Word: treasonable
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Pound was med for treason after World War II because of his pro-Mussolini broadcasts over Italian radio. But he was good to his fellow poets...
...hereby accuse the United States Supreme Court of high crimes and treason, namely of mocking the Constitution, trammeling Freedom of the Press. . ." And so on. With this flourish, Ralph Ginzburg, self-publicist supreme, informed the world that he had just been paroled after eight months of a three-year sentence for sending obscene material through the mail. Actually, Allenwood Prison camp was not all that bad-Ginzburg even served as a sexton at the prison church-but it was all very depressing. "I felt psychically castrated. I lost 30 lbs. I spent plenty of nights weeping into my pillow...
Attacking the U.S. Congress is a venerable enterprise. Back in 1906 David Graham Phillips wrote a series of savage attacks titled The Treason of the Senate. The series was so outrageous and inaccurate that it inspired President Theodore Roosevelt to decry it as "muckraking"; thus another word entered the American vernacular. But as bad as Phillips' articles were they played a major role in bringing about the constitutional amendment that provided for the popular election of Senators...
...conspiracy theory of history customarily obscures such lessons as can be learned from the past. Swanberg correctly deplores the "20 years of treason" label which Republicans used to blame Democrats for the fact that the post-World War II decade did not swiftly flower into the American century. But Swanberg has done the same kind of thing himself...
...given aid and comfort to our enemy, and I enthusiastically support Congressman Fletcher Thompson's recommendation that charges of treason be brought against her. We cannot survive as a free nation if we permit treason to become an accepted social amenity consonant with the jaded politics and actions of extremists...