Sedition charges are back!
It's illegal to criticize public officials again!
To sum up, this means that you can get 20 years if you write or speak things that the government doesn't like, that it feels are politically threatening. Officially the law targets people who “conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the government of the United States, or to levy war against them.”
It was originally written by the North during the Civil War to jail Confederate sympathizers in the North… Problem, is it's written broadly enough that, in the recent past it has been used to jail Marxists for nothing more than spreading communist manifestos (not bombs).
You've got to love the fact that it's perfectly legal to publish holocaust revisionism, but it's illegal to publish anti-government manifestos. What's even better is that not only is it illegal to publish them, you can't even talk about the concepts or think about them either… Is this really what we're fighting for? Is this really worth dying for?
I was under the impression that free speech was valued in America, but I guess I was wrong. I suppose the world is a better place though if you ban politicians that don't support war from gathering though right? And it's best to expell students that wear anti-war t-shirts from public schools? Do the people enforcing these laws believe that Americans won't be patriotic if they're not legally required to?
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