Posted by
GunnyG© on Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:47:03 PM
The Logan Act 18 U.S.C.A. § 953 Private correspondence with foreign governments, 1799.
“Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
History of the Logan Act.
Back in 1798, a Pennsylvania Quaker by the name of George Logan traveled to France on his own accord and tried to negotiate with the French and to try to “appease” the French and to avoid war with some letters written by Jefferson. One big problem, Logan was NOT authorized to negotiate in the interests of the US Government by President John Adams. One year later, the Logan Act was passed with Congressional approval and as Federal Law, the penalty for violating the Logan Act is three years in the Federal Penitenary.
So far, NO ONE has EVER been punished under the Logan Act, although many liberals have violated it.
One, Hanoi Jane Fonda took a journey to North Vietnamese and lovingly posed for photos on a AA gun, then served up disparaging remarks about the US and the US Military for propaganda purposes, to be distributed worldwide. Then, to top that act, she took notes passed to her by interviewed POW’s and handed themn over to the commies who then tortured the note-writers, killing one of them. So much for liberal love and tolerance right?
Two, her brother, Hanoi John Fonda Kerry traveled on his own to Paris, for the Paris Peace Accords, not just to show off his superficial shrapnel wounds, he served about 60 or so days in Vietnam don’t you know, to negotiate a private deal with the commies. This, while McCain and his buddies were being tortured and starved by the dung-eating commies. Hanoi John Fonda Kerry was not only NEVER charged for that trip, he was never charged by the liberal-majority Senate for his false testimony during the Winter Soldier sham in 1971.
Three, wannabe POTUS George McGovern decided to take a trip to the worker’s paradise in Cuba in 1975. McGovern described Castro, after he pulled his lips away from Castro’s butt, as a "very shy, sensitive, witty guy...I really liked." Cuban Realities wrote in May 1975 about McGovern’s journey to visit his fellow travelers with McGovern discussing his trip like this: “I had no authority to negotiate on behalf of the United States.” But of course, the liberal majority Senate not only did NOTHING about it, Bubba Clinton gave the felon the Presidential Medal of Freedom!
Four, Dummycrat Speaker of the House Jim Wright took a trip to Nicaragua to meet with commie scumbag Daniel Ortega and various other Sandinistas, probably to learn more about being a good commie, without President Reagan’s permission. One wonders what these commies chatted about but this much is clear, Wright violated the Logan Act and the liberal-majority Congress and Senate did as much to him as they did to liberal pervert Gerry Studds who took a minor to Morocco for some gay sex action. That is to say, nothing.
Five, LBJ’s joke of an AGUSA got in on the fun when he flew to Iran, to play kissy-kiss with the mad mullahs and scumbag the USA in the process. Again, this was done WITHOUT Presidential authorization. But then again, if the Congress HAD done something, Ramsey Clark might not have been available to defend every terrorist or tinpot dictator like Saddam Hussein. The only GOOD thing about having Clark defend these vermin, is that they ALWAYS lose, probably due to extreme incompetence.
Six, noted race warlord and shakedown artist Jesse Jackson violated the Logan Act tripping off to Cuba to plant his lips on the a** of Castro, going where many liberals have gone before…and after, and denouncing the USA for Cuban propaganda. But the race warlord is an equal opportunity scumbagger as he ALSO travels to Venezula to scumbag the USA for Chavez and his propaganda outlets.
Seven, the head honcho of American scumbags is undoubtably ex-President Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter. This imbecile has violated the Logan Act more times than a Kennedy out drinking and driving! Carter has visited Cuba, Iran (why not, he helped install the mad mullahs there in 1979) and North Korea. On his travels he denounces the US, Bush, Democracy, and evil capitalism, while praising Castro for being a brave leader, President Mahmoud “I’m-in-a-jihad” as “the most wonderful man since Jesus stood atop a mountain and declared blessed are the merciful,” and Putin and Kim Il are both great men with nations that the USA would be well to emulate! Of course, America is an evil nation and Bush is an evil dictator who violated international law and conducting illegal wars to disrupt a peaceful world. Carter should be doing life in Leavenworth for his actions. Sadly, he is free to continue his antics AND collect a tasty pension for being the worst POTUS in American history.
Eight, who can forget Hanoi John Fonda Kerry’s SECOND violation of the Logan Act when he traveled to the sand box in 2005 to meet with various Middle East leaders, again w/o ANY authorization from Bush or the State Department. Naturally, it turned into a hate USA/hate BUSH fest. When Condi Rice was undergoing her confirmation hearing, the idiot from Beacon Hill blathered: “Every Arab leader I asked, do you want Iraq to fail, says no. Do you think you will be served if there’s a civil war? They say no. Do you believe failure is a threat to the region and to the stability of the world? They said yes…each of them [Europe and the Middle East nations] feel that they have offered more assistance to the U.S. …and yet they feel rebuffed.” Yet another liberal mouthpiece, bleating like a sheep, heard from.
Nine, ANOTHER dummycrat Speaker of the House, by the name of Nancy Pelosi, flew to Syria in the spring of 2007, to meet with tinpot dictator Bashir Assad after SecState Rice STRICTLY forbid the trip. The NY Post wrote: “More than two centuries ago, Congress passed the Logan Act, which forbids private citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. As an elected official, Pelosi isn’t restrained by the law…but…negotiating with world leaders, particularly those at odds with the United States, should be left to the president.” The WSJ wrote: “Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus against the wishes of the president.” The WaPo outright called the trip ILLEGAL. Well DUH!
One had to wonder WHAT would have happened to a Conservative who did the same thing? Double standard or outright disregard for the law?
Ten, Mikey Mooreon, larda** of the Left Coast took a boat trip into Cuban waters for his crockumentary on how great Cuban universal health care is and instead of being punished, got an award.
In closing, one has to wonder WHY these people have yet to be punished for their actions. Like when the USA ceased to punish murderers, rapists, and kidnappers with the Death Sentence, crime rose. When laws stop being enforced and become a paper tiger, why bother keeping them on the books? Why is it that only liberals seem to feel the need to kiss the dirty a**es of Third World tinpot dictators and denounce the very nation that empowered them? Is there some sick need of liberals to somehow drag America down to their level of maggots swimming in a cesspool? Why doesn’t the USA Government prosecute these traitors and that is what they are, traitors? Maybe if they were right-wingers trying to practice their own religion and mind their own business, like the group at WACO, the Feds, especially when the libs are in power, would have cracked down on them, as draconian as the commies did on American POW’s after Hanoi Jane Fonda’s visit.
Ah, ain't she just the cutest little libturd ya ever saw?