APD Chief and Austin Police Association Get Prickly Over Post-Sedition Suggestions

Good cop, mad cop

"...need to know, because what happened in D.C. was sedition," Pool said. "The chief should have wanted to know..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Ben-Hur

We're (unfortunately) off to the chariot races again

"...galley slave after Messala had him wrongfully arrested for sedition...."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

This Oscar nominee from Germany chronicles the last desperate hours of Sophie Scholl, a real-life German university student who, in 1943 Munich, ran afoul of the gestapo while distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.

"...their friend Christoph Probst (Stetter) were found guilty of sedition and executed. Scholl is a national hero in the..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Three Kings

This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.

"...stand up and salute when Three Kings shows how sedition can, indeed, be an act of heroism. Three Kings..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin at Large: Forget the Alamo

It’s strike three for Texas in the white-power rebellion game. Time to call folks out.

"...up about that.) Our multicultural coalition of solidarity against sedition – which has grown quite a bit in the..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Georgia on My Mind

It was the best of days, it was the worst of days

"...whatever last-ditch assaults on the democratic process the GOP's Sedition Caucus may have intended were drowned out and run..."

Jan. 8, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Postmarks

One Is Enough

"...Albany, California Alien Sedition in Austin..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Column

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...his pre-teen daughters for the bad idea. Did Senator Sedition lambaste Austin Mayor Steve Adler for his ill-timed trip..."

Feb. 19, 2021 News Feature

Austin Police Chief Brian Manley Announces Retirement

Manley's 30-year career with APD will end March 28

"...Manley didn’t just butt heads with the more progressive..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Mayor Pro Tem Contest Kicks Off New Council Storylines

A leading role at City Hall?

"...On housing and land use, she has remained firmly..."

Jan. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Qmmunity: The Best Big Qmmunity in Texas

On discrimination, Dolly, and more queer happenings

"...The Tr*mp administration's Department of Health & Human Services..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Public Notice: Criminal Behavior

Ken Paxton has to go – plus a bucket of warm spit

"...remains under indictment for; nor for his crime of sedition last Wednes­day, but for a story about another of..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: Make America Grateful Again

Even as white nationalism sticks around, kicking Trump to the curb is a Thanksgiving miracle

"...At a national level, that would rightly be called sedition. Combating it here will be hard enough without having..."

Nov. 27, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Fantasia Review: Detention

Taiwanese video game adaptation is a tale of political redemption

"...It's 1962, and the crackdown on even sedition (read: any kind of independent thought) known as the..."

Sept. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Book Festival 2019: Truth Worth Telling: A Conversation With Journalist Scott Pelley

Newsman Scott Pelley had words of advice about media in the modern age

"...challenges should be taken seriously and recalled the 1798 Sedition Act which made “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” punishable..."

Oct. 28, 2019 Arts Post by Joe O'Connell

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...President John Adams signed into law the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, which prohibited untrue criticism of the..."

June 9, 2017 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Greg Abbott, Founding Father

Texas governor wants to rewrite U.S. Constitution

"...10th Amendment grandstanding is little more than scarcely disguised sedition. Texas Democratic Party Deputy Executive Director Manny Garcia wrote,..."

Jan. 11, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fun Fun Fun Fest: Doomtree

Straight outta Minneapolis on subversion and jump-up messaging

"...to have fun – just with a side of sedition...."

Nov. 9, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

From the Vaults: It’s All in the Family With David O. Russell

Family dysfunction looms large in the films of David O. Russell

"...rogue American soldiers in Iraq, whose ultimate act of sedition is, arguably, a brave act of heroism. Yet it..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Southern White in the Social-Justice Trenches

AFS Doc Nights screens 'Anne Braden: Southern Patriot'

"...Louisville, Ky., thereby triggering a Klan firebombing and a sedition conviction for Carl...."

July 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

There Is a Long-Existing Form of Indefinite Detention

"...found in this country as far back as the Sedition Act. And that we, by our indifference to overincarceration..."

Jan. 26, 2012 Postmarks

Hold Up on 'Inciting Violence' Legislation

"...time to step back here and perhaps revisit the sedition acts passed during World War I. A very slippery..."

Jan. 10, 2011 Postmarks

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation

It takes a village: This inquiry into the late-period Romantics debunks the idea of the individual artist as isolated, sui generis, and in torment

"...at the Surrey Gaol, where Hunt was imprisoned for sedition; at Switzerland's Villa Diodati, where Mary Shelley first hatched..."

May 7, 2010 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

The Revolution Doesn't Need To Be Violent, but It Has To Happen

"...Adams administration in 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, used to abuse supporters of Thomas Jefferson and..."

July 24, 2009 Postmarks

Rock & Roll Summer Reading

"...was literally stoned by conservative groups and investigated for sedition during McCarthyism, only to be subsequently feted with a..."

May 30, 2008 Music Feature by David Lynch

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

"...are now stooping to this horrid tactic. This newest sedition must be the final verdict against the neo-left Democrats...."

Oct. 16, 2007 Postmarks

Page Two: Grand Illusions

The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing conspiracy theories is that they're wrong

"...their rights. The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, nullifying constitutional protections for large groups..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Navasky & Barsamian

Former editor of The Nation discusses the role of the alternative press

"...goes all the way back to the Alien and Sedition laws after the Revolution, and after World War I..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Autumn Rhythm

Musical Gift Guide Part I: Rock & Roll Books

Dec. 5, 2003 Music Feature

Musicology 101

Sheet Music

"...for Zen covered it all in 2000. Yet in Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale (Peter Owen,..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

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