Posted on 06/16/2023 5:43:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Are you a president with approval ratings lower than a midget with a bad back? Never fear, the Espionage Act is here to help.
With the aid of this exciting tool, you too can prosecute your political enemies just like a former KKK president. Proven reliable for over 100 years, the Espionage Act is tailor made for inventing and selectively finding crimes by political opponents or just guys you don’t like, and launching fishing investigations to find or manufacture new crimes they can be investigated for.
Join us on this exciting new episode where we delve into the history of the Espionage Act, Woodrow Wilson’s torrid romances and what he has in common with Joe Biden.
Learn more about the Espionage Act in today’s article, “Trump is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition.”
Wilson, like Biden, might have also been thinking of using the Espionage Act to cover up his own corruption.
For nearly a decade, Wilson had been conducting a secret affair with another woman. Fearful of discovery, he sent her thousands of dollars, a fortune by today’s standards, and drafted a partial admission of guilt. Wilson had called for the Espionage Act earlier that year which would give his administration the authority to censor the mail. It would have been a convenient means of suppressing revelations about his affair that might have damaged his reelection campaign.
Fortunately for Wilson, former President Theodore Roosevelt, his 1914 election opponent, had dismissed the idea of exposing the affair. “No evidence could ever make the American people believe that a man like Woodrow Wilson, cast so perfectly as the apothecary’s clerk, could ever play Romeo,” Roosevelt, a barrel-chested man of action, had sneered.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Why does no one believe me?
Because they can’t think that far back.
It could just be me, but I think there’s a line of thinking that folks have, that makes them believe that all the Presidents we’ve had up until Carter, have all been champions of the United States. Those Presidents all seem to have some mystique about them, as if they were all barrel chested freedom fighters that helped lay the foundations that made this country great.
Far from the truth. Wilson was a POS, as were others.
I believe you!
If you think about it, during his term, Wilson became just as incompetent as Biden, brain wise.
Doesn’t take much research to see that he was corrupt and evil. Just like the current clown in office.
Interesting info from an article about the Espionage At...
Within a few weeks of declaring war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act.
This law, which is still largely in effect, makes it a crime to do three things. First, to convey false information in order to interfere with the American military, or promote the success of America’s enemies. Second, to cause or attempt to cause insubordination within the military. Third, to willfully obstruct military recruitment or enlistment.
More than 2,000 people were prosecuted under the Espionage and Sedition acts during the war.
If what the author of the article is saying, is true, I’m having a hard time figuring out when Pres Trump did any of that.
https://news.yahoo.com/free-speech-wasnt-free-103-123507614.html
But, now we’re starting to hear the talking heads say “he kept that info so she could sell it and profit from it”. Something tells me that they may be realizing that this case could be a dog and they have to keep up the hype. Toss on two more possible indictments in DC and Jersey. Desperation could be in the air.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/15/1117457622/rand-paul-what-is-espionage-act-repeal .... interesting read and I can’t help but chuckle about the over the top TDS from one of the folks interviewed for it.
I don't have to believe you.
I already knew what you do too.
I occasionally despair when I hear people on FR talk as if everything was fine until Obama was elected.
It wasn't.
My God, that is hilarious! What a magnificent put-down.
I keep on telling people that the majority of our current problems were started by Woodrow Wilson.
Why does no one believe me?>>> Why not destruction of money and then destruction of the family with IRS and a wage tax called income? who would have thot.
The "ratification" (read that as - shoved down America's throat and done through deception) of the 16th and 17th Amendments was the beginning of the decline.
JMO, YMMV
And Wilson’s wife ran the show.
What a coincidence? go figure.
Correct. That’s what I was eluding too. The parallels are uncanny.
I went to Woodrow Wilson Junior High Shool in the 1950’s.
WWJHS
Grades 7-9.
Never went to “middle school”
Oh, the old oaks of Wilson, so time swept and...etc etc.
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