69 eye-opening facts about
Hillary's VP pick, Clinton's
fragile health prompts close scrutiny of Tim Kaine's far-left record, by Garth
Kant, 9/19/16, WND
WASHINGTON – In light of Hillary
Clinton’s very public and seemingly serious health issues, the question has sudden
urgency: Who is Tim Kaine? What kind of leader would America get in the man who
would be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
The establishment
media call the Democratic Party vice-presidential
nominee a “moderate.” But the evidence shows the Virginia senator’s record is radical. And so is his background. How radical?
For starters, Kaine’s first
political mentors were Marxist
revolutionaries. Since then, he has become allied
with Islamic
extremists. Clinton’s running mate is the only
member of Congress to get a zero
percent lifetime rating from the American
Conservative Union. He also gets zero
percent from Conservative Review. By
contrast, Planned
Parenthood gave Kaine a 100 percent
scorecard. While the Virginia senator may cultivate an image of being a
moderate, his positions on the issues put him on the far left of the political
spectrum.
Abortion
·
As a Catholic, Kaine has said he has “a faith-based opposition to abortion,” and ”I don’t like it personally. I’m opposed to abortion.” But
he has
also said, “I’m a strong supporter of Roe v.
Wade.”
· In fact, despite his “personal” and
religious beliefs, Kaine has even vowed
to “oppose efforts to weaken or subvert the
basic holding of Roe v. Wade.”
·
Asked if the Supreme Court should
overturn Roe v. Wade, he said, “I don’t think the Supreme Court should.” He
continued, “Roe vs. Wade is ultimately about saying that there is a realm of
personal liberty for people to make this decision.”
·
Kaine opposes laws to establish building standards to ensure safe and
sanitary conditions at abortion clinics, calling that “just political
grandstanding.”
·
Kaine initially called the
disturbing undercover videos revealing Planned Parenthood’s selling of baby
body parts “extremely
troubling,” but then voted against defunding
the organization.
Immigration
·
Kaine co-sponsored the I-Squared bill which would nearly double the number of
H-1B visas which corporations such as Disney use to replace American workers.
·
Kaine supports President Obama’s executive orders expanding the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, and Deferred Action for Parental
Accountability, or DAPA, programs, which will give legal status to millions
illegal immigrants, if they survive court challenges.
Muslim immigration
·
Kaine was one of 14 senators who wrote a letter to Obama in May 2015 calling for “greatly
increasing the number of Syrian refugees who are resettled in our country.”
·
Kaine said “the United States has a
moral obligation” to do so.
·
In the same letter, Kaine also
called upon the United Kingdom and France to accept more Syrian refugees.
·
In a Senate speech, Kaine said: “I look at this refugee crisis as a test …
about whether we, like Job, will be true to our principles or whether we’ll
abandon them.”
Refugee vetting
·
Kaine opposed a bill passed by the House in 2015 that would have required
greater vetting of Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
·
That same year, he said in an interview, “the refugee vetting process is one
of the safest areas that we have.”
·
Kaine claims, “Refugees are the most carefully vetted of all travelers
to the U.S., with extensive biometric, biographic, intelligence, and law
enforcement checks involving numerous agencies.”
Taxes
· Politifact said GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s claim that
Kaine proposed $4 billion in total tax increases during first week as governor
of Virginia in January 2006, was “largely accurate” and rated it as “mostly
true.”
·
He also tried to increase car
registration fees and traffic ticket fines.
·
Two years later, he proposed a $1.1
billion plan to increase vehicle-registration fees and title taxes.
·
In his final year in office, Kaine
tried to increase the state’s income tax another percentage point to 6.75
percent.
Israel
· Kaine strongly objected when former House Speaker John Boehner invited Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to Congress in 2015 about his
opposition to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, and was one of nine senators to
boycott the speech.
·
Kaine was one of only 12 senators to
refuse
to sign a bipartisan letter in June 2014
warning Obama about funding the Palestinian Authority after it formed a unity
government with the terrorist group Hamas. Eighty-eight senators signed the
letter.
·
The leftist PAC J Street was the single
biggest donor to Kaine from 2011-2016, giving him
$178,283. Liberal attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan
Dershowitz calls J Street “the most damaging organization in American history
against Israel.”
Iran
· Kaine was a “strong
supporter” of Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, calling
it “a dramatic improvement over
the status quo that will improve global security for at least 15 years, and
likely longer.”
· Kaine fought to keep the treaty from
coming up for a vote in the Senate.
Second Amendment
· Kaine claims he “strongly
supports” the Second Amendment but has
supported a number of measures to severely weaken it.
·
Kaine wants to limit ammunition
clips to no more than 10 bullets.
·
Kaine favors increasing background
checks.
·
He said he supports the right “to hunt and fish,” but he also
believes “we must take concrete steps to reduce gun violence.”
·
He called the Orlando nightclub terror attack “just an additional
wake up call that we need to find solutions to reduce this scourge of gun
violence.”
