Mildred Gillars, known popularly as “Axis Sally” (although she did not use that name on the air), was convicted of treason in WWII for a radio broadcast (a work of fiction no less). She wasn’t being charged for working for the Nazis in GENERAL or broadcasting on Nazi radio. It was the content of the broadcast.
>Mildred Gillars, known popularly as “Axis Sally” (although she did not use that name on the air), was convicted of treason in WWII for a radio broadcast (a work of fiction no less). She wasn’t being charged for working for the Nazis in GENERAL or broadcasting on Nazi radio. It was the content of the broadcast.
Was it particularly easy for her to be convected thusly? The Wikipeda article on her says she was convicted on only one charge of treason, meaning that there were multiple charges.
Also, while not impossible, from the Constitutional definition.. it seems there is some elasticity in it; John Murtha pronounced on national television that our marines were murderers and war-criminals (this has been well recorded) and yet not only has no charge of treason been made of him, but the courts ruled that he was covered under a law protecting federal employees from civil-suits and thus protected/immunized from the charges of slander that said marines were/are making.
Way off topic but on your About Page you refer to the whack job Biden did on Clarence Thomas.
If you haven’t already, you might enjoy reading John Bolton’s “Surrender is not an Option”. He speaks of Biden’s activities as chair of the Judiciary Committee and observes with regard to the Bork hearing that even after receiving assurance from Biden to the contrary, “…the Democrats treated it as a political process and the Republicans treated it as a confirmation hearing, which is why they lost.”
The phrase “duplicitous weasel” immediately comes to mind.