Treason

Comment by curt on November 27, 2007 at 3:29pm

The penalty for treason is ....?

The penalty for treason is Death, well at least it was until the 1990s. A person who commits treason is known as a traitor.

Comment by curt on November 27, 2007 at 3:39pm

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-penalties-for-treason.htm

"Treason is an act of disloyalty or betrayal of trust to your own government. Examples of treason include assassination of a state figure, fighting against your own nation in a war, assisting enemy combatants, or passing vital government information to the enemy. Historically, treason has been severely punished, because an act of treason can destroy a nation. In the modern day, a conviction of treason is accompanied at a minimum by a long jail sentence and a heavy fine, and may merit the death penalty under certain circumstances."

Comment by curt on November 27, 2007 at 3:42pm

"...an act of disloyalty or betrayal of trust to your own government..."

That about wraps that up !

Comment by BO on November 28, 2007 at 12:56am

Treason-doers should be hung.

Dug the videos, Curt.

Comment by curt on November 28, 2007 at 1:56pm

Thanks, Bo. The only problem with treason is deciding who the treasoners are. The war criminals say the dissidents are treasoners. The war criminals say Plame & Wilson are treasoners. Well, they haven't actually come out and say so (or?) but the outing was an execution style outing.

""...an act of disloyalty or betrayal of trust to your own government..."" .....your own government ? What if I'm really free ? Free to decide who governs me ? As an American USAian, I'm supposed to be FREE. All the world says so. So if I am FREE, I choose NOT to be governed by war criminals. My own government. I didn't elect those bastards. The majority didn't elect them. As far as I'm conerned, they are not our government. Besides, I don't approve of the wording in that definition of treason. Not at all.

Comment by Mouse on December 11, 2007 at 10:54am

Well here in England a commoner used to be hanged for treason, and a person of rank could expect to be hanged, drawn and quartered until the mid-eighteenth century or thereabouts.
These days a traitor might expect to get a job negotiating peace in the middle east.

Comment by curt on December 12, 2007 at 2:45pm

hanged, drawn and quartered....

a common term to the American ear, I first realized what it meant while reading an hostorical novel. Hanged: gotcha. Drawn: by a horse or horses. Quartered: literally split in four pieces. Not bad. And all this was done in public so everyone had to see or experience with eyes and ears closed. Very effective yet barbaric. Barbaric ? Who are we to define barbarism, we Barbers de Jour ?

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