We have treason rules, why cant we use them?

Question

What can we do when we have state legislatures passing pointless resolutiuons to impeach our president. Wasnt this insubordination taken care of in the civil war? What can we do to combat this nonsense?

Answer 1

what is "treason"?

is insulting Bush or asking congress to impeach him "treason"?

what about you asking for state legislatures to be jailed? could that be considered treason in those states? probably under your definition...

most consider treason to be conspiring with other governments against the U.S. to be treason...

not simply voicing your concern against the current government...

in the civil war, they formed their own government to plot against the U.S.... so that would have been treason...

Answer 2

The states have every right to express displeasure with the actions of the President. The resolutions have not real meaning except to make the various state legislatures feel good and waste tax payer money.

We can prosecute people for treason, however, it requires very specific actions to be indicted for treason.

Answer 3

Exploiting America is treason. Put the Democrat and Republican parties in prison to abolish the party system, which will end the corruption and exploitation of the American populace. The party system will be our fall.

I would like someone to give a very good reason as to why we *have* to have a party system.

Answer 4

We should do nothing but support state legislators for trying
to impeach Bush. Maybe we should use our treason rules to put bush on trial.

Answer 5

The states that are doing this sort of thing are simply trying to proove a point that they dont like the direction the country as a whole is going in, and that they therefore dont really wanna be a part of it.

Answer 6

Yeah...see you run into a problem with the First Amendment. You know that piece of paper called the Bill of Rights that was included in the orginal constitution?

Answer 7

We Can't!!!
If Every Politician who has committed Treason was sent to prison, or kicked out of office, we would know longer have any Democrats left in Congress.
(Even though they are Traitors, we still need a Two Party System.)

Answer 8

we can stop living by liberal extremist principles and abandon political correctness. case in point the clinton administration and what was largely talked about but not prosecuted.

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

and the lack of prosecution of Nancy Pelosi under the logan act for the mess she started with Syria, a known terrorist sympathiser state.

Answer 9

Well didn't the same thing happen with Clinton? His impeachment didn't make it through the Senate.

Answer 10

Since when is Bush the state?

I have sworn no oath of loyalty to president Bush.