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Republicans Exposed By BOMBSHELL Insurrection Report (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
Will it make a difference? Woodswalker Oct 2021 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #2
No point in exposing Republican wrongdoings, everybody knows what they've done Walleye Oct 2021 #3
I thought advocating overthrow of Government was a crime. njhoneybadger Oct 2021 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #5
I firmly believe that there are people in the DOJ who are involved in the Jan. 6th prosecutions Progressive Jones Oct 2021 #6

Response to Woodswalker (Reply #1)

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)
4. I thought advocating overthrow of Government was a crime.
Mon Oct 25, 2021, 07:55 PM
Oct 2021

18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government
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Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 2, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 87–486, June 19, 1962, 76 Stat. 103; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

Response to njhoneybadger (Reply #4)

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
6. I firmly believe that there are people in the DOJ who are involved in the Jan. 6th prosecutions
Tue Oct 26, 2021, 12:21 AM
Oct 2021

who are sympathetic to the Jan 6th Trump Trash that they are supposed to be prosecuting to the fullest extent
of the law. I believe that otherwise, we would be seeing much longer jail sentences and larger fines.

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