Pro-Gun Activist Adam Kokesh Arrested After Posting YouTube Video.

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Adam Kokesh (AFP Photo/Tim Sloan)

Second Amendment activist Adam Kokesh was arrested Tuesday evening following an armed raid on his home in the Washington, D.C. area.

Police have charged Kokesh, 31, with possession of a Schedule I
or Schedule II drug while also in possession of a firearm.
According to the Washington Post, charging documents filed in
court Wednesday morning said that hallucinogenic mushrooms, a
Schedule I narcotic, were found in the raid.

The United States Park Police confirmed that a search warrant was
executed on the Herndon, Virginia residence leased by Kokesh late
Wednesday, in the wake of a YouTube video posted by the activist
on July 4 showing him reportedly loading a shotgun in a DC park
only two blocks from the White House. Kokesh uploaded the video
after a planned “Open Carry March” into DC scheduled for
Independence Day was cancelled amid warnings from police. He had
hoped to have hundreds of people march from Virginia into DC
carrying firearms in defiance of the city’s ban on carrying
loaded guns.

Although the July 4 march was ultimately nixed, Kokesh loaded a
firearm at DC’s Freedom Plaza on film before saying, “We will
not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government
to destroy our humanity. We are the final American Revolution.
See you next Independence Day.”




DC laws prohibits people within the city from carrying loaded
weapons.“It was very specifically a call to overthrow the United
States federal government,” Kokesh told radio host Alex Jones
after the video surfaced online. “I think that we have come to
the point where we can get a critical mass of Americans to
realize that we’d be better off without it than with it.”

After the video was posted, Washington Metropolitan Police and
the US Park Police issued a joint statement saying they had
launched an investigation.

“The Metropolitan Police Department and US Park Police are
aware that today Adam Kokesh posted a video that appears to have
been taken in Freedom Plaza in Northwest, DC. We are in the
process of determining the authenticity of the video,” the
authorities announced.

In an interview earlier this week with a local NBC affiliate,
Kokesh confirmed that he legitimately loaded the firearm.

"I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I
didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children," he said.
"I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this
country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two
blocks over at the White House is responsible for."

Law enforcement confirmed on Wednesday that the investigation led
them to execute a search warrant at the Kokesh residence,
culminating in his arrest.

"We were expecting this," roommate Darrell Young told a
local NBC affiliate. "We were expecting the government to raid
our house."

Lucas Jewell, a producer for Kokesh’s Internet television
program, issued a statement early Wednesday saying the search
lasted for five hours, during which police “searched every
corner of the house with canine units and blueprints to the
house.”

“Throughout the ordeal, the police repeatedly showed a
volatile desire to initiate aggressive, forceful conduct with
detainees,” Jewell wrote, adding that a personal safe within
the home was forced open by police and all items were
confiscated. He equates the behavior caught on the July 4 video
as an act of civil disobedience.

Additionally, police reportedly hovered over the home with no
fewer than two helicopters during the raid and detonated
flash-bang grenades upon entering the premises. A battering ram
was utilized to enter the home, and the door to the house was
rendered inoperable as a result.

Kokesh was scheduled to be arraigned early Wednesday, but a
report from a local NBC affiliate updated at 10:19 that morning
claimed that Kokesh refused to leave his cell, opening the
possibility that he’ll be held in contempt of court. He’s
currently being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center
in northern Virginia.

The possession of Schedule I or II drugs is a felony in Virginia
that’s punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a maximum
$2,500 fine. If Kokesh is found guilty of possession of Schedule
I drugs while also in possession of a firearm, he will also face
an additional minimum of two years in prison.







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Supreme Court Strikes Down Defense Of Marriage Act, Paves Way For Gay Marriage To Resume In California.

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In a 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court justices strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, saying it is unconstitutional. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

By Pete Williams and Erin McClam, NBC News

In a pair of landmark decisions, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the 1996 law blocking federal recognition of gay marriage, and it allowed gay marriage to resume in California by declining to decide a separate case.

