Treason is defined in the constitution.
Providing "aid and comfort" (not defined) to the enemy in a time of war.
What is comfort?
As I discussed with another FReeper on another thread, Axis Sally was convicted of treason for a WWII broadcast of a fictional radio drama. She was an American born Nazi broadcaster from Germany. She passed herself off as a Red Cross nurse when she interviewed injured prisoners of war (and misused those soldier's responses). She was not convicted of treason for being a Nazi.
Michael Moore's 2nd unit crew (he didn't go to Iraq) interviewed soldiers under false pretense. Some that appeared in his film say just this in FahrenHYPE 911.
Propagandist can be an act of treason.
The North Vietnamese certainly credited John Kerry with helping them to win the Vietnam war.
Moore, Fonda and the like are obviously in another class but my guess is that if we started enforcing treason the way we did during WW2 and earlier then there would be another Civil War. During WW2 wouldn't have even a peaceful protest with innocuous 'Peace' signs been seen as an act of sedition?
Michael Moore, #1 in Bernard Goldberg's new book "100 People Screwing Up America", will be remembered by our grandchildren much as we remember one of his WW II soulmates, Ezra Pound: artiste, fascist, anti-semite and AAF (All American Flake.)
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WEll, I've long been of the opinion that John Kerry more than qualifies as a traitor. Of the official kind, as much, if not moreso, a traitor as anyone convicted has ever been.
The mere fact that he met with the North Vietnamese in Paris while he was still enlisted (he argues this but it's been proven that he was not yet discharged during that meet in Paris) is an act of treason under military laws, but his actions during and after the Vietnam War were also traitorous.
I believe it's due to Jimmy Carter's actions that John Kerry was able to run for the Senate afterward (Carter granted Kerry a Presidential pardon, but I don't know the details of that and sure wish I did, lest anyone has a link to any content on the internet that contains the body of that Pardon, but I doubt that Kerry would ever have allowed that to persevere if ever on the internet), anyway, that Kerry ended up in the Senate and, horribly worse, running for the Presidency is like someone completely insulting the U.S. to near death (Kerry has).
He's engaged in treachery of and about the U.S. and has no place in the Senate, much less the Executive (and from the look of things, a lot of other people thought so, too). But, I do regard Kerry as a traitor, and Carter as one, too, for the Pardon -- which he should not have offered, nor been able to under Kerry's circumstances.
I mean, there are some acts that are not pardonable and unless someone's completely recanted and renounced former treachery (Kerry has not, Fonda has not), there is no margin upon which a Pardon can be considered other than mere and subjective favoritism.
So, yes, Kerry's a traitor and so is Jane Fonda and no amount of money by either will ever change their legacy of treachery.
There is a HUGE difference between protesting governmental policy and aiding and abetting the enemy.
Sheehan, for another example, has engaged in treason, actually speaking out in support and encouragement of declared enemies of the U.S. while saying horrible things about the U.S. mutually, actually denouncing the place.
If Sheehan's so unhappy here, why hasn't she relocated to Iran or maybe Afghanistan? And people like her...I mean, I find things sometimes disagreable about the U.S. as to policy but I'd never go so far as condemn the country, renounce citizenship, threaten others and even the country as Sheehan has. And as did Kerry, for that matter.