For the dark money and puppeteers behind conservative politicians, anonymity is the preferred state and any publicity is inherently - especially if they fund extremist politicians or schemes to shut down the government. News reports abound that the billionaire oil magnates the Koch brothers funded the culprits behind the still-ongoing government shut down. The Koch's finally spoke out in a letter to Senators claiming their innocence and denying they had any part in teabagger and Republican machinations to hold the government hostage in exchange for killing the Affordable Care Act.
The Koch brothers letter claimed they had no part or took no position on the legislative tactic of tying the continuing resolution to defunding ObamaCare nor have we lobbied on legislative provisions defunding ObamaCare.
But like their Republican lackeys in congress; they are filthy liars. The Koch-funded FreedomWorks issued a letter in February 2013 that said, Conservatives should not approve a CR unless it defunds Obamacare. This includes Obamacares unworkable exchanges, unsustainable Medicaid expansion, and attack on life and religious liberty. If paying a surrogate to demand Republicans and teabaggers tie defunding the Affordable Care Act to keeping the government operating is not taking a position on the government shutdown and the continuing resolution, then the Sun rises in the West and the Earth orbits the moon.
Herein lies the rub... There is a statute in the U.S. Code that does apply to the Koch brothers and every other conservative that spent the past three years attempting to prohibit implementation of the Affordable Care Act and it is a legitimate and actionable offense the DOJ can prosecute with extreme prejudice. In 18 USC § 2384 Seditious conspiracy, it plainly says; If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspires to oppose by force the authority of, or prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. For the Americans affected by the government shut down, and those who live in Republican states that rejected free Medicaid expansion written in the Affordable Care Act, it is highly likely they would support fining and imprisoning the Koch brothers for twenty years.
Americans have put up with criminal sedition from the Kochs and Republicans for too long and they cannot be held to a different standard or above the law because they are rich and powerful. In fact, their violation of the U.S. Code may well be the easiest, and only, means of stopping their continued assault on Americas representative democracy. Obviously the Koch brothers were rattled by charges they were behind the government shutdown through their funding efforts to hold the government hostage in exchange for eliminating the ACA or they would not have written a letter lying about their involvement. But they, their think tanks, PACs, and cohort in Congress and the states cannot deny they are guilty of seditious conspiracy to oppose the authority of, or prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States and no American should be satisfied until they are fined or imprisoned for twenty years. If there is any justice left in this corrupt nation, they will get both.
The fact that states voted to arrest federal officials attempting to enforce the health law, coupled with the growing threats of armed violence against the government due to the health laws enactment meets the definition of by force originally omitted in the U.S. Codes description. By definition, a conspiracy means the Teabagger planners, inciters, and funders are guilty the same as Osama bin Laden was guilty for recruiting, planning, and funding al Qaeda terrorists who flew commercial airliners into American buildings.
carolyn wrote:
The likes of Obama and Reid don't care what the American people think of them. They are happy so long as they can believe they are going to take over our government and make a communist nation out of it.
Have you ever taken a good look at Reid? Isn't he the most pathetic little squeaky voiced twerp you have ever seen? And to think he has everyone in Washington believing he was a boxing great in his youth. The only thing is, he can't count the fights he had with women boxers as a sparring partner as bona-fide ring fights. And it wouldn't have done him any good anyway because they always managed to beat his scrawny butt.
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