. Where 'assaulting an officer' came from, I have no idea, however, we've seen police add charges when they can before.

A lot of libertarian internet pundits are claiming that it's a conspiracy to take him off the streets in hopes of stopping the march. Given that he's been arrested several times before, I am assuming this is going to court and that he's going to become something of a martyr.

In the mean-time, the open-carry march on Washington has NOT been postponed, much to the dismay of the DC police force.

I think you are right with that uni, that is also the reason why I asked to get more information about the other side of this story.

We get to see the video of his arrest but we did not see what happened before and after that, so basing our judgement on that single video alone will not suffice. The same is the case for the court documents, who knows what they try to pin on him as an extra?

So before I can discuss this topic clearly I want to have more facts from as many viewpoints as possible. From the past, I've learned to never base my opinion on only one side of the story. The single story from Adam's side sounded for me too much like "I did nothing and then they suddenly arrested me for nothing", something which I find hard to believe looking at his defiant attitude.


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The Traveler

Yeah Nathanial i wouldn't be surprised if that march had something to do with what happened

Trav- Of course, i agree. But adam has not been given bail and we haven't even heard his side of the story. All our info comes from the videos and from those who were present at the court where the charges were made, and the actual event. This video is not the only viewpoint, there is various videos/angles of before and during the arrest that clearly show (interestingly more than just one speaker) being arrested apparently while doing nothing but standing there and speaking. And from all of these videos it seems clear his hands were in the air and he never assaulted an officer. IMO he wasn't resisting arrest either but i suppose that's left up to interpretation...

Once the handcuffs were on, he was pulled off site. He may have assaulted an officer then, off camera.. although that's hard to imagine due to handcuffs being on his hands and he surely would have known he'd be condemning himself to prison. So that seems unlikely

There could well be more to the story/factors, as there almost always is, and so i'm not making any conclusions. Just wanted to clarify a wee bit what we seem to know and my thoughts :]

Its interesting though that my friend in law has told me that one thing they love to do in cases like this is stick assaulting a police officer (felony) on the person because its relatively easy to get them ten years this way, which i believe is the maximum sentence. Its not uncommon at all for them to stick false charges on people.

I had a less serious thing like that happen to myself several years ago. I hadn't drank nor did i possess any alcohol on me at all, and yet they just gave me a ticket for underage drinking anyways...and then let me drive home

I watched a few of the DMT "trips" he took. Might have watched all of them.
Here is my take on them:
1) he doesn't have a good set and setting. He did in his first couple of videos in a nice house, but then just went to some shack with a dog and people trying to be quiet. But distracting with some dog and people. (dog licking his balls. Had to laugh at that comment!)
2) his devices he has and how he lights them. I just feel EVERY TIME he never gets a real trip because he burns it! This guy torches the heck out of the thing. Then laughs a bit and pack some more.
3) he is selling DMT and from what we here at NEXUS believe is a bad thing! A course of nature is best, not some website with a guide whom sets a bad example.
4) he seems like a nice guy. But damn it's annoying watching him. Talks a bunch about his product being so good. Then it seems like he never really does a proper launch. Sometime I just want to grab the pipe and light it for him. Very frustrating! Then he has his toke and lays back and laughs then smack his lip and laughs some more.
5) he doesn't know how to express what he sees or feels. Just "oh man, wow. I should say something about the trip, wow"

I just wish he would get a shaman or someone to help him administer the DMT. Seems like he's just not doing it right. Or here's another thought... It's not DMT at all. That's why he never actually goes in to hyperspace.

At first I was excited! DMT!! Maybe he will get it right in the next movie. He never does... Never... Waste of time watching the DMT videos and bad example of how and where to do it.

Just my five cents worth!