Posted on 04/13/2007 10:25:36 AM PDT by Impeach98
Democrats and treason
Posted: April 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Call me this generation's Joe McCarthy; I really don't care – I'm tired of watching people hold back in their assessment of what Democrat Party leaders are doing with regard to our troops and their missions in the war on terrorism.
A number of Democrats are engaging in actions that seem to me to be nothing short of treason against our nation, and it's time they be held accountable for their actions.
Yes, I said treason.
According to Dictionary.com: Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government.
Right now we have almost 200,000 American military men and women serving on the frontlines in the war on terrorism against an Islamic terrorist network that has attacked our nation repeatedly over the past 20 years. As chairman of the nation's largest grass-roots, pro-troop organization, Move America Forward, I work hard every day to help show support for these American heroes.
Each day Islamic jihadists are trying to kill and injure our troops who stand in the way between the jihadists and we, the American people, or in the lexicon of the radical Islamists, the "infidels."
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has just returned from a trip to Syria that she took in defiance of the U.S. commander in chief and United States military officials, traveling during a time of war to one of the world's chief sponsors of Islamic terrorism.
Syria has sent thousands upon thousands of Islamic terrorist fighters across its borders into Iraq to injure and kill American and Coalition troops.
And this is what Nancy Pelosi had to say for herself as she visited one of the nations in the "Axis of Evil":
We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace.
Nancy Pelosi says the road to appeasing terrorists is the road to peace.
On Wednesday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Pelosi was next considering a trip to Iran, the other leading member of the "Axis of Evil."
Even more galling, Pelosi's travels to appease the forces of terror took place just days after the Democrat-led House of Representatives and Senate voted to call for the surrender of U.S. troops fighting Islamic terrorists in Iraq by 2008.
Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid, who is not commander in chief and who does not have the authority to send American troops into battle or call them home, nevertheless has announced that he will lead the fight to deny funding to U.S. troops if they do not surrender to the forces of terrorism and evacuate from Iraq by March 31, 2008.
Reid cannot even attempt to pretend that this was a principled stand to lower American causalities in one theater and fight the war on terrorism on another front.
Less than five months ago – on Nov. 30, 2006 – Reid sent a note to his fellow Democrats in the Senate that said: "We're not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds."
Sen. Reid knew better then and he knows better now.
Reid has chosen to undercut our troops with the knowledge that his actions are emboldening Islamic terrorists to kill more U.S. troops and to launch more brazen terrorist attacks against American civilians here at home.
Meanwhile, in California, Democrat State Sen. Don Perata has announced that he will push for a referendum on the 2008 California election ballot to send a message to the troops that Americans do not support their missions in Iraq.
Perata's calling it the "Vote Us Out of Iraq" measure, and he hopes his efforts to undermine the missions of U.S. troops will spread to other states. The ballot measure won't alter U.S. foreign policy at all. It merely is a propaganda tool that would hurt U.S. troop morale and embolden America's enemies.
Even the liberal California media has found Perata's actions inexcusable.
Democrat State Sen. Don Perata paints a target on the backs of our troops.
The Stockton Record questioned whether the Democrat lawmaker's move was a "stunt" or "grandstanding" and concluded with the admonition that they didn't support "state funds being wasted to accommodate what is essentially a meaningless gesture."
The San Jose Mercury News speculated about whether "Sen. Don Perata's proposal for [a] ballot measure on the Iraq war just a political ploy."
The famously liberal L.A. Times published an editorial titled "Frivolous balloteering?" that lambasted the "Vote Us Out of Iraq" ballot measure. "Asking California voters to weigh in on military policy is like asking Congress to give advice on filling potholes," said Robert Greene of the Times editorial board.
If even the anti-war, old-line media recognizes that the actions of Democrats like Perata are for purely political reasons, then how can we pretend to look the other way and not confront these awful people on what they are doing to our troops and this nation?
These Democrat leaders are literally helping to kill U.S. troops and endanger American civilians simply so they can try to score political points in the middle of a war.
I'm sorry, but if that is not treasonous conduct at a time when our military men and women are fighting for America's safety and security, then I don't know what treason is.
