04-07-2007, 11:33 AM
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Guru
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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looking forward to your reply
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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.
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http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/h...3----000-.html
violating the statute can be done from your computer, without the need to travel to syria or any of the other countries in which you do not want a voice of reason and diplomacy to visit.
so, what provision of the law has she violated?
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