Word: treasonable
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...month deployment, I think it's about time we started looking at both sides of the coin. I am proud of my husband for defending the country and the Constitution, and I am even more proud to live in a country in which political dissent is not viewed as treason. The Dixie Chicks were foolish, however, if they didn't expect repercussions for alienating their core audience by insulting the President while performing in a foreign country. Country-music listeners are well within their rights to stop buying the Dixie Chicks' albums and boycott radio stations that play them...
...intimidation and vote rigging." Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, one of the youth leaders armed by politicians, later turned on Nigeria's security forces and engaged them in gun battles in the streets of Port Harcourt. After Dokubo-Asari called for the breakup of Nigeria last year he was arrested for treason - a charge he denies. Some of his followers are also mend members, according to activists in Port Harcourt and Onengiya Erekosima, spokesman for the political wing of Dokubo-Asari's organization...
...read his memoir. He was a brilliant writer--he was almost as good as Grant. They were the best writing generals we've ever had. And I tried to do justice to that and to acknowledge the conflicts within him. He thought the Confederacy was an act of treason and had to be dealt with, and the way you fight a war is without limit...
...white power. Somewhat more subtly, he claimed that the nation must “act as one” to attack its mushrooming problems, and stop “turning against itself through terrorism.” By this he meant that dissent of any kind was tantamount to treason...
...increasingly dictatorial Museveni announced two weeks ago that he will run for office again, following Parliament's decision to scrap term limits that would have forced him to retire. That long-expected bulletin came just days after his main opponent was thrown in prison on charges - vehemently denied - of treason and rape. Demonstrations have been temporarily banned. So, Achebe's lament still holds true, then? No. Fixing Africa was never as simple as changing its leaders. And that's why the fall from grace of Museveni and Zenawi may prove a positive thing, even if they hurt their own countries...