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Originally Posted by Percy 
Frankly, (and without any expectation of popular support for this position), America would do well if the current corruption throughout its Institutions, particularly the Legal and Legislative was washed away with a Miliary Coup. It is high time that the Honour and Integrity of the Military was brought to bear to cure the Political malaise in the USA. It may well be that America's military is the only Institution left with any Character.... |
I attempted to ponder this statement at length, and then tried a 10' Pole for good measure... But he left for winter basketball league and we were right back at the crux of the question.
To Wit - Would it be 'Treasonous' to suggest the above course of action?
Of course that would beg the whole question of sovereignty, as treason implies a duty of loyalty to one's sovereign nation / ruler...
- and obviously any furriner wot wuz to say such stuff wouldn't be committing 'treason' per say - and could thus be bombed fairly expeditiously without a whole lot of the due process concerns that attach to Amerikans who trash Amerika.
Still - as the English are so fond of pointing out -
Treason Never Prospers, for if it does, it be not treason... Ahem.
Apparently, Point of View does depend to a degree on Perspective, or is that vice versa? Particularly given the English penchant for upholding the Divine Right of Kings and all...
Ohso
"We hath got the Crown. I' faith, and we will kill any whoreson who tries to take it away, by the Lord Harry." From the Coronation Ceremony, in the book
Guards Guards by T. Pratchett.