Translation: For refusing to help us foment WW3 we're going to charge Musk under the Logan Act. And then we're going to confiscate his technology.
For our Democracy.
Posted on 09/13/2023 8:30:43 AM PDT by servo1969
U.S. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX, whose CEO Elon Musk could have disrupted Ukraine's attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet by refusing to connect the Starlink network in occupied Crimea, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 12.
"The Congress needs to investigate what’s happened here and whether we have the adequate tools to make sure foreign policy is conducted by the government and not by one billionaire," Warren said.
She also wants the Pentagon to examine its contractual relationship with the company. Musk is expected to attend a closed-door meeting with senators in the Capitol on Sept. 13.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Jack Reed, is also concerned about this problem, given that traditionally, satellites are controlled by governments, and presidents decide what to do with them.
Although SpaceX has won Pentagon contracts to launch spy satellites, the company had no defense contracts to use Starlink in Ukraine when the country's leadership reportedly asked Musk to expand its coverage, Bloomberg notes.
Musk allegedly secretly ordered his engineers to disable Starlink off the coast of occupied Crimea in 2022 to disrupt a Ukrainian Defense Forces' attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet, CNN reported on Sept. 7, citing an excerpt from a new biography of Musk by Walter Isaacson.
Later, Musk claimed he did not turn off the satellite network as it was not active in the area to begin with. He said that while he refused to connect it at Ukraine’s request, he did so out of not wanting to be "complicit in a major act of war."
Musk stated as a U.S. citizen, he does not view himself as a traitor because of this decision.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence stated that the information about the billionaire's involvement in the disruption of the attack on the Russian fleet in the Black Sea needs to be verified.
Translation: For refusing to help us foment WW3 we're going to charge Musk under the Logan Act. And then we're going to confiscate his technology.
For our Democracy.
Didn’t ex-president Jimmy Carter intervene with South Korea on more than one occasion, as a private citizen? And John F. Kerry?
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For not supplying internet services??
Are we all required to do that now?
A traitor to whom? What’s this bizarre insinuation Musk owes some kind of loyalty to the Ukrainian government?
Out of control government is out of control.
Plenty of traitors in DC, but Elon ain’t one.
Because Biden, Blinken and Nod are so f-ing brilliant!
Commies can’t stand people with morals!
When the US government buys Starlink from Musk, then it can decide what to do with it.
He’s a ChiCom stooge.
Conducting his own foreign policy?
No - that was John “Effen” Kerry in the Trump administration.
Be careful. If an ISP gets to dictate what you are allowed to do with an internet connection, you're going to see pressure on ISPs to shut down patriots across the country. That hasn't happened, yet.
This complaint would make sense only if the government had partially funded Starlink as a possible adjunct to military assets. I have not read anything that implies that.
Is Musk a traitor in the same way the Marxist-Democrats are traitors?
No, Musk isn't that kind of traitor because he is a strong proponent of free speech and free markets.
“For not supplying internet services??”
For no charge, too. According to Princess Grey Beaver a private company should be compelled by the Federal government to provide their services to a belligerent party in a war at their own expense. That’s the textbook definition of fascism.
Musk should shut down her X account and refund her money, assuming she actually paid for her stupid blue check mark.
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I like Musk’s foreign policy a lot better than Obama/Biden’s.
The new voice of Ukraine? Whos propaganda is it?
So if I make a better widgit, and I sell it to S. Korea, I’m now conducting foreign policy ?
Fedzilla is totally OOC.
5.56mm
And so, U.S. citizens attending Davos or Bilderberg, places for global elites to support U.N. agenda and not U.S. national interests, would it not also qualify as treason?
This I would say is considerably worse because attendees often have power within the government, and are more than just private citizens.
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