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It's not less derogatory and it's not less treasonous. But it is less vulgar and that's worth it.

The second can be treasonous or harmful on an individual level. He didn't help Iran build The Bomb.

That's hardly treasonous. Inconvenient, as it should be.

Officers aiding importation of obscene or treasonous books and articles

Here's another: * Our government freely collects intelligence on us while it is treasonous for us to collect intelligence on it. Yet we call ourselves a democracy with a government by and for the people.

> these journalists argue that these revelations are unjustified, even treasonous, because this is the type of spying the NSA should be doing No, the NSA should NOT be doing this. It's not done to prevent any attacks on the US, it's simply economic espionage.

[1] Their treasonous reach is spreading and thankfully people are becoming aware. People who dare collate information on the persons behind companies like Endgame and Booz Allen have federal resources put upon them.

Of course the classic Revolutionary position was treasonous to the British Empire. The function of dialogue like this is to push the metadata conversation into the mainstream.

If that should happen, that could make my act, as per the definition in the constitution, retroactively "treasonous". Everyone who knows me knows that I am a patriot: but only because I believe in what this country strives to be - not necessarily because of what it is, was, or ever will be.

The EU is not something new and different and there is no reason to call it "treasonous" or "breaking the coronation oath", unless you just don't like the EU and you want to pretend the whole thing doesn't apply.

Al Qaeda is very clearly a terrorist group, and no where in that article is it suggested that open source software is either treasonous or related to terrorism, nor does it say the NSA thinks this.

Although treasonous to say, I don't think a sexp-based language will\n ever be adopted by a wide community of programmers. The problem with this argument is that a sexp-based configuration\nlanguage is already adopted by a community of programmers: Emacs Lisp.

It may as well read: Sign here to admit you are treasonous terrorist-loving scum who should be under constant surveillance by the NSA for the protection of all fine, upstanding, compliant 'merican citizens.

However, when we fear surveillance and invasions of privacy as a result of our own base level sense of survival, we are stupid treasonous, un-patriotic plebs and should have nothing to fear if we have nothing to hide... .

They've got several layers of scapegoats and fall-guys to take the hit when abuse of power, corruption and treasonous behaviour are provable. The types of crimes committed in suppressing the pirate bay are orders of magnitude more alarming than the notion of some 15 year old somewhere downloading a Brittany Spears CD and listening to it on his ipod.

Snark aside, what I don't understand is this: If it means so damned much to Snowden that he should expose all these supposedly horrible supposed abuses, then why isn't he willing to suffer the consequences of his treasonous actions? The original article is so hot to compare Snowden with Dr. King, but what everyone seems to ignore is that Dr. King did not seek to escape the consequences of his actions.

A number of people don't think that a journalistic organization that then tells the world about the information rises to the level of treasonous behavior. There is no evidence that Wikileaks seeks to 'overthrow' or otherwise 'impune the soverignty of' the United States or any other country whose dirty laundry their air, they are in the most classical of definitions the "messenger" here.