John Thompson Parker, the Peace & Freedom Party candidate for U.S. Senate in California, has recently spent a week in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine. Although other U.S. politicians and members of Congress have also visited Ukraine during May, Parker is probably the only U.S. candidate who has spent his time in the Russian zone. Many activists in the Peace & Freedom Party are also active in parties that operate within PFP. Parker is with the Socialist Unity Party, which split from the Workers World Party in 2018. The Socialist Unity Party newspaper is La Lucha. Here is a link to La Lucha in which Thompson talks about his trip.
He may expect a visit from USA FBI, NSA, SD, DOD, etc. plus CA govt folks.
I believe his name is John Thompson Parker rather than John Parker Thompson.
thank you, Bob. You are right and I have now fixed the post.
Really, he has a right to go there. I haven’t seen the State Dept ban anyone going to the Ukraine. A candidate will have to answer to voters about it. I give him credit for going there and getting that version of the story. Russian isn’t Marxist anymore so no one can criticize for that.
ANY of the olde USA neutrality laws still in effect ???
How would just visiting an area break neutrality laws? That’s beside the point of those laws being garbage.
Any USA candidate *visitors* to Russia after Hitler’s attack on olde USSR in June 1941 but before Hitler War with USA in Dec 1941 ???
Russia regime NOW a lawless TYRANT regime of killers/enslavers ???
Deja Vu — all evil again as in 1917-1991 ??? Duh.
1. Yes, quite a few.
2. No.
3. No.
ANY VIOLATIONS OF THE OLDE LOGAN ACT ???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
GUESS THE NEW AGE LOGAN ANSWER ???
What negotiations with a foreign government? A longshot candidate for congress is not in any position to negotiate, and there is no indication that any negotiation took place. Visiting an areas is not negotiation and it’s not joining a foreign army or conflict.
LOGAN IS WITH THE CANDIDATE EVERY SECOND–
WITH A VIDEO RECORDER ???
Are you? Why would someone negotiate with an extreme longshot candidate for one of 435 seats in one of two legislative chambers of a nation that’s only indirectly involved in the conflict? It makes no sense to negotiate with someone who is not in a position to deliver anything. Also, for violation of any law, the principle of innocent until proven guilty applies. Therefore, unless you have specific evidence of guilt that can be presented in a court of law and proven beyond a reasonable doubt, he has not broken any laws.
NOOO sense in Russia top killer HQ — except to subvert Western Civilization by any and all means available —
ie useful IDIOTS like JTP and even some of the know everything troll morons on BAN.
Azhole,
You’re a useless idiot for the Nato/Nazi killers working for the globalist elite, the real assassins of Western Civilization who are trying to carry out a global population replacement and genocide/replace/dilute/destroy Western Civilization to death by and all means available as well as a troll moron. You’re also a know nothing “know it all.” Your idiotic non-sequitur just goes to show how nonsensical your baseless and evidence-free accusations of criminal activity are when subjected to even the most cursory investigation.
Az (Thomas Jones) is most famous for losing multiple ballot access cases and trolling this site.
What an azz!
How many Ukraine DEAD/INJURED due to killer 666 V Putin AND HIS GANG KILLERS ???
More and more statist commie/fascist extremists than ever in the USA — who love killer tyrants.
REAL Reforms —–
Equal ballot access
PR
AppV – nonpartisan execs/judics
TOTSOP
THEY ARE DEAD/INJURED DUE TO 666 BANDERA UKRAINIAN NAZI GANG KILLERS AND THEIR BLOOD SUCKING ROTHSCHILD NATO GLOBALIST ELITE NEW WORLD ORDER LUCIFER ILLUMINATI SPONSORS!!!
USA NSA watching the few Putin troll hacks with their Putin propaganda re Ukraine regime ???
In your tyrannical Ukrainian Nazi troll hack dreams. Does freedom of speech ring a bell, troll moron? This is not martial law Ukraine ruled by Nazis where we get disappeared in the middle of the night for voicing an opinion. At least not yet, anyway, despite az despotic fantasies.
Bigdaddyluvsu on May 16, 2022 at 2:13 pm said:
Really, he has a right to go there. I haven’t seen the State Dept ban anyone going to the Ukraine. A candidate will have to answer to voters about it. I give him credit for going there and getting that version of the story. Russian isn’t Marxist anymore so no one can criticize for that.
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In order to get to Rubizhne, John Parker traveled to the Russian Federation and crossed illegally into Ukraine. He came onto Ukrainian territory without the permission of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, which is a crime.
You are lying. Ukraine’s claims to that territory are based on nothing except Soviet era social engineering, neonazi Ukrainian Nationalist expansionism and US/EU/NATO imperialism. The area is ethnically and culturally Russian, historically Russian, and under the control of Russia and allies of Russia.