lifesitenews--2020-10-28--12 reasons to fear Kamala Harris becoming vice president — and likely president

October 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — If Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is elected president of the United States on November 3 , given his age , general frailty , and evident cognitive deterioration , he may run the country for not even a full single term .
And in that case , vice president Kamala Harris will take over .
Indeed , President Donald Trump was not alone in suggesting that the real reason House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ) introduced a 25th Amendment commission on removing a “ mentally unfit ” president was to ensure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Harris , should the Democrats win .
Harris , 56 , is primarily defined as the first black person ( she is , in fact , biracial : her mother was from India and a member of the Brahmin , or top Hindu caste , and her father is from Jamaica ) and third woman to run for vice president for a major party .
But a quick survey of Harris ’ s 27-year-long political career in California and steady rise in the Democratic Party reveal a ruthlessly ambitious political opportunist whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political debts , with the exception of abortion , where she is completely in lockstep with Planned Parenthood .
Here are 12 highlights from that career that demonstrate there is good reason to fear a Harris administration : 1 .
Her pro-abortion record .
Harris voted twice against the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act , which would require abortion facilities to transfer babies born alive to a hospital .
She opposed the confirmations of Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch , Brett Kavanaugh , and Amy Coney Barrett .
She also opposes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funding of elective abortions , and she wants to “ codify ” Roe vs. Wade , the 1973 pro-abortion Supreme Court ruling that essentially imposed abortion on all states .
2 .
Harris used her office on behalf of Planned Parenthood .
Most egregiously , during her 2016 run for Senate , Harris ’ s office conducted a raid on the apartment of David Daleiden , the lead investigator for the Center for Medical Progress , which exposed Planned Parenthood ’ s trafficking in aborted baby body parts .
In 2017 , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigator Sandra Merritt with multiple felonies .
Daleiden announced this May he is suing Planned Parenthood , Harris , and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for conspiracy to violate his First and Fourteenth Amendment civil rights .
In October , CMP released a video describing how Harris allegedly colluded with Planned Parenthood to weaponize California ’ s video recording law against the pro-life citizen journalists .
Harris ’ s Senate campaign website included her endorsements of and by Planned Parenthood , and as a senator , she has earned 100 percent ratings from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as vice presidential candidate .
3 .
Her pro-LGBTQ , anti-marriage , anti-democracy stance as state attorney general .
In late 2010 , Harris ran for California attorney general and won .
Fellow San Franciscans Nancy Pelosi , Dianne Feinstein , and Barbara Boxer endorsed her .
Harris pledged not to defend California ’ s new constitutional amendment , Proposition 8 , passed by voters in 2008 , that stated that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman .
In 2013 , she filed an amicus brief with the Supreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ marriage amendment was unconstitutional .
4 .
Her affair with Willie Brown .
In order to understand Harris ’ rise to power and anything about California politics , one has to know about Brown , one of California ’ s most influential politicians .
Brown was a “ kingmaker ” who sat in the state assembly for 30 years , 15 as speaker , and distributed lucrative patronage appointments to political allies and his string of mistresses .
His signature piece of legislation was the 1975 law that decriminalized sodomy in California .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ eventually passed a law enacting term limits and a broader distribution of control , which forced him out in 1994 , the same year Harris became his “ steady.
” She was 29 and he was 60 and still married , although estranged from his wife , the mother of their three children .
When Harris first started dating Brown , she took a leave of absence from her job as deputy district attorney for Alameda County , and Brown appointed her to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board , a position that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a few months later and went back her job as a prosecutor .
Later that year , in his “ rush to hand out patronage jobs while he retains his powerful post , ” Brown named Harris , described by many as his “ girlfriend , ” to the California Medical Assistance Commission , a position with an annual salary of $ 97,088 ( about equal to that of a full-time state senator ) with the obligation to attend two meetings a month , the LA Times reported at the time .
Harris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about 20 percent of the meetings , according to the Washington Examiner , Brown took Harris to all the high-society events in San Francisco and gave her a new BMW .
They broke up at her initiative after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995 , and Brown ’ s wife , Blanche , held the Bible for his swearing in .
In 1998 , Terence Hallinan , San Francisco ’ s district attorney who was infamous for physical violence in his youth , recruited Harris to serve as an assistant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warred with a co-worker and quit , taking a job at the San Francisco city attorney ’ s office with Louise Renne , who had been appointed by then-mayor Dianne Feinstein .
In 2004 she ran for district attorney for San Francisco , and her campaign relied heavily on the wealthy San Francisco elite she ’ d met through Brown , who organized his own , separate fundraising for her .
Harris said that she didn ’ t ask for his help and referred to her affair with the notorious womanizer as “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brown also stepped in to help Harris in 2016 , when she successfully ran for a seat in the California senate , discouraging a run by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa , who would have been a formidable opponent .
Harris had two years earlier married lawyer Douglas Emhoff , who has two adult children with his first wife .
When Harris declared her intention to run for Democratic presidential nominee , Brown penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle admitting he “ may have influenced her career ” with his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her first race for San Francisco DA , but that he also helped the “ careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , Gov .
Gavin Newsom , Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians.
” However , Harris was 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.
, ” he wrote .
“ That ’ s politics for ya.
” 5 .
Harris refused new DNA testing for man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ During the July Democratic nominee debates , Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard famously accused Harris of blocking “ evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
” A Breitbart News fact check rated Gabbard ’ s statement as “ mostly true.
” As state AG , Harris refused “ to allow newly available DNA testing ” for Kevin Cooper , a black man who has been on death row in San Quentin since his 1985 conviction of the brutal murder of two adults @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There is strong evidence suggesting that law enforcement and a criminalist planted , tampered with or tossed away critical evidence in an attempt to frame Cooper during an investigation and prosecution that involved “ abject racism , ” according to a 2018 New York Times analysis .
Gov .
Jerry Brown in late 2018 and Gov .
Newsom in early January 2019 approved DNA testing , and Cooper , who has always maintained his innocence , has since been waiting for the results , the Los Angeles Times reported in June .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ sexual abuse case to prosecution .
In a “ shocking display of inaction , ” Harris “ never prosecuted a single case forward against an abusive priest ” in her time as district attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 , and as California ’ s attorney general from 2011 to 2017 , according to Peter Schweizer ’ s January 2020 exposé Profiles in Corruption .
Moreover , “ her office would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victim groups , ” he noted .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s failure to prosecute priestly abuse cases was her large political debt to powerful Bay Catholics , who donated to her 2004 campaign for San Francisco district attorney , as her opponent Hallinan had been “ aggressively … pursuing abuse cases against the Church , ” according to the American Spectator .
Hallinan ’ s “ gathering of incriminating documents drove Catholics afraid of his investigation into Kamala Harris ’ s arms.
” Her campaign received “ high-dollar donations … from those connected to the Catholic Church institutional hierarchy ” and $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ various organizations in the Bay Area and their family members.
” 7 .
Harris claimed she didn ’ t know of sexual harassment suit against longtime staffer .
An alleged champion of the # MeToo cause , Harris claimed she had no knowledge of the situation when her longtime staffer Larry Wallace resigned in December 2018 over revelations that his executive assistant had sued him two years earlier for sexual harassment .
Wallace was director of the Division of Law Enforcement when Harris was state attorney general , and as senator , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months before the California Department of Justice reached a $ 400,000 settlement with the plaintiff , who , “ as part of the deal , had to resign her position , agree never to seek employment at the California Department of Justice , and — most importantly — sign a nondisclosure agreement , ” the Washington Examiner reported at the time .
The story broke just months after Harris made “ grandstanding broadsides against the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh , ” according to the Examiner .
Harris appears to temper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to suit her circumstances .
In April 2019 , before Biden entered the Democratic nomination race , she was asked about allegations by women that the former vice president had inappropriately touched them .
“ I believe them , and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it , ” Harris said .
When Tara Reade , a former Biden aide , alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her when he was a U.S. senator — an allegation Biden emphatically denies — Harris , then a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ has a right to tell her story … And I believe that and I believe Joe Biden believes that , too , ” the U.K .
Independent reported .
However , there is no evidence that since being named Biden ’ s running mate , Harris has encouraged Reade to do so .
8 .
Harris jailed 1,560 people for pot-related offenses but now supports decriminalization .
After Harris admitted during a February 2019 radio interview that she smoked pot and was in favor of legalizing marijuana because it “ it gives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Washington Free Beacon reported that when she was California ’ s attorney general , “ at least 1,560 people were sent to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses between 2011 and 2016 , ” according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports .
Harris said during her debate with Vice President Mike Pence that a Biden administration would decriminalize marijuana at a federal level in the United States .
9 .
Harris ’ s 2010 San Francisco “ police crime lab scandal.
” In Harris ’ s last year as San Francisco @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that she and her staff failed to inform defense lawyers , as required by law , that evidence from a police-run city lab “ might have been tainted , ” the Washington Post reported January 2019 , adding that Harris said she took full responsibility and “ made ‘ no excuses ’ for the failure.
” As a result , San Francisco prosecutors dropped “ an estimated 1,000 drug cases , ” which came “ on top of about 550 cases that were already dismissed or not charged because the lab was unable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Press reported in April 2010 .
( This was the basis of Biden ’ s claim in the July Democratic primary debates that under Harris ’ s watch , a federal judge freed 1,000 inmates from prison . )
10 .
Harris claimed she didn ’ t know her office tried to keep prisoners in jail to fight fires .
As state AG , Harris said she didn ’ t know that her lawyers “ argued against releasing nonviolent prisoners from overcrowded prisons in 2014 , ” according the Washington Examiner .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needed to remain in prison because California couldn ’ t spare them .
They needed the incarcerated to stay incarcerated lest the state run out of forced labor to fight forest fires.
” The judge ruled against the request , but Harris ’ s ignorance of what her department ’ s action added to the picture that she was using her job and “ the statewide recognition that comes with it ” as a stepping stone to “ hop from California to Washington , ” the Examiner noted .
11 .
Harris allegedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2014 , Harris allegedly “ covered up a wide-ranging surveillance scheme in which a single Riverside County judge ordered hundreds of wiretaps ” that resulted in “ 44,000 people and over 2 million conversations ” being tapped , Big League Politics reported in January 2019 .
“ A federal judge said legal standards ‘ could not have been met ’ with regard to the Riverside County wiretaps , ” which “ coincided with a period of massive revenue gains for the state of California from civil asset forfeitures overseen by Kamala Harris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ County collected more than $ 3 million in civil asset forfeitures , ” it reported .
“ In 2015 , Kamala Harris ’ attorney general ’ s office made the unprecedented decision to release California ’ s Electronic Interceptions Report as a ‘ locked ’ PDF not available to members of the public , according to documents obtained by Big League Politics , ” it added .
12 .
Harris paid thousands into slate mail scheme of Brown protégé , Democratic California representative Maxine Waters .
Harris paid $ 63,000 over two campaign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technically legal but highly controversial scheme in which candidates pay for placement on a “ slate mailer ” announcing Waters ’ s endorsement , the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2017 .
Harris paid $ 33,000 to Waters ’ campaign in 2010 when she was running for state AG , and $ 30,000 in May 2016 when she was running for senate , for her name to appear on Waters ’ s endorsement mailers .
The “ slate mailer operation , which legally allows Waters to bypass campaign contribution limits from other political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 300,000 for Waters ’ campaign during the 2016 election cycle.
” A July 2018 complaint the government watchdog National Legal and Policy Center filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Democratic State Central Committee of California ( DSCCC ) violated federal election law in 2016 when it paid the Waters campaign a further $ 35,000 to include Harris ’ s name on a Waters slate mailer , because “ it is not legal for such payment to be made by a third party like the DSCCC .
”

