Meles Zenawi Quotes
It is illegal to be a member of an organization that is challenging the constitution by armed force.
Perry, Alex. "A Talk with Ethiopia's Meles Zenawi." Time, 15 Aug. 2007.
Under this law Kamal Sayid Qadir who had posted material of the on the internet was accused action “defamatory of government leadership” and given a 30 year jail sentence. See {589505}.
Warning to John Calhoun and other South Carolinians about the implications of their nullification of the Tariff Act of 1832:
The original proposal made treason and bribery the only grounds for Presidential impeachment. Mason and others argued to broaden the grounds and finally they agreed on “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Referring to Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1869-1948:
Italy was in the midst of civil war with the rebels in Emila wanting its independence from the civil authority of the Pope who then controlled virtually all of Italy. The French emperor, Napoleon BonaparteII, advised that the only way to produce peace was to allow Emila to have its independence. He was the last Pope to hold temporal power. While it should not be surprising, the Pope’s statement is essentially the same position that every autocratic authority has taken when there has been some local success of the rebels.
Although it seems incredible to us today, thousands of people were arrested and prosecuted under the Espionage Act. The government particularly targeted leftists such as Eugene V. Debs, Bill Haywood, J. Philip Randolph, Victor Berger, John Reed, Max Eastman, and Emma Goldman. Debs was sentenced to 20 years in prison for criticizing the Act itself.
With martial law came the authority to seize ALL guns in the colony for the emergency. This was not to disarm the general populace. It reflected the fact that there were relatively few colonists who owned guns as they were very expensive. The Governor could take those that existed and use them to defend against the rebels or whatever. There were more gun owners in the Revolution but still a minority. Even after the War of 1812 only 30% of Americans were armed, and that shortly decreased to 10% as there was no real culture of gun ownership in early America. This would come around the Civil War.
Member of the Triumvirate. This was the set of laws for the Roman colony in Urso, Spain. It is much like Roman law and it is very valuable because so much of it has been preserved whereas the laws of Rome itself comes to us in fragments and from secondary sources. There was no right of assembly in the dictatorial Roman Empire and a person needed approval even to stage a play. This law was actually drafted by Julius Caesar. Antony later issued it.
In 1956, Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, had suggested a nuclear testing ban. The then Vice President made his extreme accusation. See {619523} for another Nixon smear of Stevenson.
He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640751} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
This was his name for the wealthy slaveowners in Tennessee. He was the military governor of Tennessee when he so labeled the secessionists.
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
Meles Zenawi Asres was an Ethiopian soldier and politician who ruled Ethiopia as President and as 2nd Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. He was considered the founder of the Federal state of modern Ethiopia
