Norman Rockwell would roll over in his grave if he learned what passes for freedom in the Democratic Party, seen in the Presidential ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Rockwell painted four scenes in the midst of World War II that captured the longing of the nation for foundational freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. However, Harris and Walz offer a dystopian view that empowers government, not ordinary citizens. Those freedoms are replaced with one, new category: “freedom” for unlimited abortion.
Consider the violations of basic freedoms from both Harris and Walz, when in power.
On Freedom of Speech: Attorney Jonathan Turley notes: “In her failed 2020 presidential bid, Harris ran on censorship,” something he both practiced and preached. As California’s Attorney General, Harris didn’t support the rights of citizen journalist David Daleiden, exposing her campaign donor, Planned Parenthood, and used the power of her office to raid his apartment, suppressing information about the alleged trafficking in human remains harvested from late-term abortions.
Immediately after taking office, the Biden-Harris Administration pressured social media companies to block those who disagreed with their handling of the COVID pandemic, allegedly taking direct steps against opponents. A recent lawsuit notes accusations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) engaged in “extensive” monitoring of citizens during the 2022 election season.
She’s found a kindred spirit in Walz, who told MSNBC in 2022, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”
That’s not exactly his story in stump speeches. Recently Walz said the “golden rule” in America is to “mind your own damn business.” Yet, during COVID he set up a snitch line, so that neighbors could inform on neighbors who didn’t tow his line. Harris and Walz abuse of weaponized governmental agencies signals trouble ahead.
On Freedom of Worship: Harris was so offended by a faithful Catholic up for a job as judge, that she said in a Senate hearing that his involvement in a Catholic charity disqualified him to serve. Repeatedly, she sponsored legislation that gutted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which protects people of faith from being forced to act against their conscience rights. As lead sponsor of the Do No Harm Act and the benignly named Equality Act, Harris targeted Americans with faith if they did not comply with her social engineering.
And consider her passion project, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) that goes radically far beyond Roe v. Wade.
In a letter to U.S. Representatives, the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops noted: “WHPA plainly seeks to force religious health professionals and religious hospitals to perform abortions against their beliefs. If it did not, there would be no reasons for the WHPA to specifically state that it overrides the longstanding, bipartisan … RFRA– something no bill passed by Congress has ever done.” And the measure blocks states’ rights as well.
On Freedom from Want: The economically inept Biden-Harris Administration forced forward a crippling measure in which Harris was the smug, tie-breaking vote for The Inflation Reduction Act. When former President Donald Trump left office, the inflation rate was 1.4%, but inflation during the Biden-Harris years topped out at 9.1% and isn’t in great shape today.
While it’s reported that “average weekly paychecks” are up 14.1% in the three years of the Biden-Harris Administration, prices have risen more than 19.3%. That’s an average, consider reporting that rent is up 21.9% and food up 21.5%, while energy costs up are up almost 30%.
Are we to believe that the candidate reportedly wearing a $62,000 necklace to her political events has insight into the crippling cost of bread … and what she did to make it so expensive?
Freedom from Fear: Much has been written about the rising crime rate, ushered in by the Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policy, with Kamala on deck as Border Czar. But as California’s Attorney General, her soft-on-crime policies left a tragic wake in her home state. Bizarrely, she promoted a fund to bail out Black Lives Matter rioters in Walz’s home state, that “(a)mong those bailed out was a convicted rapist facing charges of sexual assault and kidnapping.”
Meanwhile, Walz’s wife enjoyed the scent of burning tires, and Walz gloated while his city burned around him, sending forces into neighborhoods to frighten citizens indoors.
But in the name of “freedom,” Harris flacks for the Planned Parenthood abortion business model.
This isn’t the soft freedom of “choice” as that doesn’t go far enough for Harris’ who pledges to “restore reproductive freedom.” And it’s not what Roe and Doe together mutated into U.S. law – abortion without limit, for any reason, and sometimes paid for by taxpayers. She wants more.
Politico reports: “”I don’t think there’s a real debate about whether we want to go beyond Roe,” said Mini Timmaraju, president and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All who has frequently campaigned for and with Harris.” Ironically, the organization, formerly the National Abortion Rights Action League, also hides abortion behind the fig leaf of “Freedom.”
A cold-hearted Harris-Walz Administration seems poised to ignore the basic freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights, with fealty to the one thing NOT in the U.S. Constitution – Abortion. Given their thuggish abuse of power when opposed, no one will be free who doesn’t agree with them.
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Kristan Hawkins is CEO of Pro-Life Generation as well as president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with nearly 1,500 groups on middle & high school, college & university, medical & law school campuses in all 50 states. Follow her @KristanHawkins or subscribe to her podcast, Explicitly Pro-Life.
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