se·di·tion
noun \si-ˈdi-shən\
: the
crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey
their government
Full Definition of SEDITION
:
incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
I gather this definition of sedition is merely a
joke, or at the very least is a “crime” that is never prosecuted. What could
possibly more seditious than Ted Cruz’s attack on Obamacare and the credit
rating of the United States? In fact, what could be more seditious than
McConnell’s plan to make President Obama a one term President, and the apparent
agreement of all Republicans to refuse to cooperate on anything that Obama
wanted to do?
I don’t know if there actually are laws against
sedition (I assume there must be). Not that it would matter much as laws have
been so routinely ignored and broken, especially since Bush/Cheney, they don’t
seem to matter much anymore. I find it impossible to believe that a minority of
Congresspersons can willfully and deliberately close down our government,
irreparably harming millions of innocent citizens, and go completely
unpunished. I mean, really, you can go to jail for stealing a loaf of bread or
a six pack of beer, but you can substantially harm millions of your fellow
citizens and go completely unpunished? Does this make any sense to anyone?
I guess I lack the depth of intellect to
understand how such things can be. And I also lack the patience to deal with
such criminality. As far as I am concerned Ted Cruz and his more ardent
dittoheads should be arrested, jailed, and tried for sedition, if not
blackmail, extortion, and perhaps even treason.
I think our system (of government) began to
break down in earnest in 2000 when the Republican “Brown Shirts” descended on
Florida, pounding on doors and yelling in order to stop the vote count. They
should have been immediately arrested and charged with sedition or something of
that nature and instructed that such behavior is not to be tolerated in a
(presumably) democratic society. Then Bush/Cheney, who actually did not win the
election, shoved all laws aside and did whatever they wished, contrary to the
wishes of the American public and almost all other nations of the world.
Attacking Iraq was clearly a war crime, torturing also, war profiteering,
killing civilians, and so on all followed as the new Republican Mafia (the
Brafia) came into its maturity. As they have never been held accountable for
their “Nightmare years” it is not surprising their party has followed in their
tradition of lawlessness and crime.
Actually, I believe it was during the Clinton
years when the Republican Party slowly began to morph into a genuine criminal
conspiracy rather than an ordinary political party. Although they failed to
impeach Clinton they succeeded in keeping him from doing whatever it was he
might have done to improve our country. It must have been also during this time
that our elected officials decided that what the public desired was basically
irrelevant to what they deemed important (getting re-elected, fundraising,
following their corporate masters, etc.). They have followed this strategy
religiously ever since, pretty successfully keeping President Obama from doing
anything at all to improve the lot of ordinary citizens, creating jobs,
improving education, infrastructure, and so on. Their (basically treasonous)
behavior has harmed our nation in the eyes of the world, and has started us on
an increasingly downward spiral. I guess they will not be content until they
succeed in closing our government down.
I do not have much hope for our future. If
democrats could take back the House it might help at least a bit, perhaps we
could then shrink Grover Norquist and his absurd anti-government groupies
enough to drown them in a bathtub and return to actual governing. Personally, I
think things are so ridiculous at the moment they are unworthy of attention,
hence I no longer pay much attention to the “news,” nor am I motivated to blog
(as you may have noticed).
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