By Renee Parsons
If RFK jr. had any illusions that today’s Democratic party was anywhere akin to the activist party of the 1960’s, that it had not deviated from its previous identity devoted to civil liberties, peace and the American people, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee quickly disabused him with the reality of an irrational hate-filled wake up call during the Committee’s recent meeting on weaponization of the Federal government.
In an obvious attempt to censor the censorship hearing, 102 Democrats objected to Kennedy’s presence with a letter urging rescinding the invitation citing anti-semitic and anti-asian conspiracy theories.
In another attempt to censor the meeting from its censorship focus, Kennedy skipped reading his opening statement as he was immediately on the hot seat with a Motion to Move the Hearing into a Closed Executive Session which was appropriately defeated. From there, the meeting evolved into turbulence and deranged political syndrome, as Dem Members exhibited intense distress, descending into an Orwellian world confused about truth and objective reality while blind to their own hubris.
In other words, RFK got his butt kicked by those who might have been expected to show some measure of respect for his family name – they had none whatsoever and it was disgraceful to watch.
In a nutshell, the meeting encapsulated the utter panic and sheer desperation of the Democrats as the more Indictments are thrown at former President Trump, the more his poll numbers climb; thus accelerating Dem panic to the point of frenzied semi-hysteria; terrified Trump will prevail if his name is on the 2024 ballot.
The full-on RFK attack came as no surprise to those who have observed the Dems political assassination of Donald Trump since 2016, although comparatively a mere glimpse of the same meanspirited antagonism and outright political violence that Trump continues to receive. It was Kennedy’s turn to experience their outrageous behavior as petty, frustrated totalitarian dictators; the Dems revealed no respect for the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment or the Kennedy legacy yet there was some satisfaction that $5 million was raised during the weaponization ordeal.
The experience might have left Kennedy with questions about his future in the Democratic party; that he had reached a turning point in the face of unrelenting animosity, with no common ground to be found, forcing a reconsideration of his political alliance as the Dems repeatedly threw him, the son of the revered RFK Sr. and nephew of JFK, under the bus. RFK must know he is welcome to join the loyal opposition with true American patriots from whom he is descended. It was encouraging to see RFK stand his ground and never waver in the face of a stonewall of emotion-filled lunatic rants.
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A further example of Democrats over reacting like anxiety disorder patients on steroids reads like a page out of the Bolshevik’s 1917 Playbook includes criminalizing dissent among 2020 electors which is expected to spread to several other states, disbarment proceedings against formidable Republican attorneys like John Eastman, Rudi Giuliani, Jeff Clark and ethic complaints against Jenna Ellis and others as well as creative utilization of the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 in an effort to deny Trump ballot access,
As if Donald Trump needed another legal hurdle to block his path to the White House, the well organized, well-funded effort has already widened into a state-by-state campaign to keep Trump off statewide ballots. In Colorado, Secretary of State Jena Griswold has declined to confirm that Trump will be granted access in 2024 as the SOS has authority over the state’s ballot qualification process. Griswold was citing the alleged pro-democracy groups which have been lobbying to implement the Fourteenth Amendment, deemed as the ‘disqualification clause” which reads:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
The key words “engaging in an insurrection or rebellion’ are not applicable to the J6 situation as it was not an insurrection or rebellion nor is Trump’s participation considered as ‘engaged’. Both a lack of “insurrection or rebellion” can be easily disproved by Congress demanding the immediate release of the J6 videos which shows undercover agents lobbing rounds at Americans citizens as well as conduct its own rigorous oversight on FBI and other law enforcement participation in the J6 event.
There are national ‘pro-democracy’ advocates which have already concluded that Trump is ‘disqualified’ given his “role in inciting, mobilizing and encouraging the January 6th insurrection.” The Free Speech for People, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics of Washington (CREW) are all active in building a grass roots national campaign for states to apply the Fourteenth Amendment to their statewide ballot. They are also committed to ‘building political power’ on immigration, election integrity and voting rights issues.
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Since the early days of Trump’s 2016 Administration, while the political world was totally consumed with Russiagate and the President’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the intensity of opposition has been a puzzlement that did not appear to warrant the level of Democratic hysteria or even the obsessed strength of RINO opposition. The chaos never made enough sense to produce the deliberate fanning of the flames of hate, so utterly obsessed and fanatically preoccupied with creation of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
TDS could not be attributed to Trump’s policy statements as threatening or revolutionary or extremists other than he did campaign on ‘no new interventionist wars;’ yet there was one essential issue that persisted and made more sense than any other and it took the Sound of Freedom film to highlight Trump’s positions on human trafficking with Trump coming into office with the resolve to address human trafficking and the exploitation of children.
Almost immediately after the 2016 Inauguration, Trump signed Executive Order (13773) on February 9, 2017 “Enforcing Federal law with respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking.” In 2017, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (HR 1865), the Not Invisible Act (S982) and Savanna’s Act (S227) both became law on October 10, 2020. In January 2018, Trump designated Proclamation 9688 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
A majority of Americans may have never heard about these efforts largely because the media refused to acknowledge Trump with any positive publicity, especially on the issue of trafficking.
Immediately after viewing the Sound of Freedom, Trump reiterated his policy on human trafficking.
Renee Parsons served on the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors (2013-2016) and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.
N.B. The last thing the Dems want is to have Trump free to function as a candidate rather than tie the campaign up in knots, unable to participate on a full time schedule visiting every swing state. https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/secretary-wont-say-whether-trump-can-access-colorado-ballot/