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"krp" <web2457k@verizon.net> wrote in message news:<0u4hd.385$7W.124@trnddc08>...
> "BushBushBush" <Bush@aol.com> wrote in message 
> news:SW_gd.85942$hj.64239@fed1read07...
> > Lou P. Garrew wrote:
> >
> >> Noise of fleefromhonesty wrote:
> >>
> >> (snippity-snippity-snip of lies)
> >>
> >> The title is true -- the "meeting" was called combat.
> >> Glad you know that much.
> >>
> >>
> >> Lou P. Garrew, at your service!
> > HE met the Cong in Paris. Pictures are in the Viet Cong War Museum.
> 
> Given that he was still on active duty - - - (not discharged) and we were at 
> war - and he was not "authorized" . ..  by legal definition it was 
> "TREASON."

Actually, it's not treason.

This is the definition of treason in the U.S. Consitution:

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.

Notice that the founding fathers--and in this we should be STRICT
constructionists--are trying to make it very difficult to prove
treason. They could have said that treason consists of .... But they
say that it consists ONLY of.

Now in this regard, Kerry did not levy war against the U.S., and the
definition of "adhering" is strict. He had to join the other side and
be with them in Vietnam, not just meet with them and in addition he
had to give them "aid and comfort." There have been cases since then
that held that "aid and comfort" meand real assistance in a material
way--not just things like saying "George III kis a great guy," or "You
know, the states that succeeding from the Union really do have a
point," or even "Mussolini is just swell."

So meeting with the other side is not treason. It's not even illegal
for folks whwho have been in the armed services. In this case., Kerry
was out of active service--and that is what counts. There are millions
of Americans in the reserve and they have all the constitutional
rights of civilains.

NOw Kerry may have done some stupid things when he was young--that's
different from treason. But both Kerry and Bush did stupid things when
they were young. That being the case, why should we be distracted from
what has been happening over the last four years. Things like Abu
Ghraib.