Prosecute The Conspirators Who Plotted The Government Shutdown In Violation Of 18 USC § 2384 To: Attorney General Eric Holder, United States Department of Justice 11,553 of 15,000 signatures Campaign created by Jill Klausen Icon-email Facebook Twitter Email Prosecute the conspirators behind the costly and damaging federal government shutdown. Among those known to date to have conspired against the United States government to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of a law of the United States by forcing the government to shut down are: Edwin Meese III – Former Attorney General under Ronald Reagan Charles Koch – Co–owner, Koch Industries David H. Koch – Co–owner, Koch Industries Michael A. Needham – CEO Heritage Action for America Ted Cruz – United States Senator from Texas Alfred S. Regnery – President, The Paul Revere Project Andrea Lafferty – President, Traditional Values Coalition Andresen Blom – Senior Strategist, Center for Civic Virtue Angelo M. Codevilla – Professor Emeritus, Boston University Becky Norton Dunlop – Former White House Advisor, President Ronald Reagan Bob Reccord – Executive Director, Council for National Policy Brent Bozell – President, ForAmerica Brian Baker – President, Ending Spending Chris Chocola – President, Club for Growth Cindy Chafian – President, The Mommy Lobby Colin Hanna – President, Let Freedom Ring Craig Shirley – Reagan Campaign Biographer David Bossie – President, Citizens United David Bozell – Executive Director, ForAmerica David McIntosh – Former U.S. Representative, Indiana David Williams – President, Taxpayers Protection Alliance Don Devine – Senior Scholar, The Fund for American Studies Duane Parde – President, National Taxpayers Union Eric Cantor – House Minority Leader Erick Erickson – Editor, RedState Gary Aldrich – President, Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty Gary Bauer – President, American Values Grace–Marie Turner – President, The Galen Institute Heather Higgins – President, Independent Womens Forum James Martin – Chairman, 60 Plus Association Jenny Beth Martin – Co–Founder, Tea Party Patriots Joe Gregory – CEO, Gregory Management Co. Kay R. Daly – President, Coalition for a Fair Judiciary Kenneth Blackwell – Conservative Action Project; President, Constitutional Congress, Inc. Kevin Gentry – Koch Public Sector Lee Beaman – Businessman, Nashville, TN Lewis Uhler – President, National Tax Limitation Committee Marco Rubio – United States Senator from Florida Marjorie Dannenfelser – President, Susan B. Anthony List Mat Staver – Liberty Counsel Mathew D. Staver – Chairman, Liberty Counsel Action Matt Kibbe – President, FreedomWorks Michael Grebe – leads the Bradley Foundation Mike Lee – United States Senator from Utah Mitch McConnell – Minority Leader, United States Senate, representing Kentucky Myron Ebell – President, Freedom Action Pat Toomey – United States Senator from Pennsylvania Patrick Pizzella – Conservative Action Project Penny Nance – President, Concerned Women for America Phyllis Schlafly – Conservative Action Project Ralph Benko – President, Center for Civic Virtue Senator Rand Paul – United States Senator from Kentucky Rebecca Hagelin – Activist and Right Wing journalist Rev. Lou Sheldon – Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition Richard Rahn – President, Inst. for Global Economic Growth Stuart Epperson – President, Council for National Policy Susan Carleson – President, American Civil Rights Union T. Kenneth Cribb – Former Domestic Advisor, President Ronald Reagan Tom Donelson – Chairman, Americas PAC Tony Perkins – Conservative Action Project William Wilson – President, Americans for Limited Government (Additional names may come to light at later dates and should be included in any prosecutions.) billmoyers/2013/10/09/meet-the-evangelical-cabal-orchestrating-the-shutdown/ nytimes/2013/10/06/us/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html nationaljournal/congress/19-times-democrats-tried-to-negotiate-with-republicans-20131007 Why is this important? While Republicans constantly invoke our nations founders, they and a large number of individuals and organizations who support them, are in violation of one of our founders earliest proscriptions: Seditious Conspiracy, made illegal through The Sedition Act of 1798. Seditious Conspiracy as it pertains to the current shutdown of the United States federal government is defined in 18 USC § 2384 of the Criminal Code as: [T]wo or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspir[ing] to ... by force ... prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States. The Code further defines the punishment: [T]hey shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. There is no question but that a large, coordinated plot was hatched and then carried out by a covert group of individuals for the purpose of preventing, hindering, and delaying The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by force using a government shutdown as their weapon. The damages caused by this seditious act are numerous and immeasurable. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are without ongoing income to support their families. Children are going hungry. Our veterans’ families are being denied death benefits for the loss of their loved-ones in battle. Thousands of families will see their personal credit scores gutted as they are increasingly unable to pay bills that continue while their income has been cut off. States, cities, and communities are suffering billions in lost revenue from tourism due to the closure of national parks, museums, monuments, and more. They will suffer further as property values in their neighborhoods begin to plunge as more American families are hit with foreclosure when they cant meet their mortgage obligations without steady income from their work. The reputation and good standing of the United States has already taken a major hit, as institutions are selling off short-term Treasury bonds and demanding higher returns in interest for the purchase of longer-term bonds. The yield on the one-month T-bill jumped to 0.27 percent Wednesday, its highest level since the 2008 financial crisis. The yield was nearly zero at the beginning of the month. Money market mutual fund managers dont want to be caught holding U.S. government debt that comes due around the time the government hits the debt ceiling. They fear that the government may not be able to pay back bond holders, said Gabriel Mann at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Investors are buying protection, Mann said, referring to growing demand for insurance against the U.S. defaulting on its debt — a security known on Wall Street as a credit default swap. Overnight interest rates in the repo market, used by banks to fund day-to-day lending, shot up to 0.12 percent Wednesday from 0.04 percent at the beginning of the month. The increase is partly because some banks have stopped accepting some U.S. Treasurys as collateral, or are requiring more collateral, to borrow. abcnews.go/Business/wireStory/fidelity-sells-off-short-term-us-government-debt-20520740 These individuals acting in concert have gone far beyond the free speech protected by the 1st Amendment, protections up to which they are only entitled to the point of causing “clear and present danger.” And with the shutting down of vital services of our government, they have demonstrably caused “clear and present danger” to the United States of America. There is very real, tangible, and dangerous damage being done to our countrys economic stability, our reputation throughout the world, and to our national security. These individuals and everyone in the groups to which they belong — or any other group that contemplates similar actions in the future — must be made to understand the consequences of such conspiratorial acts against the government. And we must hold accountable those whose long-term plotting has already directly caused the damage the country is suffering — and will continue to suffer long after the shutdown ends — its what The Sedition Act was enacted to punish. Category: right wing accountability
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:30:07 +0000
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