Should Hasan be charged with treason?
7th November 2009
Steve Sailer asks the question that every American ought to be asking.
If he survives, the Ft. Hood shooter will of course be charged with murder, but it’s reasonable to inquire whether treason should also be charged. After all, for a major in the U.S. Army, trained at taxpayer expense in the use of weapons, to shoot 40 unarmed comrades-in-arms would seem like a reasonable example of waging war on the United States.
On the other hand, with Jane Fonda still walking around free, one has to wonder whether treason is an obsolescent concept in American law.