Word: treasonous
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...reprimanded. (The only known precedent was in 1798, when the House was debating the expulsion of Vermont's Matthew Lyon, who had spit in the face of a fellow member. After an explosive exchange, Speaker Jonathan Dayton challenged another member to a duel. Dayton, who was indicted for treason nine years later, along with Aaron Burr, was called to order for improper utterances...
Prosecute for treason brave souls who protest criminal Vietnam...
Salvadorans joined "long, serpentine polling lines" not to show their defiance of the leftist Liberation Front but because they were afraid of official repression. In El Salvador it is illegal not to participate in the election. The Defense Minister declared that not voting was an act of treason, and in El Salvador you get shot for treason. Under such conditions, anyone would be eager to vote...
...press has none. It prints what it is given. If some important national secret is betrayed in the pages of a great newspaper, as has often happened, it is nonsense to protest that the editors and reporters have no patriotism, no decency, that this is treason. The charges may be correct, but you have arraigned the wrong defendants. The failure of patriotism, the betrayal of decency, the treachery are real enough. But these are the trespasses of the public official who, having been trusted with the secret, could not keep...
Since 1979, at least 150 believers have been put to death. Though the official charges usually involve "spying" or "treason," Baha'is say that the real reason is official intolerance of a faith which the Shi'ite Muslim mullahs of Iran regard as blasphemous. An estimated 550 Baha'is are in prison. Thousands more have lost their homes and possessions, and mobs have desecrated Baha'i assembly halls, cemeteries and the faith's holiest shrine in Iran, the House of the Bab in Shiraz...