November 29, 2009

Recently Rush Limbaugh expressed his hope that Obama be detained when he gives his speech about Afghanistan at the West Point Military Academy on December 1st. By suggesting this he is asking for a military coup.

These were Limbaugh's words regarding Obama's impending visit:

"My question is: Will they detain him?"

"Hopefully."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/limbaugh-on-obamas-visit-to-west-point-will-they-detain-him-hopefully.php
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911250024

Rush again hides behind his microphone, slings insults and asks for an insurrection. How did he become so anti-American? Was it because Obama is black and a democrat? Yes. Was it because the Republican Party lost the 2008 election? Definitely.

He is like a child who destroys a toy so his playmate can't have it. He whines when he doesn't get his way. Basically, Limbaugh does not believe in the principles of our Constitution and advocates and insinuates that our government be overthrown.

Unfortunately Rush has millions of listeners and followers which give him credibility. Many will think an overthrow a good idea or even plausible. But Rush is not just another citizen spouting off at a tea party rally or town hall meeting. His words count and have effect.

Its time for some repercussions. Free speech is one thing but asking for the over throw of the U.S. Government by detaining its democratically elected president is the same as yelling fire in a theater.

It's about time he is investigated and hopefully detained for sedition. This is what the US code says about his crime, “Advocating overthrow of the Government”:

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government;

or Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or 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 such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof - Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction. If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.

--18 U.S.C. § 2385 : US Code - Section 2385: Advocating overthrow of Government

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/115/2385