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"...I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason..."

by:	Cato John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas Gordon (169?-1750)
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Categories:	Treason
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Treason it is. -- E Archer, NYC
Our laws call it "to aid or comfort the enemy." Our enemy is DC which aids and comforts itself against us. -- cal, lewisville, tx
Acting on a current hit list (killing sovereign(s) with out benefit of trial) with out restraint from, or by support of the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land, defines a violation of allegiance, betrayal, treachery and a most repugnant treason. The sapping and betraying the liberties of a once free and sovereign We The People by armed agents (local police, and an alphabet soup of federal, state, etc. thugs) is a great example of treason. -- Mike, Norwalk
If you could go to prison for treason, Obama, his cabinet,and 90% of both houses of congress would be serving life sentences right now. -- jim k, Austin, Tx
-- Mary-MI
-- J Carlton, Calgary