The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition’

[donttread]

Actually it was Trump who made a mockey of the election you moron with his lie that it was stolen from him. He made the same threat back in 2016 that if he lost, the election was stolen from him. To bad you fucking MAGA clowns are too goddam stupid to see thru his bullshit.

You don't like the fact that your candidate lost? Then move your asses to fucking Russia where elections really ARE rigged. Then run your mouth over there & see how long it takes before you're thrown into some Gulag.

Didn't Gore and Hilary both claim the same? With far less reason I might add.

 

[frigidweirdo]

The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition’
Remember when dissent was patriotic?​

The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition’ | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
19 Dec 2020 ~~ By David Catron


It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing — that lawyers, members of Congress, and state attorneys general who supported post-election litigation are guilty of sedition. At least one Democratic congressman insists that attorneys representing the president in such challenges should be disbarred and that House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court shouldn’t be seated in Congress. One of the defendants in that ill-fated lawsuit described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
This dangerous view of dissent has a long, sordid history among progressives. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, for example, was the driving force behind the notorious Sedition Act of 1918, passed by his fellow Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress. This anti-democratic outrage made it a felony crime to criticize the government and, by extension, Wilson himself. A violation of the Sedition Act was punishable by a fine of as much as $10,000 and imprisonment for as long as 20 years. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act. This crime against democracy was at length repealed by the Republicans after the GOP won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1918 midterm elections.
Considering its ignoble history, one would think journalists would avoid a term like “sedition.” Sadly, the legacy media has joined the creepy chorus described in the first paragraph above. The Week advises, “The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress.” The New Yorker solemnly intones, “There needs to be a real reckoning.” Salon accuses the president of plotting a “seditious secession movement.” Esquire describes states that filed “friend of the court” briefs in favor of the Texas lawsuit as “accomplices” in a “seditious conspiracy.” All of this would be mildly amusing if the “S” word hadn’t actually been used by Pennsylvania’s attorney general in his reply brief to the Supreme Court. George Washington University law profressor Jonathan Turley explains:

Filing with the Supreme Court is the very antithesis of sedition. Seeking judicial review is not subversion of the Constitution or a call to rebellion. It is using the constitutional process. If going to the courts is “seditious,” going to church must be atheism… It is hardly compelling for Attorney General Josh Shapiro to argue that a filing is reckless and unfounded by using reckless and unfounded rhetoric. Such hyperbolic language may thrill the base but will not likely thrill the Court.​

This is the kind of reasoning we expect from a reputable law professor. Sedition is, after all, a word with a legal definition. As Jennifer Stepp Breen, an associate professor at the Syracuse University School of Law, recently explained to Capital Tonight, “We have a federal criminal law defining seditious conspiracy, and that’s when a group of two or more people gather together to essentially overthrow the government, or prevent a government from enacting its laws.” This does not include empty rhetoric or tweets about stolen elections. Sedition has to involve “imminent lawless activity.” And it should be obvious to the meanest intelligence — even a Sunday morning talking head — that filing state and federal lawsuits does not constitute an attempt to overthrow the federal government.
In the minds of many Democrats, however, it is seditious to merely question Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. Friday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) went on CNN and delivered herself of this accusation: “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.”
~[snip]~
Moreover, the Democrats and the media who insist on using words like “sedition” know it. What, then, is the point of deploying such words, particularly when the purported winner of the November election has called for national unity? Historically, authoritarian regimes have used fictitious tales of treason as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission. This is invariably enabled by propaganda organs willing to parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored. But that could never happen here, right? We’re Americans, right? We wouldn’t sit obediently behind our useless masks enduring a new wave of ineffective lockdowns while it appears that a presidential election is being stolen before our eyes, right? Right?

Comment:
Indeed, The Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat left lies about everything. People who consume only the Quisling Marxist press in the USA will never know that there was any election fraud at all.
Odd isn't it, PM/DSA demonstrations of more than 400 'legitimate protests' against Trump and over 1000 un-permitted ones in 4 years. Cities and towns destroyed by Antifa and BLM violence and arson didn't qualify as sedition?
It seems, that only resistance against PM/DSA Democrats is sedition. Otherwise, it’s perfectly fine.
They don’t even hide their tyrannical hypocrisy.

