Members of Congress calling for the overthrow of our government?
From Huffington Post's Sam Stein:
Stein reassuringly observed that the Tea Party crowd he was addressing was a shadow of the one last fall at the height of the health care debate, and the sound system so bad that few beyond the small group immediately around him could even hear his remarks.Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) urged a smaller-than-expected crowd of Tea Party protesters on Tuesday to launch a Velvet Revolution-style uprising against the federal government, saying the parallels are striking between America's current government and Eastern European communist rule.
Speaking to the Huffington Post shortly after his speech, King declared that a peaceful uprising, a la the successful overthrowing of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia on the streets of Prague in 1989 "would be fine with me."
"Fill this city up, fill this city, jam this place full so that they can't get in, they can't get out and they will have to capitulate to the will of the American people," he said.
"So this is just like Prague under communist rule?" the Huffington Post asked.
"Oh yeah, it is very, very close," King replied. "It is the nationalization of our liberty and the federal government taking our liberty over. So there are a lot of similarities there.". . .
Well, that's a relief. Still, it's disturbing that such fiery rhetoric and paranoid thinking emanates from the halls of Congress.
Ralph
The term is "Sedition."
ReplyDeleteSedition is a term of law which refers to overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.
I find it ironic that a president that was actually elected and not appointed is being attacked for openly doing things he promised to do while he was running for office. When do the crazy people get told by the sane people of their party that enough is enough. Americans are hurting and we need to come together to help them before they give up the hope they need to survive.
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