HSRP-479

Democracies are on the same record: the US Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918, and Eugene Debs's ten-year sentence for an antiwar speech.

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-479
Category: Natural Law
Grade: ESTABLISHED
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised: 2026-10-13
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-479

2. The claim, in full

Democracies are on the same record: the US Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918, and Eugene Debs's ten-year sentence for an antiwar speech.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, US AND THEM › Crimes of thought and speech. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1c-14.

3. What it rests on

Democracies are on the same record. The Sedition Act of 1798 punished "false, scandalous and malicious" writing against the government, Congress or the President, but not against the opposition's Vice President, Thomas Jefferson [SRC-847]. In 1918 Congress made "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government and the flag a federal crime, and Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years under the wartime Espionage Act for an antiwar speech [SRC-848] [SRC-849] (see THE AUTHORITARIAN HIVE MIND).

Source: none linked in the register

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.

6. Why this grade

The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.

The register defines ESTABLISHED as: Supported directly by primary texts or published findings.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13: BATCH 2 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from HOW A HIVE DEFENDS ITSELF, HOW A HIVE MOVES AS ONE BODY or US AND THEM — wording unchanged. The moved spans still carry the page's own reference numbers in brackets; converting them to SRC numbers is held for a pass of its own.

8. Related observations

HSRP-477 · WORKING · Heresy, apostasy and blasphemy law shows six recurring moves, and secular states repeat them when a state, party or nation takes a god's place.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-478 · PROBABLE · "Thought crime" was an official term in Imperial Japan from 1928; Orwell popularized the word, and "wrongthink" came later.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-480 · OPEN QUESTION · Prosecution of thought and speech ends where nothing is placed above question, as the US Supreme Court held in 1943.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“Democracies are on the same record: the US Sedition Acts of 1798 and 1918, and Eugene Debs's ten-year sentence for an antiwar speech — ESTABLISHED”

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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