<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19px; "><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; "><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.</span></font></b></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; "><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">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.</span></font></dd></dl><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">1 Stat. 613, January 30, 1799, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953 (2004).</span></font></div></span><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The first question would be, Does his actions have any thing to do with "</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 28px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States" ?</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 28px; ">The second question is: "Is the Logan Act Constitutional"? <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; ">The Southern District of New York in <i>Waldron v. British Petroleum Co.</i>, 231 F. Supp. 72 (S.D.N.Y. 1964), mentioned in passing that the Act was likely unconstitutional due to the vagueness of the terms "defeat" and "measures," but did not rule on the question.</span></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I'm not sure either political party wants to raise the question.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>On Oct 1, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Mike Deleve wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>There is.... it's called the logan act.<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Tom Hansen" <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:54 PM<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Jim DeMint's Coup<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Courtsy of "Talking Points Memo" at:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/01/jim_demints_coup/">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/01/jim_demints_coup/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has announced that he is heading down to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Honduras to encourage those who helped fund and supported the coup against<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to resist American pressure to return<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Zelaya to office."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There has GOT to be a law somewhere against a sitting US senator visiting<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a foreign power and encouraging them to resist United States efforts.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Seeya at NuArt Theater, Moscow.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tom Hansen<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Moscow, Idaho<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">- Unknown<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">=======================================================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">List services made available by First Step Internet,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">=======================================================<br></blockquote><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br><br>No virus found in this incoming message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.1/2407 - Release Date: 10/01/09 <br>06:34:00<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a> <br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>