Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, October 7, 2019
"AIDING COMFORTING ENEMIES"
AIDING COMFORTING ENEMIES
Working for the enemy is giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy.
Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
SECTION 3. Clause 1. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open court."
Article III. U. S. Constitution
That is treason. The "enemy" is a political term that changes over time. Once, the Soviet Union was an ally in World War II contra Hitler.
With the Cold War, USSR became the enemy with Red China. With "detente" and "glasnost" and the death of Mao, the enemy became more murky. Each former enemy became capitalist competitors. The billionaires of Russia and China are competing with Americans all over the world. Are they still enemies?
African Americans' ancestors have been enemies within the United States, who were denied aid and comfort as a matter of American law in and outside of courts, legislatures, as a matter of ingrained custom.
It did not matter that African Americans saved the country from military defeat in the American "Revolution" when James Armstead , an enslaved double-agent, betrayed England into a trap, forcing her surrender.
More recently in the Civil War, a/k/a "Freedom War" it was of little or no political significance that the African Americans were the force who saved our nation from dissolution and destruction by fighting for its preservation as newly freedmen and freed women. By helping (cooks, spies, laborers) as millions of so-called " "contraband": emancipated slaves; these gave aid and comfort to the Union after January 1, 1863, by means innumerable.
For eight turbulent but hopeful years the African Americans were fretted over, sweated over , until the end of "reconstruction," when the leading white men of North and South, Democrat and Republican, joined to effect reconciliation of the American "whites" at the expense of the blacks and in contempt of the newly ratified Constitutional Amendments and their statutes. By reason of "white reconciliation", the blacks then became the enemy once again, as before the Civil War.
The only "aid and comfort" that the blacks got was a lynch rope, bullet in the back, voting , education , denial of bank loans, no abandoned lands,"separate but equal" everything in America, except jail, in land of the alleged free and the home of the alleged brave. Even in 2019, police officers may shoot to kill unarmed black if they "fear for their lives" by Supreme Court law!
So "aiding and comforting" the enemy by working for them in Ukraine (Russia) is political in 2019, as relates to Joe Biden's son, Hunter. Perhaps other prominent, political Americans family members are doing the same as well. Many things in America are political even sex, even birth , life, death, legacy! What "aiding comforting lies!