# Dear Mississippi Tea Party: Are You Sure Inciting Treason Isn't A Crime? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885 "2012-07-01T10:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/1 "2012-07-01T10:35:47Z")
[http://msteaparty.ning.com/?xg\_source=msg\_mes\_network](http://msteaparty.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network) > [@](#): > > With its 5-4 ruling upholding Obamacare the US Supreme Court has joined with the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government in abandoning the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and with that ruling abandoned the People. All of us are now simply chattel of the government to be used and ordered about as they choose. The history books will mark this date as the day our constitutional republic was killed. It will now rest with We The People to decide if it will be resurrected or left to rot in the shallow grave dug for it. > > […] > > Those “occupiers” now controlling the three federal branches of government have joined together in rejecting all Constitutional restraint and in doing so they have severely violated their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Together they now stand as blatant usurpers of power and have reduced our constitutional republic, along with all of its freedoms, to nothing more than a dictatorial junta. Becoming a banana republic is next. > > […] > > In such cases submission is treason. Treason against the Constitution and the valid legitimate government of the nation to which we have pledged our allegiance for years. To resist by all means that are right in the eyes of God is not rebellion or insurrection, it is patriotic resistance to invasion. > > […] I can’t quote the whole thing due to content rules here, but you should go read it, it’s really worth a look. Guys, can we stop? Please? It’s over, you lost (twice!), give it a rest. You lost in the public arena, where you tried to use democratic means to stop mandated health care reform. You failed in the courts, who went ahead and said “Nope, this is constitutional”. What’s next? Violent rebellion? …Oh shit, you’re serious about that. Ugh. Fucking retards. And people ask me why I favor gun control. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/2 "2012-07-01T11:42:38Z")
You mean next the government is going to force us all to eat bananas? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/3 "2012-07-01T11:47:06Z")
In fairness, this victory _has_ made Obama even more uppity, and SOMEONE needs to remind him of his place. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/4 "2012-07-01T11:56:48Z")
The Tea Partiers seem all about ‘We the People’, y’know, as long as they are in the majority position. Especially on issues like abortion or gay rights. Now that theirs is a minority position, and ‘We the People’ have sided against them, it’s like we’re all just traitors to the founding fathers! I don’t think they fully grasp the concept ‘We the People’. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/5 "2012-07-01T12:06:40Z")
I love how at the end (?) they began invoking God for some reason as rationale as to why they should be righteous in their treason to keep affordable healthcare out of the hands of the poor. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/6 "2012-07-01T12:16:27Z")
Yes, as we all know, Jesus was all about letting the sick and the poor suffer instead of doing something about it. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/7 "2012-07-01T12:19:17Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Yes, as we all know, Jesus was all about letting the sick and the poor suffer instead of doing something about it. damn straight - no fishes or loaves for the masses! and they can drink the water, this wine is for the finer folk! After all, if we share it with anyone, we’ll never have enough! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/8 "2012-07-01T14:40:07Z")
It’s only in Luke but Jesus charged a lot of money for healing the sick. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/9 "2012-07-01T15:07:50Z")
I’m not sure that’s what “charged the leper” means. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/10 "2012-07-01T15:19:11Z")
I’m starting to want our government to actually do something about all these morons who are advocating armed revolution. It is against the law and ignoring them isn’t helping anything. The only problem I see with it is that since the Feds haven’t done it yet, if they do it after Obama is re-elected, the nutjobs will go off the deep end with “See? Dictatorship!” and it will only make the problem worse. Which means that NOW is the time for them to take action, if they mean to do it at all. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/11 "2012-07-01T16:05:04Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I’m not sure that’s what “charged the leper” means. Ran head-long at them? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/12 "2012-07-01T16:11:34Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I’m not sure that’s what “charged the leper” means. > > Cite? > **[Mark 1:43 - The Leper's Prayer](https://biblehub.com/mark/1-43.htm)** > > Jesus promptly sent him away with a stern warning: It means rebuked or warned. No money changed hands. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/13 "2012-07-01T16:49:47Z")
Lepers are very sensitive, easily upset. Ask them for money, they just totally fall apart. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/14 "2012-07-01T16:55:38Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Ran head-long at them? Left them plugged in all night. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/15 "2012-07-01T17:07:51Z")
The OP left out my favorite part: > [@](#): > > Do the people of the world recognize that the shadow of darkness is now fallen upon them as well and that there remains no defender of their feeble freedoms? The all out oppression of all people has begun. :eek: Sounds serious! ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/16 "2012-07-01T17:10:14Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I’m not sure that’s what “charged the leper” means. > > Cite? ignore the rushing air - I hope - ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/17 "2012-07-01T17:39:38Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > The OP left out my favorite part: > > :eek: > Sounds serious! The age of Man is over. The age of the LIBERAL has begun! _\ \_ ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/18 "2012-07-01T18:13:01Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > I’m not sure that’s what “charged the leper” means. You can’t fool me. It’s a euphemism for masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/19 "2012-07-01T18:15:34Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > You can’t fool me. It’s a euphemism for masturbation. Did he get to keep the tip? ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/20 "2012-07-01T18:24:09Z")
Is “The Mississipi Tea Party” a significant organization, or two guys with a webpage? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885.md?page=2)