Now comes the term sedition entering our popular lexicon at a well-deserved time as you will discover when reading Sara Robinson's report.
Guilty of Sedition? How the Right Is Undermining Our Government's Authority and Capability to Run the Country
It's time to openly confront the fact that conservatives have spent the past 40 years systematically delegitimizing the very idea of US government.
Well, finally. It's high time somebody had the guts to say the S-word -- sedition -- right out loud.
When the indictments against the Hutaree were unsealed last week, the S-word was right there, front and center, in Count One. The Justice Department accused them of "seditious conspiracy," charging that the defendants "did knowingly conspire, confederate, and agree with each other and other persons known and unknown...to levy war against the United States, and to prevent, hinder, and delay by force the execution of any United States law."
This is very serious stuff. But the Hutaree are getting nailed for sedition only because they crossed the line with inches to spare.
AlterNet article is here.
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