Tulsi Gabbard takes on Josh Gottheimer and Tom Malinowski
/By Rubashov
Major Tulsi Gabbard is a United States Army officer who served in Congress representing Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. Elected in 2012, she was the first Hindu member of Congress and also the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress. She was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
In 2002, Gabbard was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at the age of 21. Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader. She was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
In this video, Tulsi Gabbard clearly isn’t buying the urgings of corporate Democrats like Josh Gottheimer and Tom Malinowski who want to use the vague theory that America is under assault from “white supremacists” and “white nationalists” in order to expand the surveillance state. Gabbard calls out politicians like Gottheimer and Malinowski:
“The direction they are taking is not only dangerous in how broad and vague it is, it’s dangerous in the threat that it poses to our Constitution and our Constitutional rights.”
Major Gabbard takes particular issue with the mischaracterization of American veterans as “threats” by the media and by politicians like Gottheimer and Malinowski:
“What is ‘domestic extremism’? Is being extremely patriotic being a ‘domestic extremist’? If you look at our service members and veterans who have been targeted and pointed out by those in our government as being vulnerable to being ‘domestic extremists’ – well, I’ve served with incredible great patriots, as a veteran and soldier myself, people who are willing to lay their lives down and die for this great country that we love – is this who they’re talking about when they’re saying we need to look out for ‘domestic extremists’?
It’s absolutely outrageous and it’s offensive, it’s offensive to those who I’ve served with, including those who have paid the ultimate price and given their lives in service to our country. This is the danger of the direction where we seem to be headed and the fact that these terms, these broad targets that they’re pointing out, really are not being clearly defined at all.”
“In the wake of January 6th you have Democrats and Republicans saying: You know what, what we need is to pass more laws that further infringe on our civil liberties, that further allow for mass surveillance on Americans. So this points to exactly the wrong direction that our leaders and our country are dangerously headed.”
Food for thought from a woman who served on the front lines, in harm’s way, and who knows the self-serving hypocrisy of Congress, from her time there. We need more leaders like her.
“If you have these vague terms that really can be applied to a very large swath of people, that can change, depending on who is in power. So, who is a ‘domestic extremist’? Really, at this point then it becomes, well, it becomes defined by whoever is in power and who they choose to use our institutions to target.”
-Tulsi Gabbard
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