US Sedition Act

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 9 20:01:35 PST 2001



>
>I thought there was a so-called right of revolution in the US :)

Not in law.

What do our
>resident legal beagles think of this turn of events?

What do you think we think? It sucks.

The statement of the law in the article is accurate. You an advocate illegal acts in the abstract. You can constitutionally ber punished if you conspire to overthrow the government.

jks


>
>Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
>Thursday November 8 2:28 PM ET
>Sedition Law Used to Hold Suspects
>By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors seeking to hold people they suspect were in
>the early stages of terrorist plots may turn anew to a very old weapon -
>the
>Civil War-era law on sedition. . . . >

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