No more defenses of Kennedy and Gabbard, please

No more defenses of Kennedy and Gabbard, please

Emanuel Pastreich

February 1, 2025

Nothing pains me more than to see how many of my fellow warriors in the battle for political truth throughout the COVID reign of terror are now spending their hours and days writing up elaborate defenses for Robert Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard. Kennedy and Gabbard, two professional politicians, face hostile interrogations in their confirmation hearings in Congress. That is true and it is a bit unfair.

Yes, of course, they are being attacked by hypocritical Democratic Senators all of whom bought into the lies spewed out by the pharmaceutical industry, in the case of the attacks on Kennedy; or bought into the hyped-up threat of Russia, in the case of Gabbard. When I watched the hearings, however, I was saddened to see that both Kennedy and Gabbard revealed their own corruption through their incomplete and dishonest responses, and their willingness to buy into the massive lies that circulate throughout Washington DC so completely as to pass for truth in that degraded pigsty.

I must be honest, however, because the stakes are simply that high. I am not trying to win a popularity contest, but rather to do what is best for the nation.

The time for defending Kennedy and Gabbard is over. The Trump administration has set off a drive, through the issuing of unconstitutional executive orders and the seizure of the control of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, intelligence, Commerce, and the Treasury to create an executive branch reporting to private banks that is unaccountable to the Congress, or to the citizens of the United States. It has launched a series of directives in the Pentagon and in Homeland Security to end posse comitatus and thus deploy the military at home, and along the border with Mexico and Canada, in a manner that will establish an effective military regime. It has labelled its opponents as the “radical left,” “cultural Marxists,” and even “communists,” threatening to use force against “the enemy within” and to deport residents who do not have citizenship, and even to strip Americans of their citizenship if they do not conform with directives from the president.

The Trump administration has taken steps to combine the United States’ and Israel’s military and intelligence in an effective merger through outsourcing to multinational IT firms like Palantir, Oracle, Amazon, and Google.

These actions are without precedent in American history, and they will lead to a military dictatorship and put in place a military economy that demands world war in order to justify its massive increases in military spending.

If Kennedy or Gabbard were decent, honorable citizens, holding up the Constitution and were committed to helping the nation and its people, they would withdraw from this contest and denounce the ideological cancer that is coursing through the blood of the body politic. The fact that Kennedy has spoken the truth about vaccines and other corporate crimes in the past does not excuse him when he gives legitimacy to this complete takeover of the United States government. The fact that Gabbard has expressed a more balanced perspective on American security concerns than most have in the past, does not excuse her embrace of Israel and her willingness to give legitimacy to the rule of the United States by warmongering billionaires through her presence in this horrific cabinet. The hypocrisy of the Democrats who asked such stupid questions does not give either of these politicians moral legitimacy.

There is no compromise permissible at this point. We should not waste any ink defending these two hereafter. They have made their decision.