Reply #59: The Supreme Court has sort of danced around this...

[AZCat]

See my post above (#23) for a quick summary of the history of the most recent sedition act, The Smith Act. To put it simply: it's illegal if it is likely to lead to action, but otherwise you are probably within your rights.

However, the most recent internal threat the U.S. had was in the middle of the nineteenth century; the Europeans have undergone a more recent scare. I can certainly understand their dread of a repeat.


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