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**FR Exclusive** KUCINICH SOLICITS FOREIGN MONEY FOR 2004 ON FOREIGN WEBSITE (JAPANESE) [VIOLATION?]
Global Peace Campaign (Japan) Website in Japanese ^ | 28 July 2003 | AmericanInTokyo
Posted on 07/28/2003 12:30 PM EDT by AmericanInTokyo
(You will need a browser with Japanese font capability, and ability to comprehend written Japanese)As a FReeper Researcher, I have just come across a JAPANESE organization, based on an overseas JAPANESE website, in JAPANESE, that is encouraging foreigners to contribute money to and assist the "Campaign for American President Dennis Kucinich".
The URL of the activity was located at:
http://www.peace2001.org/
The organization is called "Global Peace Campaign" located in Japan. It is part of an umbrella of socialist and communist organizations opposing US efforts in Iraq, it supports North Korea, and is aligned with the usual communist movements.
The website has the invitation clearly written in Japanese, on the upper left side of the page, along with a link to the Kucinich campaign in the US, and a photo of the candidate. The organizers specifically solicit 500 Kucinich campaign contributors in Japan as a goal. Below are the comments in Japanese, translated by myself.
[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu wo amerika no daitoryo ni!"
[English]: "Let's Make Dennis Kucinich the American President!"
[Japanese]: "Dennisu Kusinichu shi no homupaiji --eigo ban"
[English]: "Link to the English Homepage Site for Dennis Kucinich"
[Japanese]: "Amerika no heiwa daitoryo ni. Campaign"
[English]: "Campaign for American Peace President!"
[Japanese]: "Nihon kara America daitoryo senkyo ni oenshimasho!"
[English]: "Even from Japan, let's support (his) election as American President!"
Further, there are links to three sites. One is put up by a Japanese citizen, Takeshi Kawagoe, stating it is a "support site for the American candidate for peace."
The Federal Election Commission Smoking Gun:
On hitting one of the links, you are directed to a page which SPECIFICALLY solicits a backdoor way to raise funds overseas for the Kucinich Presidential Campaign in Japanese. It is done under the guise of selling his books, and the organizer even recognizes that contributions by foreigners to a presidential campaign is illegal, however, he has arranged for a way for them to get around it via the Kucinich books. He clearly shows the sales of the books assists the presidential campaign and heralds that there has been good success recently in the book sales. Japanese readers are told how much money to send, and are provided a SPECIFIC Japanese bank account number to make their cash donations to the Kucinich Campaign.
The Dennis Kucinich bank account to receive foreign funds from Japanese is: "Harmonix Life Center, Japan Postal Account # 00110-1-114224".
FReepers, conservative American radio talk show hosts, legal lurkers, FBI, FEC, (whomever), have at it, go at it!
1 posted on 07/28/2003 12:30 PM EDT by AmericanInTokyo
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