Posted on 01/18/2003 4:56:09 AM PST by FreeTheHostages
This guy is getting ready to ask for reparations too!
I saw a teletype yesterday morning that was sent to all police depts in WI alerting them that a man, who claims to be a school bus driver, had threatened to steal a school bus. He stated that he was going to drive to the anti-war rally in D.C. He was going to pick up homeless and poor people along the way.
The teletype was also released to AP. I did a check of the AP wires last night, but couldn't find any stories about this.
You know when you say something to someone who can't speak English how the natural tendency is to repeat it louder as if the person was deaf? I think it's the same principle at work. Their message doesn't compute, so they figure if they say it louder people will get it, or if nothing else, at least it will sound like it's important. If you think about, liberals basically do the same thing on TV, not to mention on the Senate floor. It's companion principle is "repeat a lie often enough and loud enough and people will start believing it." Don't laugh. It worked for Clinton.
I, uh...turned it off at the part about "I am a Muslim...Martin Luther King...I am a Muslim...Martin Luthor King..." drivel.
Dr. King MUST be rolling over in his grave right now.
SEC. I Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any law of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot. unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court may be holden to find sureties for his good behaviour in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct.
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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, and declared, That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one, and no longer: Provided. That the expiration of the act shall not prevent or defeat a prosecution and punishment of any offence against the law, during the time it shall be in force.
JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, President of the Senate, pro tempore.
APPROVED, July 14, 1798:
JOHN ADAMS, President of the United States.
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