different kind of sedition. >> anthony: mpume and tshepang from the blk jks have just finished watchingfood. generally speaking, are these good times in south africa? bad times? transitional times? >> tshepang: obviously 1994 was the peak of the good times in south africa. now with all of the politics, you know, all the parties, the fighting, it's quite tense right now. >> mpume: it's not like it was before, where everybody's -- you know, it's black and white, literally you know, like we're unified on this and they're unified on that. >> anthony: these days the party that freed the country from white rule, the anc, is not universally loved anymore. in recent years they have been criticized for inaction, corruption, and cronyism, and opposition parties are gaining strength. >> mpume: so now it's more nuanced, and i think that's maybe new to us. so i think we're trying to navigate this nuanced reality, how do you deal with so many opinions and, you know, the party that you loved the whole time that brought about this freedom is fumbling the ball, so what do you do? because in democracy yo

during world war i government passed the espionage and sedition act which allowed the federal government to prosecute anyone who criticized the war effort, who criticize the government of the united states, criticize the constitution, criticize uniforms of the soldiers. it was incredible law, but under it, more than 2000 people were prosecuted. most were sent to jail for 10 years. this comes out of a period of massive suppression of speech. in the years following the first world war, many of the states followed the model of the espionage and sedition act. why be concerned about radical labor movement? and made it illegal to criticize the political system of the united states or the economic system of the united states. whitney came out of an aristocratic american family. five of her ancestors came over on the mayflower. many of them were distinguished and she believed absolutely in the founding document of the united states, particularly the declaration of independence and the constitution and met the reforms of political and economic system did not, she thought bring about real fairness

they also, by the way, passed rather draconian laws known as the alien and sedition act, dealing with aliens in the country, giving the president power to remove them, sedition for treasonous actions, newspaper articles that were bad, you could be put in prison. it's a very controversial question. their view is, there are enemies within, we must deal with them. this is not a new issue. it comes up time and time again. well, who would command the new army and save the country from france? two guesses. who else but the man who saved the country from great brittain. now, before even receiving washington's agreement to serve, president adams nominated him to be -- and the senate, by the way, unanimously confirmed him. every time i look at washington, it's unanimous. unanimously commander in chief, unanimously the constitution of the convention, unanimously the president of the united states, you nan mussily re-elected president of the united states, unanimously appointed as the lieutenant general and commander in chief of all the armies raised or ought to be raised for service in the unit

in this case, social dissolution along with treason, espionage, conspiracy, rebellion, sedition, riots are all under the heading of problems against national security. this happened throughout mexico as federal crimes and also as ordinary crimes in the federal district which is mexico city and the sparsely populated federal territories. so that is where this was put in. before you start to worry that i'm going -- on the verge of subjecting you to a technical and arcane presentation into the final points of mexican criminal law, i will step back i think italian about how they came to focus on this topic. and how i think the history of article 145 and the much broader themes and issues in modern mexican history and international history the history of the cold war. my interest in the history of the social dissolution clause arose during the course of my research on the impact of world war ii on the project that resulted in my recently published book on the subject as mentioned in the introduction. in my book i argue that despite the distance between mexico and the battlefront, wartime co

he'd been charged with sedition and treason. ali is a young child. he asked me, "dad, what does that mean?" ali asked me, "what is treason, dad?" >> narrator: a saudi court convicted him of organizing protests by text message and participating in a terror cell. he was sentenced to death. his family says he was tortured into confessing. >> (translated): him being part of a terrorist organization is very far from what ali believes in. it's very far from that. they are only asking for reform. >> (translated): the sentence really shocked me. i didn't expect the judge would dare sentence a young boy in that way. >> (translated): the regime has no right to execute them. they are sentenced with this because they want to crush any groups that ask for reform in the country. here is my son ali at nursery school with the rest of his class. these are the last pictures i have of him before he was arrested. >> narrator: saudi officials publicly defended the arrests, saying sheikh nimr was inciting terror and attempting to overthrow the government. >> our response

after not just individu individuals, we need to crack down on the hate mosques who preach hate and sedition and anti-semitism and if they're not citiz citizens, get them out. we absolutely right now, need to crack down on jihad hawaporn on these chats and websites and 100% know they are inspiring americans to kill americans. >> your thoughts? >> not one attack, six bloody attacks so far by jihadist linked individuals and groups, not six attacks only. 60 attempts over the past few years. the heads of the department or the fbi and others have been concluding that we are facing up to 50 activities in 50 states. it's not that we are at war with the jihadists, they're at war with us. my concern is the penetration of jihadi jihadists, not just of isis, all kinds, in the united states not just the past 10 years, been happening since the '60s and '70s and wave of muslim brotherhood. >> the former head of the muslim brotherhood got from clinton and president obama tanks and f-16s and they referred to jews as descendants of apes and pigs and give trer rherrorists million o dollars. hillary clinton ha

. >> -- survived world wars -- >> sedition act. >> great depression, everything. unbelievable. >> yeah. >> the constitution. and so if you think -- >> actually, much of the constitution was suspended during the civil war and during world war ii, you know? there were strict -- >> habeas corpus and the like. >> sure. >> but it's within the larger framework, that's my point. >> roosevelt also issued strict regulations on radio broadcasts and newspaper reports. >> well, and tried to -- truman tried to take over the steel industry. >> right, right. >> but i think all of this within the idea of checks and balances, separations of power has worked. >> yes. >> 240 years later. that's pretty unbelievable, right? >> yeah. >> and i think that, again, the reality is that they would be stunned that their own creation has lasted this long. there are letters, letters among the founding fathers saying if this lasts five years, we'll be lucky. >> isn't that astonishing? >> we have about ten minutes left, do you want to take some questions? >> absolutely. >> [inaudible] of all the

immediately after when during world war i the government passed something called the espionage and seditioncts which allows the federal government to prosecute anyone who criticized the war at efforts of the government of the united states or the constitution or the uniforms that the soldiers wore. it was incredible law but under it more than 2000 people were prosecuted and most of them were sent to jail for up to ten years so this comes out of a period of time of massive depression of speech. in the year following the first world war, many of the states filed the model of the espionage act largely because they were concerned about radical labor movements and again made it illegal to criticize the political system of the united states or the economic system of the united states. anita whitney was a woman who came out of an aristocrat american family and five of our ancestors came over on the mayflower. many of her ancestors were distinguished as well as she believed absolutely and the founding document of the united states, particularly the declaration of independence and the constitution a

. >> -- survived world wars -- >> sedition act. >> great depression, everything. unbelievable. >> yeah. >> the constitution. and so if you think -- >> actually, much of the constitution was suspended during the civil war and during world war ii, you know? there were strict -- >> habeas corpus and the like. >> sure. >> but it's within the larger framework, that's my point. >> roosevelt also issued strict regulations on radio broadcasts and newspaper reports. >> well, and tried to -- truman tried to take over the steel industry. >> right, right. >> but i think all of this within the idea of checks and balances, separations of power has worked. >> yes. >> 240 years later. that's pretty unbelievable, right? >> yeah. >> and i think that, again, the reality is that they would be stunned that their own creation has lasted this long. there are letters, letters among the founding fathers saying if this lasts five years, we'll be lucky. >> isn't that astonishing? >> we have about ten minutes left, do you want to take some questions? >> absolutely. >> [inaudible] of all the