Are people standing up against sedition more in Yahoo! Answers?

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I often do, and although it is no longer illegal, it is still contemptible, and I am often stunned to hear someone in my party (as I was when it was republicans during Former President Clinton's terms) speak seditiously.

Here's what Wikipedia says about sedition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts

Links to the actual acts are found there.

People don't seem to know the difference between disagreement (vs. treating other Americans as if they were the enemy);
dissent (vs. quitting because they didn't get their way in an election they had no trouble with BEFORE the election);
and protest (vs. violence, name-calling, rumor mongering, and treating our representatives as 'guilty until proven innocent').

Do you speak up when you see it? Only when it is the other side of the aisle? Or every time? How many patriots are out there, rather than political partisans who hate Americans?

Ah, but would you seek legislative and judicial means of dealing with a President you disagreed with or would you use sedition?

Notice I never said silence them. I agree that that is more unAmerican than sedition.
But note that the seditious always play the "you're censoring me card" whenever you disagree with them or call them on it.
They can be seditious, but if you all it sedition, and call it contemptible, you're trying to silence them.

Sorry, you may have free speech (that's good). So do we. Our founding fathers would applaud standing up for our country and it's representatives by insisting people use legal and just ways of dealing with their representatives or face the free speech response of every patriot near them.

The "censorship card" doesn't work here. I WANT you to keep speaking up. Just be ready for our response. Can you accept THAT, Nodality?

Obvious to who, Pantagruel (sp?), you? Me?
Who gets to take into their own hands the right to undermine our government with impunity?
I'm not much younger than you, had two parents in government (C.I.A. and U.N.) and simply have no tolerance for people who think it is "cool" to hate America or undermine our elected officials because they "think" they've done something wrong. They won't make the effort to take them to court, to legislate, they just want to call them names, spread rumors, etc. They're like town gossips, with no backbone to actually do what any patriotic American WOULD do if they really believed what you're saying. Heck, my leadership (democrat) hasn't done a thing about anything you're claiming. You mean that despite all the obvious "proof" you use to be seditious and undermine our President, NOT ONE DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN WILL CHARGE HIM OPENLY? They just talk?

That's not leadership. That's cowardice. Is that who you stand with?

Answer 1

Yes i speak up when i see sedition.
I am a Patriot and I love my country and my president.

Answer 2

When there is obvious election fraud resulting in a stolen election ,then all bets are off ! When the President lies to the world and the citizens of this country,he leaves himself open to heavy criticism and even ridicule. Just because the American public don't like him for all of that,hate is not the feeling they actually have. What you are suffering from is the same syndrome that people deprogrammed out of a cult experience. At first there is intense anger at the people around you ,then you start to think that they hate the leader of the cult and you'll lash out again in anger at anything they say or do. The loyal Bushies are gonna need some real serious deprogramming to get them feeling like normal loving humans again ! Don't you see how screwed up in the head 'W' and his crew are? It's our Constitution,not Bush's' ! How old are you? Were you alive to see the JFK assassination? I was! That was an 'inside job' and we all knew it ! No body could prove it until now. Look at the vids on utube and the statements of E.Howard Hunt from his death bed. G.H.W.Bush testified under oath that he wasn't in Dallas when JFK was shot,but Hunt produced photos of Mr. Bush lurking right in front of the Texas Book Depository Bldg.at the time of the shooting ! So my seditious behavior started in 1962 in Dallas when I saw my President murdered by our own govt. !

Answer 3

Treason might be more appropriate to address today.

I refer to elected officials of both parties and particularly the White House who actively seek the systematic overthrow of the Constitution of The United States of America.

These elected officials swore to defend and protect the Constitution. They are violating their oath.

Sedition refers to population trying to overthrow the legal government.

Today we have officials of public trust, elected or otherwise, seeking the overthrow of the lawful government of the USA from within to form a criminal state based on totalitarian misuses of authority.

The liberal/conservative divisiveness is a ploy used to divide the nation, eliminate all debate, and promote hate, while genuinely traitorous acts take place to overthrow the lawful and constitutional government on behalf of a authoritarian criminal government.

I do not see sedition by citizens today.

Answer 4

And thus is totalitarianism born. What is it with America? Free speech, so long as you agree with so-called "American" values? Can you not see that media and social censorship is as prevalent in your society as it is in many of those societies you send your armies against to "free" them?

I suggest you study the constitutions of your individual states, and your own constitution and it's amendments. I have the feeling that the founding fathers of your nation are spinning in their graves, and shouting "NO! That's not what we meant!", right now.

Answer 5

I think People in general have been pushed into a corner and now they are Speaking up, even if it is not popular...that's a good thing!

Answer 6

i speak up,i'm not a scared repub,they like to talk tough,yet they hide and whine