Kerry's Violation of the Logan Act

Ever heard of the Logan Act?  No?  Don't worry, few have.  

What is known as the Logan Act was codified in 1948 as 18 U.S. Code § 953, titled Private Correspondence with Foreign Governments.  But the Act itself was passed by Congress in 1799, and is a single federal statute making it a crime for a private US citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.  

The language of the Act is short and to the point.  Here it is in its entirety:

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.

So Congress, even over two hundred years ago, realized that some citizens may attempt to circumvent American policy, and negotiate with foreign governments directly.  And it emphatically put the kibosh on that activity, and rightly so.

But as we Americans have learned first hand over the last ten years, laws only apply to the little people.   If your name is Eric Holder, John Brennan, James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Barry Sotero, John Kerry or scores of others, you need not be burdened with any of those pesky, trifling restrictions.  

Enter John "Traitor" Kerry.  Kerry, who is infamous for his lies to congress during the Vietnam war about American troops supposedly killing civilians at will, is at it again.  This time, the beneficiaries of his messianic largess is none other than the ayatollahs of Iran, sworn and vengeful enemies of the United States, now that they've spent the thirty-three billion in US dollars and gold the Muslim Kenyan sent to them over a period of two years.

Not good enough, thinks Kerry.  It's not enough that the US is funding terrorism against us with our own money, courtesy of the Kerry-Kenyan traitor tag team.   Nope, we now have to engage in "shadow" diplomacy and restrain  - or undo - President Trump's sanctions on Iran.  He doesn't even seem to care - he's above the law, remember.  Kerry’s illegal “shadow diplomacy” in opposition to Trump’s administration was confirmed outright by a statement from his own spokesman, who played it off as no big deal.  Nah, it's merely the ordinary actions of a former diplomat staying in touch with his counterparts and expressing a personal opinion.

No, it's not innocent.  In unusually blunt and caustic language, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Kerry's meetings with Mohammad Javad Zarif were "unseemly and unprecedented" and "beyond inappropriate." President Donald Trump just last Thursday accused Kerry of holding "illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people."  And Senator Marco Rubio has asked the Department of Justice to investigate Kerry's sedition.  

If that investigation happens, and it should, it may unravel the sabotage of American foreign policy that the Kenyan's administration has been engaged in for its full two terms.  And that's against the law.

And maybe then Lurch will have the perfect cellmate in Bathhouse Barry.