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The United States will be done in by... stamping out the free expression of openly organizing to commit sedition against the United States. Spare us.
by vyhd 6y ago
The United States will be done in by... stamping out the free expression of openly organizing to commit sedition against the United States.
Spare us.
- justinzollars 6y agosedition. Big loaded words. This was a peasant revolt of gas station employees - that did a lot less damage than the riots in San Francisco last summer.
- vyhd 6y ago> loaded words The literal definition of sedition [1] is: If two or more persons [...] conspire [...] to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof 1. Do you deny that the Capitol building was breached by force? 2. Do you deny that Congress was in session at this time? 3. Do you deny that the breach of the Capitol hindered the Congress's ability to certify vote totals for the presidential election? If the answer to all three of those is "no", then we are literally talking about sedition. [1]: https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-procedure/18-usc-sect-2384.html https://codes.findlaw.com/us/title-18-crimes-and-criminal-pr...
- justinzollars 6y agoNo one will be charged, tried or formally accused of these counts. They are nothing more than political words.
- vyhd 6y agoYou refuse to acknowledge that sedition actually occurred, choosing instead to worry over a theoretical slippery slope of censorship that somehow ends the United States. QED. Safe to say we're done here.
- justinzollars 6y agoDid it actually occur if no one is actually charged with this?
- wes-k 6y agoWAT? Of course! If someone commits a crime and is not charged, that does not mean they didn't commit the crime.
- justinzollars 6y agoWe were talking about sedition. People have been charged with many crimes, but not sedition.
- mesozoic 6y agoDoes seem to apply. Also appears that this sedition law applies to the perpetrators every statue owned by the government that was torn down as well. So we can officially call them seditionists now.
- MrMan 6y agoOn Parler they are bragging they have kill lists of people who they don’t like and warn that they are coming. What do you say to someone on those lists? The FBI doesn’t think these are LARPers. I am really afraid of the ex armed forces types that think this is the funnest thing to do with their short time on Earth. But it’s real. What will happen when they gain control of nuclear weapons or other mass weapons? Are they more angry at foreign foes, or purging liberals? Who is an easier fight?
- justinzollars 6y ago"All of these authoritarian powers will, ironically, be invoked and justified in the name of stopping authoritarianism — not from those who wield power but from the movement that was just removed from power. Those who spent four years shrieking to great profit about the dangers of lurking “fascism” will — without realizing the irony — now use this merger of state and corporate power to consolidate their own authority, control the contours of permissible debate, and silence those who challenge them even further" [1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarianism-in https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-authoritarian...
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