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Sedition Act of 1918

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Tuesday, May 12 2009, 21:18:43 (CEST)
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In 1918, right after WWI, Congress passed the Sedition Act which forbade anything 'disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive ' being either spoken or written about the U.S. government or the Constitution.

Breaking this law could get you jailed, fined or deported.

Now consider the situation in Iraq at this same time. Christian refugees from Tuyrkey and Iran had been forced to flee, due to their own sympathy with either British Christians or Russian Christians....they descended on Iraq, which was under no obligation to take them in...and then they began insisting that the British had promised them a country of their own, to be carved out of Iraq, of all things. None of them asked by what right Britain was promising to give away lands belonging to other people..people living on those lands for centuries.

These Christian refugees refused all offers of accommodation, refused to consider free Iraqi lands and homes in existing villages...insisting that they HAD to have a territory of their own. When this wasn't forthcoming they yelped to the world that they were being abused...they went to Paris and whined some more...they took every opportunity to make it appear that Iraq was doing something immoral in refusing to give REFUGEES land of their own. They ignored all offers to settle or moderate their complaints as this made Iraq look bad and gave the British the excuse to remain....on top of that a group of them took their weapons and crossed, illegally, into Syria and when they couldn't get anything there either, marched back, illegally, across Iraq's border, refusing legitimate demands that they put down their weapons...and when they refused a fight developed in which many were killed on both sides.

Having had enough the Iraq military made an example of one village, killing 300 Christians there. Sad to say, this finally worked and the Christians either settled down or left permanently.

How would America have responded to refugees it had allowed sanctuary, or even its own citizens, who took up arms and crossed the borders illegally...and refused to disarm? What happened to David Koresh and his followers who refused to cooperate with authorities? Their compound was attacked by federal agents who burned to death 90 people....many of them children.

The point is; sedition is a serious crime...and if enlightened and "democratic" America passes these kinds of laws and takes such drastic action against those who disobey, even where innocent children get killed...how can anyone expect better from Iraq?

Sedition is a crime....everywhere. It doesn't matter what YOU thin you are entitled to....to take the law into your own hands places you beyond the law, in some cases...but the law allows a government to take extreme measures to maintain order.

Iraq could not afford to allow Christians to run around the country carrying guns and shooting at their officers.

It's that simple.

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