Some moral fortitude

One must ask what acts of behavior that we see and hear daily from the president constitute sedition. Sedition is “conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state.”

When the president openly calls for people to take action to overthrow the election, to change the electors to ones that will ignore the results of the citizens’ vote and cast the electoral college votes for him, that seems pretty seditious to me.

His refusal to concede is a moot point; no one really cares. But his refusal to allow the president-elect’s transition team to be briefed could cause significant damage to the nation, if some adversary decided to act against us shortly after the inauguration. Recent claims state that lack of a smooth transition from Clinton to Bush hampered the Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 attacks. Yet that was almost nine months after Bush had gone into office, not days or hours after the changeover.

These acts and statements against the rule of law and the governmental system that we have in the United States of America are unforgivable and in my opinion border on treason. Treason is the crime of betraying one’s country, especially by attempting to overthrow the government.

I find it outrageous that someone who reportedly obtained the office with assistance of foreign powers and stole the election four years ago has the audacity to accuse anyone of stealing an election, and then compound that by offering no proof in any court.

Let us not forget that he is not in this alone. He is being aided and abetted by most if not all of the Republican Party. Certainly the leadership and our Arkansas senators and representatives and state officers from the governor on down. Not a single peep from anyone who has asked to be in a leadership position. A little moral fortitude would be nice to see from anyone who claims to love America.

MARK WEATHERTON North Little Rock