If someone isn't willing to support their country, should they have the right to citizenship?

Question

Should the constitution and bill of rights be amended to treat traitors accordingly?

At what point in this question did I mention any war???

Answer 1

I hear what you're saying and I "feel you". However, I don't think a Constitutional Amendment is necessary

There is already a penalty for Treason. My hope is that we start to strictly enforce it. Hanoi John Kerry and Hanoi Jane Fonda would be at the top of my list

Answer 2

Being willing to support their country and being a traitor are entirely different things! We have laws that deal with traitors and the Constitution along with the Bill of Rights to give us free speech and the right to dissent!

Answer 3

No they shouldnt. Problem is, its hard to define. How will we draw the line between unwillingness to support, and the rest.

I detest leftists and all their pathetic justifications for hating America, but definetly respect the founding fathers concerns about the charge of treason. Of course, if the fathers saw todays environment, Im not sure they would have held the same views.

Answer 4

If a government doesn't support and serve its citizens should it have the right to the rule them?

Should the constitution and the bill of rights be used for what their original purpose?

'course a bit of torture here, a bit of confinement loaf there and dissenting views will gradually quieten down. Execute the traitors while yer at it.

Answer 5

Not in the US. What you are advocating is basically once the majority decides something, any dissenters should lose their citizenship. That's not democracy at all, it's idiocracy and a surefire way to bring a country down.

Answer 6

If you think supporting your country means "my country right or wrong," you're wrong. If my country is wrong, the most patriotic thing I can do is to try to make it right. And not supporting a war is not the same as not supporting the troops. Of course, supporting the troops by the Republicans has become an oxymoron.

Answer 7

first define what you mean by "support your country" and then define "traitor".
Then I will attempt to answer your question.

Dissent and disagreement with the government is not treason, though fascist regimes would label it so.
Supporting your country may mean many things...and trying to end the invasion and bring the troops home is the best kind of support.

the buzz words "support the troops" "911" "traitor" are thrown around too fast and loose by the right wing in an emotional appeal to the baser instincts of the proudly ignorant.

The real traitors are George Bush and company. Strip them of citizenship and have them renditioned to a secret prison for some enhanced interrogation techniques.

Answer 8

I support the "country" through productive labor. I support the government through taxation of my labor and my property (unwillingly, I might add). I WILLINGLY choose to support my family....the rest of the nation can starve for all I care. Take away citizenship and you end up taking away your tax base...it'll never happen.

Answer 9

How do you define "support the country"? Dissent is the foundation of dialogue and growth, and essential to democracy. What makes a traitor?

Answer 10

I suppose that depends on what you mean by supporting their country. There are already penalties for treason so I am not exactly sure what you are trying to say. If you mean blindly supporting everything your country does absolutely not.

Answer 11

I agree with you. They should not have a right to citizenship if they are traitors.