Affirmative
Action
·
Kaine supports government-enforced affirmative-action policies giving
preferences to minorities and women in hiring and college admissions.
Voter ID
·
Kaine said the purpose of North Carolina’s voter ID law was to, “with
surgical precision, deny African Americans the right to vote.”
·
He wants to restore the right of
convicts to vote.
Campaign
Finance
·
Kaine believes the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United erodes
democracy and undermines elections and encourages lobbyists to influence votes.
·
He favors public financing of
federal campaigns.
Minimum wage
·
Kaine favored raising the minimum wage in Virginia, “because no family
working full time should live under the poverty level.”
Welfare
·
Kaine “strongly
supported” the extension of emergency
unemployment insurance benefits “because it strengthens our economy and
protects Virginians who are looking for jobs and trying to get back to work.”
Religious freedom
·
Kaine opposes government funding for
religious organizations.
·
Kaine opposes the posting of the Ten
Commandments in public places.
Same-sex marriage
·
He campaigned against an amendment
to the Virginia constitution that banned any legal recognition of same-sex
relationships.
·
Kaine signed the amicus brief to the
Supreme Court that claimed the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional.
·
Kaine opposed gay adoption in 2005,
then endorsed it in 2011.
·
He favors protecting the “gender
identity” of LGBT students in schools.
Education
Trade
·
Kaine says he will
vote for the Trans-Pacific Partnership
trade deal if it comes with a worker retraining measure.
Perhaps the most revealing items in
Kaine’s political career were his formative experiences under the tutelage of
Marxists revolutionaries in Latin America and his more recent associations in Washington
with radical Muslims.
Marxist
mentors
On Sept. 2, the New York Times
published a lengthy piece titled, “In
Honduras, a spiritual and political awakening for Tim Kaine,” intended to show how his purported politics of compassion
was grounded in faith when the then-22-year-old traveled to Honduras to
volunteer with Jesuit missionaries, as civil wars raged through Central
America.
What it showed instead was the roots
of Kaine’s radicalism and a politics grounded in communist ideology. And what
it neglected to mention was his mentors were mainstream Marxists virulently
opposed to the United States.
The Times
reported, “Mr. Kaine embraced an
interpretation of the gospel, known as liberation theology, that championed
social change to improve the lives of the downtrodden.”
However, as an ambassador to the
U.N. Commission on Human Rights, former Secretary of State of Ohio and
Cincinnati Mayor Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council pointed out in an
article in the Hill on Sept. 9:
“This (liberation theology) wasn’t
mainstream ‘Catholic thought’ at the time. It was a radical, Marxist-based
ideology at odds with the Church, the pope, and the United States, but
supportive of (and supported by) the Soviet Union.”
Blackwell further observed,
“Journalistic and academic research has now shown that Liberation Theology
itself was quite possibly a product of a Kremlin disinformation campaign
designed to undermine the Church and bring Catholic countries into the Soviet
sphere. The top-ranking Soviet Bloc defector of the Cold War, Gen. Ion Pacepa
admits that he was personally involved in the operation.”
The Times piece also failed to set
the context of the times, when a newly elected President Reagan set out to
finally confront Soviet expansionism in Latin America, where the communist
empire had made significant gains, particularly in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Instead, the paper implicitly
pointed an accusatory finger at the United States, reporting how the experience
“gave Mr. Kaine a new, darker view of his own country’s behavior. ‘It was a
very politicizing experience for me because the U.S. was doing a lot of bad
stuff,’ he said. ‘It made me very angry. I mean I still feel it.'”
So, Kaine’s formative political
experience was anger at the United States for fighting communist expansion in
its neighbors to the South.
The Times revealed how Kaine came to
see the forces of democracy as the bad guys, as, “His mentors in the priesthood
had also urged him to be wary of friendly American faces.”
However, as Blackwell noted, the
Times failed to reveal just how radical were “Kaine’s Soviet sympathizing
mentors.” How radical? One of those mentors, Father Jack
Warner, said “the gospel is an extremely communist document.”
The Times further reported, “During
a short stay in Nicaragua, Mr. Kaine looked up an American, the Rev. James
Carney, known there as Guadalupe, who had been exiled from Honduras in 1979, in
part for adopting an extreme view of liberation theology that supported the
taking up of arms against military oppressors.”
Blackwell asked, just how hardcore
were Kaine’s Jesuit teachers? “Well,” he wrote, “around the time Kaine was
there, Jesuits were arrested for gunrunning, and, the next year, the Honduran
government banned any more American Jesuits from coming to that country because
of their left-wing activism.”
Blackwell called Carney a
“full-blown revolutionary” and noted the Times reported he was who “Kaine
sought out across the border in Soviet-supported Nicaragua, taking a bus and
then walking several miles to meet him.”
