White Noise Insanity

is that from world war I or II?

i cant tell.
 

Chris it is a WW1 protest against President Wilson's Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918

They were passed to silence opposition to the Government practices of WW1 and the sedition act was repealed in 1921.


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WWI Chris and I "love" the little girl down in the right hand corner of the picture with the sign that says her daddy has been gone for 4 years.

No matter what the neocons say....Patriots have been around for a long time. Without the right to dissent against our government, we wouldn't be free from it.

So Patriots....rock on! Just because we won this last election does not mean we have to be relaxed now. Woohoo!
 

Thanks Clif (#1 Patriot!). :-)

Sedition Act of 1918
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The Sedition Act of 1918 was an amendment to the Espionage Act of 1917 passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who was concerned any widespread dissent in time of war constituted a real threat to an American victory. Subversive activity had assisted in overthrowing the Russian Czar in 1917, and contributed to the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916. Subversive activity in Great Britain was less successful.

The Sedition Act forbade Americans to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during war. The act also allowed the Postmaster General to deny mail delivery to dissenters of government policy during wartime.

The Sedition Act was an attempt by the United States government to limit “freedom of speech,” in-so-much-as that “freedom of speech” related to the criticism of the government during war.

The Espionage Act made it a crime to help wartime enemies of the United States, but the Sedition Act made it a crime to utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States' form of government.

Socialist Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison under this law. U.S. citizens including members of the Industrial Workers of the World union were also imprisoned during World War I for their anti-war dissent under the provisions of the Sedition Act. Anti-war protestors were arrested by the hundreds as speaking out against the draft and the war was illegal under this law.

In his 1941 book Censorship 1917, James Mock noted that most U.S. Establishment newspapers "showed no antipathy toward the act" and "far from opposing the measure, the leading papers seemed actually to lead the movement in behalf of its speedy enactment."

The Sedition Act was repealed in 1921. Although the Sedition Act was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States, most legal experts view the Sedition Act as being antithetical to the letter and spirit of the United States Constitution, specifically the 1st Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
 

I paid good money for that photo ; )

It struck me, perusing old photos as I do, that really, Government, as long as you have to have money to be invilved, will continue to have people who look out for themselves, and only give "Lip Service" and say what we want to hear ; (((((

Oh, it's better to say borrowed than steal ya know ; )
 

Goodmorning Coffee Messiah (love your blog by the way! It's beautiful)! You're right...I borrowed the photo from you rather than stole the photo from you. :-)
 

It's a great photo too. :-)