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Trust_Reality

(1,908 posts) Sat Sep 28, 2024, 11:10 AM Sep 28

How to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.

I suggest it begins with... SPEAK THE TRUTH.

STAND UP.
SPEAK THE TRUTH.
VOTE, of course.

If this is valid, then spreading lies is a form of treason.

I say it IS valid and spreading lies is indeed a form of treason.

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How to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. (Original Post) Trust_Reality Sep 28 OP

Spreading lies and misinformation is certainly anti-democratic Fiendish Thingy Sep 28 #1

My concept of treason. Trust_Reality Sep 28 #2

In your imagination. Fiendish Thingy Sep 28 #3

Fiendish Thingy

(18,816 posts)

1. Spreading lies and misinformation is certainly anti-democratic

Reply to Trust_Reality (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2024, 11:25 AM

Sep 28

But treason?

Hardly.

At least not the statutory crime of treason as defined in the constitution.

Trust_Reality

(1,908 posts)

2. My concept of treason.

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 28, 2024, 11:35 AM

Sep 28

Fiendish Thingy

(18,816 posts)

3. In your imagination.

Reply to Trust_Reality (Reply #2)

Sat Sep 28, 2024, 12:19 PM

Sep 28

If lying was punished as treason, we’d be living in a fascist state beyond the imagined extremes of a second Trump term.

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