Your letters for Sept. 27, 2024

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Your letters for Sept. 27, 2024

Inquiries to Harris

Harris in normal times advocated the most left-wing policies imaginable, often to prove her liberal purity before adoring audiences (Harris had the hardest left voting record in the U.S. Senate.)

In a debate or interview, I would pose a number of questions to Harris or her surrogates or her media lackeys.

Inquires for Harris:

1. You have boasted that you were the “last person in the room” when Joe Biden finalized his plans for the abrupt August 2021 humiliating pullout from Afghanistan. That pullout as you know resulted in abandoning some $50 billion in American munitions to the Taliban. And you also are on record that you wished to force (“mandate”) Americans who own “assault weapons” (the nature of which was undefined) to sell them to the federal government for assumed destruction. Why then did you approve such a reckless withdrawal from Kabul that left in the hands of the terrorist Taliban some 360,000 “assault weapons” (in addition to nearly 65,000 machine guns)?

2. Given the hyperinflation of your administration that saw Americans paying over $20,000 more for new trucks during your tenure since January 2021, why did you and Biden simply abandon 42,000 late-model trucks to the Taliban (along with over 22,000 Humvees, 8,000 heavy transport trucks, and 1,000 armored vehicles?)

3. You say you will compare your record to Trump’s on the border anytime. Can you please then answer “yes” or “no” to the following questions: Did you support canceling the Trump border wall mid-construction when your administration took office? Why did you bring back “catch-and-release” that forced the border patrol to release arrested illegal aliens? Did you advocate abolishing ICE? Wish to apologize to ICE officers when you compared the border enforcement agency to the KKK and suggested that they whipped immigrants from horses in ways reminiscent of slavery)? Why did you oppose requiring potential immigrants to apply for refugee status in their own home countries rather than applying for it after illegally entering the U.S.? Did you oppose deportations for those who entered the country illegally during your tenure as Vice President? Is there a statute that says anyone without permission can enter the United States from a foreign country anytime and anywhere he chooses? Have you in the past supported sanctuary cities and given the power to local and state jurisdictions as a state attorney general to nullify federal immigration laws? Did you support the extension of de facto free federal health care via the envisioned Medicare for All plan to illegal aliens?

4. Are you still for abolishing private health care plans for Americans, or do you now support abolishing them only for some Americans?

5. Do you still support, as you did when an elected official in California, the banning of all fracking, horizontal drilling, and offshore drilling?

6. During the four months of violent protests in the late spring and summer of 2020, did you help galvanize your supporters (e.g. “If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota”)? Were you aware that those and other protests that summer led to 1,500 injured police officers, 35-40 deaths, $2 billion in property damage, 14,000 arrests, and attempts to burn down a federal courthouse, a police precinct, and a historic Washington, D.C. church, as well as to storm the White House grounds and reach the president (removed to an underground bunker given the violence)? More specifically what did you mean exactly by describing the Antifa/BLM-led protests as a “movement?” What sorts of movements were they exactly? Why did you urge that these by now often violent protests “should not” stop? Was that reckless given the violence that had already occurred? Why did you warn Americans with the word “beware?” Beware of what exactly? Why did you invoke Election Day as the key date to remind Americans that the street demonstrations would continue over the next four months to Election Day?

7. Will you again endorse Gascón? Why did you support in 2020 a massive $150 million cut in the police budget of Los Angeles County? Would you do so again?

8. In the past, you have objected to the description “radical Islamic terrorism.” Why? Were the murderers on 9/11 or those on October 7 not Islamic radicals? Did they not engage in terrorism? Do you object to the word “radical” or “Islamic” or “terrorism”—or all three? Or is their killing of civilians not terrorism? Or do you believe it is rare? What term do you suggest the public use instead for those who murder such as those on 9/11 or October 7?

9. Are “Muslim militants” or “moderate Islamic terrorists” or “religious terrorists” acceptable?

Ben Pecora

St. Joseph