Videos that demonstrate Vice President Kamala Harris’ appetite for totalitarian powers have again gone viral. And they again explain why critics call her a “communist.”
In the more chilling of the two, Trump backer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalls Harris’ arresting a woman because her daughter missed school because of sickle cell anemia. The second reprises Harris’ unalloyed threat to shut down social media platforms that she claims propagate “hate.”
The videos add to the many others depicting a power-hungry woman with little respect for traditional American rights or freedoms — or the federal Constitution.
Truancy Lunacy
In July, the Washington Free Beacon recounted the story Kennedy tells in minute detail.
During her inauguration as attorney general of California in 2011, Harris warned that “we are putting parents on notice” about ensuring their kids show up in school.
“If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law,” she said.
What the childless Harris knows about “responsibilities to kids” is unclear. However, “Harris repeatedly asserted the need to crack down on truancy during her law enforcement career,” the Free Beacon continued:
“These children will invariably be what will end up in our criminal justice system,” Harris said while testifying in favor of a statewide truancy bill. In her 2011 inaugural address, Harris said it was “time to get serious about the problem of chronic truancy in California.” She noted that as San Francisco district attorney, she “threatened the parents of truants with prosecution” and saw truancy rates go down.
(As Kennedy noted, the real problem wasn’t truancy. Rather, California was “losing $1.8 billion per year because of truancy.”)
Anyway, Cheree Peoples, a black single mom, was arrested in 2013 on Harris’ orders to imprison the parents of truant kids.
Peoples’ little girl Shayla didn’t miss school because Peoples was irresponsible. She didn’t miss school because she was doing drugs. She didn’t miss school because she was up to no good. She missed school for a good reason.
She was absent for 20 days, the Free Beacon reported, because she was in chronic pain with sickle cell anemia.
“Police officers arrested Cheree for violating the truancy law, a misdemeanor that carried a $2,500 fine and up to one year in jail,” the website reported:
Peoples, who had an infant son when she was arrested, battled with the court system for two and a half years to clear her arrest, which she was worried would hurt her future job prospects.
Kennedy said Shayla missed 60 days, but either way, Harris jailed the mom of a sick child. Peoples even “had a 504 plan, an agreement between school districts and parents to provide care for students with disabilities,” the website continued. “Peoples was ultimately arrested after she declined to take Shayla to school to prove to administrators her daughter was truly sick.”
“This is communist tyranny,” Rogan O’Handley (aka DC_Draino) wrote on X.
Goodbye X
As if locking up innocent parents isn’t enough, years later, when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, Harris vowed to prosecute social media companies that don’t censor unpopular views.
During a speech to the NAACP, Harris was emphatic: When I’m president, the hate speech will stop on social media. “We’ll put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice,” Harris fumed:
We will double the Civil Rights Division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism. We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.
And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community.
No need to wonder who would have defined “hate” and “misinformation.”
That video too invited X users to call her a “communist.”
“This should be an ad for straight up communism,” Raising Patriots wrote.
That, of course, wasn’t Harris’ first threat to prosecute Americans unjustly.
In 2007, as San Francisco district attorney, she warned gun owners that she reserved the right to break into their homes.
“[J]ust because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs,” she warned.
In keeping with that threat, while campaigning in 2019, Harris warned that if Congress didn’t do her bidding on gun control, she would act unilaterally:
My agenda includes attempting to get Congress to act but if they don’t within the first 100 days of my administration, I’m gonna take executive action. Because what we need is action.
That threat was so unhinged that even then-candidate Joe Biden said such a move would be unconstitutional.
During the third Democratic primary debate in Houston in 2019, Biden again said a president cannot simply issue executive orders. “We got a Constitution,” Biden said.
“Hey Joe, instead of saying, ‘no, we can’t,’ let’s say ‘yes, we can,’” Harris replied with her annoying cackle.
