Kolek planning to go pro
Actually, a US citizen was charged, Richard Pinedo, but it really isn't the point of this thread.
Again ...lying on Facebook is not a crime Lying about Hillary on Facebook is not a crimeColliding with Russians to run a troll farm on Facebook is not a crimeThat is why they only get these guys on process crimes, in Pinedos case, indentity fraud.https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/16/politics/richard-pinedo-guilty-plea/index.html
Conspiring to accept material aid from a foreign entity in an election is a crime.
I actually agree with Heisy on the Ministry of Truth concept.If there was one today, it would be under the control of someone who would tell us that there were good people on both sides in Charlottesville, and would list himself as the "least racist person" in America. Not sure those are the kind of "truths" we need.
If you keep presenting facts to Heisy he'll get hysterical again and get the thread shut down.
The NYT and Post, as well as almost all newspapers, immediately issue an apology when they are show to be wrong.
So how do we feel when the shoe is on the other foot? The latest being the Israeli elections. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/13/the-long-history-of-the-u-s-interfering-with-elections-elsewhere/?utm_term=.d995db84d501
Please direct me to the “accept material aid from a foreign entity in an election” law. Better, email Mueller because he charged them with bank fraud and identity theft, not this made up law.
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)Goalpost shifting in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
You did an excellent job of digging up a law they do not apply. This is a campaign contribution law that has nothing to do with this case.
False equivalency. And a scary one at that.The United States is not a hostile, dictatorial power seeking to influence Israeli elections as a means of furthering its tyrannical goals, weakening democratic institutions and spreading civil unrest.To think that many from the "Party of Reagan" are now excusing - and in some cases embracing - the meddling of what he called ther Evil Empire in our government is outright frightening. Ronnie is surely spinning in his grave when some in his party draw a parallel between the USA and an authoritarian regime ruled by a KGB agent.But not you, cause you're a lifelong Democrat (wink wink, nudge nudge).
Big question. Did it matter? No one has suggested it did. Even the indictment yesterday went out of its way to say "no evidence" that it affected the outcome.
a hack like Mueller
Right. Mueller just indicted a bunch of Russian trolls for running a complex, yearslong operation to influence American elections. Clearly a law that bars foreign nationals from aiding a campaign is irrelevant to that.The guy who 10 minutes ago didn't even know this law existed is clearly the expert here.
I am curious why you think this is a question at all much less a big one. Why do you think the effectiveness or (in your opinion) ineffectiveness matters whatsoever to whether or not a crime was committed?
because it does not apply. You pulled a random law out of your ass
Because he literally does not understand the most basic principles of law.Tugg ... you are way out of your depth here. Go back to the kiddie pool.
I'm not going to speak for Pakuni, but I am not talking about the laws applied in the Friday indictments. Aren't those self-evident? Why do we need to identify those laws giving that they are in the indictment itself??You seemed to be disputing that there were any laws that could be applied to what is being commonly discussed as collusion. There are. I linked to one example.
See the post above ... what crime!!! Identity theft? Yes, they did it.
And none of them were used yesterday ... meaning none of the defendants yesterday broke them.