There is a petition up at MoveOn.org right now which is moving at lightening speed as it is picked up and passed by many liberal groups on Facebook.
Arrest and Try House GOP Leadership for Sedition
PETITION STATEMENT
I call on the Justice Department of the United States of America to arrest Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Speaker of the House John Boehner and other decision-making House Republican leaders for the crime of seditious conspiracy against the United States of America.
The petition's background states this:
The House GOP leadership's use of the Hastert Rule and H. Res 368 to shut down the government and threaten the US economy with default is an attempt to extort the United States government into altering or abolishing the Affordable Care Act, and thus, is self-evidently a seditious conspiracy. Arrest the perpetrators in Congress immediately and bring them to justice.
And cites these two web posts :
Why Did House GOP Rig The Rules To Keep The Government Shut Down? (EXPLOSIVE VIDEO)
The GOP Shutdown Is Sedition and Shouldn't be Forgiven
Addicting Info is also making a case FOR the petition
Should Tea Party Republicans be charged with sedition?
The simple truth is that Republicans did all of this by themselves to themselves. They held America hostage and put the entire nation at risk just to repeal a law that they have failed to repeal nearly 40 times in normal congressional business since 2011. It was a plotted conspiracy that has been in the planning since last year. And even though it certainly looks as if the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis is about to end, Republicans refused to make any promises that they wouldn’t do the exact same thing again in February. Clearly, the GOP intends to repeat this hostage situation again.
May I suggest that if the background of your petition cites H. Res 368 you may also want to include the
7 Lying Democrats who voted for it too.
And why is Ted Cruz getting a pass?
The petition is working on it's new goal of 7,500 signatures.