Logan Act? Pshaw! That’s for conservatives. My latest in PJ Media:
Like Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State John Kerry apparently enjoys the immunity from prosecution that being a powerful Leftist brings you today.
The Boston Globe revealed Friday that Kerry is working hard to sabotage President Trump’s foreign policy regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. Kerry reportedly “sat down at the United Nations with Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to discuss ways of preserving the pact limiting Iran’s nuclear weapons program.”
This was not, apparently, a one-off meeting between Kerry and the foreign minister of the regime that orders its citizens to chant “Death to America” in mosques every Friday: “It was the second time in about two months that the two had met to strategize over salvaging a deal they spent years negotiating during the Obama administration, according to a person briefed on the meetings.”
Further, the Globe reported that Kerry has not limited his shadow diplomacy to Zarif: “[Kerry] also met last month with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and he’s been on the phone with top European Union official Federica Mogherini … Kerry has also met with French President Emmanuel Macron in both Paris and New York, conversing over the details of sanctions and regional nuclear threats in both French and English.”
Today, Kerry’s spokesperson confirmed the meetings — but danced around admitting his behavior:
Why? Because John Kerry must know he has put himself in violation of a never-prosecuted federal law that only seems to be mentioned when a conservative is involved — for example, see what former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates said about Michael Flynn.
The Logan Act forbids unauthorized people from engaging in negotiations with foreign governments that are involved in disputes with the United States. The Logan Act’s intention is to prevent those unauthorized negotiations from undermining the position of the U.S. government.
Isn’t that exactly what Kerry is doing? Shouldn’t he be arrested and prosecuted?
He will not be. Kerry’s deep state peers think he is right, are hoping for his success, and couldn’t care less about the Logan Act. Just like they couldn’t care less about the security of classified State Department documents when they showed up on Anthony Wiener’s laptop next to his naughty selfies.
Kerry’s friends who are still employed in the U.S. government won’t be roused to care about the Logan Act unless one of their own is back in the White House, and, say, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo goes around the world drumming up support for the Trumpian foreign policy that the neo-Obama in the Oval Office is busy dismantling.
Pompeo is unlikely to do that, of course, because he, unlike Kerry and others on the Left, actually respects the law. But were he or some other member of the Trump administration to do what Kerry is doing now, the media outcry would be immediate and insistent, calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the perpetrator — and that arrest would likely soon follow.
The law in the United States is for the little people, and for conservatives.
Popular culture is obsessed these days with a “white privilege” that extends even to the shampoo bottles in hotels (who knew?). But the most heinous example of privilege in today’s society is one that no one talks about: Leftist privilege.
If you’re a Leftist and want to start a not-for-profit organization, no problem. Only conservative organizations got buried in mountains of red tape and hobbled by unexplained delays by the IRS.
If you’re a Leftist and start a news website, you’ll have loads of readers referred to your site from Facebook, Twitter and the rest. Only conservative sites are being systematically blocked….
Read the rest here.
Mac-101 says
The worst thing is that Kerry and McCain Chaired the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA and abandoned 508 POWs in N Vietnam and another up to 300 in Laos and Cambodia and shredded 22 thousand pages of documentation and recommended to Clinton to normalize relations with Vietnam. His Uncle or Nephew got a 300 Million dollar contract with Vietnam right after that!
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Gone, but never Forgotten!
Barbara Marrs says
Kerry met with the Vietnam delegation at the Paris Peace talks. He was there while still in uniform and not a member of the US delegation.
Now again he is under minding the US president.
Mac-101 says
All Globalist are Traitors and Evil. A blind man can see how evil ALL Totalitarian Societies become!
pappy86us says
John Kerry is a Globalist. His connections with World Globalist and Elitist run deep. In addition, Kerry has connections to Iran through his son-in-law. What Kerry’s handlers failed to mention is that Iran does their own inspections, NO AMERICAN INSPECTORS ARE ALLOWED! How can we trust them? We are their enemy! Obama and Kerry gave Iran over a 1.5 BILLION dollars! Did any of the money, that was in cash go to the Iranian people ? NO! That money went to bolster their terror proxy groups such as, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen. Remember this, Iran has the blood of over 280 Marines that were killed in Beirut. They have the blood of countless soldiers and Marines they had a hand in killing in Iraq. They have done everything they can to hurt America. And John Kerry is working with them to make our President look bad.
