Word: treasonable
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...Among his regular topics were local politics and society's war against black males. He also wrote a weekly column, "Tell It Like It Is," for the Champion, a black paper in DeKalb. As far back as 1994, he wrote that the Confederate flag "represents an act of treason, the enslavement, rape, murder and torture of Africans and African Americans. It is beyond belief that any sane person would want to preserve such a hideous legacy." He had few friends among the area's white supremacists...
...intelligence officers were sent to drown him at sea. With concrete blocks tied to his feet, he was moments from death when American officials in Seoul came to the rescue. His third encounter with death came in 1980, when a court ordered him to be hanged on charges of treason. International pressure again saved him, reducing his sentence to life in prison...
...critical word about the Confederate flag flying over the statehouse in South Carolina. He even suggested that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an "outsider" and should "butt out" of the controversy. When given the chance to speak out against a symbol of racism and treason, he could not muster the courage or the leadership to condemn...
...TRIAL GRANTED. For LORI BERENSON, 30, American imprisoned in Peru; after serving almost five years of a life sentence for treason, ordered by a military tribunal; in Lima. Peruvian authorities say new evidence shows Berenson was not a terrorist but an accessory in a radical group's attack plan. If convicted, she could receive a minimum sentence of 20 years...
...most fervent pursuers had proclaimed his case the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs, but the historical parallel may in fact be closer to the Dreyfus case. Like the turn-of-the-century Jewish Frenchman falsely accused of treason in a blaze of anti-Semitism and finally vindicated after a spell in prison, the Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist is set to go free Monday after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Unlike Dreyfus, of course, Wen Ho Lee isn't entirely innocent, but the government has been forced to concede that what he's guilty of is simply the negligent...