Madame would be screaming if any Republican Former SoS said what she did today in Europe. If the United States is attacked again, hopefully those of us who are left will remember to think of her, and like ilk, and realize that perhaps her words were the cause.
It is one thing to disagree. One in her position can always reach the current head of our State Department, and Administration. I wonder how many terrorists are going into Iraq and other places because they believe they will be able to prevail if the Democrats get back in control?
Looked this up, for my info...........
SEDITION
Pronunciation: si'dishun
Matching Terms: Seditionary, seditious
WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [n] an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
See Also: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, violation
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \Se*di"tion\, n. [OE. sedicioun, OF. sedition, F.
s['e]dition, fr. L. seditio, originally, a going aside;
hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. se-, sed-, aside
+ itio a going, fr. ire, itum, to go. Cf. {Issue}.]
1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to
insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an
overt act; excitement of discontent against the
government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The
cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. --Shak.
Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition.
--Macaulay.
2. Dissension; division; schism. [Obs.]
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . .
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies.
--Gal. v. 19,
20.
Syn: Insurrection; tumult; uproar; riot; rebellion; revolt.
See {Insurrection}.
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* Sedition *
SEDITION - Conduct which is directed against a government and which tends toward insurrection but does not amount to treason. Treasonous conduct consists of levying war against the United States or of adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
The raising commotions or disturbances in the state; it is a revolt against legitimate authority.
The distinction between sedition and treason consists in this, that though its ultimate object is a violation of the public peace, or at least such a course of measures as evidently engenders it, yet it does not aim at direct and open violence against the laws, or the subversion of the Constitution.
The. obnoxious and obsolete act of July 14, 1798, was called the sedition law, because its professed object was to prevent disturbances.
In the Scotch law, sedition is either verbal or real. Verbal is inferred from the uttering of words tending to create discord between the king and his people; real sedition is generally committed by convocating together any considerable number of people, without lawful authority, under the pretence of redressing some public grievance, to the disturbing of the public peace.
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