WTF??? Can a Magazine Publisher get put in jail for inciting treason?

[FrenchieCat]

I saw this when I was at 7 Eleven tonight. :wtf:

[CAG]

1. I don't know....... BUT IS DR. PHIL THE DAD??????

[Jennicut]

2. Is that Murdoch's trash?

Disgusting as always.

[BlooInBloo]

3. No.

This has been another episode of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Well, I'm calling the publisher of that rag a Traitor to this country....

I realize that traitors don't normally give a shit anyways.....but still.

[BlooInBloo]

6. :) I'm with you.

[amandabeech]

5. I hope that you're not series, Frenchie.

There is absolutely no way that this is treason.

The First Amendment to the Constitution defeats nearly all challenges.

Thank heavens for that.

[jenmito]

7. Do they check the troops before they get to be in an audience when Obama speaks to them?

This is scary.

[Hamlette]

8. there were several under Bush too n/t

[jenmito]

9. They considered the Iraq war illegal-they didn't consider Bush to be a "usurper" or "imposter"

who should be overthrown or removed however possible. They weren't a threat to Bush.

[Politicalboi]

26. Well at least that had some ground

Bush wasn't elected and Bush did 9/11. So I wouldn't blame anyone who had doubts about Bush. These assholes are more than likely "birthers". It's all they got.

[masuki bance]

10. I wonder what the IRS could find if they looked hard enough.

[amandabeech]

11. Those are Bush tactics not worthy of an Obama administration. n/t

[vadawg]

12. Is this really what you want us to become

siccing the government offices on people who we disagree with, this is walking head held high into dictatorship.

[FrenchieCat]

13. I'm sorry, but this is on every shelf of every supermarket!

Forgive me if I'm not into giving the Birthers and their minions the "Coast is clear" to simply lie about our President.

The fact is that they are creating doubt against our President where there is none. To say that soldiers are ready to mutiny against this CIC is treasonous, IMO.

[vadawg]

14. i hate to say it but lies about the president are probuably the same stuff people

complained about during washingtons tenure, theres always gonna be some lies and what we sometimes dont want to know, will come out too. Id rather put up with some lies and some truths than have a censored news.

[FrenchieCat]

15. The news is already censored,

or haven't you heard?

[cali]

19. Well, I'd bet Obama himself disagrees strongly with you

you're being ridiculous. This is not treason. And your cavalier attitude toward the 1st amendment is scary.

[liberalsince1968]

16. Ever heard of the First Amendment? You want Obama to violate it?

GMAFB.

[DRoseDARs]

17. Look up Brandenburg v. Ohio and tell us how that fits into your argument.

No, I'm not being combative, I'm giving you something to think about to flesh out your position whether it changes or not. This magazine doesn't rise to the level, but I have to wonder just how thin the ice Glenn Beck is skating on these past few days.

[masuki bance]

27. Beck needs to start fearing the consequences

[Zynx]

20. The freedom of speech is not absolute and has never been interpreted as such.

[jberryhill]

29. A supermarket tabloid does not present a clear and present danger of violence

"Clear and present" means right there, right now.

This ain't that.

[cali]

18. Please tell me you aren't really calling for the publishers/editors

of this rag to be tried for treason. That is NOT treason.

[FrenchieCat]

25. No, I'm not.

But I do have a problem with magazines with the circulation of millions to be able to print outlandish trash aimed at questioning the support of our President by our Armed Forces.

It's one thing to print lies on a President's personal life, it is quite another to print lies on how a segment of the military is ready to mutiny based on those lies.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. Disgusting. Both the Globe and this OP

Both disgusting.
"To announce that there should be no criticism of the President, or that we should stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only servile and unpatriotic, but it is also morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt, US President.

Americans always have widely differing views of our elected servants. We do not jail people for having or for reporting those opinions, no matter how offensive or incorrect they may seem to us.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. No, nor should they be.

This is protected speech under the First Amendment. It's obnoxious, but it's protected. We all get to say inflammatory, offensive things without the threat of imprisonment. Actual treason is a crime, but this isn't it.

[TexasObserver]

23. How is reporting the news inciting treason?

It's silly to lambaste any news organization for reporting facts about the soldiers who need to be purged from the military.

Why wouldn't we want to have this reported?

[treestar]

24. The First Amendment is not absolute on this though this magazine

well make that "magazine" could be said to be just reporting. The soldier involved could be in some trouble, though.

One thing the First Amendment does not allow is calling for overthrow of the government. That may not include just the President since he is not the entire government.

But the President is CIC, so I do not think military people have freedom of speech to say they aren't going to obey without mutiny.

Complicating matters, liberals like us did have questions about carrying out * orders, where they violated the Constitution. But those were serious questions (unlike the ridiculous birther crap).

[jberryhill]

28. I feel badly for Robin Williams, but his condition is unlikely to incite treason /nt

[csziggy]

30. Has the page been hacked? I get "Page unavailable/under construction"

And it is not an error message. I looked at the source code and that shows:

<html>
<body>
Page unavailable/under
construction</body>
</html>