by N. Beaujon
August 27, 2005
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Recently, it was reported that anti-war nutcases were camped out in front of Walter Reed Army Hospital torturing maimed and injured soldiers with cranky slogans that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist here and die for Halliburton.” During World War I and II this was illegal. In Schenk vs. United States (1919), anti-war protestors were arrested for passing out leaflets in violation of the Espionage Act of 1917. The "protestors" aim was to cause insubordination and insurrection by obstructing the recruiting and enlistment efforts of the United States during wartime. In announcing the decision of the Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said: "Words can be weapons . . .The question in every case is whether the words used in such circumstances are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has the right to prevent."
By aiding and abetting our enemies and bringing aid and comfort to Islamic Terrorists, Cindy Sheehan and her band of "anti-war" thugs are undermining our war effort and creating a “clear and present danger” to these United States. Our troops and national security are at stake and these are substantive evils that Congress has an obligation to prevent. No different from the circumstances described in Schenk during World War I, a war we happened to win.
During World War II, in Dennis vs. United States, celebrated leaders of the communist party were tried and convicted under The Smith Act for conspiring to “to teach and advocate the overthrow or destruction of the United States government.” In words famous to this day, Chief Justice Fred Vinson wrote, “Obviously, the [first amendment] cannot mean that before the Government may act, it must wait until the putsch is about to be executed, the plans have been laid and the signal is awaited. ….Certainly an attempt to overthrow the Government by force, even though doomed from the outset because of inadequate numbers or power of the revolutionists, is a sufficient evil for Congress to prevent.”
Cindy Sheehan and her gang of mobsters are a sufficient evil for Congress to prevent. Interestingly, and of much consequence, is that once these Sedition laws were overturned or repealed, the United States began to lose wars. Why is that? Because wars are as much psychological as they are corporeal. Seditious traitors, with their big mouths, undermine our strength by magnifying, or creating, a perception of vulnerability and exposing our flank. If that doesn't put our force in harm's way, nothing will. When you destroy the psychological advantages of our troops and display weakness to your enemies, you are committing an act of treason. You are exposing forces to insurgency, exponential in proportion, to the number of your anti-war protests. Cindy Sheehan's jihad against the west is no less devastating to our troops than that of Islamic fascists.
American’s are free to speak out but during war time they need to shut up. Once Congress has committed our troops to action your time to protest for peace is done. Why is it that past generations of American's have had the luxury of quashing sedition during war time and reaping the benefits of heroic wars and masterful victories, while our generation has to endure the spineless, self-loathing of subversive spoiled brats who want nothing more than to do our country harm? Why does Cindy Sheehan get to reap the freedoms of the World War II generation, protected from people like her, while the rest of us have to watch while our country is destroyed from within by people like her?
In the above cases, Schenk spent 15 years in prison along with the celebrated socialist Eugene Debs, another a darling of the radical left who, a year later, was sentenced to 10 years for his anti-war insurgencies. Cindy Sheehan, subversive traitor masquerading as “grieving mom”, should share the same fate.
