With immense credit to Clarice Feldman, whose article from americanthinker.com I am quoting from…
…and understanding that, in several places, Ms. Feldman has added her (anti-Harris, conservative) commentaries…
…this is a compilation – a very well referenced compilation – of statements/positions that define the real Kamala Harris. Not the sanitized, sanctified version we are seeing from what passes for our mainstream media these days, but the real Kamala Harris, based on her actual words and actions:
…here are some highlights of the past which she is burdened with, in no particular order:
- She supports defunding the police, arguing, “more safety with cops is wrong”
- She supports sanctuary cities.
- She played a leading role in the disastrous hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in which the U.S. left to the Taliban billions of dollars worth of military equipment, left behind Americans and Afghans who had assisted us, and lost 13 fine military personnel, after which she did not even attend the dignified transfer of their remains at Dover AFB.
- She supports Marxism, arguing absurdly that we all have the same capacities and should end up in the same place, but since we didn’t start out in “the same place, some folks might need for equitable distribution.” (Her family’s private residence is valued at $5 million, if you aren’t in the same financial position, go lay claim to it.)
- She wants to transform the criminal justice system by ending cash bail, eliminating minimum sentences, allowing convicted murderers and rapists the right to vote in federal elections.
- She hasn’t a clue about or respect for the Constitution. When she participated in the presidential debates, she insisted over Biden’s dissent that she could institute gun control by executive order.
- She called the border wall a ”vanity project” and said that illegal aliens aren’t criminals, and the surge of them across our borders is “not an emergency.” She even argued that U.S. taxpayers should provide health insurance coverage for illegal border crossers. (Under this Administration, there have been an estimated 11 million of them. Do the math on the cost of that.)
At a Democratic presidential debate in Miami in June 2019, then-Sen. Harris was among a number of candidates who affirmed support for both decriminalizing illegal border crossings and also requiring U.S. taxpayers to provide health insurance coverage to illegal border crossers.
What root cause could be more powerful than an offer of free access to the U.S. medical system and a guarantee that legal consequences for unlawful entry would be minimal? Any prudent person without a good job south of the border would at least have to give serious consideration to this compelling offer. And it was coming from leading Democratic politicians, including a senator representing the most populous state in the U.S.
- She was widely touted as Biden’s border czar, and now she and the lickspittle press try to memory-hole that and claim her brief was far more limited. Axios, for one, actually removed its contemporaneous accounts of her appointment as border czar. GovTrack this week removed its early reports which named her as the most liberal person in the Senate.
- As vice president, she has the ceremonial function of representing the country as Senate president, greeting foreign guests. She passed on greeting Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming that a prior engagement at a sorority confab took precedence. Then she had a seconds-long photo op with him in the White House, after which the press was tossed out. In remarks to the press following the meeting, she said she had “serious concerns about the scale of human suffering in Gaza” and claimed over two million people in Gaza are facing food insecurity. (Independent analyses indicate enough food is entering Gaza to provide over 3000 calories per person per day. I suppose the next claim will be that Israel is trying to kill Gazans by overfeeding them.)
- “Kamala Harris admits she supports — Raising taxes on 91% of Americans across every income bracket. — A higher business tax rate than socialist Venezuela. — Raising the death tax.”
- She opposed fracking (CNN presidential town hall) until a day or so ago when the Hill reported an unnamed campaign staffer (probably looking at internal polls from Pennsylvania) announced that she no longer supports fracking bans.
- While Attorney General of California, she supported Proposition 47, which allows people to steal $950 worth of goods at a time without serious criminal penalty. (If you wonder why San Francisco’s downtown is empty of retail stores, you now know.)
- She partnered with local officials of CAIR, which has been at the forefront of anti-Israel activities and is involved in fundraising for the Muslim Brotherhood to boost Hamas. She has consistently been anti-Israeli and indifferent to the attacks on Jewish college students.
- She backed the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which bailed out criminals during the George Floyd riots, which caused extensive property damage and some deaths. When she denied that this week, people pointed out that her webpage seeking donations for the group was still online. Similarly, still online as of this week was her full-throated support of hoaxer Jussie Smollett, who was convicted for lying that he’d been assaulted by apparent Trump fans. She called his easily discredited claims “a modern-day lynching.”
- Her office framed an innocent man for a murder for which he spent seven years in prison and was ultimately awarded over 13 million dollars from the city in compensation.
- As attorney general of California, she kept people in prison after their sentences expired to provide cheap labor for the state and, when called on it, claimed to be shocked. Which was either false or an admission of her lack of managerial capacity.
Harris “kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.”
This claim comes from a February Daily Beast article. It found lawyers in then AG Harris’ office argued in 2014 that, despite court orders to reduce state prison crowding, some non-violent offenders needed to stay in the prison system to help combat wildfires. It does not detail how many prisoners, if any, ended up staying longer than required.
A spokesperson for Harris was quoted in the article saying, “Senator Harris was shocked and troubled by the use of this argument. She looked into it and directed the department’s attorneys not to make that argument again.”
That, folks, is the real Kamala Harris.
If you like what you just read, by all means vote for her. If you don’t, by all means don’t vote for her.
Your call.