Mac-101 says
Once a traitor, Always a Traitor!
Le mouron rouge says
pappy86us says
May 8, 2018 at 9:43 am
John Kerry is a Globalist. His connections with World Globalist and Elitist run deep.
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Exactly.
Unfortunately, the Kerry’s, the Clinton’s, the Obama’s and the Gore’s of the world are insulated from prosecution providing they continue to carry the water for the “global elites.”
Mac-101 says
THEIR reward will be eternal damnation for bein Satan’s stooges!
Carolyne says
Uh….I’m not willing to wait for Satan to act. I want the Logan act implemented.
Mac-101 says
Don’t hold your BREATH. THEY own the entire system!
762x51FMJ says
149 billion, in 29 different countries currencies is 29 separate violations of international law using foreign currencies to support a terrorist regime.
J Smith says
If Jeff Sessions doesn’t charge Kerry for violating the Logan Act, then he doesn’t have a single hair on his @$$. Sessions should realize that his lack of action against the deep state insinuates he is part of the problem.
bodega says
Yes, Sessions must act. Or this country might as well declare itself as USABR–United States of Banana Republics.
In my opinion we have tolerated the likes of John Kerry and John McClain and Clintons et al just absolutely too much. It isn’t like we don’t or the Justice Department doesn’t have the hanging information.
Hang the lot!!
Carolyne says
Its not hair that counts. Its cajones of which Sessions seems to have none.
mortimer says
READ THIS … https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/john-kerry-is-clearly-violating-the-logan-act/
Robert Spencer wrote: “Kerry’s friends who are still employed in the U.S. government won’t be roused to care about the Logan Act unless one of their own is back in the White House.”
That sums it up perfectly.
The Dems think: “IT IS ISN’T A CRIME WHEN WE DO IT.” THE DEMS ARE TWO-FACED.
READ THIS http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/386467-buck-sexton-john-kerrys-freelance-iran-nuke-diplomacy-is-wrong-in
Quote: “The legality of Kerry’s Iran machinations also deserves scrutiny. The Logan Act is meant to prohibit individual Americans from conducting their own personal foreign policy. It is an obscure statute from 1799 that has never been used to prosecute anyone and would be unlikely to survive a constitutional challenge. But this once arcane law has become infamous with good reason. The Logan Act has been used as a weapon in the biggest partisan battle of the Trump era.
Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general best known for the anti-Trump insubordination that led to her firing, used the prospect of a Logan Act violation to entrap General Michael Flynn. From her senior perch at DOJ, Yates dispatched federal investigators to question Flynn, who at the time was the incoming national security advisor. While the facts remain in dispute, the FBI later claimed Flynn’s lack of candor was its own felony. He was charged and pleaded guilty.
Invoking the Logan Act was Yates’s flimsy pretext for deploying federal agents against Flynn, but the anti-Trump media went along with the charade. While everyone seemed to understand that the Logan Act is dead letter, there was very little criticism of using an invalid law to ensnare a senior White House official in a process crime.
Kerry should, at a minimum, get a visit from some of Sally Yates’s former colleagues to ask about his own possible Logan Act violations. His case on the merits appears much more blatant and egregious. Otherwise, it becomes all too clear that the Logan Act is just being held in reserve so that it can be deployed as a partisan cudgel against the next hapless Republican official who aggravates the professional bureaucracy.”
R Russell says
I have just started to read a book by Tom Horn: Saboteurs.
It says Obama has set up a shadow government about 2 miles from the White House. Kerry will have his place in it too.
brane pilot says
Progressive politics has become a religion.
Like a religion, its practitioners believe they are above the law and following a ‘higher’ calling.
In this regard, Progressive Leftists are much like Islamists.
The Law is relevant only when it supports their objectives, otherwise it is an irrelevant nuisance.
