Her more radical positions, such as support for the Obama administration’s Iran deal, prosecuting a journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s collection and sale of aborted babies’ body parts (while receiving campaign donations from them)
David Daleiden: Kamala
Harris Prostituted Her Law Enforcement Powers to Planned Parenthood
17
5:47
David Daleiden, founder of
the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)
prostituted her powers in her former role as California’s attorney general for
the benefit of Planned Parenthood in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host
Joel Pollak.
Daleiden
noted the partisan and political dimensions of California’s prosecution of him
and his CMP colleague Sandra Merritt. Both he and Merritt were charged with
14 cases of illegal recording of confidential conversations and one count of
conspiracy.
“Kamala Harris is the biggest threat
to First Amendment civil liberties and First Amendment civil rights that our
country has ever seen, in my opinion,” said Daleiden. “While she was the
attorney General of the State of California, Kamala Harris, at the behest of
her political patron — Planned Parenthood — targeted me for criminal punishment
solely because of the content of the message that I was publishing and speaking
at the time as you mentioned the undercover video series showing top-level
Planned Parenthood officials callously negotiating the harvesting and sale of
tiny aborted baby hearts and lungs and livers and brains.”
Daleiden continued, “In the State of
California, when Kamala Harris was the attorney general, you could do
undercover investigations of factory farming, corrupt chiropractors, [and]
fraudulent air conditioning repairmen. Local TV news journalists in California
[were] filming and publishing undercover video with conversations — sometimes
even in private office spaces — and publishing these videos in on a daily
weekly basis. Not a single one of those journalists ever had their home raided
or were prosecuted by Kamala Harris’s attorney general’s office.”
LISTEN:
“But if you did the exact same kind
of undercover filming and publishing, and your message was something that
questioned Planned Parenthood or questioned the abortion industry — the sacred
cows of Kamala Harris and the San Francisco political establishment in
California — then in that case, I became the first and only person involved in
news gathering, the first and only citizen journalist in the state of California
to ever have the California video recording law enforced against me,
criminally,” Daleiden added.
Daleiden went on, “It was launched
under Kamala Harris. She targeted our message, specifically. She sent 11
California DOJ agents in April of 2016 to raid my one-bedroom apartment in
Orange County with explicit instructions from Planned Parenthood to seize the
means of publication, to seize the computers and the video equipment
that I was using to publish the videos.”
“Kamala
Harris’ deputy prosecutor, Johnette Jauron, who was in charge of the case,
she admitted a few years later in
2018 in a filing in court that the reason that I alone have become the first
citizen journalist in California to be prosecuted under the California video
recording law — to have that law criminally enforced against me when it was
enforced against against nobody else for news gathering in California — is
because of the content of the videos themselves,” recalled Daleiden.
“It is blatant, unconstitutional
viewpoint discrimination and invidious targeting of Americans whose message
Kamala Harris disagrees with. So, she is a huge threat to our First Amendment
civil liberties in this country.”
Pollak said, “It almost looks as if [Harris] initiated
her prosecution of you at the instigation of Planned Parenthood to please
Planned Parenthood, to help this politically-connected organization, which is
so important for donations in the Democratic Party and for the future of anyone
in Democratic politics. She basically acted at their behest. Is that true?”
Daleiden replied, “Yes, absolutely.
Like I said, undercover video recording and reporting has never been criminally
prosecuted in California in the history of the state until now, until this
case, where the entity whose ox is being gored was Planned Parenthood, the
political patrons of Kamala Harris and so many others in the California
political establishment.”
He further noted how Harris
coordinated her prosecution of him and his CMP colleague with Planned
Parenthood.
“Just two weeks before she ordered
the raid on my home, Kamala Harris had a secret in-person meeting in Los
Angeles with several top-level Planned Parenthood of California officials,”
stated Daleiden. “We have
the action items from that meeting in an email that was produced to us in
discovering the case, and those action items show that the meeting was
primarily to discuss Planned Parenthood’s political agenda in the state of
California, but included within their political agenda were the issues involved
in Kamala Harris’s investigation of me.”
Daleiden concluded, “[Harris] was
blatantly mixing her political constituent services functions with her law
enforcement powers and basically prostituting her law enforcement powers to the
service of her political campaign donors. She was running for United States
Senate at that exact same time in March and April in 2016. She had petitions
urging political support for Planned Parenthood on her campaign website.
He recalled that Harris’s
executive office assistant while she was attorney general of California — who
was ‘liaising with Planned Parenthood” while “working on this investigation” —
later became Harris’s campaign manager during her first run for the U.S.
Senate.
“It is a blatant use and abuse
of law enforcement power solely to serve private partisan political interests,
and that is why she is such a dangerous candidate,” concluded Daleiden.
