An image of life in Ben Shapiro's Amerika.
Posted on 02/15/2006 7:50:53 AM PST by blitzgig
An image of life in Ben Shapiro's Amerika.
You know perfectly well that if such a standard had been in place eight years ago, three-quarters of the members of FR would be in prison.
Well then maybe we should all stick to the truth ? What a concept.
A Constitutional Crisis. The Supreme Court couldn't get involved until after he was elected I suppose.
Hillary can't have a third term either (self-described co-president). Bill has already been elected. He can't have another term as co-president either.
More crisis.
The very idea smacks of communism. What next? Political officers and political police who's job it is to ensure that the party line is adhered to and dissidents imprisoned, exiled, or killed? No thank you. We don't need American versions of Andre Sakharov. This very notion should be abhorent to any one believes in American values.
None of the things you mention are seditious. Elected politicians and others saying (often overseas) that this is the wrong war, at the wrong place and time once troops are committed is deletirious to troop morale. Claims that we are there due to venal corruption in protecting buddies at Halliburton or in the oil industry are likewise deletirious. Saying we should pull out now because we can't win only encourages our enemies. Once we have committed American servicemen we should never badmouth the effort in public.
None of the things you mention are seditious. Elected politicians and others saying (often overseas) that this is the wrong war, at the wrong place and time once troops are committed is deletirious to troop morale. Claims that we are there due to venal corruption in protecting buddies at Halliburton or in the oil industry are likewise deletirious. Saying we should pull out now because we can't win only encourages our enemies. Once we have committed American servicemen we should never badmouth the effort in public.
Well if we placed the USA in jeopardy, if we called for a politician to be stoned to death, if we gave away information on secret programs....etc then we SHOULD face prosecution.
The left will do or say anything to get back in power and the average citizen be damned. The former ruling class is pissed and very dangerous.
One did and won twice. A stain upon the country and a dress.
Clinton does the same thing as does Jimmy "useless" Carter. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it, and in fact, Gore would love that.
The man is definitely mentally ill. I don't know if it's manic depression or what, but he definitely has a "rip" up there.
Ignore him.
I support our military efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but thinking back a couple of years, I was quite opposed to wasting American lives in Somalia, as well as our bombing of Kosovo.
Those military actions were a bad idea, had nothing to do with American security and wasted our military resources. Plus, I think Kosovo was partly motivated by Clinton's desire to try and cover up his homegrown scandals.
In your opinion, should I have been tried for sedition?
What about a sedition/treason law that provides for a heightened standard for politicians during war time (and expressly forbids accusing our government of wrong-doing while on foreign soil)?
Would it be a Constitutional Law? Certainly you can find a compelling governmental interest there. (Allowing the Commander in Chief to conduct warfare without risk of government-sponsored insurrection, ensuring that our enemies are not given aid and comfort by our own elected leaders, etc) It is narrowly-tailored, since it only applies to elected federal officials, and only during war time. It is clearly necessary to achieve the government interests. Thus it passes the Supreme Court's tests for limiting even the most protected Speech.
And it would be popular, because it's about freakin' time that a law limited the pols, and left us alone, instead of limiting us and leaving exceptions for our "masters" in DC.
..."All debate surrounding U.S. war policy came to an end on December 8, 1941, the day after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The United States was now at war on two fronts: in Europe and in the Pacific. Despite having resigned his military commission in 1939, Lindbergh was eager to fight for his country. FDR wouldn't hear of it. "You can't have an officer leading men who thinks we're licked before we start...,"said the President....
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