jtexas
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Re: ?????????Al Gore????????????
Assume this means that by "traitor" you mean "guilty of treason?" Just for clarity of communication.<br /><br /><br />Originally posted by dogsdad:<br /> Okay, jt, I'll concede the linkage between the words "traitor" and "treason." My use of the word "traitor" never was within the bounds of the strict definition, but was rather casual, but no matter...<br /><br />This country is at war, and Gore is out there hurting us---all for political gain. That makes him a traitor in my book.<br /><br />Excerpts from Black's Law Dictionary (Sixth Edition), under "treason":<br /><br />A breach of allegiance to one's government, usually committed through levying war against such government or by giving aid or comfort to the enemy.<br /><br />What Gore did was give aid and comfort to the enemy. And what is so further despicable about it all is that he did it for the purpose of undermining the President of the United States' foreign policy---for political gain. <br /><br />Gore is a traitor.
<br />AID AND COMFORT<br /><br />The constitution of the United States, art. 8, s. 3, declares, that adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, shall be treason. These words, as they are to be understood in the constitution, have not received a full judicial construction. They import, however, help, support, assistance, countenance, encouragement. <br /><br />The word aid, which oocurs in the Stat. West. 1, c. 14, is explained by Lord Coke (2 just. 182) as comprehending all persons counselling, abetting, plotting, assenting, consenting, and encouraging to do the act, (and he adds, what is not applicable to the Crime to treason,) who are not present when the act is done, See, also, 1 Burn's Justice, 5, 6; 4 Bl. Com. 37, 38.<br /><br />Source: Bouvier 1856<br />
Can't find "aid and comfort" or "enemy" in Al's remarks. Of course, I'm no lawyer.<br />ENEMY<br /><br />international law. By this term is understood the whole body of a nation at war with another. It also signifies a citizen or subject of such a nation, as when we say an alien enemy. In a still more extended sense, the word includes any of the subjects or citizens of a state in amity with the United States, who, have commenced, or have made preparations for commencing hostilities against the United States; and also the citizens or subjects of a state in amity with the United States, who are in the service of a state at war with them. Salk. 635; Bac. Ab. Treason, G.<br /><br />Source: Bouvier 1856<br /><br />