I'll probably get booted for saying this

[LeftishBrit]

125. I think Republicans and Likud and RW Tories and Blair are all very dangerous; but I think one has to

be careful about what one calls 'treason' to avoid falling into the trap that produced the Patriot Act and more generally the punishment of 'thoughtcrime'.

Treason is actions, not attitudes or support for certain policies.

I have called Blair a 'traitor' myself; but this is because, in his collusion with Bush, he has blatantly lied in order to get policies through, which are a danger to Britain and America and the world (and most of all to Iraq, of course).

If people support policies because they are wrong-headed or stupid, that is dangerous but not treason. If people commit actions that they KNOW are dangerous or harmful to their country, just to spite that melanin-producing Democrat in the White House, then that is treasonous. I realize that, awful as our politicians in the UK are, you have a higher proportion of truly dangerous ones (though ours and yours tend to collude of course), and I don't know what proportion come into the latter category that I mentioned.

I also think that Bibi is an incredibly dangerous person to his own country (possibly even to the point of treason, as his actions aimed at gaining and keeping power may ultimately endanger Israel's very existence), but that gets onto the I/P topic so will say no more there. Anyway, my major point is that people should only be considered as traitors if they ACT in ways that they know will endanger their country; not just for opinions. There is too much '1984' in politics in this 'post-9-11 world' as it is.