The Fool wrote:
> Any politician who obeys the Pope over the U.S. Constitution
> should be arrested for high crimes and treason, and then hung
> till he is dead.
And Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded
I suspect that this is irony, but if taken seriously, it would
make the USA the worse tyranny that ever existed. Even worse than
the Nazis, who allowed people to flee Nazi Germany in its early
years.
No, it is not irony. You are seeing this as a refugee question:
should a sitting President of the US be allowed to flee the country?
People in the US view the question differently. In the US, the
question is:
Is it legal or illegal for a US President who has sworn to uphold
and defend the Constitution of the United States to act as an
agent for an enemy?
The answer is that it is illegal. In the US, the consensus is both
that such action is treason and that it should be punished.
This is different from what I understood as a child to be a
traditional South American policy, whereby after a coup, a deposed
president was permitted to go into exile, regardless of what he had
done. (I don't know whether this was a true statement of policy or
whether it was false; all I know is that was what I learned in the US
when I was little. And, of course, the death of Allende in a coup
contradicts this.)
What is the current law in Brazil, and what would you expect would be
the current practice?
For example, what would be done if your current president were found
to be a paid agent of the US CIA and acting for the US against
Brazilian interests? Would he be encouraged to flee to the US, or
would an effort be made to impeach him?
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