A Call to do our Constitutional Duties and Initiate Treason Trials by Discharging Misprision of Treason

Congress is so deeply ensnared in meaningless political maneuvering and complicit, cowardly silence around things that matter that Reverend King would declare the soul that inhabits the Capitol Building in the outright throes of death. But we must and do remember, I think, that the Congress is but a shadow of the real sovereign power of this Constitutional Republic, We the People, and more specifically and accurately, You and I the Persons. Individual Human Beings "endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights" are the fundament of legitimate power under our form of government. But, as we know, along with rights come responsibilities.

Everybody reading this site, I imagine, (except for agents, provocateurs and the willfully ignorant) have pragmatically, intellectually and spiritually begun to discharge their duties of reporting and remedying the unpunished treasonous acts of which we have knowledge. However, I doubt there are many of us who have actually fulfilled our legally-binding, constitutional obligations specifically outlined by the concept of '"Misprision of Treason." I know I haven't. From wikipedia: "In the United States, misprision of treason is a federal offense, committed where someone who has knowledge of the commission of any treason against the United States, does not inform the President, a federal judge or state Governor or judge (18 U.S.C. § 2382). It is punishable by a fine and up to 7 years in prison."
Full entry @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_treason

Treason trials are the logical strategy for pulling the plug on this Junta, having them rat out their Controllers and exposing the full-on complicity of the Corporatist Media. For the national impeachment movement, it could be considered the side door to impeachment, being that a conviction of treason automatically results in impeachment. In the case of 9-11 Truth and Justice I'd say it is more like the front door of walking in and calling a spade a spade. In addition to complicity in the attacks and cover-up of 9-11, there are multiple instances of treason by this administration and I think Jon Gold is right in saying that the quickest (and most proper I might add) route to 9-11 Truth and Justice is straight through the White House. And the most direct route to the White House, in my non-expert opinion is through Article III Section 3 of the Constitution. Treason was given its own section in outlining the powers of the judiciary branch. Partially, this was to limit and specify its scope so it couldn’t be abused for political ends as it was in England. However, it also appears that it is its own creature of law, being that you are supposed to tell the President if you become aware of it. I wonder if the ‘Dictator in Chief’ would hold himself and his own VP accountable. Probably not. Luckily, we are also supposed to tell Federal and/or state judges.

The way I envision this to work is to make it a synergistic combination of legal maneuvering, organized citizen activism and savvy media campaigning. If hundreds or thousands of citizens around the country were to present evidence of treason in the White House to hundreds or thousands of different judges around the country, especially on the same day or the same week, something good might happen quickly.

In terms of what exact acts to point out from the numerous examples of bad faith by this administration which meet the criteria of treason, tightly defined as “levying War against [the United States] or adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort,”
I propose two possibilities that can bring a wide array of people to the table (and would love to hear more):

1) The attacks and subsequent cover-up of 9-11-01, focusing on Cheney’s role—Treason is the appropriate charge here, not misprision of treason, even if the administration was involved in LIHOP or in covering it up. They gave aid and comfort to our Enemies just by facilitating a cover-up if nothing else. The clearest articulation of this is by Colonel Bob Bowman who says, “the very kindest thing that we can say about George W. Bush and all the people in the U.S. Government that have been involved in this massive cover-up, the very kindest thing we can say, is that they were aware of impending attacks and let them happen. Now some people will say that’s much too kind, however even that is high treason and conspiracy to commit murder.” I think Norman Mineta’s testimony could be crucial being that (thanks to www.wearechange.org activists in Seattle, WA) he now knows that the Commission lied and left his testimony out. Just the testimony of Mineta and Richard Clarke alone prove that Cheney and the Commission lied.
2) The Valerie Plame case- outing a covert operative who worked on intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program is definitely treason. Check out this great article on that: http://www.planetarymovement.org/2005/07/19/some-dare-call-it-treason/
This could probably be expanded to include the intimidation and fixing of intelligence around the Iraq War.

A possible third emerging right now is the Pat Tillman case. 3 bullets in the head of an outspoken soldier from an M-16 with orders from on high is a very profound and personal example of treason.

With these three examples you would have a wide swath of support, including the military, intelligence community, liberals and conservatives. Please tell me what you think.

Here are a couple more wiki resources on a topic you don’t want to deal with everyday of your life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason