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To: Robert DeLong

Oh for crying out loud, LOOK UP THE MEANING OF TREASON: Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance.[1] This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one’s native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.

What on earth was attacked on 1/6/2021. It was a protest that got out of hand and during which many protesters were ALLOWED IN THE CAPITOL.


18 posted on 06/17/2024 8:13:46 AM PDT by Smber (The smallest minority is the individual. Get the government off my back.)
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To: Smber

Agree, but that’s not the Constitutional definition of treason! No other definition matters!
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Article III

Section 1.

Section 2.

Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
.....”

Treason is a very hard charge to make in the US. The Founding Fathers deliberately made it so. Marshall at the Burr Trial set the bar even higher. We’ve had very few convictions of treason that have stood up to judicial challenge even in time of war.


19 posted on 06/17/2024 8:22:31 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Smber

They have attacked this nation & the sitting president undermining his every initiative without regard of the fact that they were perfectly legal initiatives that benefitted the American people. So, there was plenty of treason involved, regardless of the fact that you obviously are incapable of seeing. Perhaps you are an anti-Trump person. Regardless, you certainly oblivious to the reality that treason was executed that day, J6, to place false blame upon Trump. Since then they have used those false claims to attack Trump in ways no other president of the U.S. has been attacked.


20 posted on 06/17/2024 8:45:38 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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