Drop dead or arrested for treason!!!!

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15. In fact, treason is, by design of the Constitution, very hard to prove

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It's so hard to prove that it almost never is prosecuted and when it has been prosecuted, the prosecutions usually fail.

In the nearly 240 years of US history, there have only been between 30 and 40 persons charged with treason (the number of persons charged is larger than the number of cases because some of the cases involved multiple defendants). Only around eight people have been convicted, a ridiculously high failure rate for the prosecutions. Of those eight, three were in the 19th century and the other five all arose in connection with WWII. Only one person has been indicted for treason in over 60 years and that person, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, was indicted in absentia and then killed in a bombing strike.