John McCain violated the federal Neutrality Act when he sent his own money to terrorists in Central America and also visited the illegal attack camps of those terrorists.
Someone asked about the documentation on this. Please see Washington Post Feb. 9, 1988 and Sept. 2, 1987 Washington Post.
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How John McCain Helps Terrorists, Part I
Why has not a single member of the media mentioned that John McCain violated two major federal laws regarding funding, arming, and visiting foreign armies at war and terrorists?
John McCain sent his own money to help fund the terrorist "Contras" in Nicaragua. This is well-documented fact, as reported by The Washington Post.
The "Contra" guerillas had been funded by the U.S. government in an undeclared war against the Nicaraguan government. But when the U.S. Congress cut off funding for the "Contras," the Reagan Administration began arming the "Contras" in an illegal system of selling arms to Iranian terrorists and using that money to supply the Contras.
At this time, far right-wing warmongers started funneling money into the hands of the contras illegally through certain "foundations." One of those far rightists was John McCain.
The "Contras" rivaled the Vietcong, Al Qaeda, and other terror organizations in the vast ways in which they terrorized people, including rape, gang rape, slicing off of mens’ and women’s genitals, cutting limbs off of people, various forms of torture and child molestation. These were the types of activities that John McCain supported with his own money, meaning the paycheck that we as taxpayers gave him every month.
The main reason the U.S. Congress cut off funding for the "Contras" was their well-documented reputation for terrorism against innocent civilians.
In addition to congressional action, one of the steps taken to try to stop federal funding of the bloody terrorists known as the "Contras" were federal lawsuits filed by victims of the terrorist group.
These victims stated that the U.S. government had violated the Neutrality Act, which prohibits the funding and arming of foreign military groups engaged in war.
John McCain violated the federal Neutrality Act on two counts. He sent his own money to the contra terrorists, and he also visited an illegal contra attack camp in 1987. Five Central American nations had worked tenaciously to figure out how to make peace in the war-ravaged and terrorism-devastated region. They signed a peace agreement that prohibited contra terror camps from existing in Honduras.
On an official U.S. "diplomatic" trip to Nicaragua, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, John McCain visited an illegal Contra camp, apparently to encourage them and tell them to keep up the good work. After all, when he returned to Washington, D.C., he encouraged the ailing President Reagan to officially support the illegal contra terror. Did John McCain know or remain ignorant that Reagan’s henchmen – Ollie North and company – were already supplying arms and money not only to the "contra" terrorists but also Islamic fascist terrorists in Iran. There is no way of knowing, but John McCain did endorse Ollie North for the U.S. Senate and proudly announced this year that Ollie North had endorsed him for president.
And it is clear that McCain’s visit to the illegal contra camp was a violation of the Neutrality Act.
The other obvious laws that John McCain violated were various rules and provisions regarding the funding of terrorists. These laws have been re-organized into the current Patriot Act.
Can John McCain be prosecuted under terrorist funding laws and the Neutrality Act?
It depends on the judge. The victims of the contras who sued the U.S. government won their initial court case before they were rebuffed by Reagan Administration judges.
At the very least, John McCain must be judged in the court of public opinion. But the media fear touching the apparently "holier than us" John McCain. He has been given the status of saint, even though his hands are bloodier than any presidential candidate since Barry Goldwater Richard Nixon, and Teddy Roosevelt, all heroes of John McCain.
We must question ourselves, then. How can we as Americans consider John McCain as anything but an extremist fringe figure? The most abhorrent American politicians we can recall never sent their own money to help terrorists rape and kill innocent people.
What is wrong with John McCain? How does such a person sleep at night?
The answer lies in part with his "gookification" of foreign peoples. That is, he makes them into "gooks" in his mind. It helps to justify the many acts of terror and war he has supported, started, or funded resulting in the violent deaths, torture, and rape of innocent people throughout the world.
Is it an issue of race? Of course. If the women whose genitals were being carved out of their bodies were white and blonde, would John McCain send his own money to help the terrorists sharpen their knives?
Regardless of race, we are all human beings. Whether or not Mr. McCain fully believes so does not matter. We have the power to elect him president or keep him out of the seat of ultimate world power.
It is up to you, my brothers and sisters, my uncles and aunts, my nephews and nieces.
I will continue to write on McCain’s connections with terrorism in further essays. Please forward my essays to other Americans. God Bless us All.
Irwin Tang is the author of Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters, avaiable at www.irwinbooks.com and www.amazon.com
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