Dear Neighbor,
Thank you for reading my District Round-up. As your candidate for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, it is my honor and pleasure to deliver to you where I’ve been and what issues I’ve tackled in the past week. Criss-crossing the counties of Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Cumberland, and Somerset gives me great opportunities to meet with voters, hear what is on your hearts and minds, and the chance to voice my fight for Everyday Americans. If you would like to contribute to my campaign, please donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/beth-farnham-for-congress-1
On Wednesday, I was glad to help serve the Free Thanksgiving Dinner, organized by Steph Auer, at The Days Inn in Gettysburg. It was great to participate with local community in giving to those who don’t usually get much.
Feeding the hungry is not only aligned with my politics, but with my faith.
No one should go without food, especially in one of the wealthiest nations (by GDP per capita) in the world.
Of course, that day was only one day of hunger, but Those in Need will need food everyday after that until they get back on their feet. And many of them are children who cannot and should not labor. It’s why I support government-funded food assistance – its stability, accessibility, and the ability of recipients to exercise food choice.
As US Representative of Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District, I pledge to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for All In Need, not take it away from over six thousand constituents under false claims of fraud as has our current US Representative, multimillionaire John Joyce, by signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Small businesses are one of the heartbeats of PA-13.
Yesterday, I was glad to visit many of them in downtown McConnellsburg during their annual cocoa crawl.
From antiques to crafts, to partnering with families, to helping people leave drugs behind, to many other goods and services, small businesses in McConnellsburg create a vibrancy full of small town charm right on Lincolnway East.
I support codifying the Rule of Two to make it possible for small businesses to compete for government contracts. I adding the Small Business Association Administrator to the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council because small businesses deserve representation in the rewrite process of federal procurement.
I also support extending ACA subsidies for small business owners to afford health insurance for themselves and their employees, and I would never let a president engage in tariff assignations upon a whim causing painful inflation for small businesses that import products.
“Kill them all” – Pete Hegeseth, September 2nd, 2025.
In an act tantamount to the Nazi “Laconia Order” war crime, US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegeseth, under the Trump administration, ordered the murder of two survivors of his previous attack on an 11 man boat he claimed, without evidence, was involved in drug trafficking.
Now having murdered 80 people over dubious claims of drug dealing that no one outside of these operations has seen the supposed evidence of, Hegeseth has not only violated US law, but also international law.
The Charter of the United Nations, Article 2, Paragraph 4 reads:
“All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
And Article 51 provides the one and only exception to this belief:
“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence IF AN ARMED ATTACK OCCURS against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.”
To murder (enemy) survivors of an attack who are no longer attacking is to “give no quarter” or to “double tap”.
“The prohibition against denying quarter to survivors has deep historical roots in customary international law. The 1863 Lieber Code, promulgated by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, established foundational principles that continue to influence modern law. Article 60 of the Lieber Code states unequivocally that ‘it is against the usage of modern war to resolve, in hatred and revenge, to give no quarter.’ Article 71 went further, prescribing the death penalty for anyone who “intentionally inflicts additional wounds on an enemy already wholly disabled, or kills such an enemy.” These principles were subsequently incorporated into the 1899 Hague Regulations, which prohibited killing or wounding ‘an enemy who, having laid down arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion.’
Moreover, ‘The Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea requires that shipwrecked members of armed forces ‘shall be respected and protected in all circumstances,’ imposing both negative duties to refrain from attacking them and positive duties to take active steps to safeguard them from harm.
Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions provides additional clarity, stating that ‘a person who is recognized or who, in the circumstances, should be recognized to be hors de combat shall not be made the object of attack.’ The Protocol further designates ‘making a person the object of attack in the knowledge that he is hors de combat” as a grave breach, placing it among the most serious violations of international humanitarian law. United States military doctrine fully incorporates these principles, with the U.S. Naval Handbook explicitly listing ‘denial of quarter’ and ‘offenses against the survivors of ships and aircraft lost at sea, including killing, wounding, or mistreating the shipwrecked’ as representative war crimes.” –https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/venezuela-2025-law.htm
Of course, all of that law is based on an ENEMY ATTACKING the defenses of the United States, not a boat of supposed drug dealers who are acting a lot like fishermen and definitely not attacking any part of the United States of America.
The Trump administration has provided NO EVIDENCE that the people they’ve killed were attacking them.
The Trump administration’s MURDERS are unacceptable, yet our own US Representative, multimillionaire John Joyce, says nothing. Why? Because he approves of whatever cruelty and lawlessness Trump and his administration, including Hegeseth, perpetrate.
Seal Team 6 should definitely stop obeying these illegal orders from Hegeseth to murder survivors. That was the point of the recent Public Service Announcement (below) by Members of US Congress like Senator Mark Kelly, whom Trump is ordering Hegeseth to investigate.
Those Members of Congress served in the US military and therefore know exactly that the oaths of American servicemembers are to the Constitution and not to some rich fascist draftdodger who wants to play Army. Trump is not only straining international relations with trusted allies, he is rendering our country weak in the eyes of the world.
Trump and Hegeseth should be punished for their war crimes and Joyce should resign in disgrace.
As US Representative, I pledge to keep my oath to the US Constitution and honor the Charter of the United Nations that the United States helped to draft in the first place. I love this country and will work to re-establish good, working relationships with our trusted allies, and strength before any adversaries.
If you’re like me, you love this country as much as I do and work to make a positive difference. In the midst of this Constitutional Crisis, please consider reaching out to your local Democratic committees or Democratic candidates so that we can strengthen our Democracy instead of letting it slide into fascism.
We don’t just #ChooseDemocracy, we choose Pennsylvania, we choose The United States of America, we choose Humanity and I am deeply glad to work along side you.
Sincerely,
Beth
Beth Farnham for Congress 