I realize this isn't the place for such a discussion, so will make this my last post on the subject.
It's your insinuation that people are committing treason when they "demean OUR Commander-in-Chief" or express "Anti-administration bias" that I object to. It's not treason to criticize the president or object to administration policies; it's dissent. You want "SUPPORTIVE GUIDANCE directed to the leadership of this war". That might be your preference, but people get to make their own decisions as to how they express their dissent.
I'll leave you with the words of Theodore Roosevelt in an editorial he wrote for the "Kansas City Star" during World War I, when asked to give his viewpoint re criticism of the president during a time of war....
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star
May 7, 1918 |
