US Sedition Act

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Sat Nov 10 09:30:17 PST 2001


From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>


>
> >
> >
> > "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who
> >inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing
Government,
> >they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or
their
> >revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."
> > --A. Lincoln, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
>
> Nice try, C.G., and lofty political rhetoric, but not law. In fact,
Lincoln
> was immediately to put ther full weight of the United States against
some
> people who triedto exercise that "right," which he always denied
existed in
> law. It is illegal under a whole bunch of laws to actively try to
overthrow
> the government, as opposed to abstractly advocate its overthrow. jks
>
==============

Said it once but I'll say it again.

'The law' is nothing but a bunch of philosophical assertions backed up with guns.

How come the laws of physics--and don't try to Van Fraasen this one-- don't need a god or a state to back them up?

Ian

Ian



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