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate is a ruthlessly ambitious political opportunist whose principles appear to shift — except on abortion.
ANALYSIS
October 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — If Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is elected president of the United States on November 3, given his age, general frailty, and evident cognitive deterioration, he may run the country for not even a full single term.
And in that case, vice president Kamala Harris will take over.
Indeed, President Donald Trump was not alone in suggesting that the real reason House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) introduced a 25th Amendment commission on removing a “mentally unfit” president was to ensure a smooth transfer of power from Biden to Harris, should the Democrats win.
Harris, 56, is primarily defined as the first black person (she is, in fact, biracial: her mother was from India and a member of the Brahmin, or top Hindu caste, and her father is from Jamaica) and third woman to run for vice president for a major party.
But a quick survey of Harris’s 27-year-long political career in California and steady rise in the Democratic Party reveal a ruthlessly ambitious political opportunist whose principles appear to shift according to her political debts, with the exception of abortion, where she is completely in lockstep with Planned Parenthood.
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Here are 12 highlights from that career that demonstrate there is good reason to fear a Harris administration:
1. Her pro-abortion record. Harris voted twice against the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would require abortion facilities to transfer babies born alive to a hospital. She opposed the confirmations of Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. She also opposes the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits direct federal funding of elective abortions, and she wants to “codify” Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 pro-abortion Supreme Court ruling that essentially imposed abortion on all states.
2. Harris used her office on behalf of Planned Parenthood. Most egregiously, during her 2016 run for Senate, Harris’s office conducted a raid on the apartment of David Daleiden, the lead investigator for the Center for Medical Progress, which exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in aborted baby body parts.
In 2017, the state of California charged Daleiden and undercover investigator Sandra Merritt with multiple felonies. Daleiden announced this May he is suing Planned Parenthood, Harris, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for conspiracy to violate his First and Fourteenth Amendment civil rights. In October, CMP released a video describing how Harris allegedly colluded with Planned Parenthood to weaponize California’s video recording law against the pro-life citizen journalists.
Harris’s Senate campaign website included her endorsements of and by Planned Parenthood, and as a senator, she has earned 100 percent ratings from Planned Parenthood and NARAL and their endorsements as vice presidential candidate.
3. Her pro-LGBTQ, anti-marriage, anti-democracy stance as state attorney general. In late 2010, Harris ran for California attorney general and won. Fellow San Franciscans Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer endorsed her. Harris pledged not to defend California’s new constitutional amendment, Proposition 8, passed by voters in 2008, that stated that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. In 2013, she filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, arguing that California’s marriage amendment was unconstitutional.
4. Her affair with Willie Brown. In order to understand Harris’ rise to power and anything about California politics, one has to know about Brown, one of California’s most influential politicians. Brown was a “kingmaker” who sat in the state assembly for 30 years, 15 as speaker, and distributed lucrative patronage appointments to political allies and his string of mistresses. His signature piece of legislation was the 1975 law that decriminalized sodomy and bestiality in California.
Brown accrued such power that the assembly eventually passed a law enacting term limits and a broader distribution of control, which forced him out in 1994, the same year Harris became his “steady.” She was 29 and he was 60 and still married, although estranged from his wife, the mother of their three children.
When Harris first started dating Brown, she took a leave of absence from her job as deputy district attorney for Alameda County, and Brown appointed her to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a position that paid $72,000 annually. She resigned a few months later and went back to her job as a prosecutor.
Later in 1994, in his “rush to hand out patronage jobs while he retains his powerful post,” Brown named Harris, described by many as his “girlfriend,” to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a position with an annual salary of $97,088 (about equal to that of a full-time state senator) with the obligation to attend two meetings a month, the LA Times reported at the time. Harris kept her position until 1998 and missed about 20 percent of the meetings, according to the Washington Examiner.
Brown took Harris to all the high-society events in San Francisco and gave her a new BMW. They broke up at her initiative after he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1995, and Brown’s wife, Blanche, held the Bible for his swearing in.
In 1998, Terence Hallinan, San Francisco’s district attorney who was infamous for physical violence in his youth, recruited Harris to serve as an assistant district attorney. In 2000, Harris warred with a co-worker and quit, taking a job at the San Francisco city attorney’s office with Louise Renne, who had been appointed by then-mayor Dianne Feinstein.
In 2004 she ran for district attorney for San Francisco, and her campaign relied heavily on the wealthy San Francisco elite she’d met through Brown, who organized his own, separate fundraising for her. Harris said that she didn’t ask for his help and referred to her affair with the notorious womanizer as “an albatross hanging around my neck.”
Brown also stepped in to help Harris in 2016, when she successfully ran for a seat in the United States senate, discouraging a run by former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who would have been a formidable opponent. Harris had two years earlier married lawyer Douglas Emhoff, who has two adult children with his first wife.
When Harris declared her intention to run for Democratic presidential nominee, Brown penned an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle admitting he “may have influenced her career” with his appointments and that he helped her in her first race for San Francisco DA, but that he also helped the “careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians.”
However, Harris was 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.,” he wrote. “That’s politics for ya.”
5. Harris refused new DNA testing for man on death row who claims innocence. During the July Democratic nominee debates, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard famously accused Harris of blocking “evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.”
A Breitbart News fact check rated Gabbard’s statement as “mostly true.” As state AG, Harris refused “to allow newly available DNA testing” for Kevin Cooper, a black man who has been on death row in San Quentin since his 1985 conviction of the brutal murder of two adults and two children in a home invasion. There is strong evidence suggesting that law enforcement and a criminalist planted, tampered with or tossed away critical evidence in an attempt to frame Cooper during an investigation and prosecution that involved “abject racism,” according to a 2018 New York Times analysis.
Gov. Jerry Brown in late 2018 and Gov. Newsom in early January 2019 approved DNA testing, and Cooper, who has always maintained his innocence, has since been waiting for the results, the Los Angeles Times reported in June.
6. Harris never brought one priestly sexual abuse case to prosecution. In a “shocking display of inaction,” Harris “never prosecuted a single case forward against an abusive priest” in her time as district attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, and as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017, according to Peter Schweizer’s January 2020 exposé Profiles in Corruption. Moreover, “her office would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victim groups,” he noted.
Schweizer suggests that the reason for Harris’s failure to prosecute priestly abuse cases was her large political debt to powerful Bay Catholics, who donated to her 2004 campaign for San Francisco district attorney, as her opponent Hallinan had been “aggressively … pursuing abuse cases against the Church,” according to the American Spectator. Hallinan’s “gathering of incriminating documents drove Catholics afraid of his investigation into Kamala Harris’s arms.”
Her campaign received “high-dollar donations … from those connected to the Catholic Church institutional hierarchy” and $50,950 from “Catholic board members of various organizations in the Bay Area and their family members.”
7. Harris claimed she didn’t know of sexual harassment suit against longtime staffer. An alleged champion of the #MeToo cause, Harris claimed she had no knowledge of the situation when her longtime staffer Larry Wallace resigned in December 2018 over revelations that his executive assistant had sued him two years earlier for sexual harassment.
Wallace was director of the Division of Law Enforcement when Harris was state attorney general, and as senator, she hired him in March 2017, two months before the California Department of Justice reached a $400,000 settlement with the plaintiff, who, “as part of the deal, had to resign her position, agree never to seek employment at the California Department of Justice, and — most importantly — sign a nondisclosure agreement,” the Washington Examiner reported at the time. The story broke just months after Harris made “grandstanding broadsides against the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,” according to the Examiner.
Harris appears to temper her enthusiasm for the #MeToo cause to suit her circumstances. In April 2019, before Biden entered the Democratic nomination race, she was asked about allegations by women that the former vice president had inappropriately touched them. “I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” Harris said.
When Tara Reade, a former Biden aide, alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her when he was a U.S. senator — an allegation Biden emphatically denies — Harris, then a potential vice presidential candidate, said Reade “has a right to tell her story … And I believe that and I believe Joe Biden believes that, too,” the U.K. Independent reported. However, there is no evidence that since being named Biden’s running mate, Harris has encouraged Reade to do so.
8. Harris jailed 1,560 people for pot-related offenses but now supports decriminalization. After Harris admitted during a February 2019 radio interview that she smoked pot and was in favor of legalizing marijuana because it “it gives a lot of people joy,” the Washington Free Beacon reported that when she was California’s attorney general, “at least 1,560 people were sent to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses between 2011 and 2016,” according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reports. Harris said during her debate with Vice President Mike Pence that a Biden administration would decriminalize marijuana at a federal level in the United States.
9. Harris’s 2010 San Francisco “police crime lab scandal.” In Harris’s last year as San Francisco district attorney, a state judge ruled that she and her staff failed to inform defense lawyers, as required by law, that evidence from a police-run city lab “might have been tainted,” the Washington Post reported January 2019, adding that Harris said she took full responsibility and “made ‘no excuses’ for the failure.”
As a result, San Francisco prosecutors dropped “an estimated 1,000 drug cases,” which came “on top of about 550 cases that were already dismissed or not charged because the lab was unable to test those cases,” Associated Press reported in April 2010. (This was the basis of Biden’s claim in the July Democratic primary debates that under Harris’s watch, a federal judge freed 1,000 inmates from prison.)
10. Harris claimed she didn’t know her office tried to keep prisoners in jail to fight fires. As state AG, Harris said she didn’t know that her staff lawyers “argued against releasing nonviolent prisoners from overcrowded prisons in 2014,” according to the Washington Examiner.
“Her team argued in court that prisoners needed to remain in prison because California couldn’t spare them. They needed the incarcerated to stay incarcerated lest the state run out of forced labor to fight forest fires.” The judge ruled against the request, but Harris’s ignorance of what her department’s action added to the picture that she was using her job and “the statewide recognition that comes with it” as a stepping stone to “hop from California to Washington,” the Examiner noted.
11. Harris allegedly covered up reportedly lucrative wiretapping operation. In 2014, Harris allegedly “covered up a wide-ranging surveillance scheme in which a single Riverside County judge ordered hundreds of wiretaps” that resulted in “44,000 people and over 2 million conversations” being tapped, Big League Politics reported in January 2019. “A federal judge said legal standards ‘could not have been met’ with regard to the Riverside County wiretaps,” which “coincided with a period of massive revenue gains for the state of California from civil asset forfeitures overseen by Kamala Harris’ office.
In 2014, Riverside County collected more than $3 million in civil asset forfeitures,” it reported. “In 2015, Kamala Harris’ attorney general’s office made the unprecedented decision to release California’s Electronic Interceptions Report as a ‘locked’ PDF not available to members of the public, according to documents obtained by Big League Politics,” it added.
12. Harris paid thousands into slate mail scheme of Brown protégé, Democratic California representative Maxine Waters. Harris paid $63,000 over two campaign cycles into the Waters campaign’s technically legal but highly controversial scheme in which candidates pay for placement on a “slate mailer” announcing Waters’s endorsement, the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2017.
Harris paid $33,000 to Waters’ campaign in 2010 when she was running for state AG, and $30,000 in May 2016 when she was running for senate, for her name to appear on Waters’s endorsement mailers. The “slate mailer operation, which legally allows Waters to bypass campaign contribution limits from other political committees, pulled in more than $300,000 for Waters’ campaign during the 2016 election cycle.”
A July 2018 complaint the government watchdog National Legal and Policy Center filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Democratic State Central Committee of California (DSCCC) violated federal election law in 2016 when it paid the Waters campaign a further $35,000 to include Harris’s name on a Waters slate mailer, because “it is not legal for such payment to be made by a third party like the DSCCC.”
California-based writer Mary Rose contributed to this report.
Oct. 28, 2020 correction: This report originally stated that “Brown also stepped in to help Harris in 2016, when she successfully ran for a seat in the California senate” whereas it was the United States senate. This has now been corrected.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-28--California school threatens child with arrest for missing 90 minutes of online classes

