Merry Pranksters on Parade

Kunstler.com ^ | 21 Jul, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

[arthurus]

Wrong again. It was an attempted takeover. A pronunciamiento is the public announcement of a usually sudden takeover. That stage had not arrived by the time of the dissipation of the machinations of the Obama cabal.

[Ancesthntr]

The only constitutionally authorized death penalty for actions against the nation involves treason. Treason is quite clearly defined along the lines of eating and a bedding and enemy of the United States. Since Congress has not declared war on any nation after December, 1941, it would be rather difficult to convict someone of treason. Sedition, or in this case, a seditious conspiracy, is another matter altogether. My understanding is that the maximum sentence for sedition or seditious conspiracy is 20 years. I am sure that there are other penalties that could be attached, such as loss of pension, and the civil suits that would come about in the aftermath of a conviction would break even the wealthiest of offenders.

By the way, even if these people were aiding China, and I would argue that anything that weakens this country aids China, we are not in a declared war against that nation, so treason is not operative. Unfortunately, that word is bandied about too freely, without people understanding that the judicial system not only does, but HAS to, mete out punishments in a very precise way, according to very specific definitions. If it doesn’t do that, then we end up with Star Chambers and the like.

[Ancesthntr]

*aiding and abetting

I really have to check Siri - it can’t transcribe easily understood English.

[bert]

——Sedition, or in this case, a seditious conspiracy, is another matter altogether-—

That’s pretty much what I thought too.

I can’t see aiding and abetting an enemy in what was more along the lines of a conspiratorial coup.

[bk1000]

“Treason is quite clearly defined along the lines of eating and a bedding and enemy of the United States.”

Not at all what I was thinking it meant. (Lol, speech-to-text, gotta love it!)

”Since Congress has not declared war on any nation after December, 1941, it would be rather difficult to convict someone of treason.”

As I understand, treason is the only crime demanding the death penalty described in the constitution. Hmmm…maybe that is why war has not been “declared” in spite of executing “operations” that sure look like a war. Invoking the death penalty for the war pigs would interfere with their power structure, ie their ability to wage war and to profit from it.

Now, what about “The war on xxxx”. Can there be traitors to these actual declared “wars”, (poverty, drugs, terrorism) or are they somehow different?

[Noumenon]

Nuremberg them all. 5 minute tribunals, immediate executions.

[arthurus]

Right you are but I am nt clear about this “eating and a bedding and enemy of...”

[arthurus]

You and TTFlyer should spend some time learning words and definitions before you so blithely use them.

[Albion Wilde]

You and TTFlyer should spend some time learning words and definitions before you so blithely use them.

In view of my 50-year career in publishing, I'd say you need to develop a sense of humor.

By the way, your outrage at the widespread blurring of language definition is more than half a century behind the times. Prominent recent example: mural to describe a slogan painted on a street. Spellcheck error and definition creep are here to stay until A.I., with all its other pitfalls, starts cleaning up digital language production.

The Dawn of Digital Spell Checking (1959 to 1970s)

...by the mid-1980s developers of popular word-processing packages like WordStar and WordPerfect had incorporated spell checkers...

The Degradation of Language and Why We Should, Such as, Care (2010)

By dismantling its copy desk, The New York Times is making a mistake that’s been made before (2017)

[GOPJ]

Let’s not pretend that RussiaGate was ever anything but a “treasonous conspiracy” and a “years’ long coup” as bluntly labeled by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Friday. The election prank launched by Hillary Clinton’s campaign turned into an overt sedition op led by President Barack Obama to overthrow his elected successor, Donald Trump. DNI Tulsi Gabbard went even further and proffered criminal referrals on all this to the US Attorney General. If you think this is not extremely serious, you are not paying attention.

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