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To: Alberta's Child
If I am a U.S. soldier doing a combat tour in Vietnam and I come home to find that some dip-sh!t who "gave aid and comfort to the enemy" was not prosecuted by the government that sent me over there in the first place, you can be sure that I'd be extremely p!ssed off -- more so at the f#ckers in my government than at the traitor herself.

No argument there.

I suspect the reluctance of the Nixon Administration to prosecute Fonda, Hayden, et al had something to do with the ability of the Left to put 500,000 people on the streets in Washington.

27 posted on 08/24/2005 10:27:24 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Interesting Times

I suspect the Nixon administration was reluctant to prosecute these people because they knew they couldn't possibly keep a straight face in court when a defense attorney asked them to explain what meaning the word "enemy" has in Federal treason statutes in the context of a military campaign that was undertaken without meeting even the most basic formal requirements of the U.S. Constitution.


28 posted on 08/24/2005 10:38:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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