Dan

“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.

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.

Commendable thought, yet, I’m afraid, unattainable.