The UK Labour Party’s feckless response to CCP espionage.
High treason, a crime so often alleged in our public discourse and so seldom proven in an actual court of law, is now more of a metaphorical device than a felony. It is passing strange that the law of treason should have fallen into such a marked state of decay, considering its location in the very pith and heartwood of the ancient, sprawling, gnarled tree that is our common law tradition. Indeed, the Treason Act of 1351 (25 Edw. 3 Stat. 5. c. 2) is counted among the oldest parliamentary acts still in effect, with only the Statute of Marlborough (1267), the Statute of Westminster (1275), the Quia Emptores (1290), and the iconic Magna Carta predating it. “The objects of the laws are rights and wrongs,” as every good student of Blackstone knows, and what greater wrong is there than to compass, or to effectuate, the murder of your sovereign, or to adhere to your sovereign’s enemies by giving them aid and comfort? And what greater right is there on the part of the sovereign than to have such treachery punished, and punished severely?
Smells awful like Canada’s Liberal Party.
