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birdwatcher) wrote2006-05-03 08:48 am
birdwatcher) wrote2006-05-03 08:48 am
Двадцатый век (очевидное невероятное)
Сегодня после обеда в Монтане пройдет церемония посмертной реабилитации неосторожных остряков, получивших в 1918 году тюремные сроки за трактирные шутки по поводу Кайзера и усилий первой мировой войны.
Montana's Sedition Act, passed in 1918 but since repealed, was one of the harshest in the country and a basis for a national sedition law passed the same year. Of those convicted, more than 40 were sent to state prison.
In one case, a 38-year-old traveling liquor salesman was arrested after he called wartime food regulations in the United States a "big joke" while talking with a Montana hotel owner in 1918. Less than a month later, he was in prison.
Another was a German immigrant who ended up serving two years in prison for suggesting that Americans "would have hard times" if Germany's kaiser "didn't get over here and rule this country."
Montana's Sedition Act, passed in 1918 but since repealed, was one of the harshest in the country and a basis for a national sedition law passed the same year. Of those convicted, more than 40 were sent to state prison.
In one case, a 38-year-old traveling liquor salesman was arrested after he called wartime food regulations in the United States a "big joke" while talking with a Montana hotel owner in 1918. Less than a month later, he was in prison.
Another was a German immigrant who ended up serving two years in prison for suggesting that Americans "would have hard times" if Germany's kaiser "didn't get over here and rule this country."