{"id":10619,"date":"2009-12-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-03T00:27:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T00:27:40","slug":"uhoh-i-might-end-up-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/02\/uhoh-i-might-end-up-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh-oh, I Might End Up in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Richman scans the SecState’s initiative website and finds a whopper (PDF)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members of the media criminally liable for intentionally making a false statement of “material fact” about legislative acts, elections for public office, or the employment or dismissal of government employees. Imposes on violators a 2 to 10 year prison term, a $10,000 to $500,000 fine, or both, and a lifetime ban on serving as a government official or employee, or member of the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yay! That would be grrrreeeeaaattt for Calitics. Or something. But wait it gets better, this language is familiar. From Richman<\/a><\/p>\n

But if the “false, scandalous and malicious” thing sounds familiar, that’s because I didn’t make it up – it’s verbatim from the Sedition Act enacted in July 1798 to quell political dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that one worked sooo well that we should definitely bring it back.  And goodness knows I’m not tough enough, a few years in the clink would serve me well. And the banning from the media would also save me a lot of time too.<\/p>\n

Full text of the proposed initiative here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: You can find the Legislative Analyst’s review of this measure here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Josh Richman scans the SecState’s initiative website and finds a whopper (PDF)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members of the media criminally liable for intentionally making a false statement of “material fact” about legislative acts, elections for public office, or the employment or dismissal of government employees. Imposes on violators a 2 to 10 year prison term, a $10,000 to $500,000 fine, or both, and a lifetime ban on serving as a government official or employee, or member of the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yay! That would be grrrreeeeaaattt for Calitics. Or something. But wait it gets better, this language is familiar. From Richman<\/a><\/p>\n

But if the “false, scandalous and malicious” thing sounds familiar, that’s because I didn’t make it up – it’s verbatim from the Sedition Act enacted in July 1798 to quell political dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that one worked sooo well that we should definitely bring it back.  And goodness knows I’m not tough enough, a few years in the clink would serve me well. And the banning from the media would also save me a lot of time too.<\/p>\n

Full text of the proposed initiative here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: You can find the Legislative Analyst’s review of this measure here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[3663,8130],"class_list":["post-10619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3663","tag-8130"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Lh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}