*snicker* Gun-rights activist Adam Kokesh arrested in Herndon

[petronius]

90. Kokesh's actions may be disruptive and counter-productive, and add little to no

value to the discussion, but for another perspective I'd offer that he committed a non-violent crime for the purpose of political expression (a crime that apparently no one even knew about until he posted a video). He's certainly prone to 'cold dead hands' rhetoric, but I haven't see mention of overt threats or actual violent behavior. So I think it's worth asking if this police raid as described was in fact a proportional response the alleged crime (the shotgun loading) and risk potential, or if it was in part motivated by his political views, or the desire by increasingly militarized police departments to use all their toys, or by the creeping tendency of law enforcement to 'go big' in response to every imagined threat, or a combination of these...