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- Apr 10, 2011
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haha, jail for what?
sedition: conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch
The groups purpose is to "voice opposition" in support of environmental issues that they stand for... not to overthrow the government through violence.
The Brandenburg v. Ohio U.S. Supreme Court decision maintains that seditious speech—including speech that constitutes an incitement to violence—is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as it does not indicate an “imminent” threat.
Seditious speech in the United States - Wikipedia
Any state law that conflict with federal law is unconstitutional. Article 6 sec 2. And federal law says sedition is a punishable offense:
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
The difference is one of speech, (allowable) and conspiracy (punishable). These employees are conspiring, politically, to resist our government.