Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Tulsi Gabbard served in Congress as a Democrat from Hawaii, and she single-handedly destroyed Kamala Harris on a panel of Democratic Party presidential candidates in 2019 when she said, “Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence – she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.”

Harris tried to play it off in a post-debate interview by saying that as a “top-tier” candidate, she expected to take some shots.

Two months later in December, 2019, Harris dropped out of the race. That was two months before the first primaries ever took place.

Gabbard didn’t drop out of the race until March 19, 2020, outlasting Harris by three months.

Gabbard has since left the Democratic Party and the military veteran has been critical of the Biden/Harris Administration.

Recently Gabbard was preparing to board a plane with her husband when she found out she had been placed on the domestic threat “Quiet Skies” list, requiring a flight marshal and extra officers to be placed on any plane she boards.

That’s what happens when a person of influence challenges this administration. The full weight of government will be placed on them.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer exposed this years ago when Donald Trump challenged the intelligence community.

“They have six ways form Sunday of getting back at you,” Schumer said.

And he was right. After a lifetime in the public arena in business, Trump became the target of multiple investigations and charges.

But Gabbard?

Yes, Gabbard, someone who served her country in the military, who served her state as an elected member of Congress, who dared challenge her party for its positions on certain issues, who has earned respect from those on both sides of the aisle, ends up on the potential domestic threat list.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., also knows what it has been like to try to represent a different view within the Democratic Party. He wasn’t even allowed to challenge Joe Biden as a primary candidate within the party.

It is strange that the party claiming to defend democracy wouldn’t allow a primary challenge from a potential threat.

Since then, RFK, Jr., ran as an independent, and the Democratic Party has nine lawsuits in an attempt to remove him from ballots.

Again, the party claiming to defend democracy, which at the heart is free and fair elections with anyone willing to run allowed on the ballot is actually working against candidates being on the ballot.

Several Democratic state officials attempted to prevent Trump from being on the ballot, claiming the 14th Amendment, and most were bounced out by their own state courts. Others were tossed by the Supreme Court who stated only the federal government can enforce the 14th Amendment.

Many call it projection, the act of accusing the opposition of doing exactly what you are doing yourself, and Gabbard has pointed out the threats to democracy by the Democratic Party.

That claim got her marked as a potential domestic threat, simply because she called the Democrats out for abusing government against the people.

Democrats don’t see it that way. They believe anyone who doesn’t share their world view is dangerous, and any act to subvert that person is morally justified. The ends justify the means which makes it okay to destroy democracy in order to save it.

“The people can’t be trusted with such consequential decisions,” they surmise. “We will have to prevent the opposition form being able to have a choice.”

And that’s how Trump gets charged and convicted of a bookkeeping entry, how RFK was not allowed on the ballot in New York, and how Gabbard ends up being labeled a domestic threat.

You don’t want to challenge this regime. They are changing the rules of the game in a way we’ve never seen before.

What was once considered opposing political views is soon to be a violation of law. Maybe that’s why so many are forging a new alliance against this power-hungry regime.

While some may believe Trump to be off-putting, can they say the same for RFK and Gabbard? Of course not. And that’s why placing Gabbard on the domestic threat list may be just what it takes for those who have been trusting this regime to take a pause and realize democracy truly is at stake, but only if Harris were to become president.