As Israel readies for an invasion of Gaza to eliminate Hamas, the free world must lend its unconditional support, render material aid, and grant Israel the time to finish the job. The reckoning only begins in Gaza — it must be carried out across the globe and at home in the West.
Slip the Leash, Israel
As Israel’s air force pounds Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip, and its ground forces marshal outside for an imminent invasion, the free world — with notable exceptions from Western Leftists — has expressed its wholehearted support for the people of Israel, and condemned the shocking barbarism perpetrated by Hamas.
Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, vowed to “eradicate Hamas from the face of the earth.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “every Hamas member is a dead man.” In the past, the world has kept Israel on a short lease when responding to repeated terrorist acts by Hamas. Not only should the free world not again stay Israel’s hand, it should lend a hand in every way possible. Because this is not merely a fight for control of Gaza, or even for Israel’s existence. It is a war between modern enlightenment values vs. 7th century barbarism, between freedom vs. smothering, theocratic oppression. And, for once without sounding trite or hyperbolic, it can truly be called a struggle between Good and Evil.
Savages
Ever since its founding in 1987, Hamas’ openly declared objective has been the elimination of Israel and either the deportation or extermination of every Jew within. Since 2007, when Palestinians placed it in power in an election landslide, Hamas has converted the Gaza Strip into a giant paramilitary base dedicated solely to murdering Jews. Its own people Hamas has exploited as human shields and a recruiting base for cadres, while commandeering all humanitarian aid & supplies for its own nefarious purposes. Even their corpses are not wasted by Hamas. International news agencies unfailingly reproduce the hackneyed photo of a limp child cradled in a Gazan father’s arms (haya dictating the mother not be photographed) following the latest Israeli air strike — while forgetting that strike was reprisal for a Hamas rocket attack that had murdered Israeli children. Cliché yes, but highly effective on the soft-hearted and soft-brained of the West.
Such Hamas agitprop lost considerable impact, however, with their latest act of terror sinking to a sadism — including the beheading of little babies in their cribs — not seen since the Einsatzgruppen prowled Eastern Europe.
Dear IDF, Please put a bullet into every single one of these savages. Aim low.
No Quarter
This abject depravity has finally awoken the Free World, even many progressives, pacifists and sundry simps, to the long ignored reality that Hamas can neither be appeased nor negotiated with. Its continued existence can no longer be tolerated. Holed up in Gaza are 40,000 members of Hamas. They are not “human animals” as Netanyahu described them; that is an insult to animals. Nor are they human, other than in form only. They are monsters, demons, soulless and irredeemable, and all 40,000 must be exterminated.
Much hand-wringing is underway over the growing ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza. All that suffering and blood is on the hands of Hamas, if not also on the Palestinians themselves for raising Hamas to power. During WWII, the US had no qualms about torching then nuking millions of Japanese civilians who’d suffered from a mass cultural insanity that encouraged & celebrated things like the Rape of Nanking, the forced prostitution of Korean ‘Comfort Women’, and the torture of PoWs. For four years, Britain’s heavy bombers intentionally targeted residential districts in Germany, which had given the Nazis only 37% of the vote in 1932. In heavily Social Democrat Hamburg, 40,000 civilians were consumed by a firestorm. By the end of the war, 80% of the buildings in hard left Berlin had been razed. Dresden, another majority Social Democrat city, was needlessly, vindictively incinerated in the closing weeks of the war.
To this day, many believe the German people deserved such death & destruction as punishment for the atrocities committed by a regime most had not voted for, and which had carefully hidden those atrocities from them. In contrast, Palestinians are dancing in the streets, openly celebrated the rapes, mass murders, and beheadings committed by the terrorists they elected in a landslide. All my pity right now is reserved for their Israeli victims.
A Gaza Protectorate
By air and by land, over the coming weeks, Israel’s armed forces will reduce the terror bastion of Gaza. The West must give Israel free rein to do so, and assist if possible. It will be bloody, brutal, and costly, but is absolutely essential. Though many Gazans won’t recognize it as such at first, it will also be their liberation.
Once Gaza is under Israeli control, it must remain so indefinitely as an internationally-recognized protectorate. Gazans who wish to stay will enjoy the same rights and liberties as do Arab and Druze minorities in Israel proper. For, lest we forget, Israel is a free democracy with Western values, the only one in the Middle East.
Any Gazans uncomfortable with that arrangement should be encouraged to leave. If you consider that harsh, again compare to history: following WWII, millions of Germans — at least the ones who hadn’t already been mowed down by the Red Army — were evicted at gunpoint from their ancestral homes in East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, and the Sudeten.
No Deal
For 76 years, an offer for a two-state solution has been on the table. For 76 years, the Palestinians have rejected it, instead insisting on a one-state solution: namely, a theocratic muslim Palestine with the Jews either eradicated or barely tolerated as second-class Dhimmi. When the moderate Fatah Party engaged in two-party negotiations, it was ousted by the Palestinian people. When Saudi Arabia signaled it was close to an entente with Israel that included tacit acceptance of the status quo, Hamas unleashed its recent barbarity to disrupt it.
Until the Palestinians wisen up, stop chanting, “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free”, realize this is the best & final offer and finally negotiate in good faith, Israel must continue to occupy and administer both Gaza and the West Bank. That change of heart may come slowly or perhaps never, so the world must be fine with indefinite Israeli administration.
Iran and Beyond
After Hamas has been exterminated in Gaza, the Western powers must assist Israel in wiping out any remnants lurking abroad, Hezbollah included. The action must be ruthless, thorough, and pursued for as long as it takes. Assassinations and surgical strikes into uncooperative nations should not be shied away from.
Iran — itself a terrorist tyranny much like Gaza — must suffer the consequences of its support of Hamas. Severe sanctions should already have been imposed, except the Biden administration is impotent, compromised, and apparently infiltrated by Iranian moles. As for the EU, they are a bunch of pussies, afraid of the large, restive, muslim minorities they foolishly let in. Nevertheless, if ever regime change was merited, it is in toppling the medieval goatfuckers currently oppressing Iran and destabilizing world peace. For starters, any Iranian military or intelligence officers identified as having assisted Hamas should be liquidated.
Fellow Travelers
Every Westerner with a conscience must boycott the sick media outlets who refuse to call Hamas savages ‘terrorists’ but rather the anodyne ‘militants’ or ‘fighters’ — these include MSNBC, BBC, ABC, NYT, LAT, Boston Globe, the list goes on. Hopefully, these tasteless euphemisms will wake up people to just how far the media have sunk into ideological capture and amorality.
Social media are largely immune, but should at least be called out for censorship — Google for hiding search results, Facebook for ghosting or taking down posts, which either issue scathing condemnations of Hamas, or expose the true depravity of its crimes. [Update: Facebook is blocking links to this post.]
Photos removed by Facebook of an Israeli woman, bleeding from gang rape, being taken hostage by a soon-to-be vaporized demon in human form.
Here at home, the debased ideologues of the Left must pay a heavy cost for mindlessly continuing to blame ‘apartheid’ (sic) Israel while apologizing for terrorists. Free speech, even praise for infanticide, must remain protected. But as the Leftists themselves are fond of noting, actions have consequences. Every entitled college student or DEI administrator who signed letters of support for Hamas, every slackivist who celebrated gang rape and mass murder, should be exposed and forever blacklisted.
