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Originally posted by Usmellgass2?
TREASON - This word imports a betraying, treachery, or breach of allegiance.
The Constitution of the United States, Art. III, defines treason against the United States to consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. This offense is punished with death. By the same article of the Constitution, no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
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Publicly accusing US forces of atrocities would defiantly fall into this category.
Pat you need to familiarize your self with the Uniform Code of Military Justice. What a Solider or Officer can say or do is a lot different than a citizens rights.
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Notice that it is consitutional, so that even the 70's prohibition against the use of capital punishment woldn't have applied. However,public accucsations would not fall into this category unless it was proven that it was done in concert with the Al Quaedidiots and for their benefit, and even then, nobody would EVER open that can of worms...lol However, Jane Fonda would not have ahd a defense of their not actually being a war, because the Rosenbergs were exectuted for aiding the enemy during the COLD war. I also suspect that the guy who was imprisoned for life for sellign secrets to the Israelis could arguably NOT be tried for treason because he didn't do anything for an "enemy' regardless of what Pat thinks....lol