Who's a bigger traitor?

[Playinghardball]

[lpbk2713]

1. Interesting analogy.

I hadn't thought about it in the same terms.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. I was just informed by a DU member that these two things are the same

and I am so awestruck at how absurd that comment is, I dont know how to respond

[yeoman6987]

3. No comment!!!!!!!!!

[still_one]

4. Neither. Look up the legal definition of traitor. Neither is an example

Of traitor

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. I don't think "traitor" is a legal term, is it?

"Treason" is, sure, but "traitor"?

Even if it does have a technical legal definition, that doesn't invalidate the colloquial usage.

[still_one]

9. You are right, I mixed it up thanks. I guess that speed reading I took did

do sqwat for my comprehension, but boy I sure can read a book fast, just don't know what I am reading

[dumbcat]

11. Interesting question

Even if it does have a technical legal definition, that doesn't invalidate the colloquial usage.

Would you agree that the technical legal definition should trump the colloquial usage when discussing legal issues?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. I think that it should do so in a technical legal discussion.

Which is similar to your phrasing, but possibly slightly more restrictive.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. Unfortunately, the answer is "Obviously Fonda".

Fonda visited and supported a country the US was at war with.

Boehner visited and supported an allied country trying to persuade America to change its foreign policy.

The two are not comparable.

[Throd]

7. +1

[still_one]

10. The argument some make is it wasn't a declared war, however, I don't know if

traitor applies in either case, though Fonda actually violated some laws. Boehner didn't

That still doesn't mean Boehners' actions were not controversial

[PatrickforO]

8. I vote for Boehner. These people need to be tried for treason.

I suspect I'll offend some here, but Jane Fonda wasn't much better. She should NEVER have stood beside soldiers of a country with whom we were at (police action, I think they called it) war, and criticized her own government.

Yeah, I know the government was wrong and the war immoral, but you don't do THAT.

I like Jane, but in this case she acted very wrongly. There are lots of people I knew who disagreed mightily with that stupid, divisive war, but they still went. Some of them didn't come back. Some came back maimed. And they didn't ask to go. Most were drafted. But they went. Jane's action was wrong because it hurts them and their memory.

She could have protested plenty right here at home.

[NM_Birder]

13. this is a "likable" comparison to a turd, .

and bowl splatter. put what ever sweetener you want on either one, they are both still nothing but shit, squeezed from the butthole of self righteous ignorance.

her appearance with the viet cong, and her modeling career on AA artillery is all anybody talks about, and that is enough. But few want to remember that she was given a note from an american POW, that she promptly handed over to the VC.

Fuck jane fonda.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. Neither. But, I applauded Jane's efforts and hissed at Boehner's.