Any moral relativists or sham pacifists who persist in their inane both-sides babble and thinly-veiled denial of Israel’s right to exist, should be told to their face to go perform an auto-erotic act. That, or forced to look at the photos of the horrific acts they rationalized.
Fellow traveler orgs like DSA and BLM — who held pro Palestine rallies which they promoted with images of the hang gliders used in the massacre of 260 innocents at a music festival — should receive universal scorn and chastisement, and never, ever again be given the slightest respect, much less donations.
Jew Lives Don’t Matter
The Democrat Party must censure, or better yet, expel, the vile creatures who comprise ’The Squad’: first and foremost the terrorist-loving anti-semites Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, but also Sandy Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman for their ignorant & callous statements. Each should face primary challengers (although Tlaib and Omar will retain the support of their fifth columnist muslim constituency.) If Democrats demur on taking these steps, then decent Americans should seriously reconsider voting for any Democrat.
The free nations of the West should also take this opportunity to withdraw from the United Nations. The UN has long been a joke and a fraud, highlighted by some of the most dictatorial nations on earth serving on its Human Rights Commission. The apologetics and pro-terrorist resolutions that followed Hamas’ barbarism render the UN utterly morally bankrupt. Time for the UN to die.
The Religion of Peace™
All this is imperative, but much of it will take time. The rage and disgust all decent humans currently feel, must not be allowed to be replaced by resignation, apathy, or exhaustion. We must remain doggedly determined to root out all of the evil, all of the rot. Else it will creep back before long.
‘We need to address the roots of the conflict,’ we are told. Fine — the root cause is Islam. Not ‘islamic extremism’, for Islam is at core extremist. For the self-described ‘Religion of Peace’, the atrocities are the baseline, not the deviation. Its holy texts, the Quran and especially the Hadith, are filled with just the sort of mayhem, rape, plunder, subjugation, murder, and genocide that Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS commit. As Peter Quinn, the fictional operative in Homeland, observed:
What do you think the beheadings are about? The crucifixions … the revival of slavery? Do you think they make this shit up? It’s all in the book, their fucking book, the only book they read they read it all the time they never stop.
They’re there for one reason and one reason only: to die for the caliphate and usher in a world without infidels. That’s their strategy. And it’s been that way since the 7th Century. Do you really think that a few special forces teams are gonna put a dent in that?
Nor does there seem any hope of reforming Islam, creating a ‘gentler, kinder’ cult of hate. Worldwide, one in five muslims openly support jihadist terrorism; the number who privately do, but deceive the kuffar with taqiyya, is far greater.
Pace the naive bumper stickers, there is no coexisting with Islam. If you think you’re coexisting, it’s just the muslims biding their time until us infidels are weak enough to subjugate. For Islam is not just a religion, but also a political & legal system, a cultural paradigm, and a wannabe theocratic, totalitarian, world government. The Jews are just first on the list. Islam will not rest until it rules the world — that is its mission statement. In this aspect, Islam is no different than Nazism or Stalinism. As with those, Islam must be confronted with all our might and ultimately eradicated. In case you quail at this last exhortation, let me remind you what we are dealing with:
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Once again, the Democrat presidential nominee will be selected, not elected. But it won’t be Joe Biden.
Joe Biden is running for reelection. No matter that 3/4 of Americans wish he wouldn’t. No matter that his approval ratings, never good, are at an all-time low. That his undeniable cognitive & physical abilities continue to worsen, or that he’d be 86 at the end of a second term. Or his son is almost definitely headed to prison, while his family’s shady influence-peddling schemes have been exposed. The ground-shaking discovery of evidence that Biden himself took a $10 million bribe leaves Team Joe unfazed.
Whatever palace coup was underfoot during the classified docs brouhaha, it was obviously thwarted. As an empty-headed marionette, Biden has value to whoever is pulling his strings. It’s his failing body that’s the problem. Frankly, the odds that Joe Biden is still alive in 2028 are slim to none. So Kamala takes over at some point.
That cannot be part of the plan. Kamala’s been crated so far, but as POTUS she’d be unleashed and unpredictable. Nor are presidential aspirants patient enough to sit through six or ten years of a Harris administration.
Piecing together clues, we can suss the Democrat’s real plan.
Not Up For (a) Debate
The Democrat Party has been rigging its nominations since at least 2008. Now the DNC has put the kibosh on debates. No repeat of the 2019 clown car, which saw the establishment picks stumble, while rogue Tulsi Gabbard stole the limelight and reminded voters that the Democrat Party bore scant resemblance to the party of old. Before they were fixed, the 2020 primaries nearly elevated Bernie, who actually wanted to implement all those socialist plans the Democrats only ever give lip service.
So this year, no dangerous flirtations with democracy by the Democrats. The delightfully batty new-age loon, Marianne Williamson, poses no threat. But RFK Jr. does. Both his pedigree and platform offer stark contrasts between traditional Democrat values & ideals, and the Party’s current authoritarian, war-mongering, globalist, culturally radical agenda. He must not be given a voice.
Then there’s the fact that no amount of Adderall or coaching in his earpiece can get Joe through 90 minutes of hard-hitting Q&A. Without debates or need to campaign, Biden racks up enough delegates to secure the nomination.
Pump Trump
Believe it or not, Alvin Bragg’s bullshit indictment of Trump was intended to help Trump. And it worked — Trump’s polling numbers shot up among Republicans, and have stayed elevated ever since.
Trump is the best match-up for any Democrat. At 76, he can hardly point to Biden’s age as a disqualifier. Joe may be frail and wan, but the Donald is bloated and pasty. Divisive, caustic, a raging narcissist, Trump repulses far more voters than he inspires. Twice, he’s failed to top 47% of the vote, and nothing he’s said or done since gives any indication he could improve on that.
Most importantly, Trump has been wired for demolition. More serious indictments are coming, and are timed to go to trial after the GOP nominee has been chosen. Trump’s campaign would be consumed by this. The Dems learned well from Hillary’s emails.
DeSantis Is In The Details
Biden vs. Trump is winnable for the Democrats; Biden vs. DeSantis is not. DeSantis is young. He’s a traditional family man who doesn’t pay hush money to porn stars. He’s able to put critics in their place without being an asshole. DeSantis turned a slim victory in 2018 into a landslide in 2022, winning over many disaffected Democrats.
So the Dems and their flying monkeys in legacy media have waged a psyop against DeSantis — first trying to discourage him from announcing, now calling his run quixotic. Portraying him as the Devil incarnate plays to the Democrat base, but they know it won’t stick in the general election. DeSantis scares the crap out of the Democrats.
Thus the strategy of boosting Trump, then swapping out Biden for someone who matches up better against Trump. Someone younger and more charismatic. We have indications of who that someone might be.
Waiting In The Wings
For months now, Gavin Newsom has been running a pretend presidential campaign. He’s traveled the South to insult Southerners, erected billboards across the country promising expense-paid abortion junkets, ran anti-Florida ads in Florida. Gavin’s pretend opponent is Ron DeSantis, against whom he’s focused his attacks, culminating in his recent, empty threat to arrest DeSantis on kidnapping charges. As he did back in 2009, when he parlayed an upstart challenge to Jerry Brown into the Lt. Governor’s spot, Newsom is clearly jockeying for something.
