Posted on 06/09/2022 7:58:27 AM PDT by TooBusy
If you were at the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, two Philadelphia Democrats are coming for you.
Stat Reps. Malcolm Kenyatta and Christopher Rabb are circulating the “Sedition Free Pennsylvania” bill to amend the state constitution and bar people convicted of sedition from holding office or receiving government contracts. Their proposal would also create a new criminal offense, “seditious conspiracy against the commonwealth” and penalties for it.
Kenyatta, who ran against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman U.S. Senate Democratic primary, acknowledged to Delaware Valley Journal the bill is aimed at keeping people out of government who were involved in the January 6 incident. The most obvious target: state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is the GOP’s nominee for governor. It would also impact Kathy Barnette, who was a Republican contender for the U.S. Senate and lost the nomination to Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The announcement was also timed just ahead of a prime-time hearing by the U.S. House January 6 Committee on Thursday, Kenyatta said.
“Pennsylvania is second in the country in terms of individuals who went to the insurrection” on January 6, Kenyatta said. “Senate candidate Kathy Barnette went to the rally.” And Mastriano “is testifying before the January 6 committee.”
“It was not your typical Capitol tour,” Kenyatta said. “If you were involved with violent sedition against the country you should not lead the state… and you should not get government contracts.”
Kenyatta expects the Congressional hearing Thursday night to “show how serious, how dangerous” the situation was in the Capitol on January 6.
If enacted, the new constitutional amendment and companion sedition law would mark “a line drawn in the sand.”
Kenyatta denied the legislation was political and said he expects members from both parties to sign on.
Some critics of the Democrat-controlled January 6 investigation say it shows a double standard. While the people who actually entered the Capitol building and damaged property should be punished, what about the people who rioted as part of Black Lives Matter or Antifa protests over the past three years? Riots that caused billions of dollars in damage and left several people dead?
Kenyatta defended the BLM protesters, saying they were trying to prevent “extrajudicial executions in the street.” And the right to peacefully protest is “enshrined in the First Amendment.”
“They were not trying to overthrow the government,” Kenyatta said, noting that BLM and Antifa are not the same. “January 6 was not a protest.”
“All of us take an oath [to uphold the constitution],” and the people who participated in the January 6 riot “cannot live up to it. Sedition is the exact opposite,” Kenyatta said.
“We’re seeing more and more of them running for government,” he said. As for those already in office, “folks would have to leave office,” he said. “Not only can they not hold office, there’s a part of it where they cannot get government contracts.”
Kenyatta said that America’s democracy is young and “fragile.”
“This democracy needs to be protected as a small child,” he said. “We’re still a young child.
Asked whether the person arrested Wednesday while allegedly on his way to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh over the leaked Roe v. Wade document should be charged with sedition as well, Kenyatta said, “He has to be held accountable. January 6 inspires people” to use violence to solve political problems, he said. “I’m happy this guy was caught and Justice Kavanaugh is safe.”
As for the Supreme Court rulings that he disagrees with, Kenyatta said, “People should run for office and do what I wanted to do, which was expand the court.”
Kenyatta said that America’s democracy is young and “fragile.” “This democracy needs to be protected as a small child,”
Translation: “Democracy” is too important to left in the hands of the people.
Well, since we’re not a Democracy it doesn’t matter.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Not only do they wish to deny the opposition any gov positions or largess,they would love it if they could charge constitutionalists with assorted felonies to deny voting rights.
Win-win
Typical Nazi that can’t win in a democracy.
True, we are not a dmoecracy.
Sadly though, we are being deformed into a “democracy.”
Any thoughts on the rioters who burned the church near the White House, Malcolm Commieyatta?
The DemonRATS brought Sedition to America. They are the ones who spent five years trying to bring down and overthrow President Trump. THEY are the ones now trying to bring down the SCOTUS and destroy America by breaking up the American people into the various tribes according to skin color. THEY ARE THE RACISTS.
Agreed.
"Fair and free elections" aren't going to rig themsleves, which is why we have Pennsylvania Democrat guys like Malcolm Kenyatta, Ozzie Myers and Christopher Rabb to do it for us.
Sports talk radio in the Pittsburgh area has Mark Madden, a loudmouth who gets a suoerfluous political dig in every day. Examole: “January 6th wasn’t a rally, it was an insurrection, come on people.” My feeling: his handlers must be telling him to spread the propaganda if he wants to keep his job.
We need a sedition-free America. Of course, that would mean getting rid of every Demonrat and every RINO.
Meanwhile the seditious acts committed daily by dem reps goes on unabated.
Unconstitutional to backdate or retroactively enforce new criminal law.
Unconstitutional to backdate or retroactively enforce new criminal law.
IMHO, the worse ‘Sedition’ other than taking up arms against your Country, is preventing the Representative process from occurring. Specifically, this begins with votes that matter.
Any and all law changes for voting, done without the consent of the State Legislature are Sedition. Any and all ballot fraud or illegal counting of ballots (outside of State laws), is Sedition. Any political party, who engages in the above as a coordinated effort, has committed Sedition and all members should be treated accordingly. Anyone involved with these should be immediately tried under the new laws and THEY SHOULD BE APPLIED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT to those who participated.
Use their laws against them. Make them accountable to what they preach. Make them answer for subverting the will of the people.
This is just for attention and a publicity stunt. It has 0 chance of passing either the Republican controlled state senate or house.
Vote fraud is rank sedition.
The day is coming soon when filthy pukes like Kenyatta and Rabb will have to face the inquisition. These Obama Bolsheviks are themselves gonna have to answer for their participation in the coup.
The real seditionist are Kenyatta and Rabb.
That Filthadelphia sh!t don’t play up/out here in PAlabama.
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