2006-06-25 08:26:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hanoi Jane, Benedict Arnold. They come to mind when thinking about traitors.
2006-06-25 08:33:55 · update #1
Some one who would give "Aid and Comfort" to the Enemy.
Some one who would give away National Secrets to the Enemy, also, thus ensuring that they will have an advantage over us, or can cause great peril to our troops abroad.
Those who dispense "dissention", to hinder the war efforts, when we are involved in a conflict and they try to stir up the people against the present war, so that invariably we will pull out our troops, and lose the war.
A lot of people can be said to be Traitors, in my opinion...
And its a good thing I wasnt President, or, they would be in JAIL!!!
You dont help the Enemy in ANY WAY, when it comes to our boys/girls, getting killed!!!!!!!
They should either be shot, or be in jail for life!
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-06-25 08:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by x 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
GW Bush is the proptotypical traitor. Hierarchically, after him is the *current* US Supreme Court, but chronologically, the USC is preceded by the several members of the US Congress (House of Representatives AND Senate).
Add to that anyone/everyone in the GOP (Republican political party) and the supporters thereof, and almost anyone/everyone in the DNP (Democratic political party) and the supporters thereof, and you'll have a starting point for assessing the debacle of traitorism in the USA (which is virtually unparallelled in the world).
During GW Bush's first 100 days in office, he committed treason (aiding and abetting a nation that had committed an Act of War against the USA). Ignoring the Act of War that was the downing of the EP-3E Aries II, China committed a 2nd Act of War when it kidnapped the crew (24 people) of the downed aircraft.
Bush not only ignored those overt Acts of War, but was conciliatory towards the Chinese, trading after 11 days an official apology for the return of the crew. Bush further gave the Chinese 3 months and 3 days to dismantle and inspect the hardware of our most secret ELINT apparatus.
In the grand scheme of things, Chinese examination of the specific electronic components probably isn't that big of a deal -- but what is absolutely unforgivable is that they were allowed to learn both (a) what we were listening for, and (b) how we were listening for it.
By allowing the Chinese to perform that most thorough disassembly and inspection, Bush made absolutely certain that US hardware encryption efforts are compromised in the current generation of computer technology (and almost certainly in the following two generations of computer technology).
When the Peruvian air force slaughtered a missionary's wife and infant child, and strafed his aircraft after it crashed in a river, Bush grounded for 5 days the US "anti-drug" aircraft that first alerted Peru's combat command complex and directed the fighters to the missionary's plane.
Although neither the plane nor the missionary were ever associated with drug trafficking, Bush played it off as a harmless error, took no action against the crew of the target-identification aircraft, and didn't even demand an apology from Peru.
Also in his first 100 days, Bush launched an assault against the Bill of Rights (which, until GW Bush, had always been part of the US Constitution) that continues to this day, and it's only gotten worse, as he and his rubber-stamp Supreme Court seem hell-bent to eradicate all meaning from the Amendments.
Moreover, Bush is given a free pass when he flouts sections of the Constitution not contained in the Amendments. This wouldn't be possible apart from the complicity of Congress and the Courts in Bush's crimes.
2006-06-25 08:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by wireflight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Benedict Arnold, Tokyo Rose, Hanoi Jane, take your pick.
2006-06-25 10:42:18 · answer #3 · answered by Huey Freeman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Moore
2006-06-25 15:14:31 · answer #4 · answered by faro_faro_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A traitor is a person who was believed to be trusted and a friend who is not.
2006-06-25 08:34:36 · answer #5 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A citizen of a country who knowingly and deliberatly provides aid or
assistance to a government or group that willfully acts or plots violence against that country.
A person who by his own actions creates an act of war against his own country.
2006-06-25 08:32:36 · answer #6 · answered by Renegade 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A traitor is someone who is for one issue, person, place etc. and then turns against it.
2006-06-25 08:34:57 · answer #7 · answered by lilmama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the kind of word that holds a prominent place in my vocabulary, and I worry about anyone who would use it freely/without serious consideration.
I suppose it means: To betray the values/precepts one has committed themselves to upholding, to act without integrity or to deny ever having committed one's self to upholding those values/precepts in the first place, so as to deny responsibility for failing to act in times of crisis.
2006-06-25 08:33:07 · answer #8 · answered by Elspeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush
2006-06-25 10:34:50 · answer #9 · answered by shasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a traitor is a person who professes loyalty while secretly working to harm you.
2006-06-25 08:32:22 · answer #10 · answered by seeker100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