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In reply to the discussion: What will be the reaction to Trump's conviction? [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)29. How does voting fit this definition?
Sedition is doing anything by word or act that encourages councils or involves other people in an act of insurrection. Insurrection is an act against the government in an attempt to overthrow the government. And here the attempt was to overthrow the government by throwing the House and the Senate into shambles and not allowing them to do their work to select another President of the United States. That's what this was all about. And so, it is sedition to attack the U.S. Capitol and that's what they did, they attacked the US Capitol."
Voting isn't overthrowing the government.
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Some folks here seem to want to make up their own definition of sedition,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jan 2021
#25
Is it certain beyond a reasonable dought that he meant they should use physical force? No.
Cicada
Jan 2021
#22