10/3/17

Should Foreign Political Action Committees Be Allowed to Place Adds?

Can foreign governments form their own political action committees to influence U.S. election results? If so, must they openly declare that they are foreigners seeking to get support for politicians that will cause harm to a particular sector of the U.S.A. (such as the Clintons) or that would benefit foreign billionaires (maybe the Clintons?).


 Americans saw adds on FB paid for, apparently by some with connections to Russians.

It may be that foreigners are prohibited by law (U.S. law) from directly contributing to U.S. politicians. The Clinton Foundation received contributions from numerous or innumerable foreign rich people and received favors such as State Dept tours for doing so. It is not clear that there is anything illegal about buying advertising space on FB that support anything that isn't prohibited by international law.


Maybe the Trump administration should establish a foreign agent political action committee criterion that would allow any sort of foreign group to register and take out adds to influence U.S. elections, though appropriately labeled adds noting foreign origin.

One wonders if it is constitutionally acceptable to ban foreign based political action committees from existing, as purely evil as they may be, though of a variety less so than more egregiously criminal forms of evil.


International law may be well advised to take up the issue of foreign influence on extraneous nations, as well as the role of multinational corporations in supporting political action committees or elections in foreign nations, in regard to registering officially and receiving some sort of sanction for failing to do so. 

International Political Actions Committees (IPACS) might be registered that operate openly and lawfully anywhere they are not banned by a receiving national government and some global duplicity might be eliminated.

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