LAFAYETTE , California , October 28 , 2020 , ( LifeSiteNews ) –A California middle school has threatened a seventh grader with arrest for missing 90 minutes of online classes , with schools closed due to lockdown restrictions .
12 year old Merek Mastrov missed a total of three 30-minute zoom sessions in one month- an action that triggered a formal letter from the school threatening possible arrest for truancy .
“ The letter the Mastrovs received from a school administrator lists the three periods Merek missed and says , ‘ When a student is absent without a valid excuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ according to California law .
Later , it noted , ‘ The pupil may be subject to arrest ’ , ” reported 1011 Now .
Local news outlet ABC 7 reported that Betsy Balmat , the Stanley Middle School principal , blamed new state guidelines as the reason for sending the letter .
“ The letter is part of our responsibility to the state for our student attendance review boards .
As always , the schools have a responsibility to ensure students are engaged and learning , ” Balmat told the news @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referenced , CA SB 98 , defines the criteria for chronic absenteeism as “ three school days or 60 % of the instructional school days in a week ” and makes no mention of letters threatening arrest .
A summary of the bill by the School & College Legal Offices of California states : “ SB 98 does waive the minimum requirement for annual instructional minutes and provides flexibility in calculating minimum daily instructional minutes .
Specifically , for the 2020–21 school year ... ” It is unclear , then , why such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 90 minutes of missed class .
The boy ’ s father , Mark Mastrov , told the ABC7News his response to the ridiculous threat , “ Are you going to come arrest my son in my home or come find me for not getting him to his zoom class on time perfect every day ?
” Mastrov continued , “ Obviously we 're in a pandemic and Gov .
Newsom is trying to manage it , but if the state of California is focusing on arresting 12-year-old children for missing 90 minutes of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ridiculous .
”

