Paul's Senior Campaign Aide Arrested

Adam Kokesh, Libertarian leader and senior Ron Paul campaign aide has been charged with illegal gun possession in D.C. Superior Court and also faces felony drug charges in Fairfax, Virginia.  Kokesh is best known for being thrown out of the 2008 GOP Convention for rudely disrupting John McCain's convention acceptance speech.  In his outburst he screamed "it is time to toss the foreign policy hawks out of the GOP. . . . Ron Paulers won't support Obama, Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich because we can see there is no significant difference between them."

 Since the 2008 GOP Convention, Kokesh has actively kept himself in trouble.  He held a prominent role in the group "Iraq Veterans Against the War" and he marched with an upside down American flag.   As a Marine, he was demoted in rank from USMC Sergeant to Corporal and received a less than honorable discharge from the military for violating a number of rules.   Michelle Malkin has been known to call him "an anti-war smear merchant in GOP clothing."

In 2010 he ran for congress, calling himself an anarchist.   He was proudly endorsed by Ron and Rand Paul and the Republican Liberty Caucus. Both Ron and Rand Paul were in Kokesh's campaign promotional videos saying "I am very happy Adam has decided to run for Congress and wholeheartedly endorse him.”

 When he didn't win his congressional bid in 2010, Kokesh traveled to Germany to urge soldiers to abandon their posts through a paid position with Moscow’s propaganda channel, Russia Today.    Congressman Ron Paul appeared on Kokesh program's called "Adam and the Man" where he suggested the abolishment of NATO, and called U.S. sanctions on Iran "acts of war."   The program was terminated in August 2011 when the U.S. Federal Election Commission received a complaint that Kokesh was violating U.S. law by using the Russia Today television to raise money for Paul’s presidential campaign. It is illegal for foreign corporations to interfere in U.S. elections.

Upon returning to the states, Kokesh helped found "Veterans for Ron Paul" and campaigned for the Congressman in several 2012 primary states.  Kokesh was often known for calling the other GOP candidates "enemies of the Constitution". Kokesh describes himself as a leader of "the peace movement," but yet he has been arrested a number of times at anti-war demonstrations. 

On July 4^th, 2013 Adam Kokesh, uploaded a YouTube video of himself in Freedom Plaza, a park in downtown Washington D.C., loading a shotgun.  For obvious reasons, it is against the law to have loaded weapons in Washington, DC.  

When being investigated on the illegal gun charges, authorities also found a gun and a full paper bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms.  Kokesh was charged with possessing Schedule I and II drugs while also having a firearm.   Schedule I drugs include heroin and LSD have a high potential for abuse.  Schedule II drugs include: PCP, cocaine and meth-amphetamines. None of these drugs are legal and none have accepted medical use and are all highly addictive.

My mother always says "You are known by the company you keep. "  Here's a short poem I reference when I think of this situation.

"Judged By The Company One Keeps"

One night in late October,

When I was far from sober,

Returning with my load with manly pride,

My feet began to stutter,

So I lay down in the gutter,

And a pig came near and lay down by my side;

A lady passing by was heard to say;

"You can tell a man who boozes,

By the company he chooses,"

And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

--Unknown

From "Best Loved Poems of the American People"