Word: treasonous
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EXONERATED. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, influential Lutheran theologian hanged in 1945 for high treason against Germany; by a Berlin court, which ruled that a 1946 law nullifying Nazi-era judgments formally overturned the death sentence an SS tribunal had imposed. Bonhoeffer, whose writings held up the suffering Christ as a model of submission to God's will, had denounced Hitler as the "anti-Christ." He died at 39, one month before Germany surrendered...
...needs to pick up a gun, it slips through her fingers. (Girls--can't they do anything?) James Caan, as Arnold's boss, nicely gauges the power and menace of a G-man too long in the game; when he says the word patriotism, it sounds like "paid treason." Schwarzenegger, of course, is a paid tree trunk. And for the first time in a while, his character is as solid as he is. Welcome back...
Kudirat Abiola openly criticized the military government of Gen. Sani Abacha. Her husband, a millionaire who was widely believed to have won Nigeria's nullified 1993 presidential election, was jailed on a charge of treason in 1994 after trying to take office...
Last Thursday night Abdul-Rauf acceded to NBA demands to stand with his teammates for the national anthem. But during the brief suspension statements of solidarity and condemnation amassed with great speed. The ACLU readied its forces, the American Legion cried "treason" and columnists flocked to both sides of the debate. The New York Times entered the fray on Thursday, late, but with force, rebuking the NBA for having "damaged core democratic ideals" by suspending Abdul-Rauf...
However, I felt that the inflammatory nature and sweeping generalizations that filled Mr. Brown's article merited a response. I disagree strongly with his contention that the Confederate flag only represents "murder, lynching, rape and treason" and only embodies the "vilest capacities of man." I will not deny that those hideous actions occurred underneath that flag, nor will I hide from the fact that the "vilest capacities of man" were manifested under the Confederate flag in the form of slavery. Yet, all of these actions also have occurred underneath the American flag. Slavery was practiced underneath the American flag decades...