"Treason"
Is a very specific charge, with a well outlined definition. Whether anyone likes it or not, the fact is, that he has not committed "Treason" simply because some people do not agree with his policies.
It's the same sort of silly rehtoric the "other side" threw around some years ago while accusing President Bush of "Deserting" the war in VeitNam.
Folks, you may as well wrap your heads around the idea that just because you, or I or that guy over there THINK that something is illegal or treasonous.......Does not make it so.
Can we make a Citizens Arrest of Obama so he can be prosecuted for treason and punished?
David Wallace
2012/07/13 00:16:55
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Doc. J 2012/07/13 12:36:19No, you can't do that because...






















http://www.fox19.com/story/19...
The Cheney administration took us into two unnecessary wars at what cost? Convinced US citizens that they aren't working hard enough and having three jobs makes you, "Uniqually American".
Clinton destroyed trade and the Fairness Doctrine where once the media was held accountable for what they say.
Bush Sr -- and his New World Order . That's scary enough to just type.
Ronnie - the star. De-regulate the financial industry and all industry, removal of tarrifs,
destroy Unions, move the wealth to the uber-wealthy, destryed education,......
Soo really - Obama is just another capitalist/corporatist in the White House carrying on the same agenda for the last thirty years. Republicons have been made to believe that he is more evil because that's what the corporatist media want. Obama isn't moving the process fast enough back to the Gilded Age.
Now the only other reason I can see for hating Obama is because he's a scary Black man or we know a Black man "cain't do the job". Really I think that's the real reason for all the hatred because this president hasn't done anything outside the Republicon/Corporatist agenda.
But it's a good idea.
Is a very specific charge, with a well outlined definition. Whether anyone likes it or not, the fact is, that he has not committed "Treason" simply because some people do not agree with his policies.
It's the same sort of silly rehtoric the "other side" threw around some years ago while accusing President Bush of "Deserting" the war in VeitNam.
Folks, you may as well wrap your heads around the idea that just because you, or I or that guy over there THINK that something is illegal or treasonous.......Does not make it so.
Nice try.
To avoid the abuses of the English law (including executions by Henry VIII of those who criticized his repeated marriages), treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section 3 delineates treason as follows:
Iva Toguri, known as Tokyo Rose, and Tomoya Kawakita were two Japanese Americans who were tried for treason after World War II.Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. 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.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
However, Congress has, at times, passed statutes creating related offenses that punish conduct which undermines the government or the national security, such as sedition in the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, or espionage and sedition in the 1...
Nice try.
To avoid the abuses of the English law (including executions by Henry VIII of those who criticized his repeated marriages), treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III Section 3 delineates treason as follows:
Iva Toguri, known as Tokyo Rose, and Tomoya Kawakita were two Japanese Americans who were tried for treason after World War II.Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. 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.
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
However, Congress has, at times, passed statutes creating related offenses that punish conduct which undermines the government or the national security, such as sedition in the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, or espionage and sedition in the 1917 Espionage Act, which do not require the testimony of two witnesses and have a much broader definition than Article Three treason. For example, some well-known spies have been convicted of espionage rather than treason.
The Constitution does not itself create the offense; it only restricts the definition (the first paragraph), permits Congress to create the offense, and restricts any punishment for treason to only the convicted (the second paragraph). The crime is prohibited by legislation passed by Congress. Therefore the United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states "whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States." The requirement of testimony of two witnesses was inherited from the British Treason Act 1695.
One of American history's most notorious traitors is Benedict Arnold, whose name is considered synonymous with the definition of traitor due to his collaboration with the British during the War of Independence. However, this occurred before the Constitution was written. Since the Constitution came into effect, there have been fewer than 40 federal prosecutions for treason and even fewer convictions. Several men were convicted of treason in connection with the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion but were pardoned by President George Washington. The most famous treason trial, that of Aaron Burr in 1807 (See Burr conspiracy), resulted in acquittal. Politically motivated attempts to convict opponents of the Jeffersonian Embargo Acts and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 all failed. After the American Civil War, no person involved with the Confederate States of America was tried for treason, though a number of leading Confederates (including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee) were indicted. Those who had been indicted received a blanket amnesty issued by President Andrew Johnson as he left office in 1869.
The Cold War saw frequent associations between treason and support for (or insufficient hostility toward) Communist-backed causes. The most memorable of these came from Senator Joseph McCarthy, who accused the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman administrations of "twenty years of treason." As chosen chair of the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, McCarthy also investigated various government agencies for Soviet spy rings; however, he acted as a political fact-finder rather than a criminal prosecutor. The Cold War period saw few prosecutions for treason. On October 11, 2006, a federal grand jury issued the first indictment for treason against the United States since 1952, charging Adam Yahiye Gadahn for videos in which he appeared as a spokesman for al-Qaeda and threatened attacks on American soil.[26]
Come one, we all know that is what you really want.