G'Night, Jaz! :)
Posted on 04/02/2007 8:38:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
I wonder what the Israeli’s thought about her address to the Knesset. I read a piece about it yesterday and she told them everything she thought they wanted to hear.
ROTFLOL!...That says it all about Kerry.
G'Night, Jaz! :)
Sowell seems to have forgotten the way that Jim Wright and other Democrats meddled in Central America.
G'Night, Smooth. :-)
I agree. Jim Wright did what Pelosi is basically doing now. It’s not like Dr. Sowell to forget anything or get it wrong.
“It has been said that the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper. But who would have thought that it could end with political clowning in the shadow of a mushroom cloud?”
D C is a floodgate of whores......unfortunately on both sides of the parties.
Who is gonna stop her, Logan Act or no Logan Act? Bush?
LOL!
And Bush does nothing.
Who enforces The Logan Act?
“That fact is absolutely true and should be publicized so that the American people realize what worthless human debris we have in the US Congress. The voters of California should hang their heads in shame at electing such garbage to represent the state. Pelosi, Boxer, and Feinstein are all costing American lives. Their shame will follow them forever.”
Why I left California.
Related Topics
deportation
aliens
embargo
indictment
This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.
Logan Act
The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]) is a single federal statute making it a crime for a citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.
Congress established the Logan Act in 1799, less than one year after passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts, which authorized the arrest and deportation of aliens and prohibited written communication defamatory to the U.S. government. The 1799 act was named after Dr. George Logan. A prominent Republican and Quaker from Pennsylvania, Logan did not draft or introduce the legislation that bears his name, but was involved in the political climate that precipitated it.
In the late 1790s, a French trade embargo and jailing of U.S. seamen created animosity and unstable conditions between the United States and France. Logan sailed to France in the hope of presenting options to its government to improve relations with the United States and quell the growing anti-French sentiment in the United States. France responded by lifting the embargo and releasing the captives. Logan’s return to the United States was marked by Republican praise and Federalist scorn. To prevent U.S. citizens from interfering with negotiations between the United States and foreign governments in the future, the Adams administration quickly introduced the bill that would become the Logan Act.
The Logan Act has remained almost unchanged and unused since its passage. The act is short and reads as follows:
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.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
The language of the act appears to encompass almost every communication between a U.S. citizen and a foreign government considered an attempt to influence negotiations between their two countries. Because the language is so broad in scope, legal scholars and judges have suggested that the Logan Act is unconstitutional. Historically, the act has been used more as a threat to those engaged in various political activities than as a weapon for prosecution. In fact, Logan Act violations have been discussed in almost every administration without any serious attempt at enforcement, and to date there have been no convictions and only one recorded indictment.
One example of the act’s use as a threat of prosecution involved the Reverend Jesse Jackson. In 1984 Jackson took well-publicized trips to Cuba and Nicaragua and returned with several Cuban political prisoners seeking asylum in the United States. PresidentRonald Reagan stated that Jackson’s activities may have violated the law, but Jackson was not pursued beyond a threat.
The only Logan Act indictment occurred in 1803. It involved a Kentucky newspaper article that argued for the formation in the western United States of a separate nation allied to France. No prosecution followed
I guess, nobody : )
We are already at the mercy of hate-filled fanatics and sadists, they just aren't suicidal. I sometimes wonder how educated people could be so hate filled. I know that we were a little over the top in regard to Clinton, but that was more disgust and frustration than it was hate.
You’re right, disgust and frustration states it very well. I know that was what it was with me and I believe that’s what it was with the vast majority. But pure hate is directed at President Bush by many, many people.
Hate is such a destructive emotion, it destroys everything in its path. I try to limit the objects of my hate to lima beans and liver.
Ha! Thanks. (I can dream, can’t I?)
Yeah, nobody can take our dreams : )
LOL! We’re a lot alike but I would add brussels sprouts to the list.
It is great to know where the cancer is eating away the body.
"Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy." Democrats can have any foreign policy they want -- if and when they are elected to the White House."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.