All of a sudden, Michelle Obama is in the spotlight again. On TV scolding America for its obsession with guns. On TV scolding America for its over-dependence on technology. Hobnobbing with bootlicker Steven Colbert to accentuate her likability. Did I mention she has a new book out? Considering the flurry of fact checks insisting Michelle is TOTALLY NOT a candidate, it’s pretty much certain she is.
The Plan Unfolds
The picture becomes clear. Two Democrat power blocs vie with each other behind the scenes. The Obamas, currently running the White House, the dominant force ever since shattering the Clintonistas. The Californians, their strength deriving not just from sheer numbers, but also money. As a one-party state with few close contests, California Democrats big & small serve as the Party’s milk cow, funneling donations into competitive races across the country. (Not a day goes by when I don’t receive half a dozen email appeals from Democrat candidates in far-flung states.)
A gentleman’s agreement is in effect. From now on through the primaries, Biden will be the placeholder. Shortly before the convention, Joe will be shoved out of the way — perhaps quite literally, with another serious fall forcing him to withdraw. (It’ll need to be a physical issue, as the Dems could never admit they’ve been foisting a man with pudding for brains on the country all this time.) A fight on the convention floor will ensue between Gavin and Michelle. Both will be on the ticket, with only the order of their names in question. And may the dirtiest pol win!
Hang On, Sleepy!
The plan is devious, machiavellian, and par for the power-mad Democrat elite. It has a few holes, however.
The biggest is its reliance on Joe Biden’s mortal husk lasting another year, when the codger could go any day now. With the placeholder gone, the primary floodgates open. President Harris will certainly run. Gavin will announce faster than he finished on his wedding night. Amy Klobuchar’s in, Bernie might even give it one more go. In this cluster scenario, Michelle must now actually campaign if she wants the prize. Suddenly, RFK Jr.’s polling in the 30s places him in front.
Spoiler Alert
Does Kennedy feel any loyalty to a party he considers a betrayal of its heritage? Were they to fix it so he can’t win (like they did twice to Bernie,) what’s to stop him from running as an independent with, say, Gabbard as his running mate?
The centrist Third Way may field a candidate. Andrew Yang might appear on a few states’ ballots at the head of his Forward Party. A potential spoiler already exists in Cornel West. Whether West garners 10, 5 or, just 2% of the vote, all of it will be poached from the Democrats’ progressive or black base. What once looked like a lay-up is getting dicey.
Pray There Is No Plan B
A lot could go wrong between now and next Summer. FD-1023 Gate is like a manure pile fire — it may not seem like much at first, but there’s really no putting it out, and it can only get worse. No wonder the Democrats seem extra tense and on edge. We can only pray that they have no Plan B. For desperate people take desperate risks, and power-mad people do mad things. Another pandemic, a war with Russia — you name it, these Democrats would use it.
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When a trans-identifying individual committed mass murder, the powers-that-be collaborated to employ censorship and propaganda to shield their violent but useful mob from scrutiny, and get their divisive narrative back on track. Those of us who cherish liberty and tranquility must fight back, though not in kind.
As I write, I am serving a thirty-day suspension on facebook, caught up in a coordinated campaign of censorship and propaganda to protect radical trans activism from scrutiny over its increasing violent nature.
My crime was to post an image, which had already appeared in a number of media outlets, as an example of that violence. In a clever abuse of its terms of conduct, facebook instantly punished me for the hateful rhetoric contained therein.
In a similar move, Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists who tweeted a poster for the upcoming and ominous ‘Trans Day of Vengeance.’ (If you find that surprising for supposed free-speech advocate Musk, remember that at least one of his spawn is gender-confused.)
Restore The Narrative
All of this came on the heels of the school shooting in Nashville, where three adults and three nine-year-olds were murdered. Normally the Left loves it whenever school kids get shot so, while the bodies are still warm, they can clamor for taking away guns from people who’d never harm a child. Inconveniently, this killer turned out to be trans-identifying (increasingly common for mass shooters, btw), and who may have been retaliating for the recent passage of a Tennessee law banning so-called ‘gender affirming treatments’ (i.e., sterilization and mutilation) for minors.
So obviously any visual reminders of the alarming prevalence of enraged, armed, & bloodthirsty transgenders had to be suppressed. As was the Nashville killer’s manifesto in which she detailed her motivation. And don’t even think about questioning the wisdom of brainwashing an emotionally disturbed, autistic lesbian into believing she’s a boy, pumping her full of testosterone, then stoking her resentment to the point where she considered it righteous to shoot little kids in the face.
That potential PR mess averted, the Democrats and their flying monkeys in legacy media quickly returned to railing against the ScaryBlack-15 and transphobia. Indeed, they completely turned the tables, making this horrific execution of innocents all about the ongoing hate campaign against the ‘trans community’ — you know, those horrible Christian Nationalists who can’t appreciate the beauty of adult men with paraphilias performing bawdy burlesque in front of children, or the vile removal from elementary school libraries of books containing instructions on how to use a butt plug.
Green Light The Thuggery
White House Spokesblacklesbian, Karinne Jeanne-Pierre, announced “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.” She went on to praise the “LGBTQI+ kids” who are “resilient,” “fierce,” and who “fight back.” “And we have their back,” she added. “This administration has their back.” Kamala Harris flew to Nashville, not to console the families of the six victims, but to support the three state legislators who’d led an anti-gun totally-not-an-insurrection inside the state capital, where the mob raised seven fingers to indicate that the heartless killer was eyrself a victim. Two Democrat operatives later amplified the messaging by tweeting exhortations to shoot ‘transphobes.’
With this public blessing from the regime, the non-binary goon squad resumed its pogrom. When women’s rights advocate, Riley Gaines (one of the female college swimmers forced to compete against the male autogynephile narcissist, ‘Lia’ Thomas) attempted to speak at San Francisco State University, she was physically attacked by a mob, chased while under police escort, then barricaded in a room for three hours while the mob outside the door demanded a ransom for her release.
No arrests have been made, but the school’s Dean of Diversity has publicly lauded the “peaceful” (sic) protestors. SFSU is as likely to punish these trans-ally thugs, as the NSDAP was to chide their Brownshirts for smashing windows.
Fostering Hate For Political Gain
More than just turning a blind eye to such behavior, the Democrats openly encourage it, while fomenting the underlying rage. For the Democrats depend on perpetually resentful identity groups. The gender-confused, a burgeoning horde of misdiagnosed sufferers of mood & personality disorders, told to blame ‘transphobia’ instead of the anti-science ideology and Dr. Moreau butchery inflicted upon them. Urban blacks, told to blame ‘systemic racism’ instead of the social engineering schemes of the past 60 years that dissolved their families and devastated their social structure. Lonely, unhappy women, told to blame ‘The Patriarchy’ instead of the tag-team of 4th Wave feminism and consumerism that duped them into trading the joy of raising a family for soul-crushing careers, and left them with passive, infantile, low-T geldings as hook-up prospects. All forming an irrational, reactionary Coalition of the Whining with the anemic, pseudo-intellectual elites caught up in an orgiastic Six Year Hate against their orange Emmanuel Goldstein.
Whether it’s Antifa scum engaging in Burn, Loot, and Murder, DEI cadres silencing and attacking speakers on college campuses, pro-choice fanatics fire-bombing pregnancy clinics, pink pussy hat harridans picketing the homes of Supreme Court justices in violation of Federal law, Branch Covidians assailing US Senators in the middle of the street, or angry mobs storming and occupying state houses, the Democrats applaud and encourage it, while the legacy media apologizes for it, so long as it serves their objectives. First rule of the Left: It’s Okay When We Do It.
No Way Out?
The prospect for arresting this juggernaut and averting a national catastrophe grows ever slim. The radicalized Democrats, with their tight control of information flow — just one of the many tactics they’ve borrowed from both religious cults and totalitarian regimes — have convinced their followers that it is the ‘others,’ not they themselves, who are extremist, out-of-touch, hateful and violent. That perceived threat justifies their own violence and disregard for the rule of law. By Any Means Necessary.™
Many on the right are too eager to adopt this form of combat. Like Johnny Ringo in TOMBSTONE, they exclaim ‘alright, let’s do it!’ Like Johnny Ringo, they will lose that duel to the more experienced practitioner.
No, the only hope is an appeal to common sense and calm. The vast majority of Americans are not perpetually butthurt, are generally decent, and tolerant within reason. They can tell that most of the rhetoric spewed by the Left — the trans lunacy, the race hatred, ‘decarceration’, ‘Environmental Justice’, ‘Shade Tree Equity’, etc. — is pernicious nonsense. But they’ve been cowed into silence by the extremely loud & vicious minority, and misled or kept ignorant by the partisan media.
We are perilously close to open civil war or the imposition of an authoritarian state. The way to avoid this is by lowering the temperature, not raising it. Not by furthering division, but rather by emphasizing the values and principles most of us still share. Regardless of our prior affiliations, we all need to turn now to political leaders who take that approach.
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Postscript
A note on censorship, and just how real and extreme it has become. One can never quite tell if a given post will be declared verboten by our social media overlords. Their terms of conduct are sufficiently vague to provide great leeway for them to punish wrongthink. Nor is an offending post merely deleted with a stern warning. No, the punishment is immediate, harsh, and beyond appeal. Twitter further demands a Struggle Session where the transgressor publicly admits his or her guilt.
This dynamic was presciently captured by Orwell:
A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police…. [H]e can be inspected without warning and without knowing that he is being inspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent…. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism … is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever.
On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour. In Oceania there is no law. Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future. A Party member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the right instincts. Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc. If he is a person naturally orthodox (in Newspeak a GOODTHINKER), he will in all circumstances know, without taking thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion.
Such uncertainty leads — by design — to self-censorship. Working on the assumption that WordPress is in thrall to the woke mob, prudence dictates I still my own tongue to avoid further punishment. The curious can search the internet to view the images in question, or PM me for them.
“We may be trying to return a guilty man to the community. No one can really know. But we have reasonable doubt, and this is a safeguard that has enormous value in our system.”
The phrase, ‘it’s better to let ten guilty men go free, than put one innocent man behind bars’, is not some empty platitude. It’s a fundamental principal, one we’ve built into our legal system. First, by requiring unanimous verdicts in criminal cases and, most importantly, by requiring that guilt be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. At times, with specific cases, we may find this frustrating. But overall, this cautious approach protects the liberties of every individual, while strengthening our society as a whole. Indeed, the principle resonates so strongly as to be frequently featured in our literature and cinema, most notably in To Kill A Mockingbird and Twelve Angry Men.
“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”
Closing arguments are being presented today in the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of criminal responsibility for the death of George Floyd. A verdict may already have been returned by the time you read this. Under our system, the jury, as ‘finders of fact’, are charged with setting aside all preformed opinions, all prejudices and biases, to decide on the merits of the case based only on evidence presented in court. Regarding this, the most publicized and cataclysmic incident in memory, that may prove hard for some of the jurors. No one who viewed that initial video clip of Floyd on the pavement (and all of those empaneled had seen it) was not emotionally troubled. Nor could anyone have missed the Summer of protests and rioting it sparked. The acrimonious debate over alleged police brutality and ‘systemic racism’ dividing our nation surely draws its fault line through this jury box, too.
Still, over the past two weeks, the jury has been presented with a large amount of evidence — eyewitnesses, expert opinion, training manuals, toxicology reports, extended body camera footage of the incident from start to finish and from various angles — that most of the public is unaware of. Some objective legal observers (if anyone can be fully objective in this case) found the state presented a rather weak, scattershot case, while Chauvin’s defense attorney, Eric Nelson, performed exceptionally well, most notably in eliciting statements favorable to the defense from some of the state’s own witnesses.
The prosecution’s case relied primarily on reviving in the jury the emotional response to that viral video of Chauvin leaning atop Floyd, finding excuses to play segments over and over and over, while calling witnesses to share how they felt about it. Expert witnesses were called who attested variously that Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck been a “blood choke” to a single carotid artery, then, that Chauvin’s knee — actually on Floyd’s back — had caused “positional asphyxia”, then shifting yet again to restraining Floyd face down had caused “compression asphyxia.” The state also called several witnesses to testify that Chauvin acted criminally outside of police regulations, for if his actions were lawful, all the rest is moot.
The state also encountered procedural embarrassments. One of its first witnesses’ belligerence toward Nelson earned her a warning from the judge, during which she became sassy toward the judge, earning her a very stern warning. (The jury was sent off before this scolding, but it could surmise something was up when court was adjourned early, with that witness returning the next morning to answer a single question.) Nearly all of the state’s frequent objections were overruled. One prosecutor earned a sidebar for badgering a defense witness on cross, returning noticeably chastised. Then, just as the main cases were wrapping up, the state, by attempting to introduce evidence Judge Cahill had expressly forbidden, came within seconds of triggering a mistrial. Throughout the trial, the state, boasting three main prosecutors, a bevy of assistants, plus the entire resources of Minnesota, swamped Nelson and his lone aid with tens of thousands of pieces of evidence, dropped just days or sometimes hours before introducing them in court. While the jury was not privy to all of these elements, and may not appreciate their significance, it surely didn’t help.
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.”
In contrast, Defense counsel Nelson’s performance, barring a couple of stumbles, was outstanding.
As an antipode, and likely intentional antidote, to the emotionally charged prosecution, Nelson remained calm throughout, and courteous to state witnesses, even the sassy one. Only on cross with one expert could noticeable signs of disdain been seen in Nelson’s face and heard in his voice. But to be fair, this witness was pretty much an arrogant prick.
From his opening statement onward, Nelson laid out the foundation of reasonable doubt, building upon it brick by brick. Establishing the lawfulness of Chauvin’s actions in the minds of the jurors may have been the hardest; numerous witnesses testified both that it was and that it wasn’t, allowing any given juror to hear what they want. Nelson also argued that the crowd, growing larger and more openly hostile and threatening over time, both distracted the officers’ attention away from Floyd’s deteriorating physical condition, and necessitated restraining him for longer than anticipated. This was supported in part by the fact that the EMTs, after belatedly arriving, considered the scene too dangerous to render aid on the spot, instead executing a “load and scoot” then driving several blocks away before attending to Floyd.
Far more compelling was the argument that what killed George Floyd was not a knee to the neck, but Floyd’s own choices that day, coupled with his extremely poor health. As attested by tangible evidence and testimony, Floyd:
Had ingested fentanyl prior to his arrest;
To prevent them being found by the police, swallowed pills containing more fentanyl and meth;
Physically and forcefully resisted arrest for about ten minutes;
Complained of being unable to breath long before being restrained on the ground;
Asked to be laid on the ground instead of loaded into the police cruiser;
Exhibited signs of “excited delirium” — violent, random physical movements, mental incoherence and delusions — which, per police training, requires restraining the subject to prevent harm to himself or others.
The autopsy revealed that Floyd suffered, inter alia, from:
Severe hypertension;
A grossly enlarged and weakened heart;
Of his four main arteries to the brain, 75% blockage in three of them, 90% in the fourth;
A rare tumor that can suddenly release large quantities of adrenaline;
and found that on the day he died, Floyd had;
An almost four times fatal overdose of Fentanyl in his blood;
Experienced pulmonary edema — also evidenced by the foaming around his mouth seen well before he was on the ground — which is a typical side effect of fentanyl;
No tissue injuries consistent with physical force required to cause asphyxia.
The alternate scenario, which Defense argues cannot be ruled out beyond a reasonable doubt, is that the adrenaline rush from violently resisting arrest demanded more oxygen for Floyd’s muscles. But because the fentanyl had filled his lungs with fluid, they could not provide it. His weak heart, trying to pump its remaining reserves of oxygen through nearly completely blocked arteries, simply gave out.
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
In any other trial, that evidence would seem to make a conviction impossible. This case, of course, is like no other. Already, many forms of jury intimidation have occurred. Still, juries can often stun us, and predicting verdicts is a mug’s game. In the crucible of deliberations, all the dynamics of human social interaction come into play. Jurors cajole each other. They reason, plead, pout, intimidate, haggle. Although the presence of at least one obvious BLM-type on the panel may preclude full acquittals, haggling might produce a token conviction on one of the lesser charges only. Also plausible is a hung jury. And as noted, the state’s shenanigans during trial provide strong grounds for an appeal.
Anything but convictions on the more serious charges would shock the public, kept ignorant by the biased media and its own preconceptions. It would also enrage the mob. Maxine Waters stood on the very steps of the courthouse inciting violence if the verdict is ‘not guilty’. Death threats have been made against the jurors. Antifa vandalized the former home of one of the defense witnesses. BLM agitators have vowed to spill the blood of police across the country if Chauvin is not convicted. A mob came for Atticus Finch’ client, too.
“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
If mob rule can determine the outcome of trials, then our legal system is lost and our individual liberties with it. Protesters hold aloft placards bearing the words “Justice For George Floyd.” In that, they get it all wrong. We need this trial to be conducted fairly and objectively according to our laws, free from outside influence. If that occurs, whatever the verdict, then justice will be served. Not for George Floyd, not for Derek Chauvin, but for our system which protects all of us.
If rule of law is to be preserved, and chaos and anarchy averted, we all now need to act like good jurors when reacting to this case, and all similarly volatile ones. So, if you haven’t yet, review the evidence presented in this trial (to get the quickest overview without suffering tedium, consider just watching the cross-exams) as well as analyses that might come from somewhere other than your usual sources. The mob will be aiming to raze our institutions. Whatever ‘verdict’ you’ve arrived at, don’t let them, and certainly don’t join them.
Sheila Jackson Lee (D, TX-18) has a reputation for saying really stupid things in public, and introducing really stupid legislation in Congress. Her latest anti-gun bill is par for the course.
Sheila Jackson Lee, 14-term congresswoman from Houston, is known for many things: her anti-socialbehavior on commercial air flights, her mistreatment of staffers leading to the highest turnover rate on Capitol Hill, and her propensity for embarrassing gaffes. For, despite somehow acquiring a BA from Yale and a JD from UVA, Sheila Jackson Lee is a complete moron.
She asked if the Mars Rover could take photos of where the Astronauts landed.
She thinks North and South Vietnam are still two separate countries.
She believes the US Constitution is 400 years old.
She blamed Wikipedia for WikiLeaks.
Stupid is as stupiddoes.
Jackson Lee’s stupidity extends to guns, which she hates and has for years tried to ban. She once hefted an AR-15, declaring it “as heavy as ten [moving] boxes” and firing .50 caliber rounds. AR-15s weigh about seven pounds and are chambered in .223 / 5.56 mm, Sheila. Regarding gun control, Jackson Lee stated:
“Don’t condemn the gangbangers, they’ve got guns that are trafficked, that are not enforced, that are straw purchased and they come into places even that have strong guns laws. Why? Because we don’t have sensible gun legislation.”
If that made your head hurt, check out Jackson Lee’s latest ‘sensible gun legislation’, H.R. 127, the Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act.
Without explaining the intended purpose, it calls for a Federal database containing the “the make, model, and serial number” of all four hundred million guns in the country, along with “the identity of the owner of the firearm, the date the firearm was acquired by the owner, and where the firearm is or will be stored.” Jackson Lee is apparently unaware that guns are portable.
This is not an AR.
Also to be recorded is “the identity of any person to whom, and any period of time during which, the firearm will be loaned to the person.” So, if you’d like to lend your rifle to your buddy while out hunting, let your friend try out your pistol at the range, or even tell your spouse or house guest to grab your shotgun during a home invasion, you’ll need to let the Feds know well in advance.
But wait — H.R.127 contains even more ‘sensible’ stuff.
A Federal license would be required to possess both firearms and ammunition, issued only after the applicant (that is, all one hundred million gun owners) passes a background check — something they already had to do when purchasing their firearm.
Completing 24 hours of approved training “in the use, safety, and storage of firearms” would also be mandatory, presumably to drastically reduce the c. 400 accidental discharge deaths each year.
Further, every gun owner would need to carry liability insurance for “losses and damages”, oddly issued by the US Attorney General, for an annual fee of $800.
Finally, anyone who wishes to buy a new gun, or just keep the ones they already own, would need undergo a “psychological evaluation conducted by a licensed psychologist approved by the Attorney General”. If that shrink deemed it necessary, interviews would be conducted with spouses, former spouses (you may as well give up now), all other household members, and “at least 2 other persons who are a member of the family of, or an associate of, the individual to further determine the state of the mental, emotional, and relational stability of the individual in relation to firearms.” Fortunately, if you’ve ever been in rehab or previously received a mental health diagnosis for pretty much anything, you get to skip the above process, cuz you’ll never be allowed to own a gun again in your life.
This license, along with all requirements, would need to be renewed every year for the first five years, then every three years thereafter. Violators would face minimum punishment of a $150,000 fine and 15 years in prison.
Additionally, the bill makes illegal the usual scary black guns, labeled “military-style weapons”, with evil stuff like adjustable stocks and pistol grips — that is, features making them easier to aim, thus safer. Also banned would be autoloading shotguns holding more than five shells, and “large capacity” (i.e., standard capacity) magazines holding more than 10 rounds — essentially every magazine in existence outside of CA, MA and NY. And don’t you dare condemn the gangbangers when they forget to turn them in.
NB: The bill is named after Sabika Sheikh, a Pakistani exchange student, one of ten people murdered in the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting. The killer that day was an underaged fellow student, prohibited from possessing any firearm, who filched his daddy’s 4+1 pump-action shotgun and a snub-nosed, five round revolver. He also brought along a Molotov cocktail. That’s right — our legal eagle named her legislation after the victim of a shooting that involved none of the weaponry her bill seeks to ban.
Ban this military-style weapon!
If you wish to comfort yourself in the thought that H.R. 127 is just a bit of demagoguery that’ll never even get a floor vote, remember that Congress is thick with folks just as moronic as Sheila Jackson Lee when it comes to ’sensible’ (sic) gun control. I’ll tell you who the real fools are, though: anyone who owns a gun and still votes for Democrats.
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Day 1: Signs executive order requiring all Americans to wear face masks at all times; all Trump voters required to wear orange stars at all times.
Day 2: Grants every illegal alien citizenship, free health care, and registration as a Democrat.
Day 3: Orders anyone who questions the fairness of the 2020 election arrested as a domestic terrorist.
Day 4: Bans all firearms without a device that automatically aims for the leg.
Day 5: To combat global warming, orders all remaining US industry relocated to China.
Day 6: Instructs Congress to admit DC & Puerto Rico as states, force Texas to secede.
Day 7: Kamala Harris walks into the Oval office and says, “Hey Joe, what an amazing four years! Are you ready to retire now?” Biden replies, “Wow, Beau — that went by fast.”
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Kamala Harris was forced to drop out of the Democratic primary race months before a single vote was cast. Yet a handful of party insiders anointed her as vice presidential nominee. Now paired with an elderly running mate, Harris could well soon ascend to the Oval Office. Her personal past and professional record reveals how she managed this feat, and portends how she would comport herself as President.
A Pig in a Poke
Tonight, on this 281th day of the surreal anno 2020, Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will debate sitting VP Mike Pence. Way back on Day 43, it would’ve been inconceivable to imagine that match-up on stage in Utah eight months hence. The New Hampshire primary had just been held, with win, place, and show going to Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and a surging Amy Klobuchar. Joe Biden had finished a distant fifth with only 8%, with pundits issuing Last Rites to his flagging campaign. Harris wasn’t even part of the conversation. She’d ended her run just after Thanksgiving; her grossly mismanaged campaign bankrupt and torn apart by acrimony, her polling sunken below 1%, the result of her caustic demeanor in debates, her serial flip-flopping on issues. And, perhaps, her inability to come across as empathetic, highlighted by her bizarre tic of protracted, cackling laughter at the most inappropriate moments.
There’s no need to detail what followed. The Dems’ backdoor scheming to block Bernie by settling for Biden. The George Floyd incident that indirectly knocked odds-on favorite, Klobuchar, out of the VP slot. The heated struggle among Biden’s handlers to select an African-American woman, one who neither espoused a too-far left agenda nor had a history as a tough police chief or prosecutor. All somehow resulting in the selection of a dark-skinned — though not African-American — former DA and AG with a record of draconian, often sadistic, law enforcement, who’d recently and eagerly embraced everything from open borders, to slave reparations, to gun confiscation, to socialized healthcare.
To give you an idea of the dread Kamala Harris instills in those who know her well, consider this: a large group of California Democratic pols desperately offered Rep. Karen Bass as an alternative. Not only is Bass an unknown with a thin legislative record, she’s an actual communist fellow-traveler. After pulling every string to thwart the socialist Sanders, these Dems were willing to place a Fidel Castro groupie on the ticket, just to keep Kamala off. Biden advisor and party veteran, Chris Dodd, vehemently opposed Harris’ selection on the principle of ‘first, do no harm.’
The American electorate, including the Democrat voters who endured a seemingly interminable primary season, are now asked to endorse a slate comprised of nobody’s first choice and everyone’s last choice. Simply because they aren’t Trump. Further, given Biden’s age and obvious mental decline, the tacit understanding is that Biden is merely a placeholder, with Harris the actual POTUS nominee “ready to step in on Day One”. Tellingly, Biden recently referred to a “Harris/Biden administration,” while Kamala haughtily spoke of a “Harris administration, with Joe Biden.”
If elected, Harris could well serve up to eleven years in the White House. She’s threatened to rule by fiat, ignoring Congress if it fails to pass legislation pleasing to her. Her record is rife with abuses of the powers of her offices, moral flexibility on issues and policy, and a machiavellian approach to anything or anyone standing in her way. Especially as her campaign is actively shielding her from public scrutiny, It would behoove us all to take a long, hard look at Kamala Harris.
Cette Petite Fille? C’était Moi.
Kamala Harris was born in 1964 to Donald Harris and Gopalan Shyamala, immigrants who’d met as grad students at UC Berkeley. As everyone now knows, when the young family lived in Berkeley, CA, little Kamala was bused across town. But the Harris’ were by no means poor or disadvantaged. Both parents were academics — Donald an economist, Gopalan, an endocrinologist. On her father’s side, Kamala is descended from wealthy Jamaican slave owners, while her mother comes from an elite Brahmin clan. With her parents, young Kamala visited relatives across the globe.
When Kamala was seven, her parents divorced. Kamala continued to reside with her mother in Berkeley while spending weekends at her father’s home in the upscale university community of Palo Alto. Five years later, Gopalan accepted a research and teaching position at McGill University in Montréal, where Kamala, now twelve, was enrolled in a private, French-speaking school.
So, whenever Kamala ‘code-switches’ into urban black dialect for the benefit of an african-american audience, recognize that she’s not just pandering, she’s faking.
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
In 1981, Harris returned to the US to attend college at Howard, a private HBUC where, she claims, she smoked a lot of weed while jamming to Tupac Shakur. Kamala must’ve been a huge Tupac fan, to be listening to the rapper a decade before he’d released any recordings.
Years later, as San Francisco’s District Attorney, the former stoner was unable to muster any empathy as she zealously prosecuted marijuana possession. As Kamala put it at the time, “It is not progressive to be soft on crime.”
Interestingly, Kamala’s life-long passion for hip hop came up again recently, during the candidate’s video appearance at the NCAAP’s streaming convention. When asked her opinion on the best living hip hop artist, Kamala blurted out “Tupac” — who, unfortunately, does not qualify for the honor, having died 24 years ago. When pressed to name a performer among the quick, Kamala demurred, saying “oh, there’s so many to choose from.” A much better response than admitting she was once again faking it.
On The Way Up
Harris attended law school at UC Hastings in San Francisco, gaining admission through the school’s Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP). The program
“offers special consideration in admission to applicants who have been subject to significant adversity that may have prevented them from attaining numeric criteria that fully reflect their motivation, talent, and academic and professional ability.”
In plain English, LEOP is a quota system for poor students with poor grades.
While Kamala, with a renowned cancer researcher and a Stanford professor for parents, likely didn’t meet the program’s financial hardship criterion, she was the daughter of immigrants, and surely played up the “impact on [her] academic performance” from the “bias” she faced as a Jamaican/Indian surrounded first by white Berkeleyites, then Quebecois, then Southern Blacks. She might even have had the temerity to claim that l’anglais was not her first language after those formative years at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.
After passing the California bar in 1990, Harris was hired by Alameda County as a deputy district attorney, where she made a name for herself as ”an able prosecutor on the way up” by prosecuting child sexual assault cases. It was around this time that Harris first made the acquaintance of fellow up-and-comer, Gavin Newsom, and through him, his aunt, Nancy Pelosi — connections that would later serve Kamala well.
