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To: AFPhys

The following should be applied to Newsweek:


16 May, 1918
The U.S. Sedition Act



SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war,
shall willfully make or convey false reports or false
statements with intent to interfere with the operation
or success of the military or naval forces of the
United States, or to promote the success of its
enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false
reports, or false statements, . . . or incite
insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of
duty, in the military or naval forces of the United
States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the
recruiting or enlistment service of the United States,
or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or
publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive
language about the form of government of the United
States, or the Constitution of the United States, or
the military or naval forces of the United States . .
. or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign
enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or
advocate any curtailment of production . . . or
advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any
of the acts or things in this section enumerated and
whoever shall by word or act support or favor the
cause of any country with which the United States is
at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the
United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of
not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more
than twenty years, or both...


262 posted on 05/16/2005 6:24:35 PM PDT by Skip1
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To: Skip1

Agreed.

It is time. Long past. These FRAUDcasters are killing people.

Literally.


263 posted on 05/16/2005 6:43:35 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Skip1
shall be punished by a fine of
not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more
than twenty years, or both...
 
I vote for BOTH!

266 posted on 05/16/2005 6:48:05 PM PDT by Allosaurs_r_us (for a fee........I'm happy to be........Your BACKDOOR MAN!....Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!)
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