Does either side hide their hypocrisy?

You'll attack the left for bad shit, but will you attack the right for doing the same shit?

 

[22lcidw]

Does either side hide their hypocrisy?

You'll attack the left for bad shit, but will you attack the right for doing the same shit?

It certainly would be better if the media/entertainers were 50/50 on views. Its been 95% Pro Prog for many years. Both sides have affected freedom. I prefer freedom over tyranny. I believe your politicians and judges are just that and boost their agendas with the media/entertainers.

 

[Doc7505]

Beating on & killing cops is tresspassing, Trump ass licker? Hey didga forgot how members of your boy's own party qustioned Trump's role in attempting that coup? That was before they got their marching orders from that traiterous slime you defend.

Are YOU having fun yet ,MAGA traitor? Romove that red cap before it totally drains what little is left of your brain.

Name the "Cops" killed by the rioters on January 6th... None!!
OTOH, Antifa and BLM are responsible for:

At least 25 Americans were killed during protests and political unrest in 2020

Findings from Armed Conflict Location and Event Data raise concerns about continued violence during and after election day

www.theguardian.com

**********​

More Than 2,000 Officers Injured in Summer's Protests and Riots

More than 2,000 law enforcement officers were injured in the first weeks of protests over the summer following the in-custody death of George Floyd, according to a report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

www.policemag.com

 

[Concerned American]

Name the "Cops" killed by the rioters on January 6th... None!!
OTOH, Antifa and BLM are responsible for:

At least 25 Americans were killed during protests and political unrest in 2020

Findings from Armed Conflict Location and Event Data raise concerns about continued violence during and after election day

www.theguardian.com

**********​

More Than 2,000 Officers Injured in Summer's Protests and Riots

More than 2,000 law enforcement officers were injured in the first weeks of protests over the summer following the in-custody death of George Floyd, according to a report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

www.policemag.com

Only one murder--by a capitol cop on an unarmed, female protester who was taking photos. Blood is on Piglosi's hands.

 

[frigidweirdo]

It certainly would be better if the media/entertainers were 50/50 on views. Its been 95% Pro Prog for many years. Both sides have affected freedom. I prefer freedom over tyranny. I believe your politicians and judges are just that and boost their agendas with the media/entertainers.

Well, there's now way it's "95% Pro Prog", there's plenty of right wing nonsense out there.

If you want freedom, you're going to have to fight for it. Saying that someone expressing their viewpoint on TV is going against freedom is just bizarre. Freedom starts by having a proper voting system. The US's FPTP is the biggest problem.

 

[Doc7505]

Well, there's now way it's "95% Pro Prog", there's plenty of right wing nonsense out there.

If you want freedom, you're going to have to fight for it. Saying that someone expressing their viewpoint on TV is going against freedom is just bizarre. Freedom starts by having a proper voting system. The US's FPTP is the biggest problem.

Link(s)?

 

[Colin norris]

The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition’
Remember when dissent was patriotic?​

The Left Redefines Resistance as ‘Sedition’ | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
19 Dec 2020 ~~ By David Catron


It was inevitable that the Democrats would overreact to legal challenges by President Trump and other Republicans to corrupt election practices in swing states, but some responses have been unhinged even by their standards. One recurring refrain is particularly disturbing — that lawyers, members of Congress, and state attorneys general who supported post-election litigation are guilty of sedition. At least one Democratic congressman insists that attorneys representing the president in such challenges should be disbarred and that House members who supported Texas v. Pennsylvania in the Supreme Court shouldn’t be seated in Congress. One of the defendants in that ill-fated lawsuit described it as a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
This dangerous view of dissent has a long, sordid history among progressives. Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, for example, was the driving force behind the notorious Sedition Act of 1918, passed by his fellow Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress. This anti-democratic outrage made it a felony crime to criticize the government and, by extension, Wilson himself. A violation of the Sedition Act was punishable by a fine of as much as $10,000 and imprisonment for as long as 20 years. More than 2,000 American citizens were arrested and prosecuted pursuant to the Sedition Act. This crime against democracy was at length repealed by the Republicans after the GOP won majorities in both houses of Congress in the 1918 midterm elections.
Considering its ignoble history, one would think journalists would avoid a term like “sedition.” Sadly, the legacy media has joined the creepy chorus described in the first paragraph above. The Week advises, “The Constitution has an answer for seditious members of Congress.” The New Yorker solemnly intones, “There needs to be a real reckoning.” Salon accuses the president of plotting a “seditious secession movement.” Esquire describes states that filed “friend of the court” briefs in favor of the Texas lawsuit as “accomplices” in a “seditious conspiracy.” All of this would be mildly amusing if the “S” word hadn’t actually been used by Pennsylvania’s attorney general in his reply brief to the Supreme Court. George Washington University law profressor Jonathan Turley explains:

