Re: Treason?
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"While the bolded part may not have been abused yet"
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They've ben abused over and over. Gene Debs got 20 years under the Espionage Act for giving a speech in a park criticizing the draft. Abuses of these statutes and their state counterparts form the core of the law regarding political expression under the first amendment. The constitutionality of these statutes has always been in doubt.
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