ADD TO LEGAL DEFINITION OF TREASON: undermining democracy

[yurbud]

Foreign or domestic, whether for personal gain or at the behest of oil companies, sweatshops, or plantations.

If the elections are fair, according to international observers, we will not agitate for recalls, coups, or back contra-style insurgencies, no matter whose corporate ox is gored.

[forgethell]

1. Will require a

constitutional amendment. Good luck.

[bryant69]

4. Plus I don't think you want to make the definition more loose

Particularly when Republicanoids already have books decrying us all as traitors.

Bryant
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[Just Me]

2. Betraying your people, your country in order to achieve personal benefit.

Bushco & the neoCONcriminals are treasonous!!!

[SlipperySlope]

3. Agree with forgethell

Treason is (I think) the only crime defined by the Constitution. Changing the definition would be very, very, hard.

[yurbud]

5. if not treason, at least make it illegal

so GOP would be breaking a law like they did with Boland Amendment.

[Just Me]

6. Try "high crimes and misdemeanors". It fits. eom

[yurbud]

7. sounds good.

[forgethell]

8. That's OK, but then

you'd have to define what was the definition of "undermining democraccy". Very amorphous, and could mean stuff that we do, or are in favor of. Like the filibuster, for instance. Very undemocratic, at least, it could be defined that way.

Best to vote them out of office, something the left seems to have given up on.