The Russkies are using the law in the same way that U.S. officials are using it — to target and shut down media outlets that are funded by the U.S. government, such as Radio Free Europe. Talk about being hoisted on your own statist petard!
And yes, you read that right: The U.S. government, through the force of taxation, funds media outlets, just like the Russian government does.
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If you have been pacing the floor over the possibility that the Russkies are trying to influence your vote in the 2024 elections, you can sleep well tonight. That’s because the feds are currently prosecuting four members of the African People’s Socialist Party in a trial in federal district court in Tampa.
What is the African People’s Socialist Party? Good question! I certainly had never heard of them, and I’m willing to bet that neither have you. It turns out that they are a small, obscure group of Americans who have been advocating socialism for around 50 years. In fact, one of the four defendants is in his 80s and another is in her late 70s. I suppose I should mention that one of the defendants recently ran for city council but lost the race after receiving only 18 percent of the vote.
So, why are the feds going after these people? To keep us safe, of course! The feds are saying that the defendants are serving as a conduit for the Russian government to “influence” the 2024 election. The feds are charging the defendants with violating a U.S. law that was enacted in 1938, during the regime of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was the president who converted the federal government to a socialist welfare state and also converted our monetary system to a paper-money system without even the semblance of constitutional amendments. That 1938 FDR law requires people who are operating as agents of a foreign government to register with the federal government.
Changing of the guard at the Kremlin. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Mind you, it’s not against the law for people to work for the Russian government or any other government. It’s also not against the law to lobby or advocate for the Russian government. It’s also not against the law to defend the Russian government or take positions that favor the Russian government.
That’s not to say that the U.S. government wouldn’t love those types of laws. It’s that U.S. officials recognize that there is an obstacle to enacting such laws. That obstacle is called the First Amendment.
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