{"id":63727,"date":"2022-10-07T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63727"},"modified":"2022-10-07T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:29:39","slug":"all-of-us-are-in-danger-when-anti-government-speech-becomes-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63727","title":{"rendered":"All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cIf you can\u2019t say \u2018F@#k\u2019 you can\u2019t say, \u2018F@#k\u2019 the government.\u2019\u201d\u2014 Lenny Bruce, comedian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word.<\/p>\n

In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government\u2019s power, reveals the government\u2019s corruption, exposes the government\u2019s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government\u2019s many injustices.<\/p>\n

Indeed, there is a long and growing list of the kinds of speech that the government considers dangerous enough to red flag and subject to censorship, surveillance, investigation and prosecution: hate speech, conspiratorial speech, treasonous speech, threatening speech, inflammatory speech, radical speech, anti-government speech, extremist speech, etc.<\/p>\n

Things are about to get even dicier for those who believe in fully exercising their right to political expression.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the\u00a0government\u2019s seditious conspiracy charges<\/a>\u00a0against Stewart Rhodes, the founder of Oath Keepers, and several of his associates for their alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots puts the entire concept of anti-government political expression on trial.<\/p>\n

Enacted during the Civil War to prosecute secessionists, seditious conspiracy makes it a crime for two or more individuals to conspire to \u201c\u2018overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force\u2019 the U.S. government<\/a>, or to levy war against it, or to oppose by force and try to prevent the execution of any law.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hard charge to prove, and the government\u2019s\u00a0track record hasn\u2019t been the greatest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been almost a decade since the government tried to make a seditious conspiracy charge stick\u2014against a small Christian militia accused of plotting to kill a police officer and attack attendees at his funeral in order to start a civil war\u2014and\u00a0it lost the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition \u201cIf you can\u2019t say \u2018F@#k\u2019 you can\u2019t say, \u2018F@#k\u2019 the government.\u2019\u201d\u2014 Lenny Bruce, comedian Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government\u2019s power, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2703,379,6420,31177,6300],"class_list":["post-63727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-free-speech","tag-government","tag-john-whitehead","tag-nisha-whitehead","tag-the-rutherford-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63728,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63727\/revisions\/63728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}