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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 07:26 AM
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Is this sedition or just free speech?

Admiral Mullen, it is your move, sir
“A HISTORY OF REPEATED INJURIES AND USURPATIONS”

James Madison, who succeeded Thomas Jefferson to the presidency, signed a Declaration of War with Britain in 1812

Dear Editor:

This is my follow-up letter to Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:

June 25, 2010

Adm. Michael Mullen
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
9999 Joint Staff Pentagon
Washington, DC 20318-9999

Dear Chairman Mullen,

We are calling on you to stand by your words which you so nobly expressed on October 01, 2007, at the CJCS Tribute, Hail & Farewell:

<snip>

Since we have already established your responsibility in this matter, I just wanted to follow up on behalf of the millions of interested and patriotic Americans who have standing to demand that you live up to that responsibility. So, Admiral, can you tell us about what time on Monday morning, June 28, 2010, we can expect you to carry out the arrest of the usurper Obama?

Many of us would like to get back to attempting some normalcy in our lives. Most of us for the last 18 months have been too busy trying to find a way to retain our constitutional guarantees to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

For your reference:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness…

The history of the man known as Barack Hussein Obama is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

<snip>

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/06/25/admiral-mullen-it-is-your-move-sir/
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Regret My New Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 07:35 AM
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1. I'm pretty sure we're free to say stupid stuff...
This person didn't really say anything except "I don't like Obama's policies. Go arrest him!"... Not a very compelling argument, but people are allowed to have their opinions. Right?
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H2O Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 07:35 AM
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2. This is an example
of what I've mentioned several times in recent months -- Tea Baggers from the John Birch-wing of their movement, hoping for a military coup to "restore democracy" in our country. On one hand, it may seem merely a pathetic fantasy; on the other, it signifies however desperate, and unstable, they are.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 07:41 AM
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3. If stupid was excruciatingly painful, maybe these idiots would learn a few things
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 07:49 AM
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4. The letter-writer identifies a litany of offenses committed by BHO in 17 months: bet junior rang up
none in 96 months in his eyes. :P
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kywildcat Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 08:06 AM
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5. someone had enough
American history in college to make them think-but not enough to make them think logically. Thank God for the internet-for it proves the theory that there is a dumbass willing to out themselves at every turn.
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 08:26 AM
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6. "§ 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government" & "§ 2383. Rebellion or insurrection"
I think it falls into both of these categories...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002385----000-.html">§ 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

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.


&

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002383----000-.html">§ 2383. Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.



As they are talking in the plural, if it can be proved there is more than one of them, this law also applies...

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002384----000-.html">§ 2384. Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

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