Twitter just deplatformed President Trump premanently! And, other conservatives, including General Flynn and Sidney Powell, were also deplatformed.
Conservatives, Christians and freedom-loving Americans of all political persuasions must now take a decision to preserve their free speech AND their ability to peaceably assemble by dumping Twitter and Big Tech, and by finding other good alternatives to communicate with each other and share their opinions.
Please SIGN our petition-pledge to Dump Twitter and Big Tech, and take back your freedom of speech and privacy. [CLICK HERE for our "Goodbye Google" resources page to find good alternatives to Google!]
When you use Twitter or Facebook to communicate, or Google to search for something online, these companies can stifle your ability to share your thoughts and opinions and manipulate your search results, threatening your privacy, your freedom of speech, and even our democracy.
Evidence suggests that Twitter and Facebook's 'community guidelines' are selectively enforced against conservatives and Christians, while Google rigs their search algorithms to direct traffic away from conservative and Christian websites, effectively choking traffic to those sites.
Simply put, Twitter, Facebook and Google (who owns YouTube) appear to be actively suppressing access to pro-freedom, pro-family and pro-life news and opinion.
Don't contribute to this assault on democracy: Stop using Twitter, Facebook and Google as your default social media platforms and search engine! [CLICK HERE to find a good alternative to Google.]
To repeat: a few liberal and completely unaccountable computer programmers in Silicon Valley are dictating what we do and do not see in our Twitter and Facebook feeds, and in our Google searches.
We, here, at LifeSite, also recently had our Twitter account suspended by the company over "misgendering" a man who claims to be a woman.
LifeSite has also experienced a fall-off in Google search-related traffic since the company updated its search algorithms at the beginning of May.
And, since the November election, Twitter and Big Tech appear to have dramatically INCREASED their censorship of conservatives and Christians as the President Trump disputed the results of the election and when evidence of election fraud began to mount.
Now, it seems likely that they are trying to cut-off conservative leaders (like President Trump) from conservatives on the ground, and effectively exclude us from the national conversation.
But, this tactic will not work. Because Twitter, Facebook and Google are not the only game in town! There are a good number of excellent alternatives which we list in our 'Goodbye Google' Resources page.
The great irony is that, while Twitter, Facebook and Google executives talk a lot about maintaining freedom of speech and diversity, in fact, these hypocrites are ATTACKING free speech point-blank!
This kind of manipulation poses a lethal threat to our democracy, but as we see so clearly now, Twitter and Big Tech have shown no hesitation in excluding conservatives and Christians from the public square.
So, at this point, the only way to stop Twitter, Facebook and Google is to quit using their platform.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-28--Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

Join our daily worldwide rosary HERE

October 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church , LifeSite is offering Catholics throughout the world a chance to be united daily in prayer , in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade .
Catholics from all over the world—from Israel , Uganda , Italy , France , Germany , Ireland , Pakistan , Singapore , the Philippines , India , Indonesia , Australia , New Zealand , Thailand , the United Kingdom , the U.S. , Canada , Brazil , and other countries—are gathering daily to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anthony Pillari , J.C.L.
, an American priest currently studying in Italy .
Our goal is , by means of this daily rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima , the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
To help obtain that goal , Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide rosary crusade : O Immaculate Heart of Mary , you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother .
Look upon the distress in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church .
In Fatima you warned against these errors , as you spoke about the errors of Russia .
You are the Mediatrix of all graces .
Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope : that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart , so that Russia will be converted , a period of peace will be granted to the world , and your Immaculate Heart will triumph , through an authentic renewal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purity of the Catholic Faith , of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life .
O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother , turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer .
Amen .
+ Athanasius Schneider , Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady ’ s message at Fatima , and about what you can do , please read Cardinal Burke ’ s 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ https : //voiceofthefamily.com/full-text-cardinal-burkes-historic-call-for-consecration-of-russia/ ) .
As St. Padre Pio once said , “ The rosary is the weapon for these times.
” Through prayer , God can shape history , change the world , and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world , through the triumph of Our Lady ’ s Immaculate Heart .
Join us today !
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this rosary , you can access them via this PDF .
This document also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the daily rosary on LifeSite led by Fr .
Pillari .

(LifeSiteNews) — In response to the crisis unfolding in our world and in the Church, LifeSite is happy to promote Regina Angelorum Press’s Daily Rosary, which is offering Catholics throughout the world the chance to be united daily in prayer, in the Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Crusade.
Catholics from all over the world — from Israel, Uganda, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Pakistan, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and other countries — are gathering daily to pray the Rosary, led by Father Pillari, JCL, MCL, STL, an American priest currently studying in Italy.
The Daily Rosary is being offered each day at 12noon EST through Regina Angelorum Press’ YouTube Channel to which you can subscribe HERE.
The goal is, by means of this Daily Rosary and by embracing and living out the message given by the Virgin Mary at Fatima, the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart.
To help obtain that goal, Bishop Athanasius Schneider graciously composed the following prayer for this worldwide Rosary crusade:
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, you are the holy Mother of God and our tender Mother. Look upon the distress in which the Church and the whole of humanity are living because of the spread of materialism and the persecution of the Church. In Fatima you warned against these errors, as you spoke about the errors of Russia. You are the Mediatrix of all graces. Implore your Divine Son to grant this special grace for the Pope: that he might consecrate Russia to your Immaculate Heart, so that Russia will be converted, a period of peace will be granted to the world, and your Immaculate Heart will triumph, through an authentic renewal of the Church in the splendor of the purity of the Catholic Faith, of the sacredness of Divine worship and of the holiness of the Christian life. O Queen of the holy Rosary and our sweet Mother, turn your merciful eyes to us and graciously hear this our trusting prayer. Amen. + Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana
To learn more about the urgency of responding to Our Lady’s message at Fatima, and about what you can do, please read Cardinal Burke’s 2017 address at the Rome Life Forum.
As St. Padre Pio once said, “The Rosary is the weapon for these times.” Through prayer, God can shape history, change the world, and bring about a great time of renewal and peace for the Church and for the world, through the triumph of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. Join us today!
If you would like to follow along with the prayers said during this Rosary, you can access them HERE. The document also includes a brief F.A.Q. pertaining to the daily Rosary.
You can send your prayer requests to https://reginangelorumpress.com/prayer-intentions/
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lifesitenews--2020-10-28--Oops: Kamala Harris says 220 million Americans – about 66% of country – died from coronavirus

October 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Sen. Kamala Harris ( D-CA ) has followed in the footsteps of Joe Biden with a gaffe to match some of his most shocking .
“ We ’ re looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died ” of the coronavirus , said the vice presidential candidate .
According to the CDC COVID Data Tracker , Harris must have meant to say 220,000 but this mistake adds insult to injury continuing Joe Biden ’ s trend of name and number blunders .
In recent days Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ husband as her wife .
Further footage shows Biden unsure of who he is or what he ’ s doing at all .
“ My name ’ s Joe Biden .
I ’ m Jill Biden ’ s husband , and I ’ m Kamala ’ s running mate .
Y ’ all think I ’ m kidding , don ’ t you ?
” the former Vice President blabbed at a recent rally in Georgia .
He and Harris have both referred to the “ Harris-Biden Administration ” on more than one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but some commentators believe they are unwittingly alluding to the Democratic Party ’ s plan should Biden be elected next week .
Biden also forgot who he was running against , suggesting a certain “ George ” was his opponent .
As far as Joe Biden is aware , he may be running for the Senate rather than the White House after all .
And while some of Biden and Harris ’ s bungles may be honest mistakes , some appear to be more blatantly deceptive .
When CBS journalist Norah O @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of her bringing a “ socialist or progressive ” perspective to the White House , Harris denied the possibility , but tried to laugh off the question so uncomfortably that many saw it as bad lying .

