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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: http://law.house.gov/usc.htm Sedition (fwd)
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>
>Just for everyone's edification. If anyone joins a non state sponsored
>Militia or any of the Patriot groups out there and talks about any of
>these listed items you can be charged with Sedition. This is why and how
>the FBI and BATF have targeted all of these kinds of groups. As I have
>previously posted in the Appendix G of the Treasury report on the raid on
>the Branch Davidians this has a history of 200 years in America. The
>Sedition act was passed after the end of the War of 1812 with England.
>Note this makes the Declaration of Independence illegal under this law.
>
>
>THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:
>
>
>In Congress, July 4, 1776,
>THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
>
>When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
>people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
>with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the
>separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
>Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
>mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
>them to the separation.
>
>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
>equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
>unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the
>pursuit of Happiness.
>
>That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
>deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
>
>That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
>ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
>and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
>principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
>shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
>Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established
>should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
>accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more
>disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
>themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
>But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
>invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under
>absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
>off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
>security.
>(cut)
>
>
>Regards,
>Paul Watson
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>-CITE-
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> 18 USC Sec. 2385 01/16/96
>
>-EXPCITE-
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> TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
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>
> PART I - CRIMES
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> CHAPTER 115 - TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
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>
>-HEAD-
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> Sec. 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
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>
>-STATUTE-
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> Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or
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> teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of
>
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> overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or
>
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> the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession
>
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> thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by
>
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> force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any
>
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> such government; or
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> Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any
>
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> such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates,
>
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> sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed
>
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> matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity,
>
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> desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any
>
>
> government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts
>
>
> to do so; or
>
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> Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society,
>
>
> group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the
>
>
> overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or
>
>
> violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any
>
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> such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes
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> thereof -
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> Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
>
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> twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by
>
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> the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five
>
>
> years next following his conviction.
>
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> If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in
>
>
> this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned
>
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> not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for
>
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> employment by the United States or any department or agency
>
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> thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
>
>
> As used in this section, the terms ''organizes'' and
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> ''organize'', with respect to any society, group, or assembly of
>
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> persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new
>
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> units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes,
>
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> and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
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>
>
>-SOURCE-
>
>
> (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, Sec.
>
>
> 2, 70 Stat. 623; June 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-486, 76 Stat. 103; Sept.
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> 13, 1994, Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(N), 108
>
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> Stat. 2148.)
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>
>-SECREF-
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> SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
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>
> This section is referred to in section 14 of this title; title 5
>
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> section 8312; title 8 section 1481; title 38 section 6105; title 50
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> App. section 34.
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>
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