{"id":278,"date":"2006-02-02T02:27:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=278"},"modified":"2006-02-01T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T03:27:40","slug":"sedition-your-passport-to-gitmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/sedition-your-passport-to-gitmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedition – Your Passport to Gitmo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard this report on <\/p>\n

KUNM radio (one of the best news reports I’ve ever heard produced by KUNM; here’s the link to page with link to the audio<\/a> — worth a listen).<\/p>\n

Summary – <\/p>\n

1) Like hundreds, if not thousands before her, a disgruntled citizen writes a letter to the editor of the Alibi <\/p>\n

expressing her outrage at BushCo’s incompetence and deceipt.<\/p>\n

2) Her government employer confiscates her work computer, after she <\/p>\n

tells them she did not write the letter at work, as a part of a necessary check on “any act which potentially represents sedition<\/a>” (definition: Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority <\/p>\n

of a state. Insurrection; rebellion.)<\/p>\n

No reason to fear for your right to free speech. I guess we can be glad she didn’t simply <\/p>\n

“disappear.” That comes in Bush’s third term (when he can’t trust anyone else to protect AmeriCo like he can). mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

PS: I recommend you read The Sedition Act of 1798<\/a> — I <\/p>\n

think you and I may very well be guilty of violating that act. But then, Lush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly have probably violated the act <\/p>\n

in the past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

alibi . <\/p>\n

september 15 – 21, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

Wake Up, Get Real<\/p>\n

Dear Alibi,<\/p>\n

I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and <\/p>\n

criminal negligence of this government. The Katrina tragedy in the U.S. shows that the emperor has no clothes!<\/p>\n

Bush, Cheney, <\/p>\n

Chertoff, Brown and Rice should be tried for criminal negligence. … <\/p>\n

We need to wake up and get real here, and act forcefully to <\/p>\n

remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit. Otherwise, many more of us will be facing <\/p>\n

living hell in these times.<\/p>\n

Laura Berg
\nAlbuquerque<\/p>\n

ABQJOURNAL: ACLU Wants Apology to VA Employee Investigated on ‘Sedition’<\/a><\/p>\n

VA human resources chief Mel Hooker said in <\/p>\n

a Nov. 9 letter that his agency was obligated to investigate “any act which potentially represents sedition,” the ACLU said. …<\/p>\n

Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, wrote a letter in September to a weekly Albuquerque newspaper criticizing how the administration <\/p>\n

handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. She urged people to “act forcefully” to remove an administration she said played games of <\/p>\n

“vicious deceit.”<\/p>\n

She signed the letter as a private citizen, and the VA had no reason to suspect she used government <\/p>\n

resources to write it, the ACLU said.<\/p>\n

“From all appearances, the seizure of her work computer was an act of retaliation and a <\/p>\n

hardball attempt to scare Laura into silence,” the ACLU said. <\/p>\n

ACLU-New <\/p>\n

Mexico Weblog – ACLU Protests Investigation of VA Employee for \u201cSedition\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard this report on KUNM radio (one of the best news reports I’ve ever heard produced by KUNM; here’s the link to page with link to the audio — worth a listen). Summary – 1) Like hundreds, if not thousands before her, a disgruntled citizen writes a letter to the editor of the Alibi … Continue reading Sedition – Your Passport to Gitmo<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}