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Treason in the United States
4 years ago
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Once upon a time...
The word treason gets tossed around a lot, and it can refer to many things, but in the US the Constitution has a specific definition for treason:
As one might expect, this definition is rather hard to meet and protests do not qualify since they are protected by the First Amendment (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.). For similar reasons, no amount of hateful words against the government or its officials qualify as treason either, even if people will say that certain statements are treasonous.
There are two examples I am aware of when the definition of treason was met and the punishment (Clause 2: 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.) could be enacted. The first, of course, is the Civil War. All Confederates would be guilty of treason.
The second, of course, is January 6th of 2021.
I doubt that any charges of treason will be enacted, but it's pretty interesting that people who claim to love their country performed the ultimate act of treason against it.
Article III
Section 3
Clause 1
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.As one might expect, this definition is rather hard to meet and protests do not qualify since they are protected by the First Amendment (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.). For similar reasons, no amount of hateful words against the government or its officials qualify as treason either, even if people will say that certain statements are treasonous.
There are two examples I am aware of when the definition of treason was met and the punishment (Clause 2: 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.) could be enacted. The first, of course, is the Civil War. All Confederates would be guilty of treason.
The second, of course, is January 6th of 2021.
I doubt that any charges of treason will be enacted, but it's pretty interesting that people who claim to love their country performed the ultimate act of treason against it.
..i want to say, within the last year or so,—is to accuse 'the other side' of the very indiscretions they're actively engaging in
a tactic which unfortunately tends to work more than it should because—and i am #SorryNotSorry to say it—a lot of people are (willful) morons
´is why i've been led to the very unfortunate conclusion, gare: that, in a lot of ways, "humanity" is too far gone
to the extent, only enacting a massive "data wipe" has a chance—not a guarantee, but a chance—of setting people back on some right course
because life is already hard enough on its own.
we don't need other people conscientiously going out of their way to make life even harder for others, for bullshit "reasons"
while i'm at it: you can consider the above my preliminary response to the rest of the articles of Indigenous American Genocide (by way of european/white colonizer) you excerpted a few weeks back that i haven't explicitly touched upon
(to be fair: i don't feel like i am one of the people who needs to be convinced that fucked up things were done to those who were "here" first...
...since i've never gone out of my way to argue "otherwise," maybe it isn't as important for someone like me to read up on all of that
at any rate, all of the politicking and social justice advocacy i do on facebook almost always, never, gets any engagement.
no one wants to hear shit from me, i guess because i'm not out to make anyone "forget their troubles," or to forget that this world is a troubled, bullshit, mess.
which is to repeat something i think i've told ya already gare: it wouldn't do much good to have a black sheep like me try spreading the word on the grave injustices Natives face.
as an extension to this: i, personally, try to not bothering to "befriend" anyone who could possibly believe something atrocious like 'the indians got what they deserve; plus they were doing it to each other already too — so what's the big stink you're trying to raise about it?' anyway
which is to say: with me, it'd be only more choir preaching
which does no one any good
what's needed, rather, is choir action — the action of resolving threats to decent humanity
{bearing in mind: that it took an actual war, that had to span several months, to get a certain subfaction of whites to stop black enslavement
a war that took so long because, even in the 1800s, some whites were convinced their way \the way of subjugating and abusing my ancestors\ was, in fact, the right way of doing things
if the yanks had lost that war, who knows where we'd be right now, except obviously neither you or i would be corresponding here, like this.})