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Barr Tells Prosecutors to Consider Charging Violent Protesters with Sedition
- Fjolsvith 6y agoAn Act To Enforce The Provisions Of The Fourteenth Ammendment [pdf]: https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/42nd-congress/session-1/c42s1ch22.pdf https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/42nd-congress...
- shadowgovt 6y agoThis doesn't mention sedition.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoFrom the wiki: "Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order." [1] From Section 3 of the Act: "SEC. 3. That in all cases where insurrection, ..." 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
- shadowgovt 6y agoCharging people who are exercising their First Amendment rights, even the ones who get too violent thinking they are exercising those rights, with attempting to overthrow the government is an obvious indicator of fascism.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoMeh, let the juries determine if their conduct is illegal. Oh, wait, we don't have juries in fascist America. I forgot.