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| Did Nancy Pelosi violate the Logan Act? |
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04/11/07 |
Robert F. Turner’s opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal (page A10, subscription required for online access) contends that House Dhimmi, excuse us, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have committed a felony by conducting unauthorized diplomacy with the dictator of Syria. Given her habit of selecting people like John Murtha of Abscam fame, Alcee Hastings (impeached and removed from office for taking a bribe), and William “Cold Cash” Jefferson for important posts, this would be entirely consistent with her “most ethical Congress in history.”
Illegal Diplomacy
By ROBERT F. TURNER
April 6, 2007; Page A10
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may well have committed a felony in traveling to Damascus this week, against the wishes of the president, to communicate on foreign-policy issues with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
…The “Logan Act” makes it a felony and provides for a prison sentence of up to three years for any American, “without authority of the United States,” to communicate with a foreign government in an effort to influence that government’s behavior on any “disputes or controversies with the United States.” Some background on this statute helps to understand why Ms. Pelosi may be in serious trouble.
…The U.S. is in the midst of two wars authorized by Congress. For Ms. Pelosi to flaunt the Constitution in these circumstances is not only shortsighted; it may well be a felony, as the Logan Act has been part of our criminal law for more than two centuries. Perhaps it is time to enforce the law.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000953—-000-.html
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 45 > § 953
§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments
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.
Meanwhile, that headscarf that Pelosi put on to show her second-class status as a woman and as a dhimmi (second-class citizen in a militant Islamic country) is very appropriate, and we think she should continue to wear it in Congress. It shows her acceptance of the demeaning status of a kafir female (worth one-quarter of a Muslim male under Saudi Arabian blood money compensation tables), and is on a par with an African-American addressing white people as “Massah” in the 21st century. The Speaker of the House has not only allegedly violated the Logan Act by conducting diplomacy with a hostile foreign power, she has engaged in behavior far more suitable for female Islamic property or for a slave than for a free American. Self-owning American men and women should therefore treat her with the respect that one accords an individual who is a slave by choice; that is, with total and unmitigated contempt.
Posted by Bill Levinson on
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