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utzoo!henry
Sun Jan 10 00:05:57 1982
treason etc.
U.S. citizenship has no bearing on whether one is guilty of treason against
Canada, in the same way that it has no bearing on whether you are guilty of
robbing the corner store. It is the act and where it is committed, and not
what kind of passport you carry, that determines guilt etc. There may well
be exceptions to the general principle for unusual circumstances (last I
heard they still hadn't settled who has jurisdiction over hijacking an
airliner on an international flight), but it is most unlikely that you can
be tried in Canada for offences committed in the United States.
Now, I and the system adminstrators at Waterloo may be guilty of something
for arranging for such awful seditious talk to cross the border, but that's
OUR problem.
(On a more general note, I would be very surprised to see ANYONE tried for
treason as the result of ANY act taking place in peacetime; the crime is
more or less obsolete.)
Not all governments may be this civilized; be warned. (I seem to recall
that the state-of-emergency wartime arrangements invoked at the beginning
of the U.S. involvement in World War 1 have never, formally speaking, been
revoked; does this mean you guys can be shot for making jokes about
Reagan?) (For a more realistic example of uncivilized government, if you
are of Russian descent you may be liable for military service in the USSR
even if you were born elsewhere and have never entered the USSR in your
life. Definitions of key terms like "citizen" vary.)
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