In reality, 220,000 Americans have died from or with the coronavirus.
October 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has followed in the footsteps of Joe Biden with a gaffe to match some of his most shocking.
“We’re looking at over 220 million Americans who just in the last several months died” of the coronavirus, said the vice presidential candidate.
SLIGHTLY OFF: Kamala Harris Claims 220 Million Americans -66% of the Population- Died from CoVID https://t.co/ojYLnXD5LJ — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) October 23, 2020
According to the CDC COVID Data Tracker, Harris must have meant to say 220,000 but this mistake adds insult to injury continuing Joe Biden’s trend of name and number blunders.
In recent days Biden has referred to Sen. Harris’s husband as her wife.
Joe Biden calls Sen. Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, “Kamala’s wife” pic.twitter.com/xUAwd4FySw — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 27, 2020
Further footage shows Biden unsure of who he is or what he’s doing at all.
“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m Jill Biden’s husband, and I’m Kamala’s running mate. Y’all think I’m kidding, don’t you?” the former Vice President blabbed at a recent rally in Georgia.
Joe Biden: “I am Kamala's running mate. Y'all think I'm kidding don't you?” pic.twitter.com/uNxZMygFpL — Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 27, 2020
He and Harris have both referred to the “Harris-Biden Administration” on more than one occasion; this is possibly another gaffe, but some commentators believe they are unwittingly alluding to the Democratic Party’s plan should Biden be elected next week.
WATCH: Joe Biden refers to a “Harris-Biden Administration.” He knows he's just an empty vessel for the radical left! pic.twitter.com/z6kv22VXat — Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) September 15, 2020
Biden also forgot who he was running against, suggesting a certain “George” was his opponent.
Joe Biden confuses President Trump with George W. Bush: “because of who I’m running against…George, ah, George” pic.twitter.com/ujAni2Q7Gh — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 26, 2020
As far as Joe Biden is aware, he may be running for the Senate rather than the White House after all.
Joe Biden: “I'm running as a proud Democrat for the Senate” pic.twitter.com/7LTFdJQMgF — Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 12, 2020
And while some of Biden and Harris’s bungles may be honest mistakes, some appear to be more blatantly deceptive.
When CBS journalist Norah O’Donell questioned Harris on the likelihood of her bringing a “socialist or progressive” perspective to the White House, Harris denied the possibility, but tried to laugh off the question so uncomfortably that many saw it as bad lying.
Sen. Kamala Harris busts out laughing at Norah O'Donnell's question if she presents a 'Socialist or Progressive perspective.' pic.twitter.com/LtNnrAIXng — Colby Hall (@colbyhall) October 26, 2020
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lifesitenews--2020-10-28--Bishop Strickland: True joy comes from God, not earthly power or politics

October 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler , Texas has warned that it ’ s easy to “ get upset ” during election season but that we have to remember that “ true joy ” comes from knowing Jesus Christ and from recalling that all power on earth belongs to him , and not to earthly kingdoms or men .
“ Jesus says all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him .
And we think we ’ re so powerful .
We talk about the power of nations .
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the free world .
All of that power is nothing compared to the power of God , the power of God ’ s life and love.
” “ We need a joy campaign .
We need to remember that every day of life is a gift…I think we need to take a breath and remember where joy comes from , ” His Excellency said .
Strickland advised that people learn to love Jesus Christ , the true source of joy .
“ We need joy in this 2020 confusing year .
People @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s vitriol .
There ’ s violence…People are lying to each other constantly .
That does not create joy.
” Strickland has been giving repeated warnings about the evils of abortion and the danger anti-life politicians pose to the United States for the last several weeks on his new program The Bishop Strickland Show , which airs every Tuesday at 9pm EST on LifeSite ’ s YouTube channel .
Click here to watch all past episodes .

'I think we need to take a breath and remember where joy comes from,' His Excellency said.
October 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has warned that it’s easy to “get upset” during election season but that we have to remember that “true joy” comes from knowing Jesus Christ and from recalling that all power on earth belongs to him, and not to earthly kingdoms or men.
“Jesus says all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him. And we think we’re so powerful. We talk about the power of nations. How the presidency is the most powerful office in the free world. All of that power is nothing compared to the power of God, the power of God’s life and love.”
“We need a joy campaign. We need to remember that every day of life is a gift…I think we need to take a breath and remember where joy comes from,” His Excellency said.
Strickland advised that people learn to love Jesus Christ, the true source of joy.
“We need joy in this 2020 confusing year. People are angry. People are fighting. There’s vitriol. There’s violence…People are lying to each other constantly. That does not create joy.”
Strickland has been giving repeated warnings about the evils of abortion and the danger anti-life politicians pose to the United States for the last several weeks on his new program The Bishop Strickland Show, which airs every Tuesday at 9pm EST on LifeSite’s YouTube channel. Click here to watch all past episodes.
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lifesitenews--2020-10-29--Suspicious timing: Is media’s reporting on COVID ‘surges’ timed to hurt Trump?

October 28 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Back in March , the COVID mantra was `` 15 days to slow the spread , '' meaning flattening the curve .
The purpose was to avoid overwhelming the medical system , as no one really knew what we were up against with the Wuhan virus .
This allowed time for the system to adapt and recalibrate to this new illness .
As the virus peaked in mid-April , the subsequent months should have been the normal course of a viral pandemic : some getting sick to varying degrees , others @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immunity , itself a longstanding concept — suddenly controversial .
This has been the course of past flu seasons and other viral pandemics .
None led to shutting down economies all over the world , causing incalculable financial and social devastation to cities , states , countries , and individuals .
Just when we see a light at the end of the tunnel , there is a reported surge in cases , often timed to political events .
The first surge was in mid-summer , as businesses were opening and the presidential campaigns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Trump 's rallies energized his base and are a unique feature of his campaign , something Sleepy Joe Biden could in no way replicate .
Conveniently , the surge put a damper on Trump rallies .
The second surge is now , just before the 2020 presidential election .
The Atlantic , one of many left-wing mouthpieces for the Democrat party , framed it politically : `` The Coronavirus surge that will define the next four years . ''
How exactly does a viral illness define a future presidential term ?
Easily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus , but instead about the election .
One only needs to look back to January 15 — the same day , coincidentally or not , when the first case of the Chinese flu arrived in the U.S. , the U.S. and China signed a Phase 1 trade deal , and the House Democrats waddled over to the Senate in solemn fashion carrying articles of impeachment against the president .
It 's a confluence of likely related events all on the very same day .
Subsequent moves by Trump have been portrayed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heels of that January day .
What if the latest surge is just another political move , an attempt to influence election , now a week away ?
What exactly is this current surge ?
Is it a surge in positive tests , cases , hospitalizations , or deaths ?
A positive test alone is not a case , according to the CDC .
The `` case definition '' of COVID is a positive test and symptoms .
People who might have had a mild case a month ago may still have dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positive tests .
Over a million tests per day are performed in the U.S. with acceptable positive rates of under 5 percent .
That means 50,000 positive tests per day but most not infectious or symptomatic .
More tests means more positive results , what the media call `` cases . ''
If the U.S. did n't offer tests on demand as we do now , this so-called surge would go away .
According to the New York Times : Conveniently , this current surge is in positive tests .
Despite a rare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York Times , its current headline is `` US sets coronavirus case record amid new surge . ''
CNN is singing in harmony : `` The US just reported its highest number of Covid-19 infections in one day since the pandemic 's start . ''
No one speaks of false positive tests , likely inflating the test numbers .
Remember how a goat and pawpaw fruit `` tested positive '' for COVID in Tanzania ?
How many of the current `` cases '' in the U.S. are false positives ?
What does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Gallup , Democrats by more than a two-to-one margin over Republicans vote early , 62 to 28 percent .
Republicans understandably distrust mail-in ballots , given the daily reports of missing ballots and other electoral chicanery .
If voters planning on voting in person on Election Day can be scared or kept away , this favors Democrats , as more of them have already voted early .
Conveniently , this current surge may do just that .
The Atlantic offered a preview of this strategy back in June with this headline `` @ @ @ @ @ @ @ . ''
The writers there worry that the Wuhan virus `` needlessly jeopardizes the health of poll workers and voters '' due to concerns over long lines , distancing , masks , hand sanitizer , and the older age of poll workers .
It 's funny that many of these same concerns are pooh-poohed when it comes to BLM and Antifa protests .
NPR backed up the narrative this month , asking , `` Is casting a ballot in person a risk to your physical health ? ''
Politico asked the same question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in person ? ''
What a great way to scare voters , especially the elderly and vulnerable , from voting in person , targeting Republicans , who are more likely to vote on Election Day .
The electoral map provides another clue regarding this vote suppression strategy .
Where are these so-called COVID surges ?
The Chicago Tribune answers , `` Coronavirus cases surge in key battleground states as election nears . ''
There is no concern for states like California and New York , which are a lock for Democrats .
Instead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Minnesota , Pennsylvania , Ohio , and Wisconsin , all necessary for Trump to win on his way to re-election .
The pieces of the puzzle are coming together .
Early mail-in voting , pushed by and favoring Democrats , suppressing same-day voting , disadvantages Republicans , particularly in the states Trump needs to carry .
It 's election interference by voter suppression , brought to you by the Democrat media .
Do n't be surprised to see fear porn over in-person voting ratcheted up over the next week , scaring voters into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voters .
Nothing else is working for the Democrats , and they are pulling out all the stops to pull a rabbit out of the hat and salvage a losing candidate and campaign .
Get out and vote as if your life depends on it .
Because it does .
Brian C Joondeph , M.D .
is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker , Daily Caller , Rasmussen Reports , and other publications .
Follow him on Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter , Parler , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American Thinker .

