printYour sovereigns have some suggestions on how to eliminate any risk from their arduous, daily duties, and further insulate themselves from interacting with the peasants in the provinces of Rome. You can’t wait, right? Ban “bull’s-eyes or crosshairs on a United States congressman or a federal official.” That’s the brainchild of Rep. Jim Clyburn, third ranking Democrat in the House. “Make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against any federal official or member of Congress.” (Courtesy of Robert Brady, D-Pa.)
As the Boston Herald quipped today, “We’d rather take our chances with a crazed gunman than with crazed politicians.”
I’d be quite happy to stay away from all of them forever-after if they’d promise to keep their distance from me and what’s mine.
“I’d be quite happy to stay away from all of them forever-after if they’d promise to keep their distance from me and what’s mine.”
Commendable thought, yet, I’m afraid, unattainable.
“I’d be quite happy to stay away from all of them forever-after if they’d promise to keep their distance from me and what’s mine.”
Same here. But …they never keep promises. For that matter, if they quit stealing, looting, mooching, and dictating, most of us would welcome them as fellow citizens.
Congress already passed the appropriate law in 1798:
“Penalty on libelling the government That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law”
http://en.wikipedia.org/…United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/5th_Congress /2nd_Session/Chapter_74
They arrested plenty of Republicans back then while notorious “America hating traitors” Jefferson and Madison penned the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of NULLIFICATION.
This all falls perfectly in line with the Dept. of Homeland Security’s narrative of “Domestic Terrorism”< /a> being the next big threat. I wonder how many folks on the right who were cheering on Bush when he was passing the Patriot Act etc. bothered to stop to think, ‘What happens when saying anything against or opposing the government in any way gets defined as terrorism’?
Dan