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In reply to the discussion: Economic Treason: The definition of "treason" and could Republicans be guilty of this crime (Part 2) [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)Thank you for the time you must have spent in researching and writing this excellent post.
I too heard the word "insurrectionist" used I think yesterday, and I thought it was precisely the appropriate word. That is what these people are.
But here is the paragraph that you wrote I love the most:
"Given that the TPs have in fact declared on recorded media that they had intended to shut down the government since before the 2010 election and to present time, they are guilty of collusion with intent to do harm to the economic well being of the nation as well as committing malfeasance by intending to do so while taking an oath of office whereby they swore to protect the Constitution of the government they have intended to destroy all along."
I am sure you read the blurb I wrote in our original thread focused on malfeasance. I think the standout word in the legal quote is "malice." I do not think there is any doubt these Tea Party representatives are acting out of malice. Some of it centers around the race of our President and their prejudice against him. Some of it rotates around their resentment at having lost the election and thus the power a win would have given them in our Nation's capital. But a lot of it is inspired by pure, raw greed. Implementation of their will on our government policies would result in so much revenue to their sponsors, I cannot begin to calculate it.
And so they act with malice to take down our government, and in so doing, commit an act or acts deleterious to our survival as a democracy and our ability to survive with a functioning, economically healthy government. When a terrorist like the late bin Laden takes down the World Trade Center, we follow him to the ends of the earth to retaliate. When a Tea Party representative attacks our government's financial well-being and threatens the survival of our recovering economy, we should not simply excuse that behavior because he or she is a citizen elected to our Congress. We should legally hold him or her accountable.
Sam