Word: treasonous
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During that struggle, Soyinka’s colleague, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who advocated the autonomy of the Ogoni people and fair distribution of the nation’s wealth, was arrested on false charges of treason and murder and hanged with eight of his companions...
...free and mercilessly make fun of anti-abortion activists safe in the knowledge that their views are totally irrelevant to the political process. Other countries with better weather, where Congress is more lively than “Crossfire.” It is not any more an act of treason to change your citizenship than it is to get a divorce, and if your current country is misguided enough to get its sense of how Iraq is going from Fox News then maybe you should think about kicking it to the curb...
...sensible [or] necessary to achieve our mission's goal," he said. More than 70% of Poles oppose their country's participation in the U.S.-led coalition. A Surprise Victory ZIMBABWE Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he felt "relieved" and "vindicated" after the High Court in Harare acquitted him of treason. Tsvangirai maintained that the charges against him - of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe ahead of disputed 2002 elections, which Mugabe won - were politically motivated. He faces a second treason trial next month on charges relating to his call last year for Mugabe's ouster. Closing in on a Killer...
...Republican Party exploited the city of New York as an emotional backdrop for political gain that disturbed me. It wasn’t so much Sen. Zell Miller’s angry proclamation that to dissent from President Bush in this time of war is tantamount to treason that bothered me. It wasn’t even the smilingly dishonest way Bush rewrote his past three years to relate a satisfying portrait of resolute strength and triumph that was upsetting. It was that the Republicans were so damn good at it. The 500,000 of us who had taken...
...made a series of wartime broadcasts for the Nazis while interned in Germany. He was not coerced, but he clearly misjudged the seriousness of his action. In Britain, politicians denounced him in Parliament and columnists in print. Libraries withdrew his books. The British government investigated him for treason, and editors wouldn't touch his writings with a cricket bat. The man whose vision of Britain is now engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home...