Disagreement is one thing, but threatening to leave troops without adequate support to complete the mission while they are in harm’s way is quite another. The Democrats are doing real damage to our troops and to our national security. They went beyond simple disagreement years ago. They have been undermining and obstructing the President’s efforts to combat the enemy since shortly after they voted to authorize him to conduct this war. That is despicable.
One more thing: Alger Hiss was treason. The Soviets even identified him as a Communist agent.
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Hello patriots, my friends…I have some bad news once again
It’s disgusting what they’re doing...our great nation they’ve been screwing
Here’s the lesson, we cannot trust the Democrats…sewer rats
We hear the sound of treason
They would just sell this country out…of that, you shouldn’t have a doubt
They’re for abdicating freedom…it’s in writing, you should read ‘em
Here’s the lesson, we cannot trust the Democrats…sewer rats
We hear the sound of treason
Their hatred of the USA…they’re displaying everyday
Disdain for our Constitution…it is time for retribution
The lesson is we cannot trust the Democrats…sewer rats
We hear the sound of treason
It’s total power they must gain...it is a plan that is insane
If a Dem is not the president...they hope that we fail, it’s evident
Our defenses, we cannot trust to Democrats...sewer rats
We hear the sound of treason
Oh, yes, here they go again...they want rule by the U.N.
Socialism is ideal…that’s the way the lefties feel
The lesson is we cannot trust the Democrats…sewer rats
We hear the sound of treason
Please read my post - I used Hiss as the very definition of true ‘Treason’ as opposed to protest.
I do not, but am interested in hearing if people at FR disagree, then why they do.
The citations you provided (Code Pink, disagreeing with the war) weren't mentioned, so I wasn't sure exactly where you were going with your thought.
Jimmy Carter has a deathgrip hold for first place in the "Sell Your Country Out to It's Enemies" contest. The fact that Nancy Pelosi is competing for 2nd or 3rd place doesn't make it any less offensive! ;)
Good question but I don’t know the answer yet. I’m still searching. I have read that the Logan Act has been part of our criminal law for more than two centuries.
Whatever the case, I want the cigar and single malt concession.
Thanks for the ping!
I am not at all fond of Dennis Kucinich or Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org or Air America's Randi Rhodes.
But I am on THEIR side as a fellow American when it comes down to Islamic jihadists who want to make us follow Islam at the end of a gun barrell or die a horrible, agonizing death.
The rights and freedoms that allow the goofy liberals above and us FReepers to have these discussions are one of the fundamental bonds as Americans that unite us in common cause.
Yet to the Left, George Bush is the "real terrorist" and they spend night and day attacking the "neo-cons" who are orchestrating the war on terror as they see it, and almost completely silent on the evils of Islamic militants plotting to blow up civilians in Algiers, London, Madrid, New York, etc...
These people need to get a clue or read a history book. This is pre-World War II era all over again and the "appease the evildoers and criticize those who stand up against them" approach is being recycled and polished off as new.
Who needs Neville Chamberlain when you have Nancy Pelosi go to the people killing our troops in Iraq and helping the terrorists shell the cities in Israel and say:
"We came in friendship, hope, and determined that the road to Damascus is a road to peace."
Have Certain Democrats Committed Treason? - PING
Maybe its time for me to write another follow-up.
It wasn't a comment on the subject, but a comment on the article. The author brought up the issue of treason in this context and then cited a completely irrelevant definition for it.
Democrats and Treason
For the most part, a redundancy.
Besides the letters and videos where they have announced the importance of defeating the Americans and Coalition Forces in Iraq, I think we got the message of the importance of Iraq when al-Qaeda aligned terrorist cells blew up people in Madrid and London as demands for them to pull out of Iraq.
Why, if al-Qaeda did not view Iraq as a central front in their war on the west, than why would they try to terrorize and intimidate these people and their leaders to abandon Operation Iraqi Freedom?
A final note - you make a generalization that because Nancy Pelosi went to Syria it is treason. I believe the author makes the point that it is clear that the actions of certain Democrat leaders, and the evidence she provided, made it clear that they were purposely trying to weaken the war effort that U.S. troops were involved in for political purposes.
They put the interests of their political gain, which means empowering America's enemies, ahead of the interests of the United States, its government and its people.
Like melanie Morgan says, the point is if that isn't treason than what is?
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