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To: OneWingedShark

Who is going to charge them with the government gone?

Another false assumption. If you don’t have some way of defining “enemy” you are SooL. You can’t charge someone with treason without specifying the act of treason.

I said nothing about what Congress can or can’t do only about what it HAS done. It declared war on Osama functionally.

Treason involves warring against the UNITED STATES. It has two components: an enemy and an act aiding that enemy or actually attacking the government. Attacking a government is an intention to subvert or over throw it. There is no official enemy without a declaration of war.


149 posted on 10/18/2012 10:07:21 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: arrogantsob
Who is going to charge them with the government gone?

The irradiation of the plague that is DC needn't mean that the government is utterly gone: see the War of 1812.

Another false assumption. If you don’t have some way of defining “enemy” you are SooL. You can’t charge someone with treason without specifying the act of treason.

Gee, and when I did specify the acts of treason, in the case of Fast & Furious, you dismissed it because they weren't acts of treason, though they certainly were [unauthorized] acts of war.

I said nothing about what Congress can or can’t do only about what it HAS done. It declared war on Osama functionally.

Then you are a Statist: there is nothing that the government cannot do, because it has the power and "might makes right."
Even the ancient Chinese had more sense than you - and they had the almost circular reasoning concerning the Mandate of Heaven.

Treason involves warring against the UNITED STATES.

OR IN ADHERING TO THEIR ENEMIES, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT!

It has two components: an enemy and an act aiding that enemy or actually attacking the government.

It appears that you read the first part of a sentence, but not the last part.

Attacking a government is an intention to subvert or over throw it. There is no official enemy without a declaration of war.

Again, you are a fool to posit such a statement.
Just because you do not consider someone your enemy does not mean that they do not consider you their enemy.

152 posted on 10/18/2012 10:49:20 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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