Recalling a Crime of Resistance

You hear the word resistance a lot these days, and most of the time that talk is harmless, since it isn’t about the violent overthrow of a government.  

I have a link to a word that describes a situation that is slowly coming to light in the FBI.  It relates to the descriptions of the actions of some senior people in that Agency and how they communicated their intentions to one another.  The word, defined in Wikipedia, is sedition:  “Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontention (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel.”

It has been a long time since anyone got tried for sedition in this country, but let’s think about bringing it back.