Word: treasonable
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Saddam Hussein's consolidation of power has included the arrest last July of 67 Cabinet members, politicians and government employees in an alleged conspiracy against the new regime; 21 officials, including a Deputy Prime Minister, were executed for treason, but the rationale for the purge remains a mystery. The government branded the plot a Communist attempt to oust Saddam Hussein and unofficially suggested that Syria was behind the machinations. Most Western observers believe it was engineered by the new President simply to eliminate critics of his authoritarian rule...
...Walk in with four or five people and say, 'Are you going to do what the people want or do we have to tip over your desk?' " While Von Stahl explains how to bring treason charges against a Communist-loving official, Courtney Smith, a representative of the conservative Liberty Lobby, sums up the mood of the participants. "They're really mad. I've heard people here actually talk about killing these so-called politicians. They figure they're traitors. Have not the Russians said they will bury us? And yet our Congressmen and Senators vote...
Instructors in fatigues and mufti are still lecturing on the fine points of treason, gun handling and dandelion cook ery. Off to the side, a group of apple-cheeked, grade-school-age girls in ging ham dresses, children of members of the audience, are sitting on swings, singing chorus after chorus of Jesus Loves...
...chief federal public prosecutor, who released news of Cesiunas' disappearance last week, "There are definite indications that he was abducted by the Soviet secret service and forced to leave the country against his will." If he has been repatriated by force, the canoeist faces a charge of treason, for which the penalty could be death. Last week the West German embassy in Moscow received an anonymous phone call from a Russian who claimed that Cesiunas was being held in a Soviet prison hospital, with severe head injuries, including a cracked skull...
These lyrics from the album recently released by the Clash unequivocably advocate acts of sedition and treason. The group attempt to evade responsibility for its actions by stating "warning--do not read these words while listening to this record," but we know what they want. Such malefactors can and should be prevented from spreading their devil's gospel of riot and mayhem among our children...