PETITION UPDATE (12/11/2020)
Right before Thanksgiving, YouTube deleted a LifeSite video of a distinguished Canadian physician protesting the "unfounded public hysteria" over COVID-19 and accused us of spreading "medical misinformation."
Our account was suspended, and we were prohibited from posting videos on our YouTube channel for one week. And, while that may not seem like a big deal, it's a huge deal for a news organization like LifeSite.
Then, earlier this week, YouTube again suspended our account – this time for two weeks – over an episode of The Bishop Strickland Show wherein Bishop Strickland said he would not take an unethical COVID-19 vaccine.
We were able to appeal the suspension, and our request was granted.
This means that in YouTube's three-strikes-and-you're-out content-policing, idea-cleansing scheme, we are back down to one strike. But, we still face the threat of losing our account permanently.
And, we're not the only ones.
In a recent turn of events, YouTube just announced that it will remove videos alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
But, what is YouTube afraid of? The truth???
Thankfully, however, there is a one, big bright spot on the horizon: 48 states filed suit against Facebook just this week.
And, although this seems like a step in the right direction, the draconian measures which YouTube just rolled out, which are already wielded by Twitter, are an assault against free speech.
So, the fight for freedom of speech against Big Tech goes on. And, we must do everything we can to protect it!
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition today!
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https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-youtube-reverses-ban-on-lifesitenews?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-bans-lifesite-over-video-of-bp-strickland-refusing-to-take-corona-vaccine
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesites-channel-was-suspended-by-youtube-heres-how-you-can-still-watch-our-videos
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/youtube-starts-removing-videos-that-contain-allegations-of-mass-voter-fraud
https://tennesseestar.com/2020/12/10/facebook-sued-by-48-states-federal-trade-commission-over-allegations-of-monopolistic-practices/
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PETITION UPDATE (11/18/2020)
Everyone thought the censorship by Big Tech corporations would decrease after the 2020 election, but the truth is that censorship is being felt just as much as it was before the election.
And, given the election outcome, perhaps Big Tech censorship now is even more consequential than it was before the election!
The two biggest social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and other Big Tech companies, are still censoring and suppressing stories and posts favorable to conservatives, and especially anything that has to do with election fraud.
Here are a few recent examples:
Women for America First organized the March for Trump on November 14, which was shut down by Facebook, MailChimp and Eventbrite. Despite Big Tech’s best efforts to cancel the event, the march went on and gathered a huge crowd.
Twitter has been suppressing a large number of President Trump’s Tweets. Most of his Tweets have been flagged arbitrarily with a warning stating: “This claim about election fraud is disputed."
Please READ this recent article about Big Tech's attempt to choke information conerning the recent Million MAGA March in Washington, DC: '5 things mainstream media won’t tell you about massive DC ‘Stop the Steal’ rally'
Then, please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
PETITION UPDATE (10/15/2020)
In a remarkable development, Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham have announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee will be issuing subpoenas to Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg for their company's suppression of two critical expose news stories about how Hunter Biden and the Biden Family allegedly profited from business deals made because of Joe Biden's position as Vice President.
Please WATCH LifeSite's exclusive video of the announcement by Senator Ted Cruz below.
According to the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Lindsey Graham, the subpoenas will be issued next Tuesday, for hearings to be held on Friday of next week.
This is a MASSIVE development, and should be welcomed by those who champion freedom of speech.
Again, this is all happening because Twitter and Facebook refuse to allow their members to share stories which would be favorable to conservatives.
Here's the timeline:
Yesterday, Twitter and Facebook suppressed a NY Post story about how Hunter Biden allegedly profited from introducing a Ukrainian businessman to his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden. The story also alleges that Vice President Biden then subsequently pressured Ukrainian authorities to fire a prosecutor who was investigating the businessman's company.
And, just this morning, Twitter suppressed another expose by the NY Post alleging that the Biden Family improperly profitted from deals made with one of the largest Chinese energy companies because of Vice President Biden's position in government.
But, right after the story broke, Senator Cruz tried to share the latest story on Twitter and was blocked. Twitter says that they are blocking the stories because they claim that the information was obtained illegally. However, Twitter showed no problem allowing illegally obtained information about President Trump's tax returns to be shared.
Please SIGN and SHARE this urgent petition, which calls on the Congress, the president, and governors to defend freedom of speech as Big Tech continues their rampant censorship.
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'GOP senators decry Big Tech censorship of NY Post story exposing Biden corruption' - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gop-senators-decry-big-tech-censorship-of-ny-post-story-exposing-biden-corruption
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PETITION UPDATE (9/17/2020)
Big Tech is out to kill free speech. LifeSite is out to protect it!
LifeSite has been digging deep into the many claims of liberal bias and selective censorship of pro-life, pro-family, and conservative voices on social media.
And, we are now launching our new series 'Uncensored: Big Tech vs. Free Speech', which will unpack how the actions of Big Tech censors actually affect conservative and Christian organization and individuals.
Please WATCH the first video in our series featuring Brigitte Gabriel, the Founder of ACT For America, one of the nation's premier national security grassroots organizations.
Ms. Gabriel's organization, ACT For America, has been targeted by Big Tech especially in the manipulation of search results.
Big Tech “think[s] they are God and they are exercising their godly power over everybody else,” Gabriel explained. "Because in today's world, anytime you want to find out any information about somebody, what do you do? Google. You go to the internet to find out some information about them. When you research anything about somebody, the first thing that comes up [in the search results] is the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of ‘hate groups.’”
“And who are the ‘hate groups’? Family Research Council is a hate group because they are pro-family. American Family Radio is a hate group…LifeSiteNews is a hate group. My organization is a hate group because we sound the alarm about terrorism and protecting our constitutional freedom. And so they try to character assassinate you. And they control the language.”
LifeSite's research shows that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others have become far too dangerous for democracy.
They can and do sway elections and public opinion in whatever direction they want, primarily by manipulating search results, tracking our online behavior, and by blocking truthful content from their platforms.
Today, LifeSite is starting to fight back, with facts and with stories of conservatives and Christians who are being negatively impacted by Big Tech's liberal bias.
Please continue to follow our 'Big Tech vs. Free Speech' series which aims to launch a new video each week for the next eight weeks.
And, please sign our petition demanding that Big Tech monopolies are broken up. Thank you!
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ORIGINAL PETITION BACKGROUND TEXT:
The outrageous erasing of the White Coat Summit from the internet is only the latest in a long series of brazen acts of censorship against conservatives and all those who support legitimate free speech.
You may agree or disagree with the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, but everyone should agree on this point:
No Big Tech company should have the power to erase from the internet the medical opinions of licensed practicing doctors simply because they do not like what they have to say about the coronavirus or their experience treating it. Americans and other free peoples do not need leftist computer programmers deciding what the best course of medical treatment is for them.
Google/Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and their Big Tech friends want to control what you see, what you read, what you think, and ultimately, how you vote. Not only do they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying congress and buttering up big Washington DC think tanks, but now they brazenly and directly censor any content they don't want you to see.
Big Tech, like other interest groups, aggressively lobby to help their businesses thrive, but increasingly, Big Tech is using blatant internet censorship to impose its radical world view over those they consider to be "deplorables."
This must stop, but it won't unless we demand it as forcefully as legally possible. We believe that we have reached the point were Big Tech must be broken up if legitimate free speech is going to survive and continue to thrive on the internet.
Please sign our petition to demand real consequences for Big Tech's suppression of legitimate free speech.
In 2016, emails revealed by Fox News' Tucker Carlson proved that Google tried to influence the election by affecting voter turnout. Thankfully they failed. But they didn't give up. Instead, they have been preparing and testing how to manipulate information to continue to abuse their monopolistic power.
In 2018, Google/Youtube et. al. succeeded in manipulating the Irish abortion referendum by blacklisting pro-life videos, manipulating pro-life search terms and results and intentionally withholding pro-life information. Again, this is not an opinion or a conspiracy theory, Project Veritas obtained first hand information proving the intentional censorship by Big Tech.
And the Coronavirus has just made things worse. You see, scared people are more easily manipulated into giving up their freedom of speech. Children are being kept from going to school, tens of millions of Americans are out of work, and rioting has broken out in most major American cities.
Now, more than ever, freedom of speech is necessary to secure all of our freedoms. Freedom of speech is crucial to truly exercise the freedom to vote for the person that best represents one's own views, or the freedom to decide what course of medical treatment to accept - especially the decision to control what vaccines are administered to our children.
Some experts, like Dr. Robert Epstein, a behavioral psychologist who has testified before congress against Big Tech believes that we may already be too late to control Big Tech's tyrannical control over information.
President Trump took a step in the right direction with his Executive Order calling for increased regulation of Big Tech. But much more can be done and needs to be done right now.
In an era where almost everything is polarized, there is an overwhelming support for breaking up the Big Tech monopolies. A recent Pew poll found that 75% of Americans believe that Big Tech companies have too much influence.
It is time to bring serious accountability to Big Tech for their attempts to use their monopolies to kill free speech.
It is time to break up Big Tech.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Google, Facebook, Twitter shut down ‘frontline’ US doctors who promote ‘cure for COVID’ - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/google-facebook-twitter-shut-down-frontline-us-doctors-who-promote-cure-for-covid?utm_source=featured&utm_campaign=standard
Americans overwhelmingly agree Big Tech has too much power: Pew poll - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll
Leaked Google employee's email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump - https://www.foxnews.com/tech/leaked-google-employees-email-reveals-effort-to-boost-latino-vote-surprise-that-some-voted-for-trump
Undercover video proves Google interfered in Irish abortion referendum - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/americans-overwhelmingly-agree-big-tech-has-too-much-power-pew-poll


