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Originally Posted by Journeyman
Wait, what? You're saying that the right of a born American citizen to freedom of speech is limited to American citizens inside the country, and that citizens who exit the country for a time are then limited? Where's your precedent? Jane Fonda was never tried for treason, last I checked.
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Jane Fonda wasn't tried for treason because it wouldn't have been politically expedient. There ARE precedents. Ikuko Toguri, AKA Tokyo Rose, was tried and convicted of treason for the broadcasts she made on behalf of the Japanese during WWII. She was later pardoned not because she was "innocent" (she indisputably did what she was charged with) but as a way of trying to put the war behind us. This happened a LOT after WWII...look at all of the germans and japanese who were convicted and later granted clemency.
You don't have a First Amendment right to a lot of kinds of speech. Treasonous speech that provides aid and comfort to the enemy is one of the exceptions to the First Amendment. Others include fraudulent speech, speech likely to cause an immediate breach of the peace, and so on.