Posted on 03/10/2015 9:58:39 PM PDT by Nachum
A petition posted to the White House’s ‘We the People’ do it yourself petition site on Monday calls for prosecution under the Logan Act of the forty-seven U.S. senators who signed a letter initiated by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) to the Iranian government about the negotiations for a nuclear deal between the Islamist state sponsor of terrorism and President Barack Obama.
The petition accuses the senators of having committed a “treasonous offense” and violating the Logan Act which prohibits U.S. citizens from conducting unauthorized negotiations with foreign powers.
Signers of the petition rocketed it past the 100,000 minimum signers set by the Obama administration to receive a response from the White House in just one day. The petition was created by “C.H.” of Bogata, New Jersey on Monday the same day the letter was released and by late Tuesday evening it had well over 118,000 signatures. In a one-hour period Tuesday night over seven thousand signatures were added to the petition.
The text of the petition reads:
“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
“File charges against the 47 U.S. Senators in violation of The Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Fonda was married to Tom Hayden a CA (not US) senator.
And now he’s Sec of State. It’s beyond nuts.
Never mind Mullah Obama’s treason, Hillary’s treason, and Kerry’s treason.
The Obamabots are on the march.
I hate to say it but, yes, we are living in total Bizarro World now.
FWIW, here is a discussion of the Logan Act applicability with reference to this particular case:
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/03/logan-act/
From its beginning qualifications, “......American Citizens corresponding with Foreign Governments WITHOUT authorization......” 47 US Senators, acting as official representatives in an official capacity can be rightly interpreted as ‘authorization’.
Let them vent and feel good about signing a silly petition. Feeling good is what they’re all about. They certainly aren’t about the law, nor are their memories very long since there have been multiple instances where Democrats have done the same thing or worse.
And in a TV interview I saw over the weekend, Obama said that if they made a deal with Iran, that we could trust him that it was a good one. "Trust" and "Obama" used in the same sentence? That's laughable.
They have been since Obama's first primaries. What's new is McConnell and his ilk aren't bowing to him.
What could possibly be treasonous about one branch of the government informing a foreign government in negotiations about its part in the process? Look at Ukraine....those Kiev war mongers had an executive agreement with Clinton, and thought it meant the US would fight any war they provoked.
Maybe there's a silver lining. Maybe McConnell and the other backstabbers will realize there's no giving Obama anything less than everything he wants, then he'll want more. Maybe they will put "closing the federal government" back on the table and work to stop and reverse the invasion of the US and to not raise the debt limit.
(a gal can dream)
——what matters is THIS may be the prelude to Martial Law——
What !...and wake up the sheeple...
Half the country is too asleep to know the difference and the other quarter is too dumb to know better...
lets IMPEACH obama first for his TREASON
supporting al queda with money and weapons in Libya and Syria and Iraq... (that is what Benghazi is really alll about... the coverup).. and ransoming a TTRAITOR along iwth freeing 5 al queda and giving $5 billion to qatar to pass on to al queda / isis...
obama = benedict arnold
The demodummies better cool their heels, such action could be turned on themselves, not suggesting they have broken any laws (SARC). I would certainly sign such a petition.
Don’t forget Bill Clinton’s trip to Moscow to protest U.S. foreign policy when he was a student in England. (Fullbright Scholarship, funded by the estate of one of the prime advocates of segregation.)
Please do, maybe it will give Republicans a backbone to start defending America from this administration.
Actually, 100 democrat hacks with 1,000 email accounts.
100,000 obama worshiping moon-bats really isn’t that many out of a population of 318,892,103 even if each name was real.
It is interesting to note that opposition to Obama is now considered “treason”.
There has been only 1 prosecution of an American citizen for a violation of the Logan Act since 1799.
Now these moonbats want 47 prosecutions for Senators who are doing their sworn duty to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Frankly, if Obama thinks he can institute a treaty with our sworn enemy, Iran, without “authorization” from the Senate, then he is in violation of the Logan Act.
How about a White House petition to begin immediate impeachment proceedings against Obama and Biden?
Those folks who are pretending that the Senate has no role in treaties are not fooling me. I know that they know better. It’s simply more of that same lying and despicable polarization that is enabling their reshaping of this country.
Its really rather sad that these things happen in CLUSTERS.
mega news about EMAIL ABUSE....
followed by a mind numbing STAMPEDE of responses to “charge” “treasonous” senators in an Online.....Petition Drive!
Obie needs better strategists....and very soon
But he’s running his little game again, saying it’s not a “treaty,” it’s an “agreement.” Just the same as amnesty wasn’t an “executive order.” it was a “memo.”
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