WHEN IS A PRESIDENT A TRAITOR?

What line needs to be crossed?

Traitor

(trā′tər) - noun

One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one who is guilty of treason. See treason.

Treason

(trē′zən) - noun

The betrayal of allegiance toward one's own country, especially by committing hostile acts against it or aiding its enemies in committing such acts.

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Today, it is a fair - albeit (perhaps) dangerous - question to ask:

When is a President a traitor? For that matter, when is any politician, bureaucrat, appointee, etc., a traitor?

It’s not supposed to be a dangerous question. After all, they work for us. Thought of another way: We work for ourselves. We the People are supposed to be the primacy of the country’s direction; we are the holders and steerage on and of principals; and we only agree to be governed by ourselves - fellow-citizens - so long as they (we) hold true to our Constitution, our laws, our values.

In light of all the forgoing, the question “When is a President a traitor?” should have very elemental, easily understood, answers… and thus, the basic nature of the answers should make the question not only safe, but necessary given the times in which we find ourselves. For, if a President were committing treason, and thus being a traitor to America, it would be the people’s duty to charge, try, convict, and sentence him or her. (Or should I say “them” in service to all things trans?)

If a President dissolved one of this country’s international borders - halting a border wall’s completion, as paired with an open invite for aliens to illegally cross the border and enter this country - does this not dissolve sovereignty? Is this not a hostile act against America? Wait, let me say that a better way: Does this not obliterate sovereignty? In a factual sense, it actually DOES destroy sovereignty. Doubt it? All of this is amplified with, not a rebuff and repatriation of these illegal aliens, but with free flights and support to illegal aliens as they are seeded around the country.

Thus, it is not only a dissolution of a thin line on a map at the extreme southernmost part of America, this is the diminution of the country’s cohesion and safety. Illegal aliens have not been educated to be Americans (one can argue that neither are American kids these days, sadly, but we know how it is supposed to be) and are not necessarily vested in our values - and they do not hold any legal status as Americans. In fact, illegal aliens (people who enter our country via extra-legal means) are enemies. They are here illegally, they’ve already committed a crime, and they are completely unvetted - thus, they fit the definition of an enemy. Friends and allies do not break-in, break laws, and break trust with their very first step into America. Enabling and amplifying all this is not treasonous?

This is not indicative of a traitor? Consider: Once someone has crossed the threshold of traitorous deeds, it can be surmised that that person would not care about an irony in pledging to help Ukraine defend its sovereignty, even as our own is threatened here at home. The sheer idiocy is stunning - but we know why this is happening.

I’m not speaking of anyone specific (ha ha), but we can also consider this: If your country was energy independent, and had become a net exporter of energy, and you labored to reverse those conditions, thus making your country energy dependent (with countries that are our enemies), and deliberately weakened the associated economy via obliteration of those former statuses… are you not a traitor to that country’s health, position, and security? Have you not committed treason by these overt, harming, actions?

There are many, many more examples. But these are enough to begin making the point. Perhaps in coming days I’ll expound.

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Meantime, America’s free speech principles are being tested: Threats to Spotify for not cancelling Joe Rogan. Threats to people who speak the truth about Covid. Cancel Culture threatens (unless you’re a homely, morbidly obese, dim leftist who pegs The Holocaust completely wrong).

‘Till next time - stay safe.

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David Scott Strain is a U.S. Army veteran (HQ, 500th Military Intelligence Brigade [Japan]; 1st Personnel Command [1st PERSCOM, Europe]; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [ODCSOPS, Pentagon], more) and a retired Fortune500 I.T. executive (Young & Rubicam, Inc., DC-NY; Burson-Marsteller, LLC, DC-NY; ShuffleLabs, Inc., Virginia, more) and employment at major non-profits (Nat’l. Food Processors Assoc., N. VA [now GMA]; Water Environment Federation, N. VA, more); as well as TS contract work for clients. Mr. Strain has passed three FBI background checks in association with his work.  He is also the author of the novel THE GRIM GRIND OF LIFE:  A PI’s strange bounces through a surfeit of eateries, juke joints, and dark doorways.  Prior, he authored the MBA-text I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium (UofW, UofMD, more than a dozen others). Books and expanded bio are available on Amazon.