pcr speaks realities in this essay about the treason now rampant in the land as the orange man works for israel, out in the open, brazenly, and so far, without consequence; 

 

At all times and places it has been difficult to speak freely.  Even the founding fathers had their Sedition Act of 1798 that criminalized statements against the US government.  Shortly afterward President Thomas Jefferson got most of it repealed.  

President Lincoln during his 1861-1865 invasion of the Confederate States of America had a de facto sedition act.  Lincoln used executive orders, military directives, martial law, and the suspension of habeas corpus to shut down free speech. At one time Lincoln had 300 Northern newspaper editors in prison

In 1918, Congress passed a new Sedition Act that applied when the US government was at war. The law prohibited speech and opinion that put the US government and its war effort in a bad light. The bad light was that US President Woodrow Wilson promised Germany no territorial loss and no reparations in exchange for an armistice, and betrayed the promise. The result was the Treaty of Versailles that as British economist John Maynard Keynes correctly predicted led to World War II.

President Trump has declared his own Sedition Act issued not by Congress, increasingly an irrelevant government institution, but by Trump’s personal defense lawyer currently serving as US Attorney General.  Trump’s Sedition Act is unique.  It protects from criticism not the US government, but a foreign one — Israel. The May 19 press release of the US Department of Justice (sic) says: ...........more.........