>""Treason" is a loaded word. It's a dangerous word, especially if it's used, even inadvertently, to shut dissent down and lock dissenters up. It's the ultimate Constitutional crime, with the ultimate penalty, and needs to be used only in the gravest of cases."

Well said. And I agree with LarryJ too.
I was just taunting old whassis-face, that nasty, blowing smoke up yer a*se, constantly self-defacating (I mean self-depracating), nasty bonehead .......Ed.....who sees everything in black, black or (on ocassion)..white.
His remark on "treason" started this thread, and I couldn't bear to let it go.
Obviously, I shouldn't have opened his post.

Dissent is fine...it's our first Amendment right.
I don't like to see people striking out first. It's born out of immaturity and frustration; but those people will ALWAYS be out there, the anti-thesis of whatever is being promoted at the moment.

The beginning of a radical or a one time try-it-and-see-what-happens kinda thing.