Word: treasonous
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Neither the verdict nor the sentence was ever in doubt; now Turkey faces a political decision over whether to hang its most hated enemy. Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a Turkish court Tuesday. The death sentence ?- mandatory for treason ?- goes automatically to an appeals court, where it is expected to be upheld. Then it?s up to parliament and the president to sign off on the hanging ?- and although Turkey hasn?t executed anyone in 15 years, the clamor for Ocalan?s head may prove irresistible. The brutal Kurdish-nationalist insurgency...
...lame-duck House Republican leadership of the last Congress to have pushed through the articles of impeachment--to have turned a crime so low that any ordinary American would never be prosecuted for it into a "high crime" on par with treason--is an abuse of their constitutional power that voters should not soon forget...
...that he and his family will be persecuted or prosecuted by political enemies once he leaves office, that the sort of slights and humiliations he has inflicted on others will be visited upon him. He has plenty to fear. The sight of deputies accusing an incumbent President of high treason is a worrying reminder of how bad things could be for him when he leaves office. And impeachment was not his first nasty fright. Just two months ago, when his daughter Tatyana's name surfaced publicly in connection with an investigation into alleged corruption in the presidential administration, it looked...
...behalf of my fellow veterans who can no longer speak, I ask those who back Tran's freedom of expression not to confuse free speech with acts of treason and inciting a riot. The communists are very adept at creating unrest and then using our laws to further their cause. JERRY MAZENKO Garden Grove, Calif...
...register disgust with the president's actions was grievously wrong. For the lame-duck House Republican leadership of the last Congress to have pushed through these articles--to have turned a crime so low ordinary Americans would never be prosecuted for it into a "high crime" on par with treason--is an abuse of their constitutional power voters should not soon forget...