Word: traitor
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...unhinged (an observation echoed by a Northern Alliance fighter who, according to wire reports, indicated the young American and made the universal gesture for "crazy"). Whether he's mentally competent to stand trial remains to be seen, but some legal experts suspect Walker will not be tried as a traitor; instead he'll be charged with sedition - a largely unused charge that implies the advocacy of violence against the government - or some other, lesser crime...
...Dasch was a persistent double-traitor, though, and took a train to Washington, went to the Justice Department and demanded 15 minutes with J. Edgar Hoover. He was dismissed, but finally got an audience with a mid-level official. When Dasch opened his briefcase and showed the official $85,000 he'd been given for the operation, he got his 15 minutes with Hoover. Soon the FBI had arrested Dasch's roommate, and learned about all the others, including the Florida quartet who by then had made it to the Midwest. The newspapers at the time touted...
Over the coming years, as Harvard College relocated to Lexington and continental troops were billeted in the Yard, Elmwood became a field hospital for George Washington’s troops and the command post of Yale University alumnus and future traitor Benedict Arnold...
...argue that if you can?t go back to where things were before the intifada, at least go back to negotiations. A moderate position on the Palestinian side would be to shut up, because there would be a real threat of opening yourself up to accusations of being traitor if you spoke in favor of ending the violence - there?s a real sense among the palest of being under attack...
...wrote that "one law for the Lion & Ox is oppression" was also a passionate democrat, a republican. His views as a workingman (which printers were) aligned him with the most radical tenets of English working-class thought. He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine. He contemptuously referred to George III as "old Nobodaddy" and eagerly awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden...