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Why Didn’t Kamala Harris Prosecute Abusive Priests?
American Spectator ^ | August 16, 2020 | George Neumayr

Posted on 08/16/2020 5:23:04 PM PDT by ebb tide

Why Didn’t Kamala Harris Prosecute Abusive Priests?

“Perhaps the deepest and most troubling mystery of Kamala Harris’s tenure as a prosecutor centers on the disturbing issue of sexual abuse of children by priests,” writes Peter Schweizer in Profiles in Corruption. “During her decade-and-a-half tenure as a chief prosecutor, Harris would fail to prosecute a single case of priest abuse and her office would strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victim groups.”

This record gives Catholics one more reason to vote for Trump. Like Biden, Harris is a scourge of good Catholics and a protector of bad ones.

As a senator, Harris has inveighed against those who protect “predators.” So what explains her soft-on-abuse record as district attorney of San Francisco and attorney general of California?

One might have thought Harris, whose anti-Catholic instincts led her as a senator to harass a Trump judicial nominee for nothing more than membership in the Knights of Columbus, would have enjoyed prosecuting the Church for sexual abuse. But she didn’t.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: bribery; coverups; harris; homos
This record gives Catholics one more reason to vote for Trump. Like Biden, Harris is a scourge of good Catholics and a protector of bad ones. Biden has promised to renew Obama’s harassment of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Yet he is running with a former prosecutor who wouldn’t prosecute molesting priests? Such are the perverse priorities of today’s Democrats.
1 posted on 08/16/2020 5:23:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 08/16/2020 5:23:45 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Sexual deviants tend to leave each other alone.


3 posted on 08/16/2020 5:24:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: ebb tide
Her public rebuke and disrespect, of and for, Justice Kanaugh can now be understood as a heartfelt hatred- but now in light of her procesutorisl bribery scheme exposed - also offers a side of convenient Deflection thrown in to not appear to be Catholic-friendly while Already having taken the money and run.
Diabolical on different levels.
4 posted on 08/16/2020 5:54:01 PM PDT by MurphsLaw (“In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti...Amen.”)
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To: ebb tide

Did nothing about Weinstein.


5 posted on 08/16/2020 6:00:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ebb tide

I’d love to know if $$$$$$ influenced her.


6 posted on 08/16/2020 6:32:16 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: aimhigh

I’ve seen suggestions Harris has some Ed Buck connections, but haven’t been able to find anything. don’t know if it’s donations or what that is being suggested.


7 posted on 08/16/2020 6:35:49 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: ebb tide

Priests like little white boys, so of course she didn’t feel any need to prosecute priests in the homosexual/pedophile capitol of America. Little white boys don’t matter. Just look at the complete fakestream media blackout of the murder of that five year old boy in North Carolina.


8 posted on 08/16/2020 6:41:21 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: aimhigh
I’d love to know if $$$$$$ influenced her.

I would say it did.

Harris received money from Church fixer Joseph Russoniello and the law firm Cooley Godward, where he served as partner. Harris tapped Russoniello for her advisory board. “Another law firm,” writes Schweizer, “Bingham McCutcheon, which handled legal matters for the archdiocese concerning Catholic Charities, donated $2,825, the maximum allowed.” Arguedas, Cassman & Headley, which was representing a priest in an abuse case at the time, also donated $4,550 to Harris. “The lawyer in the case, Cristina Arguedas, also served on Kamala Harris’s advisory council,” Schweizer writes.

Harris received money as well from Catholic board members of various organizations in the Bay Area and their family members totaling $50,950.

9 posted on 08/16/2020 6:46:12 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: freedumb2003

24News ^ | 08-12-2020 |
Samantha Foster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. . In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls,..

HERE’S HOW THEY TREAT CONSERVATIVE Congressional DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT STUFF LIKE THIS and why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress
Democrats weren’t happy with his votes against abortion and on being the only democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports.
Those who live in Chicago already voted at their local public library. But in the reshaped 3rd Congressional district Daniel Lipinski lost because of redistricting. Which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd in a district that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway Wards which were reliable Dan’s father William O Lipinski supporters. But since most had areas with hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to Gutieriez’s district. Those results are posted below which actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.
http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm


10 posted on 08/16/2020 7:18:06 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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Her predecessor and opponent in that race, Vincent Hallinan, had been pursuing abuse cases against the Church. Catholics afraid of his investigations backed Kamala Harris in the race. "The records that Hallinan had in his possession touched on well-connected institutions at the heart of California’s power structure. St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, counted California governor Jerry Brown and the powerful Getty family as alumni. The school faced enormous vulnerabilities because of abuse problems there. Based on documents later released by the Jesuits who ran St. Ignatius, in the nearly sixty-year span from 1923 to 1982, in forty-three of those years the school employed at least one priest on the faculty who was later accused of abuse." Hallinan’s investigation threatened to bring dozens of additional cases to light. "According to San Francisco election financial disclosures, high-dollar donations to Harris’s campaign began to roll in from those connected to the Catholic Church institutional hierarchy. Harris had no particular ties to the Catholic Church or Catholic organizations, but the money still came in large, unprecedented sums.". . .Harris received money from Church fixer Joseph Russoniello and the law firm Cooley Godward, where he served as partner. Harris tapped Russoniello for her advisory board. “Another law firm,” writes Schweizer, “Bingham McCutcheon, which handled legal matters for the archdiocese concerning Catholic Charities, donated $2,825, the maximum allowed.” Arguedas, Cassman & Headley, which was representing a priest in an abuse case at the time, also donated $4,550 to Harris. “The lawyer in the case, Cristina Arguedas, also served on Kamala Harris’s advisory council,” Schweizer writes. Harris received money as well from Catholic board members of various organizations in the Bay Area and their family members totaling $50,950. After Hallinan lost to Harris, the "fate of the investigation into Catholic priest abuse would dramatically change — and not for the better," according to Schweizer. Harris quickly buried Hallinan’s abuse investigations. . .

Side note: Harris's predecessor Hallinan was a long-time Communist Party front man. It's striking that Harris would drop a case he was pursuing that could have damaged the Catholic Church. She must have had a strong motivation.

11 posted on 08/16/2020 7:48:18 PM PDT by Fedora
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>>Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would force public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams. <<

Best thumb in the eye to feminists EVER. As I have predicted many times, born women sports are OVER. Title IX finally won: by having no born women there can’t be any discrimination.


12 posted on 08/17/2020 11:08:33 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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