Do liberals often confuse sedition and treason with "dissent?"?

Question

I have found that to be the case. It is time to bring back the Alein and Sedition acts in these dangerous times?

What do you think?

Answer 1

Poor Iltrix, she is constitutionally impaired. Here's a little help:


Article III, Section 3. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

So dissent all you want. While it is not the highest form of patriotism, it is free speech. But don't adhere to the enemies of the United States, or give them aid and comfort. Then you are in the treasonous realm of behavior.

ADDITION: BTW Henry, Jefferson never said dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Answer 2

While in the Navy, I served on a ship where the Senior Medical Officer out ranked the Commanding Officer. It appeared that there would be a lot of "closed door discussions" from the SMO to the CO. After about the second such discussion, they seemed to have worked out a "mutual" agreement. Regardless, the bottom line was, that both behaved in the utmost professional manner and never once did either one speak ill of the other in front of the crew. Can you just imagine the outcome had they not behaved in such a manner? Now, apply that to a world stage. The back biting and infighting is embarrassing to say the least.
Are the two often confused? Most definitely, "Yes!"

Answer 3

No. It is not time to bring back the manifestly unconstitutional alien and sedition act.

It amazes me how many whack jobs on yahoo answers call themselves conservative but stand against everything that makes America the greatest country on earth. This country was founded on dissent. The right to dissent is in the constitution. Dissent is the only thing that keeps the powerful and would-be oppressors in check.

Answer 4

Hogwash. Here is a quote by someone who seems to say, in different words, what you are saying. He is an obvious idol of yours:


"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

http://www.voicesofdissent.us/

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/06/far04021.html

Thomas Jefferson said "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism".

Answer 5

No. I have heard virtually no speak of overthrowing the government, taking military action, or wanting to violently remove the president. What I usually see is people advocating change by legal and standard means. That would be defined as dissent in my book. Illegal means would be treason.

Answer 6

What act is seditious and what is treasonist? Bush lied to congress about going to war and the reasons for going to war. According to the Constitution, this is a treasonist act. What did liberals do that is treasonist? I'll be waiting for your answer.
It seems to me that conservatives and the people who still follow Bush confuse dissent with treason and sedition. When in fact they give Bush a free ride on all the Constitutional laws that he has broken which in fact are acts of treason. Keep with the happy thoughts though as Bush drags our country further and further into a police state.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9048
http://www.drudge.com/news/95727/bush-breaks-laws-signing-statements

Heart and Troll...... "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them....."
Bush consciously lied about WMD's, nukes and about Al Queda being in Iraq thereby levying war against the U.S for no reason except based on lies. This is in fact an act of war against the United States perpetrated by our own president. This is an act of treason. If it is not treason, it is a felony that is at the very least an impeachable offence.

Answer 7

ok, i think of you are the only that is complicated loose speech with treason, yet to help us discern it out, i'm going to ask you some questions: a million) have been you easily alive for the duration of WWII? If no longer, why is it okay to lecture us approximately rations? Are you presently rationing your sugar and flour? Do you assemble scrap or function an air raid warden? I ought to inform you, my grandparents did all of that, and extra...they took in human beings's teenagers whilst their mothers and fathers have been at war and took over their pals' city jobs on the same time as they have been long previous. additionally, the two certainly one of my grandfathers served in wrestle for the duration of WWII, and neither of them regarded as hateful as you. 2) have you ever served interior the defense force? If no longer, why no longer? 3) would not the comparable shape that defines treason, as you have so eloquently paraphrased, additionally provide us no longer in ordinary terms the dazzling, yet additionally the accountability to question our government's strikes? 4) do you actual have self belief that failure to hop on the bandwagon for any war, and dare to communicate out against it, is the comparable element as treason? i do no longer think of we ought to continually be in Iraq, yet i do no longer undergo in techniques being Muslim or swearing my allegiance to any 17 november. i've got not disbursed hands, or participated in plots, or suggested to my friends and kin that they participate interior the violent overthrow of our government. I even have thanked and welcomed each veteran of this war that I easily have met. I easily have helped plan and execute reunions for my previous due grandfather's shipmates, a minimum of people who survived the jap assaults that sunk their deliver in 1945. they have all completed what they are stated as upon to do, have acted bravely, and deserve our appreciate no count what our place on the war is. I in simple terms think of the guy that despatched them over there's a tyrant. Does that make me a traitor? In precis, i think of you are the explanation why we've a shape in any respect. this could be a rustic the place you're meant to have the skill to particular your disagreement with the corporate, and workout your suitable to vote tin a manner this is consistent with your ideals and morals.

Answer 8

I think you have it backwards....judging by the comments on this board, conservatives have dissent confused with sedition and treason...anyone who questions Bush is treasonous.

Answer 9

I think that our nation would be better off if more American citizens of the conservative stripe would have practiced a bit of dissent beginning in 2003.

I also think you misspelled "alien."

But then again, you're not really asking for what others think, as much as you are trolling for like-minded responses. How sad for you!

Answer 10

You mean that 70% of our nation's citizens have magically become liberals and seditionists? How scary for the 30% who are already suffering from severe delusions to add this paranoic thought to the problems they already have with reality. They'll never recover now.