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The Logan Act is about Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority

THE LOGAN ACT AS A CONSTITUTIONALLY ENFORCEABLE TOOL IN FOREIGN POLICY

TELFORD - INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND WHY THE LOGAN ACT REMAINS NECESSARY TODAY

The Logan Act “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…”

To be absolutely clear –

Any citizen without United States authority who speaks intentionally of influence with foreign government officials about disputes or controversies any country has with America shall be fined and imprisoned. Americans attending the Bilderberg conference violated the Logan Act. Each American citizen attending the meeting should prove to a jury of his or her peers that in fact they did not engage discussion with foreign government officials with the intent to influence the conduct of that foreign government in the context of an existing dispute or controversy with the United States. It is not up to executive branch officials, legislators, police, military or media to decide their guilt or innocence – it is up to the courts. That being said, it seems clear sufficient probable cause, motive and opportunity exists to issue arrest warrants.

From George Bush; The Unauthorized Biography:

"President Franklin Roosevelt's Alien Property Custodian, Leo T. Crowley, signed Vesting Order Number 248 [11/17/42] seizing the property of Prescott Bush under the Trading with Enemy Act. The order, published in obscure government record books and kept out of the news, Note #4 explained nothing about the Nazis involved; only that the Union Banking Corporation was run for the 'Thyssen family' of 'Germany and/or Hungary' -- 'nationals ... of a designated enemy country.'

"By deciding that Prescott Bush and the other directors of the Union Banking Corporation were legally 'front men for the Nazis', the government avoided the more important historical issue: In what way 'were Hitler's Nazis themselves hired, armed, and instructed by' the New York and London clique of which Prescott Bush was an executive manager? ...

"4. New York Times, December 16, 1944, ran a five-paragraph page 25 article on actions of the New York State Banking Department. Only the last sentence refers to the Nazi bank, as follows: 'The Union Banking Corporation, 39 Broadway, New York, has received authority to change its principal place of business to 120 Broadway.'

"The Times omitted the fact that the Union Banking Corporation had been seized by the government for trading with the enemy, and the fact that 120 Broadway was the address of the government's Alien Property Custodian."

After the war, Prescott went on to become a U. S. Senator from Connecticut and favorite golfing partner of President Eisenhower. Prescott claims responsibility for getting Nixon into politics and takes personal credit for bringing Dick on board as Ike's running mate in 1952.

PRESCOTT BUSH 

 

-- Bush Family -

Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from and collaborated with key financial backers of Nazi Germany. That business relationship continued after Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and even after Germany declared war on the United States following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. It stopped only when the US government seized assets of Bush-connected companies in late 1942 under the “Trading with the Enemy Act.Full Story

The individual who built the Nazi War Machine. Prescott Bush, Remington Family, JP Morgan tried to overthrow the U.S. Government, assassinate FDR and put a Fascist state in place. See Smedley Butler the great Marine Hero who spoiled their plan. 

Prescott Bush
and Hitler

 

Prescott Bush and Hitler

Computer History

Find out how Prescott Bush with IBM made sure the German trains that took people to the concentration camps ran on time! 

Prescott Bush
George Bush and G. W. Bush's brother Neil Bush defrauds the public.

Documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war. Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient Military Agency Records archive 226 and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives RG 446 . <more>

Sergei N. Khrushchev (R) visiting IBM plant with his father Nikita S. Khrushchev.

I.B.M. and the Holocaust by Edwin Black ' Assessing the Culpability Review

"Jews could not hide from millions of punch cards thudding through Hollerith machines, comparing names across generations, address changes across regions, family trees and personal data across unending registries," Mr. Black writes. Even as war approached, Watson, in Mr. Black's account, fought to keep I.B.M. in the Reich. "As a result, millions of cards, millions of lives and millions of dollars would now intersect at the whirring stations of Hitler's Holleriths."

Thomas J. Watson Jr.,

engineered a strategic business alliance between IBM and the Reich, beginning in the first days of the Hitler regime and continuing right through World War II. IBM's subsidiary in Poland, Watson B6romaschinen GmbH, serviced the railroads as its main account. Custom-designed, IBM-produced punch cards, sorted by IBM machines leased to the Nazis, helped organize and manage the initial identification and social expulsion of Jews and others, the confiscation of their property, their ghettoization, their deportation, and, ultimately, even their extermination. Recently discovered Nazi documents and Polish eyewitness testimony make clear that IBM's alliance with the Third Reich went far beyond its German subsidiary. A key factor in the Holocaust in Poland was IBM technology provided directly through a special wartime Polish subsidiary reporting to IBM New York, mainly to its headquarters at 590 Madison Avenue. And that's how the trains to Auschwitz ran on time.

 

khru and wat

 

Khrushchev In San Francisco IBM chmn. Thomas Watson Jr. 3-28-1955 roaring w. laughter as he chats w. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as they stand holding trays in line w. others at IBM plant's company cafeteria. San Jose, CA, US September 22, 1959 Carl Mydans photographer.


The late Thomas J. Watson Jr., chairman of IBM,
ambassador to the former Soviet Union, and graduate of Brown (Class of '37), was acutely aware of the international dimensions of our lives. In 1981, when he returned from Moscow , he founded the Center for Policy Development now the Watson Institute where you'll find Khushchev's son Sergei Senior Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University. 2008

 

In his book Trading with the Enemy, Charles Hingham

documents how both the Rockefeller and Ford fortunes were enhanced in part through collaboration with Nazi Germany, the Rockefellers by selling the Nazis oil through the Standard Oil Company, and the Fords by selling the Nazis tanks through subsidiary corporations (note: the only industrial infrastructure spared in the Allied bombing of Germany was the Ford Motors plant near Cologne). Both Standard Oil (eventually Amoco) and the Ford Motor Co. made huge profits from Defense contracts following WWII. Since 1950 a Rockefeller has held a prominent leadership position in the Council on Foreign Relations, and David Rockefeller was cofounder of the Trilateral Commission. Both organizations helped craft the "Carter Doctrine" of the late 1970s which stated that the US would heretofore intervene militarily to protect its oil supply from the Middle East.

Funding and political maneuvering on the part of "Bonesmen" and their allies helped the Bolsheviks prevail in Russia. In defiance of federal laws, the cabal financed industries, established banks and developed oil and mineral deposits in the fledgling U.S.S.R.

Later, Averil Harriman, as minister to Great Britain in charge of Lend-Lease for Britain and Russia, was responsible for shipping entire factories into Russia. According to some researchers, Harriman also oversaw the transfer of nuclear secrets, plutonium and U. S. dollar printing plates to the U.S.S.R.

In 1932, the Union Banking Corporation of New York City had enlisted four directors from the ('17) cell and two Nazi bankers associated with Fritz Thyssen, who had been financing Hitler since 1924.

 

Michael V. Seitzinger

TELFORD - INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE AND WHY THE LOGAN ACT REMAINS NECESSARY TODAY

Michael V. Seitzinger Legislative Attorney American Law Division February 1, 2006 explains the history of how The House of Representatives passed the bill on January 17, 1799, and the Senate passed it on January 25, 1799. It was signed and became a law on January 30, 1799.

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