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locke_n_load wrote:But I do love this part:
"During one of his protests at the Jefferson Memorial, after the police began clearing out the demonstrators, a journalist asked Kokesh if he had a permit to protest, Kokesh reportedly produced a copy of the Constitution and said, 'Actually I got a permit.'"

I love that too.

VMI77 wrote:Provocateur?

Maybe......and I'm always a little leery of people who challenge authority in such an "in your face" manner, when things haven't yet gotten to an actual outbreak of hostilities between government and the people. Such behavior can foment such outbreaks, which really ought to be the tactic of last resort....and I don't think we're quite there yet.

To me, the perfect example of how and, more importantly, WHEN to challenge government authority with a gun is what happened at Lexington and Concord in 1775:

1. Colonists unfavorable to the King were in lawful possession of weapons, gunpowder, and shot.
2. By executive fiat, and without consultation of the colonists, the Brits decide to confiscate these armaments.
3. Brits march on Lexington & Concord to carry out their confiscation.
4. Colonists decide to keep their armaments and open a can of whoop-butt on the Brits, and send them packing back to Boston.
5. Thus begins the Revolutionary War.

If Kobesh had been in charge, the colonists would have marched on Boston first, waved their unloaded muskets around, and dared the Brits to do something about it. That's just dumb.

But I do admire his pluck with regard to his reply to that reporter.