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He should be the first, because of the position he once held and the gravitas that bestows, but certainly not the last...
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Yup. Any other service member publicly said that and they'd be flogged through the fleet.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,723 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Although many people are using the term, I was surprised to see this meme because I figured that Powell's chief of staff would understand the definition of sedition and know that, while engaging in reprehensible behavior, Flynn has not committed sedition. It turns out he didn't actually say that.
He called for Flynn to be court-martialed for incitement to insurrection, a different crime from sedition.
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)se·di·tion
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noun
noun: sedition; plural noun: seditions
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=sedition+definition
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)And it is the legal definition that matters here where we are talking about someone being charged with a crime.
Under federal law, sedition has a very specific definition, one that doesn't apply to Flynn. It is a conspiracy to overthrow the government by force or to use force to prevent the execution of a law. 18 U.S.C. § 2384 Flynn has not engaged in force or called for the use of force, so he has not engaged in a seditious conspiracy as defined by statute.
Wilkinson clearly knows this and that's why he did not call for Flynn to be prosecuted for sedition. Instead, he said he should be court-martialed for "incitement to insurrection" under 18 U.S. Code § 2383, which is a different crime.
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
18 U.S. Code § 2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force 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, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)that won't happen.
lookyhereyou
(140 posts)Colin Powell knows what evil lurks in the shadows.
YELLOWCAKE at the UN (dick chain )
start with flynn and go through the Entire
LYING CHEATING regime all the way to the top.
bring the light : right the ship of state.
government for the People
Cosmo Blues
(2,480 posts)The yellow cake from Niger that he professed Saddam had acquired was bad intelligence, the lone intelligence source known as curveball lied for Dick Cheney and whatever Dick Cheney promised him, no foreign intelligence agencies believed or confirmed that. And Ambassador Wilson debunked the story
Hotler
(11,416 posts)Recalled his ass and arrested him for murder.
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)I'm getting real sick of that fuck strutting around so seditiously...