The Book on Harris

On Sept. 24, Kamala Harris kicks off the tour for her new book 107 Days, which will close out in Miami on Nov. 20. The 2024 loser’s tour will stop short of the 10th anniversary of a key event in her long career, which has relevance to America’s surging assassination culture.

On Dec. 2, 2015, Muslims Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik drove up to the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, rifles in tow, and began firing upon partygoers in the facility. The duo gunned down 14 people before fleeing the scene in their black SUV.

Farook and Malik fired more than 100 rounds at the pursuing San Bernardino police, wounding one officer before San Bernardino’s finest took them down. Inside their SUV, the police found a trigger device designed to detonate bombs the Muslims had planted at the Regional Center. Had the bombs exploded, many others would have perished. California’s attorney general at the time was Kamala Harris.

“We must seek justice for those who lost their lives in the recent attacks,” Attorney General Harris said in a Dec. 17 statement. Harris failed to identify the shooters or condemn their actions. She also failed to name a single victim or attribute motives—such as racial or religious bigotry, or even hatred—to the perpetrators. On the other hand, she did make her priorities clear:

Not only is it immoral and contrary to our values to stoke fear and cast aspersions against an entire faith and the millions of law-abiding American Muslims, but it is also strategically unwise. This very community is a critical ally in the short and long term fight combatting terrorism and radicalization here at home and across the world.

Harris convened an interfaith event with the Muslim Public Affairs Council and The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), whose Los Angeles director Hussam Ayloush said “Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric by certain public figures has made Muslim communities an easy target for hate crimes.” Ayloush added that Harris “exemplified leadership” by addressing “the spike in hate crimes against American Muslims and other minorities.” While ignoring the 14 victims of the recent mass murder, Harris gave a platform to the killers’ co-religionists.

The passage of time brought about little change to the attorney general’s thinking. In a statement one year later, Harris recalled “those who lost their lives and the loved ones they left behind,” with no explanation of how those lives were lost. As at the outset, Harris named not a single victim or any of the “brave first responders.” As for the policemen who thwarted a catastrophic bombing, Harris did not even use the word “police.” Farook and Malik were, likewise, not named. Harris, of course, did not mention their possible motive for “the tragedy that took place.” At no point does she even label “the tragedy” a crime.

The memorial service for Michael Wetzel—one of the victims—drew 800 people. Wetzel’s wife, Renee, told attendees,

I miss everything about him. He was the most amazing man I have ever met in my life. I miss this huge smile he would give me every day when he came home from work, he always let the kids climb all over him. He was a human jungle gym. He loved all those kids so much. He was the best dad ever to them.

According to Chuck Lane, one of Wetzel’s coworkers at Rim of the World High School in Lake Arrowhead, Wetzel was “a favorite among his classmates and staff.”

Kamala Harris was not present at Michael Wetzel’s funeral. For that matter, there are no reports of her attending any of the funerals or meeting with the victims’ families.

The San Bernardino massacre, and Harris’ subsequent conduct, raised questions about her qualifications for attorney general. There was growing doubt whether she should have been elected in the first place.

Kamala Harris got her political launch through poontronage from Democrat queenmaker Willie Brown, who set up Harris, his then-girlfriend, in lucrative sinecures and backed her run for district attorney of San Francisco in 2002. In Harris’ 2010 race for state attorney general, she was so lightly regarded that the reliably Democrat Sacramento Bee endorsed her Republican opponent Steve Cooley, district attorney of Los Angeles County. On election night, Cooley held a lead of nearly 10 points and at 9 p.m. declared victory. A full three weeks later, Harris won by less than a percentage point. If Californians thought so-called provisional ballot fraud carried the day it would be hard to blame them.

As the San Bernardino massacre revealed, Kamala Harris shows little if any concern for crime victims. Willie Brown’s protégé is a woman of the left, which divides the people into oppressor and victim classes. People who value their constitutional rights, and want the nation to be great, are always the oppressors. Muslims are always victims and people of peace, however many innocent people they murder. The ever-expanding list of accredited victims now includes the LGBTQ variety—the left’s new vanguard.

On March 27, 2023, in the run-up to the “Trans Day of Vengeance,” Audrey Hale murdered nine-year-olds Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs, along with adults Katherine Koonce, Michael Hill and Cynthia Peak at the Covenant School in Nashville. Vice President Kamala Harris failed to identify or condemn the shooter, failed to name a single murder victim, and did not attend any of the funerals. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said “our hearts go out to the trans community as they are under attack right now.”

As in San Bernardino in 2015, no word about the victims, and the shooter was the one “under attack.” After the murder of Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski in August, Harris’ statement failed to name the victims or condemn trans shooter Robert Westman. It was all about “senseless gun violence.”

Today, in similar style, Harris said she was “deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah” and sent “prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family,” adding “political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.”

Condemning “this act” or “political violence” is not the same as condemning the assassin and his motive. There’s much more to Kamala Harris than what is found in 107 Days. The former vice president, senator, and California attorney general will always be about memory against forgetting.

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