Sorry, but he's right. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that ongoing open hostilities or actual armed rebellion must be taking place for treason to occur. The traitor must make war against the U.S., or actively aid the foreign enemy/rebellion during hostilities.
"Time of war. Treason by aiding the enemy can't be committed during peacetime; there must be an actual enemy for the traitor to aid. The requisite enemy designation typically requires a formal declaration of war."
"What constitutes giving aid and comfort to the enemy may be described, in general, in the words of Mr. Justice Field: ‘The term “enemies” . . .
APPLIES ONLY TO THE SUBJECTS OF A FOREIGN POWER IN A STATE OF OPEN HOSTILITY WITH US. . .' " (My CAPS).
And Judge Leavitt, in 1861, gave an equally broad definition, saying: " . . . In general, WHEN WAR EXISTS any act clearly indicating a want of loyalty (My CAPS).
to the government, and sympathy with its enemies, and which, by fair construction, is directly in furtherance of their hostile designs, gives them 'aid and comfort.' "
We are not in a state of open hostilities with China, and therefore no treason can be committed by aiding it.
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Seven years ago, my late wife was experiencing severe abdominal discomfort, and we sat in the ER for hours until a bed was located. Turned out she had colon cancer, and needed emergency surgery. There is nothing unusual about such cases.
@eagle4congress I too have gone to the hospital in severe discomfort and waited hours to be admitted and diagnosed for treatment, and all before anyone ever heard of the #Covid virus.
Chris stated that people were being "turned away" at FL ERs, and was asked to provide the names of hospitals
He doesn't. Instead he provides one case where a child had to wait, then be transferred because the hospital's pediatric surgery cases weren't up to the challenge. There is no statement from the hospital system about their ERs turning people away.
I DID click the link, and noticed that the article defines the "fully" vaccinated in such a way as to minimize deaths from Covid after vaccination. Somewhat dishonest, that.
.The vaccinations are going to be tested. THE EUA WILL BE THE TEST. Based on what little we know now, the results will be very bad for some children, especially boys.
This is one of the reasons I keep talking about World One, World Two, and World Three.
The parents clamoring to get their children enrolled in these trials are operating in World Two, the world of belief and emotion. They are terrified of the Great Killer Covid Virus®, and believe the Great Savior Vaccinations® will slay the evil virus monster.
Behind this is a belief, that it is possible to go through life without taking risks.
But the #CCPVirus is in World One, the world of physical law. In World One, the vaccinations have risks of harm, and will till we know far more about them, probably for decades to come.
a) At peak, less than one in 12 Israelis lived on kibbutzim; many of the kibbutzim were basically military settlements at the border. Today, only about 1 in 45 are kibbuzniks.
b) Only 9 years after Degania was founded, the first moshav came into existence (moshav being farming communities with some socialist features, built around family farms).
c) Moshavim outnumber kibbuzim around 450 to 270; people prefer their own homes & land.
d) 15 years after Degania was founded, the first kibbutzim economic crisis hit; they have recurred frequently.
e) The socialist egalitarianism of the kibbutz movement has been very badly eroded over time.
Most roads belong to the public, which has appointed the govt. to build and manage them. The right to set rules for their use follows from their public nature.
You are, however, free to drive drunk on the wrong side of the road on your own property.
Vax mandates expand beyond public property to all of life, and impose on people far beyond what is necessary to stop the spread of disease. The govt. arguably has the right to require tests, and to quarantine those that are infectious. It does not propose to do this, though.
Why it doesn't propose to do this I can't say. Perhaps it has something to do with its own statements that the vaccinated can still be infectious?
But whatever the reason, the claimed power needs legal justification that it very probably lacks.
This is true, but there is a deeper truth. Some parts of reality are NOT subject to social decision, but some are. "World One", "World Two" and "World Three" were what Karl Popper called these areas. It is important not to confuse them. Keeping them straight can be difficult.
Worse, these areas interact. How does the covid virus spread? How does it act in the human body? What percent of cases die? What actions will lower the spread? What treatments make the disease less lethal? All those are in World One, physical reality not subject to opinion.
But what actions we choose to take to control the spread of the disease, what treatments we choose to explore and employ, they are all part of World Two, social reality. And they affect how many people catch the disease, and how many die of it.