World War I critics get pardons

[struggle4progress]

Janet Smith, left, and Herman Bausch were officially pardoned Wednesday of sedition charges during WWI.

On Wednesday, nearly 80 people convicted of sedition amid the war's anti-German hysteria received the first posthumous pardons in Montana history ..

.. Keith Sime, whose uncle Herman Bausch was a pacifist who refused to buy war bonds and spent 28 months in prison for being outspoken about it, said it was important for the state to finally recognize the injustice ..

.. Liquor salesman Ben Kahn spent 34 months in prison. "This is a rich man's war, and we have no business in it," he told a hotel owner. "The poor man has no show in this war. The soldiers are fighting the battles of the rich" ..

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/03/montana.pardons.ap/

[benburch]

1. Just in time for most of us here to be charged with sedition... nt

[Kutjara]

2. Don't worry...

...it'll only take 90 years to clear our names.

[400Years]

3. the sins of Woodrow Wilson