Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: 30 Mar 2024 01:39:51 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="19317"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1752 Paul S Person wrote: >On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:04:27 -0400, Gary McGath >wrote: > >>On 3/28/24 12:21 PM, Paul S Person wrote: >> >>> As to Jan 6 2021 -- if Trump is/was, in fact, an agent of Putin (as >>> many of his supporters appear to be, given their eagerness to gift >>> Putin Ukraine), then it was not an insurrection -- it was treason, >>> pure and simple. >> >>So now opposition to US foreign policy is "treason." I've heard that=20 >>line too often before. "Love it or leave it." > >No -- but acting as an agent of a foreign power when you have sworn an >oath to the USA (not just pledged allegiance, sworn an oath as part of >taking an office, such as, oh, Reprentative or Senator or President, >among many others) can be, depending on what the foreign power is up >to and if you allow your allegiance to that power to influence your >official performance. It worked for Klaus Fuchs. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."