Posted on 04/19/2007 6:52:34 PM PDT by jveritas
Do not give up. There are still a vast majority of Repulicans and few democrats who will do and say something about this treason. They need our support and let us support them.
Way to go!
And to those who say “why bother?” I say——
Because it’s the right thing to do. So push until the wall goes down, as it has so many times before.
Americans don’t quit, and don’t lose to evil doers, wherever those evil doers may be found, overseas or in the halls of Congress.
to Sen. Joseph Lieberman...
You are at the fork in the road - will you say ‘Hear O’ Israel, I could have saved thee - Even though the Democrats did forsake me, I could not awake the spirit in me to depart from them - not even for the sake of all Israel...’ - or - will you reach out and smite those who wail all day ‘we have lost - all is lost’.
Remember, YOU have the choice to join with the forces of strength and Liberty... To say to them who are pulling our Nation down, ‘Stand back naysayers - the Eagle still soars!’
“Not only will the Republicans not do anything the MSM will not report this”
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Whiney defeatism has never been my style. If it had, I would never have earned my PhD and I certainly would never have become the youngest and the first female Dean at a prestigious medical school . . . I staunchly support our visionary President; I staunchly support our War on Terror; and I staunchly support our courageous troops . . . The President and our troops have not stopped fighting and neither will I!
Amen Doctor and your career is very impressive :)
Excellent job my fellow freeper.
“The President and our troops have not stopped fighting and neither will I!”
DrDeb, as always, you are spot on! Your comment, above, very succinctly, says it all! America is worth fighting for....
Reid deserves all the name calling he gets. Free speech is a two-way street and I’ll call the SOB a traitor till the day he dies, which I wish was soon.
You sound like a gutless GOP member, are you trying to channel Voinavich or Hagel?
Every nation given time will eventually find itself morally on the wrong side of a war.
Opportunistic politicalization in war can come from those promoting or those opposing a war. It came when the Clintons when they led us into Kosovo as 90% on FR aggressively opposed it (giving aid and comfort to the “enemy” as you say), and it's now coming from Reid and Pelosi as they deny that we’re fighting global terrorism even as they use a series of al Qaeda bombings to promote a surrender.
Freedom to speak for or against war is an inalienable right. Attack them for their dishonorable opportunism, or stupidity and cowardliness at best, not their right to speak.
Did Harry Reid provide aid and comfort to the enemy when he said that “The War is Lost”?
I fired off emails to both our Texas Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn last week about other issues. Guess they will hear from me again.
Boneheadedly? Yes. Legally? Absolutely not. (And that’s what you are charging.)
Most even on this forum would flip on any administration in a heart beat if they tried to prosecute a senator for speaking against a war. That’s because anyone could then be charged by a subsequent administration for the same, like I just demonstrated to you in my previous post. Your understanding of the laws and freedoms that makes us great is greatly out of balance.
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/a173.htm “AID AND COMFORT - The U.S. Constitution, Article VIII, Section III, declares, that adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, shall be treason. These words, as they are to be understood in the constitution, have not received a full judicial construction. They import, however, help, support, assistance, countenance, encouragement. The word aid is explained by Lord Coke as comprehending all persons counselling, abetting, plotting, assenting, consenting, and encouraging to do the act, (and he adds, though not applicable to treason; who are not present when the act is done).”
In other words, for Reid to be prosecuted for treason, it has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt that he intended to assist our enemy in some act to harm us. Just making some opportunistic or boneheaded remarks that arguably have that as a secondary consequence does not qualify for conviction. He’d just argue that he intended to protect us from further harm from bad administration policies. It would have to be proven that Reid intended his words to help our enemy harm us is some specific way for them be legally treasonous.
I called the offices of both of my GA Senators yesterday afternoon. Doubtful it will do any good but it made me feel better.
You are writing as a lawyer not as a Patriot. It is very clear and beyond any reasonable doubt that Harry Reid has emboldened the enemy and gave them more encouragement hence aid and comfort.
Doesn’t the sand get in your nose?
Don’t bother j, the Republicans are too busy skewering Alberto Gonzalez for leading the Justice Department while dozens of children were burned alive in Waco, Texas in an effort to save them. Or perhaps that wasn’t Alberto.
It will do some good.
I was deeply disappointed with some GOP senators hinting that Gonzales should resign.
One problem is that Alberto is not as competent as one would expect. A larger problem is the willingness of Republicans to assist Democrats in the taking of scalps. Republicans have no balls. I don’t know why that is but I know it is and it never seems to change.
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