Treason Looks Pretty in Pink

www.FamilySecurityMatters.org ^ | 10-18-07 | Pam Meister

[Security Mom 08]

The anti-war group Code Pink has not only trashed a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley, but calls military recruiters “traitors.” Pam Meister looks at both historic and recent events that put these laughable claims into some important perspective.

Click here to read this piece about Code Pink

[Security Mom 08]

Gosh this Code Pink Group drives me nuts.....

[DieHard the Hunter]

Do you not have “Sedition” laws in the US? If not, you should.

[ripley]

any enemy of the u.s. is a friend of theirs. (they hated the fact that americans were killing their allies in viet nam, they hate the fact that americans are killing their al qaida allies in iraq.)

[incredulous joe]

Sedition, treason and border laws seem to go unenforced. Can’t say I know why that is?

One of the consequences with a system of justice that does not enforce it’s laws is that at some point laweabiders will begin to take the law into their own hands.

[JamesA]

What ever it takes, get rid of these pinko’s.

[hotshu]

Based solely on the headline, I woukd have thought the article was referencing her heinousness’ press conference back in the ‘90’s.

[bert]

[Mygirlsmom]

The anti-war group Code Pink has not only trashed a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley, but calls military recruiters “traitors.”

Good thing they stopped short of calling the soldiers "phony" or Harry Reid and the "flatulent 41" would be all over this.

[Teacher317]

Do you not have “Sedition” laws in the US? If not, you should.

"Sedition" in American history... Okay, first there were the four "Alien and Sedition Acts" of 1798. The fourth was The Sedition Act (official title: An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States), which made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government or its officials. Since this law could clearly be used rather unscrupulously (President Hillary, anyone?), and had some major free speech implications, it was allowed to expire after 2 years.

A little more than a century later, with the advent of a aprticularly gruesome Great War, the government once again tried to outlaw some forms of criticism. The 1918 Sedition Act made it a crime to utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States' form of government. Uber-Socialist Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison under this law. U.S. citizens including members of the Industrial Workers of the World union were also imprisoned during World War I for their anti-war dissent under the provisions of the Sedition Act. (The law was repealed in 1921.)

We've been terribly gun-shy about giving our Sedition laws any teeth for many years. Since Debs is a quiet hero of the American Left today, the American media does everything it can to make any even sensible Sedition Law look like "goverment out of control"... especially since they have the most to lose, since they're one of the most truly seditious groups in existence today.

Today, Sedition is codified as:
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
Sec. 2384. Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
-SOURCE-
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

AMENDMENTS
1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $20,000".
1956 - Act July 24, 1956, substituted "$20,000" for "$5,000", and "twenty years" for "six years".

(Interesting that the punishments were radically reduced in the McCarthyism Era.)

[Teacher317]

(oops... looks like I read that wrong... they were increased in the 50’s... that makes far more sense, LOL)

[kitkat]

***(oops... looks like I read that wrong... they were increased in the 50’s... that makes far more sense, LOL)***

Thanks for that correction. Makes a LOT more sense. LOL!

And thanks for the rundown on our sedition laws.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Well! That is a thorough and comprehensive answer to my question. Thanks!

I wonder why Sedition laws are not being applied to the likes of Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan and the Dixie Chicks, that nutter “Baptist” whatsisname that protests at veterans funerals, plus half of the rest of Hollywood?