{"id":71086,"date":"2013-10-16T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=71086"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:13:25","slug":"the-word-is-sedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/fe-911-2\/the-word-is-sedition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Word is Sedition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles and David Koch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAs Congress approaches conclusion on the deal to end the government shutdown and we are once again taken from the brink of global economic collapse, now is a good time to focus less on the players of this strange play and more on the producers: Charles and David Koch, principal bankrollers of the Tea Party Movement, masterminds of this onslaught on our government and threat to the economic stability of the world. There ought to be a law to stop these guys from doing what they’ve done. According to this article in PoliticusUSA, there is. — fb<\/em><\/p>\n

The Koch Brothers Seditious Shutdown Conspiracy Should Get Them 20 Years in Prison<\/strong>
\nby Rmuse for PoliticusUSA<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Koch brothers\u2019 letter claimed they had no part or took no position \u201con the legislative tactic of tying the continuing resolution to defunding ObamaCare nor have we lobbied on legislative provisions defunding ObamaCare,\u201d but like their Republican lackeys; they are filthy liars. The Koch-funded FreedomWorks issued a letter in February that said, \u201cConservatives should not approve a CR unless it defunds Obamacare. This includes Obamacare\u2019s unworkable exchanges, unsustainable Medicaid expansion, and attack on life and religious liberty.\u201d <\/p>\n

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If paying a surrogate to demand Republicans and teabaggers tie defunding the Affordable Care Act to keeping the government operating is not taking a position on the government shutdown and the continuing resolution, then the Sun rises in the West and the Earth orbits the moon.<\/p>\n

Obviously the bad publicity frightens the Koch brothers and doubtless they are legitimately concerned they will lose influence with their right wing conservative base who are taking a beating in the public sphere for their fervent support of the government shutdown. Likely, the Koch\u2019s are not happy their reputation could be further sullied for backing the extremist wing of the Republican Party led by Michele Bachmann, Ted Cruz, and Steve King who championed the government shutdown strategy to eliminate the health law. It is also likely they did not miss Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid\u2019s accusations they were behind the shutdown, or the articles, petitions and calls for the Justice Department to investigate them for sedition that never had a snowball\u2019s chance in Hell of touching the Kochs.<\/p>\n

However, there is a statute in the U.S. Code that does apply to the Koch brothers and every other conservative that spent the past three years attempting to prohibit implementation of the Affordable Care Act and it is a legitimate and actionable offense the DOJ can prosecute with extreme prejudice. In 18 USC \u00a7 2384 \u2013 Seditious conspiracy, it plainly says; \u201cIf two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspires to oppose by force the authority of, or prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.\u201d For the Americans affected by the government shut down, and those who live in Republican states that rejected free Medicaid expansion written in the Affordable Care Act, it is highly likely they would support fining and imprisoning the Koch brothers for twenty years.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Code says \u201cif two or more persons\u201d are involved in a conspiracy to oppose the authority of, prevent, hinder, or delay any law they shall be punished and that means that every single Republican, teabagger, conservative media, and libertarian belief tank is in line to be prosecuted for seditious conspiracy by the Department of Justice. Every Republican in the House that voted to tie defunding the Affordable Care Act is part of the conspiracy, and that also applies to Republicans who voted in lockstep to prevent the law\u2019s implementation by tying defunding the law to passing a continuing resolution to open the government.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Congress approaches conclusion on the deal to end the government shutdown and we are once again taken from the brink of global economic collapse, now is a good time to focus less on the players of this strange play and more on the producers: Charles and David Koch, principal bankrollers of the Tea Party … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1740],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}