uicksilver workshopAuckland, New Zealand Freelance journalist Tim Selwyn has been found guilty of sedition (audio). This is the first conviction for sedition in New Zealand in over 75 years. ~ via WikinewsSedition? Yikes. New Zealand is little brother to Autrailia, the evil Canada, but isn't this going too far?
The United States has sedition laws too. According to Wikipedia,
Sedition does not consist of levying war against a government nor of adhering to its enemies, giving enemies aid, and giving enemies comfort. Nor does it consist, in most representative democracies, of peaceful protest against a government, nor of attempting to change the government by democratic means (such as direct democracy or constitutional convention).Mr. Selwyn, the gentleman from New Zealand, was convicted of making statements intended to "incite... or encourage violence, lawlessness, or disorder" when he distributed pamphlets asking like-minded New Zealanders to "engage in similar acts of civil disobedience" and "take similar action of their own" following a vandal's axe attack on the Prime Minister's electorate office. The crime is punishable by up to two year's jail.
If encouraging vandalism is sedition, then what exactly is this?
Labels: Civil Disobedience, New Zealand, Sedition
