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Oh, my dear and fluffy lord.
As always: IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer, you filthy perverts!)
Treason is the only crime in this country for which the punishment is specified in our Constitution: death.
According to CBS news and the National Constitution Center, there have only been 30 treason cases in our nation's history, and the last conviction was almost 70 years ago in 1952 (sentence of death was commuted by Eisenhower to life imprisonment).
My understanding had always been that the SCOTUS ruling was that treason was only possible when we were in a state of war. Today, I find that I am mistaken.
Per SCOTUS in "Ex parte Bollman & Swarthout", they also ruled that it is treason if the act itself constitutes levying war against the United States.
"To constitute a levying of war, there must be an assemblage of persons for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose. Enlistment of men to serve against goverment is not sufficient.
"When war is levied, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however removed from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are traitors.
"Any assemblage of men for the purpose of revolutionizing by force the government established by the United States in any of its territories, although as a stop to, or the means of executing, some greater projects, amounts to levying war.
"The travelling of individuals to the place of rendezvous is not sufficient; but the meeting of particular bodies of men, and their marching from places of partial, to a place of general rendezvous, is such an assemblage and constitutes a levying of war." (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep008/usrep008075/usrep008075.pdf, pp. 75-76)
I would like to draw your attention to these specific phrases:
* "...but the meeting of particular bodies of men, and their marching from places of partial, to a place of general rendezvous, is such an assemblage and constitutes a levying of war."
* "When war is levied, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however removed from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are traitors."
I knew what they'd done. I watched the footage as soon as it was becoming available.
But knowing that what these people have done is TREASON somehow makes it infinitely worse.
I haven't felt this way in... oh... about 19 1/2 years.
As always: IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer, you filthy perverts!)
Treason is the only crime in this country for which the punishment is specified in our Constitution: death.
According to CBS news and the National Constitution Center, there have only been 30 treason cases in our nation's history, and the last conviction was almost 70 years ago in 1952 (sentence of death was commuted by Eisenhower to life imprisonment).
My understanding had always been that the SCOTUS ruling was that treason was only possible when we were in a state of war. Today, I find that I am mistaken.
Per SCOTUS in "Ex parte Bollman & Swarthout", they also ruled that it is treason if the act itself constitutes levying war against the United States.
"To constitute a levying of war, there must be an assemblage of persons for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose. Enlistment of men to serve against goverment is not sufficient.
"When war is levied, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however removed from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are traitors.
"Any assemblage of men for the purpose of revolutionizing by force the government established by the United States in any of its territories, although as a stop to, or the means of executing, some greater projects, amounts to levying war.
"The travelling of individuals to the place of rendezvous is not sufficient; but the meeting of particular bodies of men, and their marching from places of partial, to a place of general rendezvous, is such an assemblage and constitutes a levying of war." (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep008/usrep008075/usrep008075.pdf, pp. 75-76)
I would like to draw your attention to these specific phrases:
* "...but the meeting of particular bodies of men, and their marching from places of partial, to a place of general rendezvous, is such an assemblage and constitutes a levying of war."
* "When war is levied, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however removed from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are traitors."
I knew what they'd done. I watched the footage as soon as it was becoming available.
But knowing that what these people have done is TREASON somehow makes it infinitely worse.
I haven't felt this way in... oh... about 19 1/2 years.
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...and this is not yet the end.
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Right there with you.
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