President Trump has called for Democrats to be executed for sedition. The voters expect Democrats to come to the table with a real counter-proposal and negotiate a mutually acceptable compromise. That’s doing politics the right way.
-Ezra Klein, New York TImes
It is particularly galling that Trump is calling for the execution of people who actually served honorably in the military, while he took a bone spur exemption and famously boasted that his Vietnam was dodging syphilis in 70s New York.
Just a historically loathsome figure by any measure.
/13 Why? For proximity to power. For prestige. For attention.
Some tongues were made to praise God. Some tongues were made to sing. Some were made for poetry, some for prose, some to agitate and some to soothe.
But some tongues were made for the boot.
/8 There is no remotely plausible argument that it’s treason or sedition to point out that the military need not follow illegal orders. It is unquestionably protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
/6 The vast majority of people who serve in the military understand and respect their oath to support and defend the Constitution and acknowledge that means not following manifestly unlawful orders.
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4 in 5 US troops surveyed unde...
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
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Stewart Rhodes, convicted of s...
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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/2 There is no federal crime of “sedition.” There is a federal crime of “seditious conspiracy,” which requires conspiring to overthrow the U.S. or hinder its laws by force.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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/2 Just to be clear, 5th Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith’s dissent is wildly emotionally incontinent and so bizarre it can’t even be called unprofessional. If someone I loved wrote it I would be very worried and investigate dementia.
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