Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Massachusetts Governor Levies Sedition Accusation

The Governor of Massachusetts heard the grievances of the people. They complained about the increasing tendency of the central government to exercise power. They complained about the increase in taxes. They complained about the increasing meddling of the government in the natural flow of the economy. The Massachusetts Governor responded by calling the mere airing of grievances seditious, dismissing the rights of the people to speak freely as nearly criminal.

This governor was Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts in 1772 and Deval Patrick in 2010.

Governor Patrick described Republican opposition to Obama as seditious recently. Opposition to Obama's radical policies, leftists want to portray as obstructionist and political instead of the threats to America that they really are. The word seditious implies that the speech is criminal and a threat to the government. Left wingers such as Patrick would not be as irritated with Republican tactics but for the fact that most of the country opposes Obama's initiatives.

Compare this to the hate filled speech levied against George W. Bush. Bush allowed the showing of a movie filled with outright lies about America's wars to the troops in the field. Bush placed his belief in free speech above all other considerations. He saw anti-government speech as healthy, not seditious.

Obama has a credibility problem of his own making. When his friends call opposition speech seditious, they make it even worse.

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