Thread by @JMHendersonSr

TREASON.

The Constitution defines treason. And the Constitution restricts the power of Congress to change that definition.

So, what is TREASON?

Treason is an act (or series of them) that does either of two things, "levying war against" the United States, or "adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

Treason is defined in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution:

Be careful what you call treason!

For example, it has only taken two years for the trope that Donald Trump committed treason by colluding with Russian to interfere in the 2016 presidential election to become as worn out as the bumbling dad trope has become in modern TV advertising.

The problem with the allegation that Trump committed treason by colluding with Russia to win the US election is that the allegation converts the use of propaganda related to an election into an act of war.

Consider that for a moment:

Just a couple years back, Barack Obama propagandized for Emanuel Macron to be elected President in France. A few years before, an Obama administration grant recipient used American money to propagandize against the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu.

And, when he wasn’t busy allowing young women to drown in his car, Ted Kennedy called on a communist empire, the Soviet Union, to work to prevent the re-election of Ronald Reagan.

forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted…

By this collusion principle, Obama declared war on France and on Israel, and Ted Kennedy declared war on the USA.

The problem is that the principle is false. It is false because it does not comprehend the meaning of TREASON under the US Constitution.

To commit treason consists solely either of making war against the USA or of giving aid to our enemies.

What isn’t TREASON?

First, it isn’t TREASON to dislike or loathe a green-goober spitting, common American hating, Democratic presidential nominee.

Second, it isn’t TREASON to actively campaign for the Presidency in Michigan, in Wisconsin, and in Pennsylvania, the States that @HillaryClinton forgot.

TREASON is very specific.

In fact, its narrow scope explains why Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were never charged with TREASON, were never tried for TREASON, and were never convicted of TREASON.

Yes, they passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. But, and you may find this fact hard to swallow, the Soviet Union was not our enemy, so they were not giving aid and comfort to our enemy.

For a nation to be our enemy, a state of war must exist between that nation and the USA. There was no state of war with the Soviet Union.

To commit treason by making war against the United States is to take up arms against the United States ... like when Americans become radicalized Islamists and take up violent action.

No.

Raising the price of oil per barrel is not war. Nor is refusing the use of a nation's own airspace to a third country. In fact, making war literally means undertaking military hostilities.

The absence of war-making in the context of the 2016 election is beyond peradventure. Claims to the contrary are mere histrionics, just "vapors" by the chattering class.

Don't be fooled.

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