Absolutely. By the letter and spirit of the law. Why defend treason?!
It is neither treason or a threat. There have been no charges of either.
Is this a real threat?
"Bagdasarian posted several messages to a Yahoo Finance message board in October 2008, including one that called Obama a racial epithet and another that said "he will have a 50 cal in the head soon" — a reference to a .50 caliber gun."