Arcana

[Joel S. Berson]

The OED allows "sedition" = "2.b. Conduct or
*language* inciting to rebellion against the
constituted authority in a state."  I think
Patrick was asserting that some of the right-wing
language is inciting to disobedience of the laws.

Joel

At 5/25/2010 09:35 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Wicked weird! I don't find "sedition" arcane, but I do find this use
>of it arcane. OTOH, I *can* conceive of constant, unrelenting,
>knee-jerk opposition to *everything* that Obama and the Dems may
>propose as having an *effect* similar to that of outright sedition.
>Maybe that's where Patrick was going with that thought.
>
>-Wilson
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>On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > The Boston Globe today characterizes Massachusetts Governor Deval
> > Patrick as using an arcane word to describe knee-jerk opposition to
> > whatever President Obama proposes or says.
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> > What is that word?  Sedition.
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> > Joel
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