Isn't it treason?

The well-intended May 14 editorial "Dead to Rights" seems to overlook one idea. I am not a lawyer, so my interpretation of the Constitution may be flawed. Did everybody forget that treason is a crime in which a citizen attacks his or her own government?

Why not prosecute these citizens, whether native or naturalized, under this law, rather than write new laws, some after the fact?

DAVID L. WALLACH
Peters