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To: New Jersey Realist

He is certainly not a traitor. A traitor betrays his country to an enemy. This man betrayed this countries enemies to it’s citizenry. There is a difference.

There is a very clear definition of treason in article three of the constitution. This mans actions do not, in any way, meet that definition.

Our government has assumed powers and priveleges that are not among its enumerated powers under the constitution. The prevailing popular opinion, or the fear of the masses; does not justify all of these politicians disregarding their sacred oaths and it doesn’t condemn this mans patriotism.

John Boehner is likely a traitor. The entire damned organization of our federal government is very likely staffed with traitors of one stripe or another, but exposing the unconstitutional activities they have undertaken is not traitorous.


118 posted on 06/11/2013 6:32:58 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot
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To: Hugh the Scot
He is certainly not a traitor. A traitor betrays his country to an enemy. This man betrayed this countries enemies to it’s citizenry. There is a difference.

Poppycock! He went to Hong Kong and is being offered asylum by Russia! Why didn't he go to Congress?

128 posted on 06/11/2013 6:36:14 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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To: Hugh the Scot

Check to see if any of the present governmental usurpations on this list:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good;

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them;

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only;

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures;

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people;

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within;

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands;

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers;

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries;

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance;

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures;

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power;

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among
us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from
punishment for any Murders which they should commit on
the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of
Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for
pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a
neighbouring Province,establishing therein an Arbitrary
government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to
render it at once an example and fit instrument for
introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most
valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of
our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate for us in
all cases whatsoever;

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us;

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people;

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation;

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions;


134 posted on 06/11/2013 6:42:21 AM PDT by MarDav
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