Do I give a shit? Limbaugh expressed his opinion as is his right.
It's pretty clearly Sedition under Canadian law. Check s. 59 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
Will have to check some American sources. But of course they'd park Rush's cancer-ridden ass in a hospital ward anyway and then taxpayer would have to pay for the vast gallons of pain killers they're going to pump into him. So probably not worth the trouble.
Seditious words
- 59 (1) Seditious words are words that express a seditious intention.
- Marginal note:Seditious libel
(2) A seditious libel is a libel that expresses a seditious intention.
- Marginal note:Seditious conspiracy
(3) A seditious conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to carry out a seditious intention.
- Marginal note:Seditious intention
(4) Without limiting the generality of the meaning of the expression seditious intention, every one shall be presumed to have a seditious intention who
- (a) teaches or advocates, or
- (b) publishes or circulates any writing that advocates,
- the use, without the authority of law, of force as a means of accomplishing a governmental change within Canada.
- R.S., c. C-34, s. 60
Marginal note:Exception
60 Notwithstanding subsection 59(4), no person shall be deemed to have a seditious intention by reason only that he intends, in good faith,
- (a) to show that Her Majesty has been misled or mistaken in her measures;
- (b) to point out errors or defects in
- (i) the government or constitution of Canada or a province,
- (ii) Parliament or the legislature of a province, or
- (iii) the administration of justice in Canada;
- (c) to procure, by lawful means, the alteration of any matter of government in Canada; or
- (d) to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters that produce or tend to produce feelings of hostility and ill-will between different classes of persons in Canada.
- R.S., c. C-34, s. 61
Marginal note
unishment of seditious offences
61 Every one who
- (a) speaks seditious words,
- (b) publishes a seditious libel, or
- (c) is a party to a seditious conspiracy,
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.