destruya in unfortunately off base here. To quote Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America: "Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving the Aid and Comfort."
Note the second part of the definition: it says "adhering to there enemies..." Only that. Significantly not "enemies in time of war". In fact, read with the first part of the definition, it is clear that the definition includes inherently the concept that a nation can have an enemy that it's not formally at war with.
AS to the larger assertion, that "the government thinks of all of us as its 'enemy.'", well I still regard that as an open question. The assertion is not proven by this line of reasoning; but there is other evidence pointing to the assertion as "fact". If the assertion is not "fact", it is at least a provable/disprovable hypothesis, and I encourage further investigation of this hypothesis.
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"Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving the Aid and Comfort."
Note the second part of the definition: it says "adhering to there enemies..." Only that. Significantly not "enemies in time of war". In fact, read with the first part of the definition, it is clear that the definition includes inherently the concept that a nation can have an enemy that it's not formally at war with.
AS to the larger assertion, that "the government thinks of all of us as its 'enemy.'", well I still regard that as an open question. The assertion is not proven by this line of reasoning; but there is other evidence pointing to the assertion as "fact". If the assertion is not "fact", it is at least a provable/disprovable hypothesis, and I encourage further investigation of this hypothesis.