Granddaddy says
I’ve never seen anything like what’s going on in politics today. If Kerry were doing in my day what he’s doing today, the media would be all over him. Not so today. This is just one more reason I believe the media is being run by Muslims with money. We live in different America.
b.a. freeman says
Granddaddy, although muslims are providing money, and lots of it, it’s going to mosques to train the faithful to kill kuffar. the hard left, OTOH, gets its money from rich leftists. at one time, those last words would have been an oxymoron, but these days, because the hard left has controlled education in the u.s. from top to bottom for decades, half the nation is leftist, especially on the east and west coasts. “educators” don’t teach independent and critical thinking, instead teaching memorization of leftist beliefs. above all, the graduate of any school at any level is trained to look to the “smart people” for what to think and do, not to figure it out for himself. it may be a nominal leftist bent that only persists for a decade or 2, but if young people vote, they tend to vote for the “correct” candidates because all the smart people, and all their friends, are voting for them. it doesn’t matter if a few of them figure out what’s going on a little sooner than others; the hard left just slaps a charge of “nazi,” or “racist,” or “islamophobe” on those that dare to open their mouths, and they will be too busy trying to salvage their lives to make any more trouble for the left. the result of this system of indoctrination is that *everybody*, even those who become rich, are exposed to this trash, and are mostly fooled by it. the rich are paying for their own oncoming deaths!
as for the good old days, they never were. remember chappaquiddick? the kennedys got the best “justice” that money could buy, and the lying media helped cover up the murder by ted kennedy. if a murder committed by a rich man who didn’t want his party style cramped by a pregnant woman doesn’t elicit some shred of decency in a “journalist,” then there is little reason to believe that those same people would have held a kerry of the 1960s to account, especially if their favorite causes were at stake. i will grudgingly grant, though, that they would not have been so blatant in their lying.
Mac-101 says
Well said!
Walter Sieruk says
John Kerry is private t citizen and not an official of the US government and therefore he is no business pretending to an official spokesman of the United States of America. By the meddling interference with US policy Kerry his can only do harm and not good at all .Since Kerry of out of office he obviously doesn’t know his place . Kerry the busybody and meddler and must be so pride –filled, ignorant and deluded that he actually thinks and feels that he know best. This interferer, Kerry, seems to not realize that is a not, at all an spokesperson of office of the USA Kerry should be put behind bars – Lock him up.
Ric says
The privileged left deems themselves above the law. It is evident, Kerry, Obama, Clinton and other subversives others of the Liberal/Marxist persuasion are enabled by those within the government, the FBI, and the DOJ, to mention a couple. John Kerry is the quintessential elitist liberal whose sole intent is the undoing of this Constitutional Republic. Perceiving treachery as heroic is part and parcel of the Democrats and the Liberal Progressive edict. Patriots, on the other hand, are labeled Enemies of the State. Kerry’s playing footsie with the enemy is not new; indeed, he has more in common with Hanoi Jane than being Patriots.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Hasn’t John Kerry Been Arrested? He Has Leftist Privilege
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Yes–this is appalling.
Ron says
He was a TRAITOR during the Vietnam Era, going to Russia and picketing soldiers and still is a traitor.
That’s why they had a hard time finding anyone from his platoo who would say that he was some kind of self imposed hero !
We don’t need Kerry or his alcoholic wife involved politics. Just look at his phoney accomplishments !!
762x51FMJ says
On December 28th 2017, after Trump won the election, Obama manufactured the russia crisis, and Democrats broke off all calls from Russia.
Meanwhile the intelligence agencies monitoring Russian communications waited for the Russian ambassador to contact Trump, so they could set him up for a violation of the Logan act just 3 weeks before taking office….
But after Trump is inaugurated, Obama, Kerry, Clinton follow Trump to every country he visits and has secret meeting to say that Trump isnt really the president, Obama still is, and Kerry is secretary of the deep state…
This is treason..
Politicianophobia says
John Kerry is a traitor and a coward. Remember when he so proudly threw away his war medals. Kerry, Fonda and McCain, birds of a feather. What greater glory than the love of ones country.
Carolyne says
Later he admitted he didn’t really throw them away. They were fraudulent anyway.
Tom W Harris says
Those who try to arrest him stand a chance of being kicked in the head by a horse.
Mike says
Poor John Kerry , he failed twice with the Iran Nuclear Deal.
+ Obama could not gave directly US military secrets to Iran .So, he managed with Iran to let them capture the most tip top drone with all the data needed inside + 5months later 2 navy ships at tip top too. Unfortunately all these apparels had GPS devices out of control for the time needed. What a misfortune ! And no B plan for the military services . Oh!
Just for this , Obama is our great national treator .