"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

"Rick" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

It takes more than criticism of the government. For instance:

--wishing terrorist attacks will hit the fly-over areas of our
country

--constantly denigrating the intelligence and capabilities of our
troops

--wishing ill health or harm on a sitting president

Those kind of comments would make someone a traitor, IMO.

So, in your world, wishes, and repeated negative comments are acts of
treason?

OK, Rick. Will you agree that they're acts of sedition then?

16 May, 1918
The U.S. Sedition Act


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United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp
553
ff.
A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15,
1917.

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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....


Oh no, not the frippin' right-wing alien and sedition act. PAssed to
stifle dissent. No wonder Noy Brains likes it.

Indeed, I *do* like it. I hope someone dusts off the legislative annals
pretty soon, and brings it back to the forefront.