The court invalidated the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to gay couples who are legally married in their states, including Social Security survivor benefits, immigration rights and family leave. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-4 decision, said that the act wrote inequality into federal law and violated the Fifth Amendment’s protection of equal liberty. “DOMA’s principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal,” he wrote. Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old woman who brought the case against DOMA, said that the ruling ensured that the federal government could no longer discriminate against the marriages of gays and lesbians. “Children born today will grow up in a world without DOMA, and those same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get married,” she said. In the second case, the court said that it could not rule on a challenge to Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in California passed by voters there in 2008, because supporters of the ban lacked the legal standing to appeal a lower court’s decision against it. The court did not rule on the constitutionality of gay marriage, but the effect of the decision will be to allow same-sex marriage to resume in California. That decision was also 5-4, written by Chief Justice John Roberts. Lt. Gavin Newsom told NBC News that gay marriage would resume in California within 30 days. Gov. Jerry Brown said counties could begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples as soon as one formality was taken care of: A federal appeals court had to lift a stay issued by a lower judge. “As soon as they lift that stay, marriages are on,” California Attorney General Kamala Harris told reporters. “The wedding bells will ring.” The two rulings, released minutes apart, were greeted by jubilant cheers outside the Supreme Court, where crowds of gay-marriage supporters waved rainbow banners and flags bearing symbols of equality, and at City Hall in San Francisco. “The underlying message, I think, is that these are marriages, these are relationships, that are worthy of equal respect,” said Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUSblog and a Supreme Court analyst for NBC News.  “It really does send a powerful message to the country that this is something that deserves fair treatment. President Barack Obama placed a phone call from Air Force One to the two gay couples who had challenged Proposition 8. He told them, “We’re proud of you guys.” Paul Katami, one of the challengers, invited the president to his wedding to his partner, Jeff Zarrillo. David Boies, a lawyer who argued against Proposition 8, said that the rulings took the country closer to realizing the Declaration of Independence’s guarantee that all men are created equal. “It’s a wonderful day for America,” he said. The decisions were handed down 10 years to the day after the court decided Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down anti-sodomy laws across the country. They also came just ahead of the weekend when many large cities celebrate gay pride by observing the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, considered the beginning of the gay rights movement. Opponents of gay marriage vowed to fight on in the states. “We clearly have a mixed ruling here,” said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. “Justice Kennedy did not say that all states must recognize same-sex marriage. In fact, his opinion is full of deference to the states’ determination of marriage policy.” Under the Defense of Marriage Act, gay couples who are legally married in their states were not considered married in the eyes of the federal government, and were ineligible for the federal benefits that come with marriage. Not counting California, 12 states and the District of Columbia have authorized gay marriage. The law had helped determine who is covered by more than 1,100 federal laws, programs and benefits. They include a tax exemption for health benefits for gay spouses, and the right to petition the government for a green card. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he was looking forward to extending benefits to gay military spouses. All had been prohibited under DOMA. The Supreme Court ruling said that the law had instructed federal officials, “and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others.” The case before the Supreme Court concerned Windsor and Thea Spyer, a lesbian couple who lived together in New York for 44 years and married in Canada in 2007. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor was hit with $363,000 in federal estate taxes. Had the couple been considered by the federal government to be married, Windsor would not have incurred those taxes.  “We won everything we asked and hoped for,” Windsor told reporters. Kennedy was joined in the majority by the four members of the court’s liberal wing — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Dissenting were Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Scalia, in his dissent, wrote: “It is enough to say that the Constitution neither requires nor forbids ou rsociety to approve of same-sex marriage, much as it neither requires nor forbids us to approve of no-fault divorce, polygamy, or the consumption of alcohol.” President Bill Clinton signed the act into law in September 1996. A court ruling in Hawaii had raised the prospect that that state might become the first to authorize gay marriage. Some members of Congress believed that the law might take the air out of a movement to amend the Constitution to block gay marriage. Proposition 8, the California ban, was approved by voters in 2008 with 52 percent of the vote. The measure was placed on the ballot after the California Supreme Court allowed same-sex marriage. The push to overturn it drew endorsements from what might have seemed unusual quarters just a few years ago. In the days before the Prop 8 case was argued, politicians, business leaders, professional athletes and other high-profile figures rushed to announce their support for gay marriage. Dozens of Republicans added their names to a paper known as a friend-of-the-court brief that argued that gay marriage promotes the conservative values of stability and mutual obligation. And the case itself was argued, up through the federal court system, by two unlikely partners: Boies and Theodore Olson, the lawyers on opposing sides of Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that settled the 2000 presidential election.   

J. Scott Applewhite / AP

Celebrations around the nation as the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and declined to rule on California's Prop 8, legalizing same-sex marriage in the state. Gabe Gutierrez of NBC News contributed to this report.

This story was originally published on Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:04 AM EDT

U.S. Will Go To War With Iran In 2013, Says Ex-U.S. Ambassador To Israel

*Source: Haaretz

Martin Indyk tells CBS there is not much time left until Iran has a nuclear weapon, but says Netanyahu's demands for 'red lines' on Iran are 'unreasonable.'

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said on Sunday that he thinks the U.S. will go to war with Iran over its nuclear program in 2013.

Speaking during a panel on the CBS program Face the Nation, Indyk said, "I'm afraid that 2013 is going to be a year in which we're going to have a military confrontation with Iran."

The former ambassador stated that "Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon," but added that there's not a lot of time left until it does.

Regarding the recent friction between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over "red lines" on Iran, Indyk said that he doesn't think "the difference between Netanyahu and Obama on this is that great, in terms of the president's commitment not to allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons."

He added, however, that Netanyahu's insistence on public "red lines" was unreasonable.

"That is an unreasonable requirement. The idea of putting out a public red line - in effect issuing an ultimatum - is something that no president would do. If you noticed, Governor Romney is not putting out a red line; Senator McCain didn't, either. And neither is Bibi Netanyahu for that matter, in terms of Israel's own actions."

Indyk went on to speak about instability across the Mideast region, saying that is making Israel "very nervous."

"The turmoil we see from here, they see from a much closer perspective, and that combines with the, as the prime minster puts it, the race of Iran towards weapons capability," he said.

"The fear that the Egypt-Israel peace treaty will start to come apart, the concern that in Syria what is happening there could lead to an Islamist government taking over eventually there as well, but before that a descent into chaos on the northern border - all that makes them very nervous and that’s why I think the prime minister is coming out much more vocally than one might have expected in the midst of an election campaign here saying, you know, we need reassurances, we need red lines aginst the Iranians because from his point of view, that’s the greatest threat they face."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Sunday that Iran would be on the brink of nuclear weapons capability in six to seven months, adding new urgency to his demand that President Barack Obama set a clear "red line" for Tehran in what could deepen the worst U.S.-Israeli rift in decades.

Taking his case to the American public, Netanyahu said in U.S. television interviews that by mid-2013, Iran would be 90 percent of the way toward enough enriched uranium for a bomb. He urged the United States to spell out limits that Tehran must not cross or else face military action - something Obama has refused to do.

"You have to place that red line before them now, before it's too late," Netanyahu told NBC's "Meet the Press" program, saying that such a move could reduce the chances of having to attack Iran's nuclear sites.

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