Friday, January 25, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard, Manchurian Presidential Candidate


Interesting article about Tulsi Gabbard and her ties to Hindu nationalist organizations in India.  It was posted on the Organization for Minorities of India website.  
The analyst, Pieter Friedrich, traces her congressional career from 2011 connecting the funding and backing, and much of her success, to these right wing Hindu organizations and people. 
She’s obviously quite ambitious for a 37 year old human. She’s also a slick politician very similar to Obama who has shown she’ll SAY whatever it takes to get where she wants to go.  

“Gabbard’s links to Hindutva organizations have nagged her for years, but they became a major issue last year during her campaign for reelection to a fourth term in the U.S. Congress.”
“In June 2018, U.S.-based human rights outfit Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI) began protesting Gabbard’s announcement that she would chair the World Hindu Congress (WHC). Held in Chicago in September 2018, the event was organized by the VHP-America and featured as its keynote speaker RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. “They are linked to every major pogrom in India in the past 30 years — all of which occurred during Bhagat’s active years in the organization,” explained OFMI spokesperson Arvin Valmuci at the time. “There is no place in the USA for a terrorist group like the RSS.” Subsequently, the group issued an open letter to Gabbard suggesting that she was “standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the fascist element of Hindu nationalists of India.”
“In August, OFMI produced a video questioning: “Why does she turn a blind eye to the atrocities of India’s fascists? Is Tulsi bought and paid for by Hindu supremacists?” Thereafter, Friedrich conducted an interview with Hawaiian radio show host Irminsul in which he stated, “Gabbard is spending her time working as hard as possible to bring the Hindu nationalist agenda to American soil. Her stance is not only empowering extremists in India to continue engaging in violence against ethnic minorities there, but she’s also using her political platform to deliberately conceal the reality of the situation for Indian minorities.” Later, a coalition of 11 South Asian diaspora groups signed an open letter calling on Gabbard to publicly sever ties with Hindu nationalist organizations and detailing her “association with extreme right wing hate groups.”
“Finally, after months of protest, Gabbard issued a September 4 statement — on the eve of the WHC — in which she said, “Due to ethical concerns and problems that surround my participating in any partisan Indian political event in America, effective immediately, I respectfully withdraw myself from serving as Honorary Chair of the World Hindu Congress.”

According to Freidrich, it’s not that simple.

“Representative Gabbard’s deep ties to agents of a violent religious nationalist political party and the paramilitary groups which control it suggests that India’s supremacists have infiltrated America and are using her for their own ends,” remarks Valmuci. “She only backed out of WHC because of political pressure from people and groups around the country, but she continues to associate with and receive funds from the same Hindutva outfits that hosted the WHC. We hope that her presidential campaign provides a platform for exposing this infiltration and also the vast number of past and ongoing Hindutva crimes committed with impunity against India’s Buddhists, Christians, Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, and non-fundamentalist Hindus.”

Freidrich rounds it out with this warning to early left wing progressive Gabbard supporters.

“Her congressional career exists because of financing from and free promotion from Hindu nationalist organizations in the U.S. which are directly linked to Hindu nationalist organizations in India which currently control India’s government and which, there, are directly implicated in repeated pogroms and other atrocities against minorities.”
“She shouldn’t be president, but she shouldn’t even be in Congress,” said Friedrich. “She should be, if not investigated on a criminal level, at least deeply investigated on a journalistic level…. If we’re going to talk about Russia hacking our election and we’re going to talk about foreign political interference in the American political scene, how about we look at Tulsi Gabbard. While we’re all distracted with the Russian political interference, maybe we should turn our focus and pay a little bit of attention to the Indian political interference.”
Here's a short one. 

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