Posted on 06/21/2005 8:05:54 PM PDT by Mach9
Wondering why prosecution for treason, for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, was not included in this poll. What IS aid and comfort if Durbin's remarks fail to qualify?
I'm wondering why Pilsner Urquell wasn't on the beer list at the restaurant I went to last night. But why am I wasting everybody's time talking about that here? I'll just go start my own thread...
Well I think Durbin is about gnat's hair from treason myself. Course I've been known to devalue the full meaning of some situations. He may be guilty of treason. It has been a while since I've seen the exact criteria.
Yes, it's treason, but don't hold your breath to see him punished for it. I'd be satisfied if he were censured and forced to step down from his leadership position. Until then, I think we should continue to hold his feet to the fire. And if he retains his leadership, then we should hold the other Democrats accountable as well.
Should I post that in "News/Activism" or "Religion"
Just another preaching-to-the-choir, echo chamber poll.
Your mileage may vary, of course.
Just post it in Breaking News. That way everybody will see it. Speaking of grocery carts, don't you hate it when you forget about the stuff on the bottom and drive off without it? Sometimes we'll get free toilet paper or a free case of soda because somebody left it on the bottom of their cart and forgot about it.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three of title one of the Act entitled "An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes," approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
"Sec. 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor or investors, with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds or other securities of the United States or the making of loans by or to the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause, or incite or attempt to incite, insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct or attempt to obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute, or shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any language intended to incite, provoke, or encourage resistance to the United States, or to promote the cause of its enemies, or shall willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully by utterance, writing, printing, publication, or language spoken, urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things, product or products, necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may be engaged, with intent by such curtailment to cripple or hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, and whoever shall willfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated, and whoever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both: Provided, That any employee or official of the United States Government who commits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who, in an abusive and violent manner criticizes the Army or Navy or the flag of the United States shall be at once dismissed from the service. Any such employee shall be dismissed by the head of the department in which the employee may be engaged, and any such official shall be dismissed by the authority having power to appoint a successor to the dismissed official."
Well, on one side of it anyway. The other 50% would be quite a mess.
If I read that right, doesn't that pretty much cover NYT, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and all the moveon.dummie type crowd with some democratic Senators included in the list of perpetrator's?
I might have missed a few.
That's just as bad as the shopping cart wheel wobbling, or both wobbling and the whole store can hear you coming down the aisle.
Or whatever they put in the wax on those floors to make that high-pitched squeel if you walk in with wet shoes.
You read it correctly.
Or the ones that lock up while you are speeding down the aisle & it hits you square in the mid section and you make that OOOOMPH sound while blowing cereal boxes off the shelf.
Polls ought to be designed to reflect the full gamut of opinion, and FR usually hits both ends of an argument. This time it didn't.
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