In my opinion it is necessary.
Treason against your country carries both a stigma and a death sentence if we are militarily engaged.
So it is pretty serious.
I have no problem with his ilk mourning his loss, but he was not the "great American" he made himself out to be. He was a drunken, womanizing scoundrel. He left that poor girl to drown in the car in 10 feet of water. He was a self-initiated agent for the USSR's KGB during the cold war.
That is enough for me to call him a modern Benedict Arnold.
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“Treason against your country carries both a stigma and a death sentence if we are militarily engaged.”
“The People” had their chance to deal with both Kennedy and Kerry, they failed. Kennedy is now beyond our grasp and these threads serve no useful purpose.... he is now before a judge that will not shrink from his duty and Kerry’s turn will come.