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Daswig,
1: "Aid and Comfort" in the then-current parlance meant -physical- things, such as food, munitions, horses, etc. The modern equivalent would be my selling ammunition to Germany, like A. B. Brown ( Prescott Bush's company ) did up until 1943 when it was shut down under the Trading With The Enemy Act. Check editions 1-4 of Blacks Law Dictionary.
2: Criticism and Libel/Slander are not the same thing, legally, semantically, or otherwise.
3: Any trial for Treason, like any other trial of a Civillian, must be carried out in a Civillian court, by a jury of peers, in the open in order to be Constitutional. You know this as well as I do; don't be disingenious.
4: My final comment on this thread: you seem to be one of those people who will support whatever the Gov't does, no matter how unConstitutional it might be: the trial and imprisonment of E. Debs is a good example of this. I'm curious as to how you got this way, being that you're an MG owner; or are you one of those gunowners who will turn in his guns and go play AirSoft if "the order" ever comes down? If so, you're nothing but a blowhard hobbyist with expensive toys. If not, then you are a Grade-A Hypocrite who supports Constitutional infringements "For thee, not me;" the kind of gunowner who will take any amount of reaming so long as a Republican is responsible. Either you support the whole Constitution, or nothing of it; you don't get to pick and choose which bits are conveniant.
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