Scott Jamison wrote:

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Douglas Helm wrote:

Cool!  Misako and Usagi just committed treason!  Isn't that a capital
offence based on what happened earlier in this timeline?

Treason is a capital offence. Wether the girls commited it or not is
another matter. I doubt it though because that would be counter-productive
to the story's goals.

Well, since they've successfully overthrown the rulers and installed
themselves in their places, it's not treason.

How so?  Remember the quote:  Why doth treason never prosper?  Because if
it prospers, none dare call it treason."

Only if they continue to hold power.  What will probably give them 
immunity from prosecution for their crimes is that nobody outside the 
family will know what they did, and their parents won't have the will to 
punish them.  (Well, nobody except Pluto, and Pluto's insane.)

However, it is best that one does not concentrate on one's goal to the 
extent that one loses track of the means by which one is getting there.