lifesitenews--2020-10-29--‘MAGA nuns’ at Trump rally become internet sensation, enrage liberals

October 28 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Three nuns from the Children of Mary religious community have become overnight internet sensations after they were positioned behind the podium at a rally for President Donald Trump in Circleville , Ohio on October 25 .
FOX & Friends dubbed the sisters the “ MAGA nuns.
” “ MAGA Mask-Wearing Nuns Steal the Show at Trump Rally , ” Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Caller wrote .
While the response to the Children of Mary ’ s participation at the rally has been overwhelmingly positive , critics such as disgruntled former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ secularist and liberal Catholic admonishments , “ doxing ” the nuns for all of Twitter to see .
But the sisters made clear in a public statement and in a conversation with LifeSiteNews that their attendance at the rally was motivated by nothing more than support for a pro-life president .
“ Thank you to the vast majority who have responded with love and support , ” the Children of Mary said in their statement .
“ To those who have responded with criticism or simply questioned why we would send Sisters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have this opportunity to explain.
” “ There are indeed many issues concerning the quality of life that need to be addressed .
However , the pre-eminent issue is the intrinsic evil of taking innocent human life through abortion .
We , as faithful Catholics , consider it our duty — a joyful duty — to support a president , irregardless of party affiliation , who upholds the Gospel of Life.
” Among those who expressed support was Sister Diedre “ Dede ” Byrne , POSC , who addressed the Republican National Convention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Diocese of Columbus have not commented and have told clergy to distance themselves from the order .
“ He ’ s the most pro-life president we ’ ve had , ” Mother Philomena Maria told LifeSite .
“ We ’ re trying to do what we feel the Lord wants us to do.
” A closer look at Vroom ’ s Twitter feed shows him actively trying to divide the Catholic vote , pitting the Children of Mary against other Catholic women ’ s religious communities .
Vroom placed the Children @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Calcutta ’ s Missionaries of Charity , tweeting , “ I like nuns with no political agenda.
” Yet the Children of Mary name St. Teresa of Calcutta as one of their four patron saints on their website .
Vroom posted articles about other Catholic women ’ s religious communities who are making face masks before tweeting a clip from the Circleville Trump rally that showed the nuns without their MAGA face masks : “ It appears the ‘ sisters ’ so carefully positioned at the Trump rally were only concerned about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cameras were .
Shameful.
” Yet conclusive scientific data on the effectiveness of masks both against catching the virus and passing it on is sorely lacking .
The Children of Mary were officially founded in the Diocese of Columbus .
Their motherhouse is located in Cincinnati and they also have a house of formation and retreat house near Newark , Ohio , in the Columbus diocese .
According to the nuns ’ website , their charism is “ to satiate the Thirst of Jesus to be loved in the Most Blessed Sacrament .
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The Children of Mary say they were there to support a pro-life president 'who upholds the Gospel of Life.'
October 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Three nuns from the Children of Mary religious community have become overnight internet sensations after they were positioned behind the podium at a rally for President Donald Trump in Circleville, Ohio on October 25.
Two of the fully habited nuns were holding up rosaries and a third held up her Bible.
FOX & Friends dubbed the sisters the “MAGA nuns.” “MAGA Mask-Wearing Nuns Steal the Show at Trump Rally,” Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Caller wrote.
While the response to the Children of Mary’s participation at the rally has been overwhelmingly positive, critics such as disgruntled former Republican Peter Vroom led the charge of secularist and liberal Catholic admonishments, “doxing” the nuns for all of Twitter to see.
But the sisters made clear in a public statement and in a conversation with LifeSiteNews that their attendance at the rally was motivated by nothing more than support for a pro-life president.
“Thank you to the vast majority who have responded with love and support,” the Children of Mary said in their statement. “To those who have responded with criticism or simply questioned why we would send Sisters to the rally, we are happy to have this opportunity to explain.”
“There are indeed many issues concerning the quality of life that need to be addressed. However, the pre-eminent issue is the intrinsic evil of taking innocent human life through abortion. We, as faithful Catholics, consider it our duty — a joyful duty — to support a president, irregardless of party affiliation, who upholds the Gospel of Life.”
Among those who expressed support was Sister Diedre “Dede” Byrne, POSC, who addressed the Republican National Convention in August.
“He’s the most pro-life president we’ve had,” Mother Philomena Maria told LifeSite. “We’re trying to do what we feel the Lord wants us to do.”
A closer look at Vroom’s Twitter feed shows him actively trying to divide the Catholic vote, pitting the Children of Mary against other Catholic women’s religious communities.
Vroom posted articles about other Catholic women’s religious communities who are making face masks before tweeting a clip from the Circleville Trump rally that showed the nuns without their MAGA face masks:
“It appears the ‘sisters’ so carefully positioned at the Trump rally were only concerned about protecting life by wearing masks when the cameras were. Shameful.”
Yet conclusive scientific data on the effectiveness of masks both against catching the virus and passing it on is sorely lacking.
He later retweeted an image of Sister Quincy, a self-described feminist who publicly associates herself with the official Black Lives Matter organization, calling her “My kind of nun.”
The Children of Mary were officially founded in the Diocese of Columbus. Their motherhouse is located in Cincinnati and they also have a house of formation and retreat house near Newark, Ohio, in the Columbus diocese. According to the nuns’ website, their charism is “to satiate the Thirst of Jesus to be loved in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”
At the request of Bishop Athanasius Schneider, they recently promoted and joined in the Crusade of Reparation for sins against Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. November 2, 2020 correction: Jennifer Schack, Director of Media Relations for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, contacted LifeSiteNews with a statement that it was untrue that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati told clergy to distance themselves from the order, as this report originally stated. This report has now been corrected. Schack provided the following comment: “Each member of the Children of Mary, as an American citizen, has the same right to participate in civic life as does any other American. Their presence at a political rally does not comprise an endorsement of any sort by the Catholic Church.”
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lifesitenews--2020-10-29--Trump quietly issues directive making it easier to fire federal bureaucrats

