{"id":357,"date":"2008-12-14T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-12-14T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T20:25:30","slug":"would_someone_please_read_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Would Someone Please Read The Logan Act To Jimmy Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Grief!&nbsp; He&#8217;s at it again.&nbsp; What is the attraction between Jimmy Carter and terrorists?&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t he remember what the &#8216;wonderful&#8217; new government of Iran did to the US Diplomats as soon as the mullahs&nbsp;took charge.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Logan_Act\">Wikipedia<\/a>&nbsp;defines The Logan Act as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The <b>Logan Act<\/b> is a <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"United States federal law\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_federal_law\">United States federal law<\/a> that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994. Violation of the Logan Act is a <a title=\"Felony\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felony\">felony<\/a>, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/022300.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>, Jimmy Carter met with Bashar Assad of Syria on Saturday.&nbsp; He is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any doubt that the situation will improve between the United States and Syria after we have a new president.&nbsp; It&#8217;s my hope that we can also see full diplomatic relations and friendship restored between Damascus and Washington at an early day in the new year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also stated, &#8220;You can&#8217;t expect genuine peace between Israel and any of its neighbors until it has peace with all of its neighbors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does this man not realize that many of Israel&#8217;s neighbors want to destroy the country and drive its people into the sea?&nbsp; The prediction at Power Line is that once Jimmy Carter&#8217;s stupid statements are embarrassing a Democrat administration rather than a Republican one, the Democrats will find a way to get him off the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The work the Carters have done for Habitat for Humanity is admirable, but Jimmy Carter&#8217;s freelance diplomacy since leaving the White House is an embarrassment to himself and his country.&nbsp; The man is either totally naive or incredibly stupid.&nbsp; He is also totally blind to his own prejudice against the nation of Israel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Grief!&nbsp; He&#8217;s at it again.&nbsp; What is the attraction between Jimmy Carter and terrorists?&nbsp; Doesn&#8217;t he remember what the &#8216;wonderful&#8217; new government of Iran did to the US Diplomats as soon as the mullahs&nbsp;took charge.&nbsp; Wikipedia&nbsp;defines The Logan Act &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}