Whore
At some point in 1993 or early 1994 (accounts vary), the 29-year-old Harris became romantically involved with Willie Brown, thirty-one years her senior. A notorious philanderer, Brown was then speaker of the State Assembly and head of a very powerful, very corrupt, Democratic machine.
Brown bought his new squeeze a BMW and began sporting her on his arm at the many lavish society functions he frequented. Kamala was thus introduced to California’s political bosses, as well as to the philanthropists — among them Susie Tompkins Buell and Gordon Getty — the business magnates, and Hollywood moguls whose campaign donations sustained them. “I would think it’s fair to say that most of the people in San Francisco met her through Willie,” opined one Democratic bigwig. “It’s a club, and it’s bigger than Brown,” a former Harris backer observed. “It comes instantly with basically the entire business community at your doorstep, so it means you have access to large amounts of campaign money and institutional political support. It’s that simple.”
Brown’s next gifts to his new girlfriend were even more extravagant than a sports car: a seat on the California Medical Assistance Commission, then one on the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, with annual salaries of $72,000 and $97,000 respectively. These two prize patronage plums falling into the lap of a neophyte with no related expertise or experience irked politicos, but Kamala had clearly put in the work.
Shortly after Brown won the 1995 San Francisco mayoral election, he and Harris split up. Accounts conflict as to who dumped who, but Harris’ words a few years later are revealing. Describing Brown as “an albatross hanging around my neck,” Harris sneered, “[h]is career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing … Willie Brown is not going to be around. He’s gone — hello people, move on.”
Brown readily admits he jump-started Kamala’s political career with his favoritism. “I’ve helped lots of people…. The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I ‘so much as jaywalked’ while she was D.A.”
Thug Life
In 1998, San Francisco’s district attorney, Terence Hallinan, recruited fellow progressive, Harris, as his assistant DA. Little did he realize at the time he was nursing a viper in his bosom. As she had in Oakland across the Bay, Harris focused on sexual assault cases. But before long, Harris was generating friction within the office. Frequently and publicly clashing with colleagues over policy, Harris became persona non grata. She quit in 2000 to run the City Hall’s Family and Children’s Services Division.
Two years later, it was time for Kamala’s next big career step; only her former boss stood in her way. When Harris entered the 2003 San Francisco District Attorney race, she had nothing close to the name recognition enjoyed by her rivals, the progressive, two-term incumbent, Hallinan, or the moderate challenger, Bill Fazio. What Kamala did have were those establishment relationships she’d forged at Willie Brown’s many soirees, not to mention the sympathy of her pal, Gavin Newsom’s, coterie. Working these connections, she began lining up endorsements — at times resorting to veiled threats. The president of the city police union recalled Harris cornering him at a party: “I didn’t know who she was … and she came up to me and she put her finger in my chest and she said, ‘You better endorse me, you better endorse me. You get it?’”
The endorsement of other unions who recognized their true masters followed. Harris also received a boon from her friends in high places. In an unprecedented move, the state Democratic Committee, led by Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi, declined to endorse any candidate in the race. The donations rolled in, too — hundreds of thousands of dollars, coming in so fast Harris was cited for campaign finance violations. Curiously, among Harris’ largest donors were numerous individuals, groups, and law firms associated with San Francisco’s Roman Catholic archdiocese.
But Kamala’s biggest advantage over her rivals was her own sheer ruthlessness. At the first debate, Harris sprung a carefully-planned ambush that entered Bay Area politics legend. After Hallinan and Fazio gave their opening statements, Harris rose from her seat to stand behind Hallinan. “You know Terence Hallinan has attacked Bill Fazio for being caught in a massage parlor,” she boomed. Then, walking over to stand behind Fazio, Harris noted how he’d ridiculed Hallinan “for people having sex in his office.” Returning to her spot in the middle of the stage, Harris announced: “I want to make a commitment to you that my campaign is not going to be about negative attacks.”
It was a performance worthy of Machiavelli’s prince. Harris had simultaneously slung mud at both opponents while chastising them for the exact same mud-slinging. The audience ate it up. Decades later, Harris reminisced that “San Francisco is hard-knocks politics. They punch the gut.” Hallinan always considered it more of a stab in the back.
In the election, Harris eked past Fazio to force a run-off with Hallinan. Her campaign literature attacked her former boss for his low conviction rates, while contrasting her sex and skin color with his and all the city DAs of the past century. References to her affiliation with Brown were declared sexist. Harris won the run-off handily. In her victory speech, she promised to balance compassion for minor offenders with a hard-nosed pursuit of the most depraved criminals.
Menace II Society
Harris’ eight years as DA were filled with controversy while her decisions disappointed and shocked many of her grassroots supporters.
The mystery behind Kamala’s large haul of Catholic donations was solved soon after she took office. Harris, who’d first made a name for herself as a young prosecutor fighting “sex crimes and child exploitation” and “later touted her record on child sexual abuse cases and prosecuting pedophiles,” quashed Hallinan’s ongoing, exhaustive investigation into sexual abuse of minors by priests. Harris failed to pursue any open cases, while refusing to release any files to the public despite the urging of SNAP and other victims’ advocates. Years later, in response to FOIA requests, the SF DA’s office announced the documents were nowhere to be found.
While Harris significantly increased conviction rates over her predecessor’s, she did so by aggressively prosecuting minor pot busts and by accepting plea bargains on outstanding murder cases, something she’d criticized Hallinan for.
At other times, however, Harris could be draconian. In 2005, the DA’s office brought murder charges against Lashaun Ternice Harris, a paranoid schizophrenic who’d thrown her three small children into the San Francisco Bay by the command of voices in her head. Ternice Harris, who was living in a homeless shelter at the time, had recently gone off her meds in hopes of retaining custody of her children. The judge rejected the guilty verdict, instead committing her to a mental institution. Harris successfully fought to have the murder conviction reinstated.
In 2006, Harris launched a crusade against school truancy, on the questionable theory that, as most violent criminals had been truants, forcing kids to attend class today would reduce crime in future. To add teeth to her program, Harris threatened parents of habitual truants with a $2,500 fine and a year in jail. Although no parents served time, several were prosecuted. When Harris’ own staff brought to her attention the program’s deep unpopularity among the public, she laughed.
Harris ran unopposed for reelection in 2007, her powerful SF machine friends advising any aspirants to stay out of the race if they knew what was good for them.
In 2009, Deborah Madden, a police lab technician who’d frequently testified in court over the years, was arrested for stealing cocaine from the evidence room. It soon came out that Harris’ office had for years been aware of Madden tampering with evidence, among other criminal offenses. Madden’s personnel file even included a folder labeled “Brady Implications.” Under Brady v. Maryland (1963), the DA was required to hand over this potentially exculpatory evidence to any defendant convicted in trials in which Madden had appeared. Harris did not, even though an internal memo had circulated in her office listing over a hundred law enforcement officials with criminal or misconduct issues impacting over 1,000 convictions (600 of which were later vacated.) Harris claimed she never saw the memo.
In 2010, Jamal Trulove was convicted of murder based on a solitary eyewitness. The conviction was overturned when it was revealed that Harris’ office wrongfully withheld from the jury that the witness had been paid $60,000 and given new housing. Trulove was awarded a $13 million settlement.
In 2010, after a judge vacated Caramad Conley’s murder conviction, citing “voluminous” evidence of false testimony, Harris nevertheless attempted to retry Conley. Once Harris left office, the new DA declined to pursue the case.
