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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (117092)	10/17/2003 11:55:53 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<Freedom of speech means that the gov't cannot shut you up. It does NOT mean private citizens do not get to disagree with you or question your motives or loyalty.> To question someone's loyalty, to say they are working against the interests of the country, and helping a foreign nation, that is an attempt to scare them into silence. Treason is a crime. Even being accused of it, is a reason for people to lose their jobs, get blacklisted in their chosen profession, be forced to spend their life savings fighting lawsuits, get deported if they are resident aliens. The accusation of treason, during WW1, was sufficient for thousands to be deported from the U.S. Japanese-Americans in California spent WW2 in concentration camps, because of bogus fears about their loyalty. McCarthy ruined many people's lives, almost none of whom were ever arrested or convicted of anything.