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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (10569)	11/15/2001 12:48:35 PM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27672

You can think all you want, just don't act on it in time of war. Aiding and Abetting can be defined as broadly or as narrowly as the guy deciding it wants to. I don't know what that specific case was all about, maybe there was no case. You're confusing things that America enables you to do with the being of an American. Preferring the irish jig to a foxtrot, or playing cricket instead of baseball, isn't really what makes you an American, those are things that being in America you can do simply because you're here. Being an American is a spirit, the singing of the National Anthem and meaning it, the truck driver that stops and helps the stranded motorist, the people that gave blood to the injured at the WTC gladly, and didn't say they were giving blood to white americans or black americans, they gave it to just plain Americans, the people on the airplane that sacrificed their lives because they knew other Americans were going to die if they didn't, the Indians who were the code talkers, the Tusskeehee Airmen, and on and on and on. You're thinking that being an American is things that America lets you do, it's really not.

To: Ilaine who wrote (10569)	11/15/2001 7:46:44 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27672

You said....." One may think disloyal thoughts and have his heart on the side of the enemy. Yet if he commits no act giving aid and comfort to the enemy, he is not guilty of treason.<< ".... If a person ( during time of war in her/his country )should openly oppose their Government's actions to defend its citizens and favor the enemy, should this be considered " Aid and Comfort" ? If this person should organize or incite others to demonstrate against their lawful Government ( during war ) should this person and his/her followers be considered to be Aiding and Comforting the enemy? And in any case with or with out the laws don't you think that this kind of person is guilty of aiding and comforting the enemy?....Common sense works well most times. IMO not all laws serve us well, a lot of them are used by our enemies to kill us and I think before this mess is finished a lot of these political correct laws will be removed from the books. At least that is my hope Lorne PS. Oxford Dictionary.....Treason.....treachery towards one's country or its ruler.....