So determined was the further education minister to counter any sedition from Alan Tuckett, boss of Niace, the voice of adult education, when he heard that the latter was to appear on a Radio 4 education show last night, that he told programme staff he intended to interrupt a dinner - in Cyprus, no less - to take part.
"We will deal severely with any sedition and behaviour which is strange to our habits and conventions," said Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit during a recent hospital visit to policemen receiving medical treatment after the Friday clash.
Let's say NO to threats, NO to Islamists, and NO to building any more sedition centers.
And for aliens and natives alike, they added a Sedition Act, which punished any "conspiracy" to impede federal law (five years in prison) or any utterance or writing found to be contemptuous of the government, Congress or the president (two years).
The government, which long equated almost any dissent with sedition, has suggested it may choose whom it will speak to; Mr. Assad mentioned the possibility of more than 100 people, though the government has yet to say who they may be.
In 1798, the federal government, under President John Adams, passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which deemed "any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States" a criminal act.
But I could have found stronger anti-government sedition on any street corner of Manhattan.
He laughed, and added, "If we could have come out of churches, we would have come out of churches!" According to captured minutes from the Deir Ezzor security committee, its members decided to infiltrate the mosques with Baath Party loyalists, "an average of two hundred comrades per mosque, to deal with any case that incites sedition".
Dr. Sen's wife, Ilina, said, "There is really no evidence of sedition charges or any violence".
"This is another scheme from those murderers who select targets to spread sedition and silence any moderate national voice," he said.
Anti-corruption investigators were suspended and accused of actions that "in any normal situation would be sedition," after arresting the attorney general, a supreme court judge, and the prime minister's senior lawyer last week.
