It?s Time to Bring Back the Sedition Act
Ratheresque in Proportion, Newsweek Fabricates a Story about our Military.
By N. Beaujon
May 19, 2005
Last week Newsweek magazine printed a story alleging that soldiers at Guantamamo Bay routinely dropped their enemy captives' Holy Koran in the toilet during interrogations. The story, not surprisingly, set the Muslim world ablaze with rioting, violence and anti-American sentiment. Sixteen people died, one hundred were injured and ?holy? Mullahs everywhere were calling for yet another jihad against the United States (a.k.a. - ?The Great Satan?). What else is new?
The story, as it turned out, was an unsourced fabrication, a slander, a lie, rushed into print with Dan Rather-like zeal in an effort to humiliate, demoralize, and ultimately, endanger our military and Americans everywhere. Making U.S. soldiers? job harder, more dangerous? Sure. U.S. establishment media ?reporting for duty?. It?s time to bring back the Sedition Acts.
Early in our country?s founding, yes this was done by our founding fathers; there were a series of laws passed in anticipation of a possible war with France. The founders knew what problems big mouthed media traitors could cause during wartime and, in response, passed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 which made it illegal for any person to "print, utter, or publish ... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government. [1]Plenty of journalists were tried for seditious libel, sadly, none of them were hanged but Congress didn?t stop there. The founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom passed the Alien and Naturalization part of the law which authorized the president to deport any alien considered dangerous, even in a peace time. (The remainder of this article can be read at link )
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