Read the Sedition Act that EE posted about..READ IT !

[vetwife]

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/sedact.html

[Tesibria]

1. ok --

but who is EE?

[vetwife]

2. Elizabeth Edwards

[Tesibria]

10. thank you ! nt

[Pallas180]

3. That's not good news, and

a very strange law for a country that was born inrevolution.

[vetwife]

4. It is mixed but a no winner for Bush !

[theboss]

5. Probably the worst law our country ever passed

N/t

[vetwife]

6. She referred to patience from Jefferson after the law was passed !

[bowens43]

7. The sedition act was repealed. It is no longer law.

[vetwife]

8. I know..but the response from Jefferson was the idea ! the Patience

[Cerridwen]

9. g'Morning. I read it. Thanks for posting.

Practicing patience over here.

I'm getting pretty good at this.

Hope all is well with you.

:hi:

[nickinSTL]

11. SEC. 4. That this act shall continue to be in force until March 3, 1801,

and no longer....

[confrontationclaws]

12. There was another one passed in 1918

as an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917. Both were repealed in 1921.


SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, ...or incite insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct ...the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, or ...shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States ...or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully ...urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production ...or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both....
United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, p. 553 and following.

[vetwife]

13. Jefferson and the Sedition Act

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=536

[vetwife]

14. Here is what she posted and really read it and it will get clear to you !

Now that I have more time, I will post some, too. But today I want to share something inspiring, part of a letter from Thomas Jefferson. This is from the new Bernstein biography of Jefferson. Jefferson sent the letter in 1798 after the passage of the Sedition Act:

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

[DU9598]

15. Thomas Jefferson's thoughts

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the mean time we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war & long oppressions of enormous public debt. But who can say what would be the evils of a scission, and when & where they would end? Better keep together as we are, hawl off from Europe as soon as we can, & from all attachments to any portions of it. And if we feel their power just sufficiently to hoop us together, it will be the happiest situation in which we can exist. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, & then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are the stake."

-- Thomas Jefferson, in letter to John Taylor, June 4, 1798, after passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts

He certainly could be talking of today, couldn't he?