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[Terminal23]

For all the Anti-American Bashers out there.

16 May, 1918
The U.S. Sedition Act


United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff. A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917.SECTION 3.


Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States . . . or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production . . . or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both....

[cowboybooter]

Anti - American Bashers ?

As in those who bash Anti - Americans ??

Who are you unloading at here ?

[Edit: poor spelling ]



CBB

Not you, CBB: that act is only for US citizens.

Any Europeans caught "interfering" with the US war machine in Iraq couldn't be charged under that act, I don't think. They would have to charged under some other UN regulations, or under their own countries legislation, I would think.

Cheers
Mick

[RADAR1797]

Actually they (non US citizens) wouldn't be charged, they would be treated as combatants or illegal combatants. In that case they are as fair game for the US military as any Iraqi soldier guarding his post.

-RADAR

[Terminal23]

This is for all the hippie wanabees out there. Get over it people, this is not the 60’s and this is not Vietnam. This is a fight for are very survival. If we do not and I quote “nip this in the bud” thank you Barney Fife. We will be fighting this for a very long time. These are religious zealots who want to takes us back to the Stone Age. So watch out all you fake Hollywood hypocrites, Martin Sheen, Madonna, and Sheryl Crow and by the way your music sucks and even Joan Baez. You’re a bunch of pea sized, brain dead idiots.

[zen]

Terminal, why dont you tell us how you really feel?

[pickel]

I imagine after the first one got his twenty years, the others would have a stiff upper lip. Maybe we could use them as civilian sheilds when the bombs start flying.

[necromancer]

It seems the law was done away with, thankfully. Or am I looking at the wrong thing?

Sedition Act
(May 16, 1918), law passed by Congress during World War I providing for punishment of persons who interfered with the war effort, spoke disloyally of the U.S. Constitution or federal government, or hindered the production of war materials. Eugene V. Debs, leader of the U.S. Socialist party, was imprisoned under this act. Congress repealed the law in 1921.

http://college.hmco.com/history/read...editionact.htm


And it looks like this was the original law.
http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/sedition.htm

[no1_vern]

This changes nothing. Its been the same for nearly 100 years.

People will say what they will as long as they see it as the truth. I prefer the personal liberties(including the loudmouths against the war) to the Nazi style of government.

[Mr. Goodbytes]

So what happens to idiots like these? I say run 'em over and claim they were never there, but that's just me. j/k From the Simpsons: "It's perfectly safe; they're only war games. We've been told not to fire on anyone but Greenpeace."