Posted on 06/30/2008 8:08:37 AM PDT by mondoreb
THE LAW OF INTENDED CONSEQUENCES
The Constitution Of The United States. Article III, Section 3.
Section 3. 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.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
US CODE: Title 18-2381. Treason
§ 2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
In his old age, Justice Kennedy has become a preening, legal songbird. Through the imprecations and stroking of the committed left on the court--ranging from the idiot, Souter, who is incapable of writing an intelligible legal thought; to the bizarre Ginsburg, who advocates the elimination of consent and equally repellent ideas (but whom has never identified a civil right that did not need her manipulation)--Justice Kennedy has become the pointman for the reconstruction of American law in a form more preferable to the left.
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Can somebody please explain this part to me?
> The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
That’s OK by me. I doubt that a case of true treason will ever be prosecuted in the US ever again. No one has the balls to do it. On the other hand, if the socialists ever seize complete control of our government (which isn’t far off given the current composition of Congress and the front runners in the presidential election), you might just see treason laws levied against conservatives who oppose them. If dissent is the new patriotism, then what is the new treason?
If someone is convicted of treason, that charge cannot be extend to the person's family because of the mere fact that those persons are of the same blood.
I days past, when someone was convicted of treason, that person and his/her whole family were executed, and their property seized.
It prohibits the old European practice of punishments that extended to the hereditary line (”corruption of the blood”) and inherited estates (”forfeiture except during the life of the person attained”).
The New York Times has committed treason when they publish things that are secret.
Nazi Germany practiced this sort of punishment for Treason. The person convicted was executed, any person related by blood was sent to a concentration work camp, where they usually starved, and all of their property was seized. It had a complicated name in German that I heard once on the History Channel, but I’ve forgotten.
I was observing her during the coverage last week of this decision. She has lost it. Lights are on, but nobodies home.
Formerly attainder was the inseparable consequence of a judicial or legislative sentence for treason or felony, and involved the forfeiture of all the real and personal property of the condemned person, and such “corruption of blood” that he could neither receive nor transmit by inheritance, nor could he sue or testify in any court, or claim any legal protection or rights. In England attainders are now abolished, and in the United States the Constitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed; and no attainder of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.
http://www.everything2.net/index.pl?node_id=190048
I’m not sure the Soviets used the precise term “treason,” but the families, friends, and casual associates of individuals determined to be “enemies of the people” were either killed or sent off to the gulag to be worked or starved to death. I think there is definitely a potential for that happening anywhere the Left gets control, even here.
Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and numerous other "antiwar" Demonrats committed treason by that definition. At the very least, Kerry should have been disqualified from any public office. Instead, he's Senator For Life, and came within a whisker of becoming President.
Why isn’t John Kerry dead or in Federal prison?
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