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.' "
Actually, I’m probably to the right of that. Only, it isn’t Senator Cruz I’d like to see charged, convicted and sentenced. It includes many, many Democrats and enablers - but not Cruz.
Or something? What pray tell does 'or something' mean?
Yes, Progs, libs, dweebs, users, losers and cruisers....Boogey Man Cruz is under your bed and
waiting to eviscerate you in your sleep.
Be afraid, be VERY afraid. Hop from your bed and
run to a closet. Hide, cower there - you can suck your thumb if you want if it makes you feel better.
Drowse off a little, and when you nod off, don’t worry about that hand grabbing you. You’re finally getting what you deserve!
Party on, baby. Clean up is gonna be epic.
Loyalty to Dear Leader is the only acceptable patriotism in the leftist cult of personality.
When can we start the revolution already?
LOL!!
BOzo & Co. simply froze the debt clock for 100+ days when it suited their interest. The “gov’t shutdown” theatre only ran for 16 days. Many of these fools will blame everything from the economy getting worse to BOzoCare not being the bill of goods they were sold on the shutdown.
I can’t remember if the video I watched was linked from FR but I saw a guy interviewing people who said the shutdown was either Bush’s fault or maybe it was his fault. It’s almost like you’re dealing with “developmentally delayed” people. I honestly believe BOzo would be able to say he inherited BOzoCare from Bush and made the best of it and 10s of millions of people would believe him. It’s times like this when you really feel hopeless.
... but the libtard didn’t suggest sedition charges against his messiah, zero, who trumpeted from the highest seat in the land that we would default if the republicans wouldn’t give him everything he wanted. zero’s message of impending default (which wouldn’t have happened since we are supposed to pay the debt first ((note: supposed to, but zero doesn’t abide by the law)) made the international community more jittery than anything the house could have done or said.
zero is a traitor to this country and is purposely trying to destroy her.
Hayek knew what time it was. He also realized the willingness of the people to embrace it.
Obama, Biden, entire Cabinet, Reid, Pelosi,.....and about 50 other Dems, have a documented basis for filing such charges against them.
Note to self: buy another shovel.
LOL
Liberals should be thankful we have a spineless GOP or else Obama would be brought up on immigration charges and a whole host of felonies.
The accusation of sedition is a chosen talking point, and a stepping stone to the ultimate, final solution their hearts desire. About 25% of the population consists of rabid, religious leftists. They want to emulate their heroes from history. They want mass graves.
ISAIAH 5:20-23
20 Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine
and champions at mixing drinks,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe,
but deny justice to the innocent.
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