Posted on 10/19/2013 11:11:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I appeared on NPR on Wednesday and was surprised to hear a caller say that Sen. Ted Cruz should be charged with sedition. "I'm really baffled by the fact that the discussion has not ever reached the point where charges of sedition should be brought up against him for conspiring and bullying others to work with him to undermine the American economy … full faith and credit," the caller said. "He's done so much damage to the standing of the United States in the world. And if you read the Sedition Act, it seems like it really applies."
A colleague on the panel, the Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy, assured the caller, "There is no possibility of that." And the conversation moved on. But it turns out that in a few corners of the left, there are activists who would like to see Cruz, along with other Republicans and conservatives who have expressed strong opposition to Obamacare, charged with inciting rebellion against the United States government.
After Cruz and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared together last weekend on the National Mall, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported the event in front of a screen with pictures of Cruz and Palin and the title LATEST SEDITION. Maddow did not utter the word itself, but viewers certainly got the message.
On the activist website MoveOn.org, there are multiple petitions calling for Cruz and others to be charged with sedition. In one, the petition writer adopted a very broad and somewhat fuzzy standard under which Cruz should be sent to jail: "Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order," the petition says. "Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power." Another petition adds "insurrection" to Cruz's indictment.
And it's not just Cruz the lefties seek to prosecute. One particularly energetic petitioner lists 61 people "known to date to have conspired against the United States government to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of a law of the United States by forcing the government to shut down." Among those targeted are many of the usual suspects — the Koch brothers, Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, Mike Lee and others. But the list also includes Grace-Marie Turner, head of the Galen Institute; Michael Grebe, head of the Bradley Foundation; Angelo Codevilla, a retired professor of international relations; Craig Shirley, the public relations man and author of books on Ronald Reagan; Edwin Meese, Reagan's attorney general; and many others.
Grace-Marie Turner? Sedition? It turns out that in the world of some left-wing websites, there are a lot of insurrectionists to punish.
Finally, at the DailyKos, a reliable place to look for stuff like this, a popular post notes that protesters who take to the streets for liberal causes (like "Moral Monday" in North Carolina) have sometimes faced arrest. "But Ted Cruz and his posse of traitors can engage in outright sedition and the actual destruction of America without fear of anything more serious than losing an election?" asks the diarist. "Something is very, very wrong with this upside-down state of affairs." Another post, headlined "Prosecute The Conspirators Who Plotted The Government Shutdown In Violation Of 18 USC 2384.," continued: "These individuals acting in concert have gone far beyond the free speech protected by the 1st Amendment," the diarist writes, "protections up to which they are only entitled to the point of causing 'clear and present danger.' "
Everyone of them who are connected to Obamacare should be charged with TREASON!!!
Sedition?! For what? Being a real American? Morons.
Wow. We are becoming Venezuela, which will likely be an official dictatorship by the end of the year. The semblance of democratic institutions will be wiped away.
That might not be as easy as they would like to think.
/johnny
I’m glad no one cares this country is going to Hell.
I think we need a few generations of tyranny.
Ted Cruz scares the bejesus out of them, they see their dreams falling apart...
Somebody in the article’s comments section posted that obama’s favorite game is Pin the Fail on the Honkey! Lol!
If that’s what the leftist nutjobs think, then Ted Cruz must be doing something right.
Can we charge Obama & co with sedition...he did oppose the Bush admin.
I has a new tagline.
It’s time to charge Barack the Kenyan and his extremist Marxist ‘RATS with treason for attempting to destroy America, theft of the American people’s money, hate crimes against white Americans and fixing elections.
let them do it. go ahead, make our day.
get it the f*** over with.
President Bush is white.
Heh:
I appeared on NPR on Wednesday and was surprised to hear a caller say that Sen. Ted Cruz should be charged with sedition. "I’m really baffled by the fact that the discussion has not ever reached the point where charges of sedition should be brought up against him for conspiring and bullying others to work with him to undermine the American economy … full faith and credit," the caller said. "He’s done so much damage to the standing of the United States in the world. And if you read the Sedition Act, it seems like it really applies."…
…it turns out that in a few corners of the left, there are activists who would like to see Cruz, along with other Republicans and conservatives who have expressed strong opposition to Obamacare, charged with inciting rebellion against the United States government.
After Cruz and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared together last weekend on the National Mall, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported the event in front of a screen with pictures of Cruz and Palin and the title LATEST SEDITION. Maddow did not utter the word itself, but viewers certainly got the message.
On the activist website MoveOn.org, there are multiple petitions calling for Cruz and others to be charged with sedition. In one, the petition writer adopted a very broad and somewhat fuzzy standard under which Cruz should be sent to jail: "Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order," the petition says. "Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power." Another petition adds "insurrection" to Cruz’s indictment.
That was Byron York at the Washington Examiner. This typical idiocy from the left is absurd on too many levels to count, but let’s just look at a couple.
First, do they actually want to criminalize policies that "undermine the economy"? Do they really want to go there? If so, can we start with Obamacare? How about Obama’s doubling of the national debt? How about wasting a trillion dollars on a stimulus that didn’t stimulate anything but unemployment?
I could go on and on, but you get the picture.
Second, wasn’t the 1st Amendment specifically written to guarantee citizens the right to political speech against the "established order"? So is peaceably assembling to question the government’s policies and priorities now akin to sedition in the Age of Obama? That this is the textbook definition of Orwellian eludes Obama’s low-information followers utterly.
Big surprise there.
Not.
well the leftists would say “I’ll smoke that skin wagon and see what happens”
Just curious, what did that little fruit Byron York ever do to aid in getting the message out regarding all the illegal acts obama has taken? He is useless, weak, ineffective. We need some strong voices out there and York is not one of them.
He and that toad Johan whatshislastname, can KMA.
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