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Kamala's Threat to American Democracy
Who, exactly, is a vice-president supposed to be?
Tue Aug 18, 2020
The
arrival of Joe Biden’s decision on a running mate is a true turning point in
the history of American politics.
There
has never before been a presidential candidate who, prior to entering
the White House, has shown such undeniable signs of age-related neurological
decay. All political disagreements disregarded, the sight of an elderly person
succumbing to the demons of those dreaded cognitive ailments -- which all too
often rob us of the older people we love -- is truly excruciating to behold.
The
political outcome of Biden's mental state is, if possible, even more
unsettling. The role of the president is meant to be powerful. All
constitutional checks and balances considered, the sheer power of the chief
executive, in that one single person invested with authority to counter-balance
the power of the legislative and judicial branches, is truly awesome.
In
our situation today, we see a man who is clearly not in full command of his
mental faculties, who is allowing himself to be considered for that office of
chief executive; an office which, unlike a prime minister in a parliamentary
system, is intended to be stable and not prone to regular changes in
leadership.
The
expectation of a normal four-year presidential tenure on Biden’s part if he is
elected must, at the very least, be subjected to serious doubt. If pronouncing basic
words -- let alone quoting the
most famous phrase of our Declaration of Independence -- is such a
confusing ordeal for him, then it is our urgent duty to question whether
this individual is fit to be the man who must accept the ultimate
responsibility for this country’s national security and well-being.
These facts squarely cast the Democrat side of the current
election as not a presidential election at all, but a vice-presidential election.
Should
Biden win, the chances are very probable that his vice president will become
the 47th president to finish out his first four-year term. As the vice
president automatically succeeds to the Oval Office if the president dies or is
rendered permanently incapacitated, the profoundly anti-democratic
repercussions of this situation is worsened by whom Biden has actually chosen.
The
traditional custom for presidential hopefuls is to either choose the
second-highest-polling candidate in a primary race, as Ronald Reagan did with
George H. W. Bush in 1980, or to choose a highly capable politician who is
well-respected by most of the party, as Donald Trump did with Governor Mike
Pence in 2016. In both of those cases, the aforementioned running mates reflected
the Republican Party and its voters quite respectably while promoting unity.
It
is highly questionable, meanwhile, whether Kamala Harris -- aside from all of
the establishment media’s expected giddy cheerleading -- really represents her
party all that well. She was polling at 2% nationally
by the time she ended her own presidential bid on December 3, 2019. Her
more radical positions, such as support for
the Obama administration’s Iran deal, prosecuting a
journalist who exposed Planned Parenthood’s collection and sale of aborted
babies’ body parts (while receiving campaign
donations from them), and defending Ilhan
Omar’s anti-Semitism, may indeed sit well with a great many leftists, but her
actions as Attorney General of California may not. While in that position,
Harris jailed hundreds
on marijuana charges and authorized anti-prostitution sting operations
which, according to SF Weekly,
disproportionately targeted Latino men (a crucial Democrat demographic). In
addition to this -- though she later admitted it was a mistake -- she prosecuted and
jailed the parents of truant teens. She even refused to
release the names of Catholic priests accused of sexually molesting children,
abnegating law enforcement’s most basic and humane duty -- regardless of
anyone’s opinion of the Catholic Church.
it
is highly debatable if these are positions that a high number of progressives
who voted for the Democrat primary runner-up, Bernie Sanders, would approve of.
Especially today, being tough on minority and drug crime -- to the exclusion of
“white patriarchal” clergy sex abuse -- is not en vogue among the Democratic Party’s
truly energized base, which is largely college-educated millennials taught to
have contempt for not only aggressive inner city policing, but inner city
policing overall.
It
also remains a question as to how many black American voters Kamala really
represents. Without doubt, she completely failed to gain these voters' support
during the primary. Many black Americans responded to Barack and Michelle Obama
due to their image as
people who empathized authentically with the black experience of living in
inner city America. Harris’s flip-flopping on criminal justice issues has
clearly deprived her
of the Obama touch.
What
should highly concern all Americans of whatever political persuasion is the
fact that, given Joe Biden’s medical condition, a Democrat victory in 2020
could very likely result in a person for whom only 2% of
Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents supported to
become president.
The
reasons for Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate are as yet not
entirely clear. What is very clear, however, is that a new president of the
United States in the near future could be a person whom a weak and faltering
man chose by
fiat, and not someone whom the majority of the country elected by the ballot.
That's a problem.
It's
a problem for America -- and it's a serious and profound problem for American democracy.
Barry Nussbaum is an
exceptional American businessman and real estate mogul, whose distinguished
career extends more than 38 years. He is an experienced news commentator on
international affairs, who has been featured on major television networks,
web-based and in print media. Visit his site: AmericanTruthProject.org.
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