Carney was apparently killed in a
firefight with Honduran troops that invaded the country “to bring the
Nicaraguan Communist revolution there too. The insurgents were Cuban and
Nicaraguan trained and led by Jose Reyes Mata,
Cuban-educated, and Honduras’ top
Marxist. Reyes Mata had previously served with Che Guevara in Bolivia.” And, Blackwell noted, Kaine “didn’t
seem bothered by Carney’s participation in a Communist-sponsored insurgency and
invasion of Honduras.”
“But his relationship with Carney’s
successor, Father Melo, continues in the open. Melo, incidentally, wants to
redistribute land throughout Latin America by 2021,” added Blackwell.
How does Kaine view his Latin American
experience, to this day? The Times reported, upon settling in Richmond,
Virginia, “Mr. Kaine told his pastor that his exposure to liberation theology
had ‘changed him, it deepened him.'”
Islamist affiliations
Also “deep” are Kaine’s ties to
Islamic radicals in the United States, particularly in his home state of
Virginia. The man who could become a heartbeat
from the presidency has developed close
associations with numerous Muslim extremists
over the last decade and the course of his political career.
2016 - In February, Kaine participated in a groundbreaking
ceremony for the expansion of a worship center for the All Dulles Area Muslim
Society, or ADAMS, in Virginia. He also attended a meeting sponsored by ADAMS
five months later.
Middle East expert Clare Lopez of
the Center for Security Policy told
WND in 2014 that ADAMS is headed by an
imam named Muhammad Magid, who “is the son of the Muslim Brotherhood’s grand
mufti of Sudan. He is also the president of something called ISNA, Islamic
Society of North America, the largest Muslim Brotherhood front group in the
country. And, ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land
Foundation Hamas terror funding trial.” Magid had accused
the Bush administration of waging a “war
against Islam and Muslims.”
The imam was named to Obama’s
Department of Homeland Security in 2011, and, according to the group Discover
the Networks, “persuaded DHS to erase from its
‘Countering Violent Extremism’ curriculum any suggestion that Muslim terrorism
draws its inspiration from the laws and doctrines of Islam.” Lopez told WND
that Magid became the closest adviser for Obama’s National Security Council.
2011-12 - ISNA and the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
or CAIR, donated $4,300 to Kaine’s Senate campaign.
CAIR has numerous ties to extremist Islamic organizations,
including the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
CAIR’s radical Islamic vision was
evidenced when co-founder Omar Ahmad said in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to
be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Quran … should be the
highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”
CAIR co-founder Ibrahim Hooper has
said if Muslims ever become a majority
in the United States, they will likely seek to replace the U.S. Constitution
with Islamic law.
CAIR was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in a criminal conspiracy to support both Hamas and the Holy Land
Foundation in 2007. CAIR claims U.S. foreign policy is
dictated largely by Zionist extremists.
2012 - Kaine attended the Dar al-Hijrah, or DAH, Islamic
Center’s annual banquet. A 2002 document from Customs and Border Protection described
DAH as “a front for Hamas operatives in
U.S.” A 2007 document said DAH “has been linked to numerous individuals linked
to terrorism financing.” The DAH imam from 2001 to 2002 was
Anwar al-Awlaki, who became a senior al-Qaida operative and planner of
terrorist operations. He was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen in 2011. The DAH imam from 1995 to 1999 was
Mohammed al-Hanooti, who preached that Allah would “curse” the U.S., U.K., and
“the Jews” for airstrikes on Iraq.
2007 - Then-governor of Virgina Kaine chose former DAH vice president, and then-Muslim American
Society, or MAS, president, Esam Omeish to serve on the state’s Immigration
Commission.
Even a Muslim organization against
Islamism criticized the appointment and cited a reckless lack of vetting. According
to the Clarion
Project, “When a state delegate wrote a
letter to then-Governor Kaine warning him that the MAS has ‘questionable
origins,’ a Kaine spokesperson said the charge was bigotry.” “MAS, like the
Muslim Brotherhood, wishes to see the United States governed by Shariah, or
Islamic law,” according to Discover
the Networks.
In 2008, federal
prosecutors said MAS was “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood
in America.” U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member and convicted terrorist Abdurrahman
Alamoudi testified
in 2012, “Everyone knows that MAS is the
Muslim Brotherhood.”
Omeish served for two years on the
national board of ISNA; was a member of the board of Islamic American
University, led by Hamas financier and Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader
Yousef Al-Qaradawi; and was chairman of the board for the Islamic Center of
Passaic County, a New Jersey mosque with heavy terrorist ties and an imam
facing deportation for links to Hamas.
The Clarion Project reported,
“Omeish resigned under heavy pressure, and Kaine acknowledged that his
statements ‘concerned’ him. But, apparently, they didn’t concern him enough to
actually learn about the Muslim Brotherhood network in his state and to take
greater precautions in the future.”
2007 - Kaine gave
the keynote speech at the MAS Freedom Foundation’s
“Standing for Justice Dinner.” 2005 - MAS backed Kaine in the Virginia
governor race. July 23,
2016 - Hillary Clinton picked Tim Kaine as
her running mate.
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