Filing with the Supreme Court is the very antithesis of sedition. Seeking judicial review is not subversion of the Constitution or a call to rebellion. It is using the constitutional process. If going to the courts is “seditious,” going to church must be atheism… It is hardly compelling for Attorney General Josh Shapiro to argue that a filing is reckless and unfounded by using reckless and unfounded rhetoric. Such hyperbolic language may thrill the base but will not likely thrill the Court.​

This is the kind of reasoning we expect from a reputable law professor. Sedition is, after all, a word with a legal definition. As Jennifer Stepp Breen, an associate professor at the Syracuse University School of Law, recently explained to Capital Tonight, “We have a federal criminal law defining seditious conspiracy, and that’s when a group of two or more people gather together to essentially overthrow the government, or prevent a government from enacting its laws.” This does not include empty rhetoric or tweets about stolen elections. Sedition has to involve “imminent lawless activity.” And it should be obvious to the meanest intelligence — even a Sunday morning talking head — that filing state and federal lawsuits does not constitute an attempt to overthrow the federal government.
In the minds of many Democrats, however, it is seditious to merely question Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. Friday, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) went on CNN and delivered herself of this accusation: “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.”
~[snip]~
Moreover, the Democrats and the media who insist on using words like “sedition” know it. What, then, is the point of deploying such words, particularly when the purported winner of the November election has called for national unity? Historically, authoritarian regimes have used fictitious tales of treason as the pretext for crushing their political rivals and cowing their citizens into submission. This is invariably enabled by propaganda organs willing to parrot the regime’s party line while less compliant media are censored. But that could never happen here, right? We’re Americans, right? We wouldn’t sit obediently behind our useless masks enduring a new wave of ineffective lockdowns while it appears that a presidential election is being stolen before our eyes, right? Right?

Comment:
Indeed, The Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrat left lies about everything. People who consume only the Quisling Marxist press in the USA will never know that there was any election fraud at all.
Odd isn't it, PM/DSA demonstrations of more than 400 'legitimate protests' against Trump and over 1000 un-permitted ones in 4 years. Cities and towns destroyed by Antifa and BLM violence and arson didn't qualify as sedition?
It seems, that only resistance against PM/DSA Democrats is sedition. Otherwise, it’s perfectly fine.
They don’t even hide their tyrannical hypocrisy.

Settle down son. If you guys have the freedom to challenge the result, dems have to freedom to reject it. The lawyers acting for trump were parasites. Even his personal lawyers told him he had no chance and left it alone.

That aside, two audits in AZ prove there was no fraud. The progression of more court challenges by trumps lackeys is looking more like sedition each day.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Link(s)?

What on Earth do you want links for?

That you're going to have to fight for your own freedom? That the sky is blue.

 

[Doc7505]

rizona

Settle down son. If you guys have the freedom to challenge the result, dems have to freedom to reject it. The lawyers acting for trump were parasites. Even his personal lawyers told him he had no chance and left it alone.

