Posted on 05/09/2019 9:34:10 PM PDT by bitt
Lucky for John Kerry that no one has ever been convicted (or even prosecuted since 1852) for violating the 18th-century Logan Act, which bars private diplomacy against US interests.
Because what the former secretary of state has been doing to pressure President Trump against withdrawing from the Iran deal sure looks like a textbook violation.
The Boston Globe reports that Kerry in recent weeks has engaged in unusual shadow diplomacy to apply pressure on the Trump administration from the outside, holding meetings and phone calls below the radar with Iranian and European leaders.
Kerry doesnt deny the meetings, but claims hes only been urging Iran to remain in compliance to ensure the disastrous deal negotiated on his watch remains effective.
We have our doubts: Just a few weeks ago, in fact, he reportedly was urging Palestinian Authority officials to stay strong and play for time in hopes Trump will be removed from office.
In neither instance was Kerry representing the US government. On the contrary, he seems to have been doing precisely what the Logan Act expressly forbids: acting without authority and communicating with foreign governments to defeat the measures of the United States.
This doesnt mean Kerry should be prosecuted, no matter how despicable his behavior because, again, the law is a dead letter.
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Bttt
Kerry has belonged in prison, at least, for many years already
but in USA, anyone working to weaken or undermine the country or its defenses... is applauded, not punished and never executed
this one simple little fact is why USA was put in such perilous risk under Obammy (the illegal usurper in chief)...
and why the evil minions keep undermining us, with impunity
Forget the Logan Act, it sounds more like treason!
Is there any enemy of America Kerry has not supported?
I hear Pelosi has a little jail.
Works for me.
Some French faggots bitch committed treason in Paris during Nam should have been sorted a long time ago...
Oh wow. He’s had some work done!
Arrest this traitor and seize all of his wealth, then and only then will this nonsense come to a stop.
Why doesn’t Trump give warning that if they don’t stop it, the Logan Act will be enforced?
Better than, shucks, my people won’t enforce it because they don’t want to, though you know if it were the other way around it would be enforced.
Even if a Logan Act prosecution were to fail (vagueness), just the trial evidence alone would destroy Kerry as an enemy of America.
I’d watch that show anytime.
From a SwiftBoat (Unfit for Command) book participant (non-military but Nam journalist)
He's violated it so much they should rename it the Kerry Act.
I did that to bill & hill when they went by my backyard in the mid eighties on their train tour. It felt good!
Even if the law has no “teeth”, let’s have a show trial anyway and put John F-ing Kerry’s treasonous ass on display for the entire country to see. Sometimes one’s highest and best use is to serve as a warning to others.
Ive stopped reading these threads...until I see the word indicted I have no interest. A Democrat breaking a federal law is not news...it is standard operating procedure. The difference between Republicans and Democrats is Democrats, even though openly guilty, do not have to pay any penalty.
Skates on the edge?
John Kerry is a traitor and always has been.
The only way to assure he will cease his anti American activity is to kill him off like the vermin he is
If he had, you would think he would have mentioned it.
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