29,000 unhinged leftists: “Arrest” House GOP leaders for “seditious conspiracy” against US
Far leftists get battier and battierΒ by the dayΒ (hat tip):
A petition on the MoveOn.org website is calling for the Department of Justice to arrest some House Republican leaders for their roles in the government shutdown and debt-ceiling debates.
The petition singles out Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), as well as βother decision-making House Republican leaders,β for the crime of βseditious conspiracy against the United States of America.β
βThe House GOP leadership’s use of the Hastert Rule and H. Res 368 to shut down the government and threaten the U.S. economy with default is an attempt to extort the United States government into altering or abolishing the Affordable Care Act, and thus, is self-evidently a seditious conspiracy. Arrest the perpetrators in Congress immediately and bring them to justice,β the petition reads.
The petition presently has more than 29,000 signatures with a goal of 30,000. Merely reaching the goal doesnβt guarantee the liberal advocacy group will circulate the petition to its email list, which includes the White House, Congress, governors and state legislators. According to its website, MoveOn asks its members directly which petitions should be circulated.
No doubt this was inspired by the whole “anarchists”/”terrorists”/”hostage takers” inflammatory rhetoric deliberately used by Democrat leaders both in Congress and out of it before and during the shutdown. Β Way to promote “New Tone”, Democrats, not to mention way to show complete disregard for the US Constitution – but then again, that’s not exactly surprising to anyone, considering their party has been practically lighting a match to it for decades.
NRO’s Andy McCarthy blasts the dumdummery:
I didnβt stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I did prosecute theΒ best-known seditious conspiracy caseΒ in modern American history. So I suppose I should break it to these newfangled patriots that seditious conspiracy is, in essence, about the use or planned use of force against the nation. In fact, Congress first codified the crime during the Civil War to address terrorist acts committed by confederate sympathizers.Β The Supreme Court explained in the 19thΒ century that the law prohibitsΒ forcible aggression, and appellate courts have referred to it as the crime of βwaging a war of urban terrorismβ against our country.
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To help out the MoveOn folks: terrorists are people like President Obamaβs friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, or like the al Qaeda jihadists championed by MoveOn throughout the Bush years. Criminal statutes targeting terrorists are usually not thought applicable to elected congressional officials with constitutional speech-and-debate immunity who peacefully represent their constituents in formulating and debating legislation. But hey, I guess itβs always possible that our imperial president could βwaiveβ the use-of-force parts of the law and that Holderβs heroes β assuming theyβre done shipping guns to Mexican drug cartels β can get after those seditious Republicans.
Welcome to Obama’s America, where being forced toΒ pay excessive taxes and rolling over for this administration is considered “patriotic”, and anything at all said and/or done to the contrary as a matter of Β the principle of being the opposition is equal to “terrorism”, “sedition”, and “treason.” Β Chilling.