[Carl Vehse]

"Because most Americans just don’t care."

Worse than that, in 2012 66 million Americans gave aid and comfort to the enemy by voting Traitorobama. We can't hang all of the traitors, but we should promote the indictment, trial, conviction, and sentencing of as many of their leaders as possible.

[CARTOUCHE]

I am more concerned about the leftists indicting, convicting and hanging us for our beliefs. It appears WE are in the minority and rapidly losing ground. The solution may not be a pretty or a diplomatic one when the time does come to advertise a Liberal going out of business sale.

[RobinOfKingston]

We can't hang all of the traitors, but ...

Why do you write that? Is it just because of the logistics involved, or have you come across a compelling moral reason not to hang them all?

[OneWingedShark]

Worse than that, in 2012 66 million Americans gave aid and comfort to the enemy by voting Traitorobama. We can't hang all of the traitors, but we should promote the indictment, trial, conviction, and sentencing of as many of their leaders as possible.

An interesting proposition, namely for the impossibility thereof.

You see, Treason is defined in the Constitution:

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.

What you are proposing is that the act of voting itself can be cause for Treason.
But can that act fit this definition? To assert that it does/can is to hold a voter responsible for everything that his representative does (and, in the case of President, it is even worse: it would be to hold him responsible transitively through the Elector which voted for the president.) Moreover, we have a secret ballot, so there would need to be witnesses to this act of voting whose very witnessing would testify to their violation of the secret ballot.

Moreover, voting is essentially the only way that the average American has to influence his government — to make his safe exercise of this right dependent on any other is to invalidate his one act of sovereignty and make its validity dependent on the whims of another. (Which, incidentally, is why I hate the infinite-recount doctrine where the government keeps recounting until its desired outcome is achieved.)

Am I saying that Presidents and congressmen should get a free ride? -- no! far from it. They should be held to account for their own actions.