Giving "aid and comfort" to an enemy is black letter law an act of treason (18 U.S. Code § 2381) by someone who owes allegiance to the United States.
An enemy is strictly defined as a country with which we are "in open or declared" war.
But "war" is very loosely defined, e.g. "An act of war is an action by one country against another with an intention to provoke a war."
An enemy is strictly defined as a country with which we are "in open or declared" war.
But "war" is very loosely defined, e.g. "An act of war is an action by one country against another with an intention to provoke a war."
An act of war is well defined but not WAR itself. This puts the entire question of Treason into a very vague area.
Treason is well defined in several ways which include the word "enemy," but ENEMY is recursively defined using the word WAR.
We need a strict definition of WAR and ACT of WAR which includes cyber attacks which can easily disrupt an economy, destroy military weapons, even kill military and civilians indirectly (such as destroying the entire communication and electrical grids which would lead directly to many deaths.)
Does, for example, an elected official who swears allegiance to the Constitution commit treason by blatantly favoring a government and head of government which openly attack our electoral system even influencing who is elected?
That's fairly clear, but what about those elected officials who support that official despite having spent decades campaigning against the USSR then Russia, claiming they WERE the main enemy and spending trillions of dollars to defend against them?
Isn't that even worse?
That's fairly clear, but what about those elected officials who support that official despite having spent decades campaigning against the USSR then Russia, claiming they WERE the main enemy and spending trillions of dollars to defend against them?
Isn't that even worse?
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