October 28 , 2020 ( American Thinker ) — Thanks to President Trump 's latest executive order , there 's got to be a sense of panic across every administrative agency in Washington .
Last week , President Trump issued an order bearing the innocuous title `` Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service . ''
Behind that title lurks an earthquake that may finally break the permanent bureaucracy 's stranglehold on federal politics and bring more accountability to the American government .
When the Founders ratified the Constitution , they envisioned only three branches of government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Judicial Branches .
However , as America grew , a bureaucratic class grew along with it .
In theory , the federal bureaucracy is a subset of the Executive Branch .
Its purpose is to act as the president 's agent in carrying out the laws that Congress passes .
Also , in theory , the people working in the federal bureaucracy act strictly without partisanship , performing their work for all Americans ' benefit , not for a specific political party 's benefit .
In fact , those theories are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Over the past four years , we 've learned that agency employees believe themselves to be an unaccountable fourth branch of government .
We 've also seen that too many employees are highly partisan .
Whether in the IRS , the FBI , the DOJ , the CIA , or multiple other agencies , they see their highest goal as advancing the Democrat party 's interests .
This is not surprising , given that , in 2016 , 95 % of those federal employees who made political donations gave their money to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem with the federal bureaucracy : it acts as an unelected legislature .
Congress has repeatedly ceded to administrative agencies the power to dictate how businesses and individuals can function in America .
While Congress is answerable to voters ( senators must go back to their constituents every six years and House members must go back every two years ) , the administrative agencies are n't answerable to anybody .
These unfettered administrative agencies , collectively , are the swamp .
The swamp 's members have attempted a coup against the White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resistance against their constitutional boss , President Trump , and they have actively harassed people who do n't toe the Democrat party line , whether through the IRS , the BLM , or myriad other alphabet soup agencies .
That 's why it 's important that President Trump is finally acting against the policy-makers in the federal bureaucracy .
His `` Executive Order on Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service '' allows a presidential administration to look beyond the checkboxes of `` competitive service selection procedures '' to determine whether upper-level management @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a good job .
According to an article from the Washington Post : The directive , issued late Wednesday , strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking , allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse , much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration .
Federal scientists , attorneys , regulators , public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases , union representation , at agencies across the government .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jobs would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights , but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million .
The same WaPo article argues that the executive order makes the bureaucracy a partisan organization rather than a pure and nonpartisan workforce : That 's a laugh .
There 's nothing nonpartisan about the swamp .
Trump 's order finally gives the president — who is , after all , the boss — the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actively resist a president 's policies .
This power matters because the American people have selected their president because of his policies .
Those employees who `` resist '' implementing his policies should be fired .
But here 's the deal about this executive order : if Trump is re-elected , the order will eventually go into effect , and Trump will finally be given a free hand to clean out the swamp , getting rid of partisan actors , and keeping in place employees who are dedicated to working for the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elected , he will immediately rescind this executive order .
You can then expect the swamp to grow even more powerful in an administration that has as its primary goal expanding the government into every area of American life .
Published with permission from the American Thinker .

October 28, 2020 (American Thinker) — Thanks to President Trump's latest executive order, there's got to be a sense of panic across every administrative agency in Washington. Last week, President Trump issued an order bearing the innocuous title “Executive Order on Creating Schedule F In The Excepted Service.” Behind that title lurks an earthquake that may finally break the permanent bureaucracy's stranglehold on federal politics and bring more accountability to the American government.
When the Founders ratified the Constitution, they envisioned only three branches of government: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial Branches. However, as America grew, a bureaucratic class grew along with it.
In theory, the federal bureaucracy is a subset of the Executive Branch. Its purpose is to act as the president's agent in carrying out the laws that Congress passes. Also, in theory, the people working in the federal bureaucracy act strictly without partisanship, performing their work for all Americans' benefit, not for a specific political party's benefit.
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In fact, those theories are, as Biden would say, malarkey. Over the past four years, we've learned that agency employees believe themselves to be an unaccountable fourth branch of government. We've also seen that too many employees are highly partisan. Whether in the IRS, the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, or multiple other agencies, they see their highest goal as advancing the Democrat party's interests. This is not surprising, given that, in 2016, 95% of those federal employees who made political donations gave their money to Hillary Clinton.
There's yet another problem with the federal bureaucracy: it acts as an unelected legislature. Congress has repeatedly ceded to administrative agencies the power to dictate how businesses and individuals can function in America. While Congress is answerable to voters (senators must go back to their constituents every six years and House members must go back every two years), the administrative agencies aren't answerable to anybody.
These unfettered administrative agencies, collectively, are the swamp. The swamp's members have attempted a coup against the White House; they have set up an internal resistance against their constitutional boss, President Trump, and they have actively harassed people who don't toe the Democrat party line, whether through the IRS, the BLM, or myriad other alphabet soup agencies.
That's why it's important that President Trump is finally acting against the policy-makers in the federal bureaucracy. His “Executive Order on Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service” allows a presidential administration to look beyond the checkboxes of “competitive service selection procedures” to determine whether upper-level management employees in the federal service are doing a good job.
According to an article from the Washington Post:
The directive, issued late Wednesday, strips long-held civil service protections from employees whose work involves policymaking, allowing them to be dismissed with little cause or recourse, much like the political appointees who come and go with each administration. Federal scientists, attorneys, regulators, public health experts and many others in senior roles would lose rights to due process and in some cases, union representation, at agencies across the government. The White House declined to say how many jobs would be swept into a class of employees with fewer civil service rights, but civil service experts and union leaders estimated anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands in a workforce of 2.1 million.
The same WaPo article argues that the executive order makes the bureaucracy a partisan organization rather than a pure and nonpartisan workforce:
Still, the order, coming less than two weeks before the election, represents a stunning effort to reshape large parts of the nonpartisan government, which is supposed to serve as a cadre of subject-matter experts for every administration.
That's a laugh. There's nothing nonpartisan about the swamp. Trump's order finally gives the president — who is, after all, the boss — the power to get rid of employees who actively resist a president's policies. This power matters because the American people have selected their president because of his policies. Those employees who “resist” implementing his policies should be fired.
But here's the deal about this executive order: if Trump is re-elected, the order will eventually go into effect, and Trump will finally be given a free hand to clean out the swamp, getting rid of partisan actors, and keeping in place employees who are dedicated to working for the American people. However, if Biden is elected, he will immediately rescind this executive order. You can then expect the swamp to grow even more powerful in an administration that has as its primary goal expanding the government into every area of American life.
Published with permission from the American Thinker.
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