Word: treasonous
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...prime example that these uncivilized tendencies are still alive is the South's continued fondness for the Confederate flag. Anyone who does not acknowledge that this flag stands for murder, lynching, rape and treason cannot be regarded as possessing good judgement. The Confederate flag embodies indignities from the plantation to segregated schools. It represents White Citizens' Councils and the Ku Klux Klan, cross burnings and castrations. It is stained with the blood of innocents and heroes from Emmitt Till to Medgar Evers...
...establishment of the Confederacy cannot be glossed over as an attempt to preserve a mere "way of life." It was plainly treason of the highest order. The fact that some Southerners continue to refer to the Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression" demonstrates either a disturbing lack of historical consciousness or a pathetic denial of reality...
...substantial evidence that Demjanjuk was not the Butcher of Treblinka he was accused of being in an Israeli court. But he was indisputably a camp guard. Even so, Buchanan could not resist comparing him with Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer who was entirely innocent of the charges of treason brought against him by an anti-Semitic French officer corps at the turn of the century. And sometimes words speak louder than actions. During the lead-up to the Gulf War, which he opposed, he called Congress "Israeli-occupied territory." The only people seeking war, he said, were...
...despite their promises, be sharing their husbands' fate. One day later, the Iraqi News Agency said the brothers, their father and a younger sibling had been killed in a gun battle when angry clansmen stormed the family residence, declaring that their "blood should be shed because of their treason to the homeland...
These squawks from Washington miss the point. As an American citizen, Farrakhan is entitled to say whatever he wants about any issue, anyplace in the world. That's not treason. It's the Constitution. But Farrakhan's demonstrated eagerness to play ball with tyrants should alarm every black American still deluded by the hope that the uncritical acclaim Farrakhan has enjoyed since the Million Man March last October would somehow transform him into a model of enlightened leadership. To the contrary, Farrakhan is a hypocrite, willing to excuse the degradation of millions in exchange for the promise of a handsome...