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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSedition is illegal. Trump is openly talking the same talk.
Sedition is illegal.
https://www.law.cornell.edu text
18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of ...
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes
Trump is openly talking the talk that brought Jan 06, 2021.
Why is he given a pass to openly broadcast funding needs, recruiting and lies to support the rebuilding of his seditious organization?
Why is his purported ability to shoot somebody on 5th Ave without recourse not taken as a warning?
Blue Owl
(50,348 posts)So long as that zeppelin is The Hindenburg on May 6, 1937...
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)into ashes.
Blue Owl
(50,348 posts)with a FOX host combo -- "Oh, the Hume Hannity..."
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I recall back in the day one of our long-deceased DUers made us wear it to show we would question authority. It's been a long time since I have seen that one.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Question everything - especially authority. I wish that I had known about that fellow DU-er and his/her belief.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Took me a while to recall back 15 years or so. He was the original TOON poster. Did it every day for years. Wrote a play about questioning authority as I recall for an off-off-Broadway show.
Beloved and one whose loss was felt by all. Probably a few other oldtimers who knew him would remember more.
He would like that you chose his '?' button and your reason.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)That's my guess.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)to Democracy.
maxsolomon
(33,306 posts)However: why not use the 14th Amendment, Section 3?
Fourteenth Amendment
Section 3
No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Prosper
(761 posts)immunizes Trump with double jeopardy to prevent sedition charges? My underdtanding is he is only protected from being retried for Jan 06. No law background here.
maxsolomon
(33,306 posts)Legally, IDK. Someone could try it; my opinion is no one will.
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