Alfred the Great Quotes
If any one plot against the king's life, of himself, or by harboring of exiles, or of his men; let him be liable in his life and in all that he has.... He who plots against his lord's life, let him be liable in his life to him, and in all that he has ...
Ironically, until after the assassination of JFK, the United States did not have a specific crime against killing the President.
Alfred ["the Great"], 849-901, King of the West Saxons, Law, ~890
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Before the 1968 election, President Johnson, and gotten the North Vietnam Communists to agree to Peace Talks with the U. S. and South Vietnam. Then Candidate Nixon thought that if the peace talks were ongoing and making progress, there would be more support for the Democrats and Nixon's opponent Hubert Humphrey. So Nixon secretly send a secret emissary to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu telling him that he would not get a very good deal because President Nixon claimed that President Johnson was too eager to end the Vietnam war. He suggested that if Thieu boycotted the peace talks, then when Nixon was elected, he would guarantee a much better deal for South Vietnam and Thieu personally. President Thieu boycotted the peace talks and there could be no progress. However there is a Federal Law, the Logan Act, that makes it a felony for a private American citizen to conduct or interfere with foreign policy or negotiations with a foreign government. President Johnson found out about Nixon—s sabotage of the Peace Talks, called Nixon and threatened him with prosecution if he interfered further. LBJ had decided that with the left wing at odds with the U. S. Government over the Vietnam War, a prosecution of Nixon would cause the Right Wing to challenge the government also and the country didn—t need further polarization. He would do that only if Nixon did not heed the President—s warning. But when Nixon won the election and became President, he was terribly anxious that his pre-election crimes would be made public, and spent much of his time and staff effort trying to find out who knew about his politically self-serving felony and who might make his crime public. See {583264}.
Adultery for a queen was considered treason. Adultery per se was not punished with death in 16th century England, but the concept was that a Queen who committed adultery was risking the royal bloodline and therefore the Crown and the Nation.
Power to legislate had just been given to Hitler and his cabinet.
In 1956, Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson, had suggested a nuclear testing ban. The then Vice President made his extreme accusation. See {619523} for another Nixon smear of Stevenson.
Harrison, then a young Captain, was concerned about the French, British and Spanish agents "plotting" in the United States:
He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
This poster's distribution before the JFK murder, has fed numerous conspiracy theories that right wing extremists were behind the assassination.
Kahn was killed by an American Drone Strike in Yemen in 2011. Inspire Magazine was an Online Magazine Al Qaeda produced.
Quoted in somewhat different form by Richard Nixon
Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet "the Great", the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons".
