The very word itself has an ominous ring to it. Perhaps it was meant to be so, as the act of sedition has at various times throughout history exacted the ultimate punishment of execution.
The charge has now been thrown about by Joe Klein of Time Magazine (pictured above) when referring to Sarah Palin, Glen Beck, and Rush Limbaugh for daring to speak out against the American Caesar (Obama). Insofar as I am concerned there isn't any love lost for the aforementioned accused. Palin is to me, nothing more than an establishment republican. Beck is just silly most of the time and Limbaugh has been a loyal water boy for the republicans since he was wet behind the ears. Regardless of my opinion of the "faces of the conservative movement", they still have a G-D given right to express their opinions of and to vehemently disagree with whatever regime happens to sit on the throne of the Empire of the District of Criminals.
The Alien & Sedition Acts of 1798 were used to shut down dissent and imprison opposition to the over reaching federal government. Has a familiar ring to it, huh? America was involved with an undeclared naval war with France and there was a lot of opposition to it. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were two of the more notable opponents and were stirred to author the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. Benjamin Franklin's grandson was imprisoned for daring to publish "libelous" articles against the president.
What is sad, is that in this day and time there are no longer any Jeffersons or Madisons to rise up and take the lead against tyrannical federal power.
The caveat is that the charge of sedition can only be levied against those that rise up against lawful authority. There is nothing remotely lawful about the regime in DC and hasn't been since the march toward empire began. However the regime gets to define the words and the MSM dutifully regurgitates the empirical pablum.
Surely I am to be considered seditious for daring to rail against the regime. Since I am not famous and you will never see me on television, would I be so inconsequential to the regime that I will be left alone? Regardless of the consequences, I must and do call for the people to rise up and throw off the burdensome yoke that the regime is placing on our necks.
Much like the wolf in Aesop's fables, I am of the mind that an empty belly in freedom is preferable to a fully belly as a slave. People often quote the bible as telling us to obey the government. It does that indeed..............but it is referring to just and lawful government.
I exhort everyone to start stock piling the items necessary to take you through some hard times. The minions in the MSM are not saying these things for the fun of it. They do what their masters in DC tell them to.
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