[nopardons]

Many American Jews have dual citizenship, so that example , you gave, doesn't work.

Nope ! Many of those, who went to fight, in Spain, WERE punished, once they came home ! That is precisely the example I was using ... the Lincoln Brigade. LOL

Thanks for allowing me to correct you and prove you incorrect at the same time. : - )

[Pelham]

Many of those, who went to fight, in Spain, WERE punished, once they came home !

Name one. I've not read of any of the Lincoln Brigade ever having been punished.

[Pelham]

The Lincolns returned home as heroes of the anti-fascist cause but enjoyed no official recognition of their deed. Many Lincolns soon aroused bitterness within sectors of the Left when, with the signing of the Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact in 1939, they supported the CP's call for the United States to stay out of WWII. Once the United States and the Soviet Union entered the war, however, many of the veterans enlisted in the armed forces or served with the merchant marine. In a foreshadowing of the McCarthy period, the armed forces designated the Lincolns "premature antifascists" and confined them to their bases. Many successfully protested and were allowed to see action. Among the core agents of the Office of Strategic Services were Lincoln veterans whose contacts with the European partisans, forged in Spain, were key to OSS missions.

In the 1950s most veterans, whether Communist or not, were harassed or forced out of their jobs by the FBI. Communist Lincolns in particular were hit hard by the repressive Subversive Activities Control Board, the Smith Act, and state sedition laws, although over time all but a few convictions were overturned. In the 1950s and 1960s the majority of Lincoln veterans quit the CP but continued to be active on the Left. Notwithstanding its exclusion from American textbooks, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade commands attention as a unique example of prescient, radical, and selfless action in the cause of international freedom.

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.html

Looks like the Reds aren't privy to your information. The only prosecutions they mention of Lincoln Brigade veterans is for their subversive activities back in the States after their return. Maybe your boast of knowing that the Lincoln Brigade was prosecuted was ... premature.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Many American Jews have dual citizenship, so that example , you gave, doesn't work."

I don't see why not. Again, the section of the Constitution that defines treason doesn't say anything about "dual citizenship" being an excuse. I suspect that if a "dual citizen" committed an act of war against the US, they would be convicted of treason based soley on their AMERICAN citizenship. Maybe they would only be shot half as dead :)

I see Pelham has disabused you about the Lincoln Brigade members.