Still I Rise
The next logical stepping stone in the Rise of Kamala was state attorney general, which she sought in 2010. With a 33.6% plurality against six primary opponents, Harris advanced to the general election, where she garnered 46% of the vote in another crowded field. She easily won reelection in 2014.
As in San Francisco, Harris’ tenure in Sacramento was marred with nearly identical controversies.
One of Harris’ first acts as AG was to block, for two years, the release of Daniel Larsen, whose conviction for illegal weapons possession had been overturned based on exculpatory testimony of nine eyewitnesses, including a policeman. When Larson was finally set free, Harris appealed, claiming he missed a deadline to file paperwork.
Beginning in 2011, and sporadically for the following three years, Harris would attempt to inflict her draconian anti-truancy crusade on the entire state.
2013: Harris recommended that the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board not pay Rafael Madrigal the $282,000 he was owed for a wrongful conviction due to … you guessed it, suppressed exculpatory evidence.
2013: Harris, citing technicalities, declined to prosecute OneWest Bank for “widespread violation” of California foreclosure laws. Many legal observers considered her excuse bogus. Coincidentally, Harris later was the only US Senate candidate to receive a campaign donation from Steven Mnuchin, who’d profited greatly from OneWest’s subprime lending.
2013: Harris certified that “micro-stamping” of handgun shell casings in two locations “is a technology available to more than one [gun] manufacturer unencumbered by any patent restrictions”, despite its defiance of the laws of physics. When the related law was challenged, Harris’ office successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit that impossibility of compliance is no bar to a legal requirement. The net result has been an effective ban on the sale of new handguns in California, even though most new models feature improved safety mechanisms. Harris recently revealed that she herself owns a handgun for personal protection.
2013: Harris declined to prosecute a Pacific Gas and Electric executive for an illegal meeting with a member of the state utilities board.
2014: Harris declined to investigate a widely publicized ‘judge shopping’ scandal surrounding a lawsuit stemming from a PG&E gas explosion that wiped out an entire neighborhood. NB: PG&E is a major campaign donor to several powerful California Democrats, including Kamala’s longtime ally, Gavin Newsom.
2014: state attorneys attempted to block the early release of prisoners, citing the need for inmates’ assistance in fighting wildfires. When this provoked public outrage, Harris denied all knowledge of the effort by her staff.
2015: Harris declined to act on a memo from within her own DA’s office on the urgency of investigating the nutritional supplement manufacturer, Herbalife, for multiple fraudulent marketing practices. Herbalife was represented by the law firm of Kamala’s husband.
2015: Harris brokered a $33 million settlement with Comcast for its release of data of tens of thousands of customers who’d paid for unlisted phone service. Comcast realizes $109 billion in annual revenue. Apparently, the deal resulted in no hard feelings, as five senior Comcast execs donated generously to Kamala’s 2019 presidential campaign.
2015: Harris fought an appeal of a sexual assault conviction by George Gage. A judge ruled that Harris’ prosecutors had withheld exculpatory evidence, but Harris successfully blocked a retrial on a procedural technicality.
2016 : Harris ordered the state DOJ to raid the home of David Daleiden, a pro-life activist who’d recorded undercover video exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal tissue from abortions in violation of California and Federal law. Daleiden was then charged with violating California’s two-party consent law regarding recorded conversations. This was the first and, to date, only indictment made under this law, despite the regular use of undercover recordings by journalists in exposés.
It later came to light that prior to the raid, Harris had met to strategize and to coordinate her actions with Planned Parenthood executives, including one whose clinic was under investigation by a County DA for illegal sale of fetal tissue. That executive later pleaded guilty, his clinic accepting a $7.8 million plea bargain. Needless to say, Planned Parenthood has been a generous campaign donor over the years to Harris.
2016: Harris opposed the American Bar Association’s request for the retesting of forensic evidence in the case of Kevin Cooper, an inmate on California’s death row who claims his 1983 conviction for murder was the result of evidence-tampering by police. Shortly before launching her presidential run, Harris publicly reversed her stance, saying, “I feel awful about this.”
Just Passing Through
The upwards path opened again for Kamala with the retirement of US Senator, Barbara Boxer. After a brief scuffle with Gavin Newsom over the vacancy, the two pals agreed to divvy up the booty, with Newsom gunning for Governor. In an open Senate primary, Harris breezed past 37 others, then won handily in the general election vs. another democrat under CA’s newly-introduced ‘top-two’ format.
During her brief time in Washington, Harris has not made much of a legislative mark. Co-sponsor to nearly five hundred bills, she is the architect of none of consequence. Her notoriety has come primarily from her performances during televised confirmations and other hearings. Whether it was disparaging three federal district-court nominees for their membership in the Knights of Columbus, badgering the US Attorney General by asking him whether he was “aware of the perception” that his agents were just like the KKK, or her clumsy attempt to bluff Brett Kavanaugh with an allusion to non-existent incriminating evidence, in committee chambers Harris has employed the pit-bull tactics of a prosecutor.
But Harris never intended to forge a legacy for herself as a workhorse on Capitol Hill. It was merely a momentary stop on her lifelong climb to the very pinnacle of power.
The Last Laugh
What to make of someone who, during a tough-on-crime era, is willing to burnish her reputation by suppressing exculpatory evidence, but during a time when policing reform is trending, will preach about how going after crime is “wrongheaded” and we must instead “reimagine public safety?” Who threatened to throw parents of truants in jail, but gave corporate criminals slaps on the wrist? Who billed herself as a warrior against the sexual exploitation of youth, but was fine with letting child raping priests get off if it’d help her win an election? Who traded sexual favors for access to patronage? Who will morph her persona on the fly to pander to this or that group?
There can be but one conclusion: Kamala Harris is a sociopath.
Over the course of her bid to ascend to the Oval Office, Kamala Harris has employed all of the same ruthless machinations seen in her relentless, lifelong quest for power. As one of her former campaign managers warned, “the biggest mistake would be to underestimate her. She will leave no stone unturned in figuring out how to get it done.”
Witness how, when Harris’ most formidable obstacle was Joe Biden, she carefully laid a brutal ambush, tacitly calling him a racist by professing she did not believe he was a racist. Witness her readiness to “believe” Tara Reade’s accusations, only to later throw Reade under the bus. Witness her flip-flopping on policy positions from one week to the next, a brazen attempt to surf the undulating wave of popular sentiment. Or, on controversial issues where she cannot tell which way the wind will blow, her trademark prevarication, “we really need to have a discussion on that.”
When these tactics led to her rejection by Democratic voters, she bitterly accused them of being racist and sexist and “not ready” for her intersectional awesomeness. Whereas any other candidate, whose campaign had crashed and burned as spectacularly as Kamala’s did, would have entered into four years of introspection, Harris merely dusted herself off and unleashed her secret weapon, those insider connections she’d first first cultivated all those years ago as Willie Brown’s arm candy. It was these titans, the party’s shadowy power brokers, the Silicon Valley mega-donors, who strong-armed Team Joe to pick their asset, Kamala.
And when questioned about her sudden volte-face on her now-running mate, she barely hesitated before dismissing any concerns as to whether she possessed any scruples whatsoever, much less a soul. “It’s just politics!” she laughed.
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