A: There's a quote, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." We've seen this before. We've seen it from the Alien and Sedition Acts {imposed by President John Adams in 1798 under the threat of war from France}, and we've seen it in Orwell's 1984, this idea of using war, a permanent war, the war on terror. How do you win a war on terror anyway? I see it being waged as an excuse to diminish people's civil liberties. I feel my duty as an American citizen, then as a congressional candidate and as a congressman, to fight that wherever I can. You can do searches and seizures, there is a way in the Constitution, it's in the Bill of Rights; you must have a warrant. I don't see why that should change now. I try to see it from the perspective of the Justice Department. I think when yo...
If you don't think you could be spirited away on flimsy charges, consider our country's other experiments with totalitarianism. Benjamin Franklin Bache - Ben Franklin's nephew and editor of one of Philadelphia's largest newspapers, The American Aurora - was charged under John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts for "libeling" Adams and died before he was able to defend himself. When Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War, the military rounded up thousands of Southerners in wholesale lots for "engaging in disloyal practices." When Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Acts, Eugene Debs ended up campaigning for president as a Socialist from a federal pen in Atlanta. When Japanese-Americans lost their habeas corpus rights via Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066,...
You know that Dr. Seuss opus If I Ran the Circus? It concerns a tiny world-beating go-getter who knows that if all the pieces fell into place and everyone would just listen to reason, he could pull together the greatest one-man circus the world has ever known. The book is especially apt this election year, as two wildly divergent go-getters battle each other for the opportunity to preside over one of the biggest circuses the world has ever known. A president's powers are limited, of course (although they've been increasing in bits and pieces and in entirely unconstitutional ways since John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798), but if I myself ran the circus and didn't have a pesky Congress or Supreme Court or political future to worry about... While I may be a crazy pinko f...
Laws born of fear should be treated as the, uh, illegitimacies they are - and none deserved that treatment more than the Alien and Sedition Acts. Congress passed them in the first decade of our nation's existence, and President John Adams signed them into law. The Alien Acts, among other provisions, allowed the president to deport any foreigner he considered dangerous, during wartime or peacetime. The Sedition Act made it a crime to "write, print, utter or publish" falsities critical of the president or Congress.
...These acts reasserted the King's power over his subjects and ... example in American history is that of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper publisher charged with l... accused of violating the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts. Throughout the nineteenth centu... judges, supporters of President John Adams and defenders of the Alien and Sedition Acts, took...
Last December, the Republican polling firm Hill Research released a presaging big trouble for the Texas GOP. While voters increasingly viewed the Democrats as thoughtful and innovative, the party of the future, they were seeing the GOP as the party of the past. Among an array of unflattering words used to characterize the Republicans were "racist" and "angry." The party's "enduring base" in Texas had shrunk to 21 percent - smaller than the Dems'. With younger and Hispanic voters rejecting the Republicans' cultural conservatism, Hill found that GOP candidates in Texas would need to win 80 percent of moderate voters to prevail in future elections. "This isn't optional,' " the report warned. "Anything less means Republicans lose.
...When John Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts were wreaking havoc...
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... undeclared naval war with France, President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts,...
The law punished anyone who spoke or published anything that brought the President or Congress "into contempt or disrepute," or might excite against them "the hatred of the good people of the United States," thereby stirring up "sedition within the United States. The problem," he said, "will be in the implementation," i.e., getting Big Box developers to actually pay for "offsets" in the watershed that will reduce pollution discharges into already impaired streams, then measuring the results. Then there's the little problem of the smelly 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner: [George W. Bush]'s War of Choice in Iraq. A war whose merits and causes Vermont's Republican Gov. [Jim Douglas] has publicly defended and supported from the get-go. Last week's combat deaths of two Vermont Guard...
... right-wingers of the day, led by President John Adams, put a Patriot Act-style law in force calledd the Alien and Sedition Acts. It's the kind of legislation Ge...
... consider it something akin to sedition or treason to criticize the Bush administration fo...Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft claimed that Padilla, an ex-convict whose... "properly entertain" appeals from "enemy aliens" held in detention at the U.S. Naval Base in Guant...Only acts that inflict pain "equivalent in intensity to .. s... to the powers the administration of John Adams had claimed through the Alien and Sedition Acts of...
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