# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/61 "2012-07-02T13:20:15Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > But if you believe you can just no obey any law you want, can’t they disobey the law that says you have to obey the law? There is no law saying you have to obey the law. Just guys with guns and handcuffs. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/62 "2012-07-02T13:27:07Z")
Conservatives would rather go bankrupt paying the healthcare costs for the uninsured than save gzillions by just covering the insurance premiums of those going through difficulties, for a time and the truly destitute. Because while they claim it’s all about the money, it’s really about being able to feel superior and more deserving, it seems to me. Under universal health care those paying sky high premiums for extended to the max coverage, stand to save the most. Their premiums would drop substantially. (For the same reason rates are lower for a large company/group, than for a Mom and Pop set up!) But again, though they claim to be all about the money, that can’t seem to sink in. And, of course, next to healthcare, what’s been bankrupting the country is that expensive war, that their boy, lied the nation into. But you can believe them when they say they are just worried about the money, how will we pay for it all? How people can be so stupid, as to buy into it, is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/63 "2012-07-02T13:31:37Z")
> [@Mycroft\_Holmes](#): > > What’s horrendously bad about Euclidian geometry? Or do surveyors, architects and others now use Riemannian geometry? Yeah, that threw me, too - made it unclear if Bricker was joshing or misguided, or both at once… it muddied the water. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/64 "2012-07-02T13:53:45Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Yeah, that threw me, too - made it unclear if Bricker was joshing or misguided, or both at once… it muddied the water. I have no idea. I was parroting, almost word for word, **Budget Player Cadet** ’s OP [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15226377#post15226377). I simply exchanged voter ID for health care. Then I took his response and fed it back to him, again word for word. I actually have no particular problem with Euclidean geometry, unless I bump into a pseudosphere someday. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/65 "2012-07-02T13:56:56Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I have no idea. I was parroting, almost word for word, **Budget Player Cadet** ’s OP [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15226377#post15226377). I simply exchanged voter ID for health care. Then I took his response and fed it back to him, again word for word. I actually have no particular problem with Euclidean geometry, unless I bump into a pseudosphere someday. I… vaguely… recognize but don’t fully understand what you were trying to do (did you mean to cite the OP of a thread about voter registration?), but okay. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/66 "2012-07-02T14:18:54Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It means rebuked or warned. No money changed hands. Old equivocation by false etymology trick. Kinda like all the Catholic priests suffering the little children on themselves. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/67 "2012-07-02T16:47:00Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The age of Man is over. The age of the LIBERAL has begun! _\ \_ Seriously. Those lines could’ve been spoken by Gandalf. “The Supreme Court Ruling is all He needs to cover all the lands in a second darkness.” ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/68 "2012-07-02T16:57:10Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Seriously. Those lines could’ve been spoken by Gandalf. “The Supreme Court Ruling is all He needs to cover all the lands in a second darkness.” Good! It’s too hot out. We could use the shade. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/69 "2012-07-05T17:09:39Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Only Zod haters are worried about that. Just kneel and get it over with. It is not **Doom** ’s fault that Zod’s home planet exploded. **Doom** will not give up this world to someone who so resoundingly failed to conquer his own. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/70 "2012-07-05T18:44:54Z")
> [@Mycroft\_Holmes](#): > > What’s horrendously bad about Euclidian geometry? Or do surveyors, architects and others now use Riemannian geometry? That would explain a lot about some recent architectural projects… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/71 "2012-07-05T20:24:07Z")
Well there is this library in downtown Minneapolis that hurts my eyes to look at. And the people going in and out all seem to have something wrong with them. Or maybe they’re just homeless. It’s hard to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/72 "2012-07-05T20:34:11Z")
Not to mention the eldritch horrors to be found in Gehry, Indiana. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/73 "2012-07-05T20:35:45Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > 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’. Who says they ever DID grasp it??? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/74 "2012-07-05T22:18:16Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Not to mention the eldritch horrors to be found in Gehry, Indiana. 😃 I saw what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/75 "2012-07-06T21:53:01Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I have no idea. I was parroting, almost word for word, **Budget Player Cadet** ’s OP [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15226377#post15226377). I simply exchanged voter ID for health care. Then I took his response and fed it back to him, again word for word. I actually have no particular problem with Euclidean geometry, unless I bump into a pseudosphere someday. The question then becomes “why did you do that”? I know I wouldn’t have recognized it. You’re talking about a different subject in a completely different thread. I’d go insane if I had such a memory that I could recall everything I ever typed. But, even if he did recognize it, no one else would, and it just makes you look stupid. If you did it in the original thread, everyone would recognize it. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/76 "2012-07-06T23:34:50Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > The question then becomes “why did you do that”? I know I wouldn’t have recognized it. You’re talking about a different subject in a completely different thread. I’d go insane if I had such a memory that I could recall everything I ever typed. > > But, even if he did recognize it, no one else would, and it just makes you look stupid. If you did it in the original thread, everyone would recognize it. There is a huge difference between asking you to recall everything you ever typed, and to recall a paragraph you typed in the last two days. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/77 "2012-07-06T23:46:18Z")
To you, maybe! ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/78 "2012-07-07T19:35:21Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > There is a huge difference between asking you to recall everything you ever typed, and to recall a paragraph you typed in the last two days. I don’t get it. Do you think UHC is a bad idea or not? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/79 "2012-07-07T20:11:30Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > I don’t get it. Do you think UHC is a bad idea or not? The devil is in the details, but as a general proposition, I don’t think UHC is wise. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-mississippi-tea-party-are-you-sure-inciting-treason-isnt-a-crime/626885/80 "2012-07-07T23:19:55Z")
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