The hysteria is hysterical
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He's not the only one. JPP is full of people who are ready to have American citizens arrested if they don't cheer-lead the way they want on Ukraine.
I have the vast majority of the flat out idiots on ignore. Makes it much easier for me to move around. As for those asshats that I keep around, feel flattered as you amuse me.
DOES MORMON MULTIMILLIONAIRE MITZI KNOW HE'S NOT A UKRAINIAN?
RINO Romney's "Treason" Smear of Tulsi Gabbard is False and Noxious, But Now Typifies U.S. Discourse
The Founders limited "treason" in the Constitution due to grave concerns it would be weaponized to criminalize dissent: exactly how the term is now routinely used.
The crime of "treason” is one of the gravest an American citizen can commit, if not the gravest. It is one of the few crimes other than murder for which execution is still a permissible punishment under both U.S. federal law and the laws of several states.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution were so concerned about the temptation to abuse this term — by depicting political dissent as a criminalized betrayal of one's country — that they chose to define and limit how this crime could be applied by inserting this limiting paragraph into the Constitution itself; reflecting the gravity and temptation to abuse accusations of "treason,” it is the only crime they chose to define in the U.S. Constitution. Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution states:
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.
Treason was the only crime to be explicitly defined and limited by the Founders because they sought “to guard against the historic use of treason prosecutions by repressive governments to silence otherwise legitimate political opposition.
(That someone is an American war veteran or current member of the U.S. military, like Lt. Col. Gabbard, does not and should not immunize them from criticism. That goes without saying.
Members of the military are just as prone to error or other failings as anyone else.
But — contrary to the current understanding — there is an enormous difference between merely criticizing someone and accusing the person of being a traitor and/or a Russian agent.
And it does seem advisable to expect that people who constantly cheer U.S. wars and demand that others besides themselves and their children go fight and die in them — such as Hillary and Romney — at least think twice before accusing those who have volunteered to fight for their country in those wars of being guilty of treason or being an agent of a foreign power.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/romneys-treason-smear-of-tulsi-gabbard