That aside, two audits in AZ prove there was no fraud. The progression of more court challenges by trumps lackeys is looking more like sedition each day.

~~~~~~
Funny you should mention Arizona.... Chew on this for a little while:

BREAKING: Maricopa County Agrees to Settle with Arizona Senate -- Special Master Hired to Provide Answers to Senate | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

The Arizona Senate reached an agreement with Maricopa County on the routers and splunk logs withheld from senate investigators.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

**********​

HUGE WIN For Arizona Senate: CyberNinjas WILL Access The Routers As Requested - Questions WILL Be Answered | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

Maricopa County has agreed to settle with the Arizona Senate and allow them to perform a joint-led audit of the County routers, Splunk logs, and dominion software.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

That means:
All you need to know:

routers being handed over
splunk logs being handed over
dropped claim against the senate

 

[Colin norris]

rizona



~~~~~~
Funny you should mention Arizona.... Chew on this for a little while:

BREAKING: Maricopa County Agrees to Settle with Arizona Senate -- Special Master Hired to Provide Answers to Senate | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

The Arizona Senate reached an agreement with Maricopa County on the routers and splunk logs withheld from senate investigators.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

**********​

HUGE WIN For Arizona Senate: CyberNinjas WILL Access The Routers As Requested - Questions WILL Be Answered | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

Maricopa County has agreed to settle with the Arizona Senate and allow them to perform a joint-led audit of the County routers, Splunk logs, and dominion software.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

That means:
All you need to know:

routers being handed over
splunk logs being handed over
dropped claim against the senate

But there was no fraud detected that would swing the state and did Biden win the state? I'll let you answer that.

 

[Rye Catcher]

Didn't Gore and Hilary both claim the same? With far less reason I might add.

Wrong, Both Gore and HRC went away peacefully, dumb Donald has not and continues along with his dumb supporters to disrupt nearly three centuries of democracy. The mob continues on social media to lie and assassinate the character of every person who tells the truth about trumpism.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Wrong, Both Gore and HRC went away peacefully, dumb Donald has not and continues along with his dumb supporters to disrupt nearly three centuries of democracy. The mob continues on social media to lie and assassinate the character of every person who tells the truth about trumpism.

Gore and Hillary were both defeated. Hillary refused to accept.
Trump and Americans were clearly robbed by democrats, the party of retarded baboons.

 

[Clipper]

Only one murder--by a capitol cop on an unarmed, female protester who was taking photos. Blood is on Piglosi's hands.

How many times do I have to explain to you so you can get it thru your thick head that DOJ investigated & found that the shooting was justified? Meaning it wasen't murder, so your rant means nothing.

There must be something wrong with you.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

How many times do I have to explain to you so you can get it thru your thick head that DOJ investigated & found that the shooting was justified? Meaning it wasen't murder, so your rant means nothing.

There must be something wrong with you.

Bullshit. There needs to be an investigation, charges and a trial.
You’re an insurrectionist.

 

[Clipper]

Gore and Hillary were both defeated. Hillary refused to accept.
Trump and Americans were clearly robbed by democrats, the party of retarded baboons.

Go ahead & follow Trump down the road to hell. He's a malignant psychopath, but go ahead & follow your leader & see where this ends up.

Our Democracy is worth more then that shitbag. Wake up.

Bullshit. There needs to be an investigation, charges and a trial.
You’re an insurrectionist.

There already was an investigation. You're an idiot.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Go ahead & follow Trump down the road to hell. He's a malignant psychopath, but go ahead & follow your leader & see where this ends up.

Our Democracy is worth more then that shitbag. Wake up.

There already was an investigation. You're an idiot.

No investigation. Just a propaganda narrative. That woman was less of a threat than George Floyd and the cop violated procedure.
The fact that you oppose Trump’s robust economy and effectual national security speaks to your anti-Americanism.
You’re an insurrectionist.

 

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh. A couple of years ago the left defined sedition as resistance.

 

[Clipper]

No investigation. Just a propaganda narrative. That woman was less of a threat than George Floyd and the cop violated procedure.
The fact that you oppose Trump’s robust economy and effectual national security speaks to your anti-Americanism.
You’re an insurrectionist.

If your definition of a "robust enonomy" is Trump blowing 20 million jobs in less then 6 months back in 2020, then go for it, Ace.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

If your definition of a "robust enonomy" is Trump blowing 20 million jobs in less then 6 months back in 2020, then go for it, Ace.

The democrat plague undermined an economy fueled by cheap energy. The demmunists then repeated the anti-American energy policy of Obama and have now run our economy into the ditch again. By design.
And retarded baboon democrats have no clue.