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...
... day, led by President John Adams, put a Patriot Act-style law in force called the Alien and Seditiion Acts. It's the kind of legislation George W. Bush dream...
Only an overcaffeinated tea-partier would believe that the U.S. is on the path from "an open society into dictatorship," right? Who could think that there are 10 simple steps to establishing a police state and "that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States"? As you might have gathered, these aren't the words of an unhinged right-winger, but an unhinged left-winger: Naomi Wolf, author of the perfervid 2007 book "The End of America.
...Democrats recoiled from the Patriot Act - recently reauthorized without a peep - as a foul reprise of the Alien and Sedition Acts. Howard Dean fumed that it tramp...
... these ICPs in American courts under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for aiding and abetting human r... to the legislative, executive, or judicial acts of another nation, having due regard both to inter... after the Constitution's adoption, the Sedition Acts of 1798 were enacted to protect the governmen... strong criticism for enacting the USA PATRIOT Act. In particular, section 215 of the Act (which ...
'Fair & Balanced' only fitfully funny, pointed The risk with any variety show is that its disparate parts will add up to something less than a satisfying whole. That risk is compounded when the show is about American politics and it opens during the middle of a fractious election year.
... an 1800 song protesting John Adams' 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts and the 2001 Patriot Act -- a co...
Press freedom defines America What kind of American does not value the freedom of the press? My best guess: an ignorant one.
...Cosby of New York. Studying the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts might open their eyes. This 17988 version of today's Patriot Act baldly abrogated the freedom of speech guarant...
Krause reviews Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights by Alan Dershowitz.
...From the Alien and Sedition Acts and McCarthyism, we would delive...After all, the Patriot Act and our former Alien and Sedition Acts do refl...
... as it could distinguish between beliefs and acts. But the presence of large numbers of Mormons in ... of the Jeffersonian counterattack on the Sedition Act and the use by the Adams Administration of th... affirmance of the convictions of several alien anarchists who had printed leaflets seeking to enc... speech of those who hold "religious or patriotic views" that prevent them from applying for a licen...
Bruce Fein states that European internees in the United States during World War II were vetted, while Japanese were not ("If men were angels," Commentary, Wednesday). I was interned at age 17. If vetting implies that we had counsel, then that term is an absurdity. James Rowe, then Franklin D. Roosevelt's assistant attorney general, took great pride in the fact that attorneys were generally excluded from the 60,000 people arrested, mostly Germans, arrests that resulted in over 15,000 internments.
... continues to be empowered thereto by the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. I consider the Patriot ...
CLINTON, N.Y., Dec. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "Continue to apply these new surveillance tools on a political radical -- newly labeled a 'domestic terrorist'-- and the FBI file on Martin Luther King, Jr. will eventually look like a mere Post-It note," says Hamilton College Government Professor Robert Martin, author of "The Free and Open Press: The Founding of American Democratic Press Liberty" (NYU Press). "History suggests that powers given will be powers used; just ask radicals hauled before Senator Joseph McCarthy in the '50s or those spied on by the FBI in the '60s. The renewal of the Patriot Act will reinforce the permanence of the new powers ushered in by the original act and will continue to undermine judicial oversight," continues Martin. We must remain mindful of our troubling hist...
... which accords with my understanding: "Overt acts are such acts as manifest a criminal intention and... those who had fled from measures against sedition and its ecclesiastic counterpart, heresy. Now the ... the forces of either side such as to alienate the affections of the people from the Government '... succor or supplies to a member of the patriot army, everybody who had advocated American indepen...
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