Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:40:54 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:
> At 01:59 PM 6/2/05 -0400, dicconf wrote:
>
>>To betray a trust is not to be a traitor in the Constitutional
>>definition, which is the only one that applies in American law.
>>("Treason to the United States shall consist only in levying war against
>>them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort...")
>
> Hmmm...I wonder if going to the Soviet Union and engaging in protests
> against the United States during the Cold War years would fit that definition?
>
> -- Mike B.

No.

Certain right- wing pundits have been claiming that "treason" is another
name for "disrespecting a Republican".  'Taint so -- such things have
legal definitions, and they're pretty strict.

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."