Where is the line? Has it been crossed?

I rarely write two posts on the same night, but my wife (the Queen and Dominatrix of the TIVO) has opted to watch the Winter Olympics, which I find mind-numbingly boring.

U.S. Legal Code
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2388
(a) Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully makes or conveys false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies; or
Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Now...

Gore slams abuse of Arabs
By AP

"JIDDA, Saudi Arabia -- Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore told an audience yesterday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment. "

"Gore told the largely Saudi audience that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

Think for a moment how that sounded to Former Vice President Gore's audience... These are people to whom beheadings and amputations as punishment for crimes are commonplace. These are people who chain people to walls and starve them as punishment for crimes.

These are people who beat women to death for showing their faces.

What do they imagine when they hear that Arabs are routinely rounded up, and held in conditions that are "just unforgivable"?

Now, imagine that you are a Muslim Male between the age of 17 and 35, and you have been considering the possibility of joining up with Al Qaeda, the sworn enemy of the United States, but you just haven't yet made up your mind. Would Gore's statements sway you in one direction or the other?

Did Gore realize what he was saying, and to whom he was speaking?

If he didn't, then he is one of the most profoundly dumb individuals ever to hold National Office.

If he did, then couldn't these statements be considered to, when the United States is at war convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies, as stated in the section that I quoted above from the U.S. Legal Code?

I submit that if given that choice, every single prisoner being held in Saudi Arabia would gladly trade places with the Terrorists being held at Guantanimo Bay.

In a Heartbeat.

The Terrorists at Git'mo ARE NOT being tortured. Not by anyone's definition of torture anywhere else in the world.

To assert that they are is conveying a false report.

This false report gives aid and comfort to people who have declared War upon the United States.


More U.S. Code...

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 115 > § 2382
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

Why again is the Main Stream Media, New York Times, White House Press Corps, et al, harping on the Cheney Hunting Accident?

Could it be to divert national attention away from the Treasonous remarks uttered on foriegn soil by a former Presidential Candidate that most of them supported, and that most of them still maintain had that particular election stolen from him, and should have been President?

If it is, then are they guilty of Treason as well?

Read the Code again...

At what point do incidents like this constitute Treason?

The Code seems pretty clear to me...