Secure Freedom Minute

Webster’s Dictionary recently announced that the Word of the Year was “vaccines”. My candidate would have been “gaslighting” – a term that describes deliberate lying to mislead and control its target.

For example, the American people have been relentlessly gaslighted about: the Russia collusion hoax, Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party virus, Hunter Biden’s laptop and, most especially, the systemic fraud that hijacked the 2020 presidential election. Until now, while growing numbers of us have realized we’re being deceived, the gaslighters have gotten away with perpetrating successive “Big Lies.”

Now, there’s a fun and engaging means of determining and sharing the truth. It’s a new board game called “Election 2020: You Decide.” I just call it The Game. And I am helping call attention to it as a wickedly clever – and much-needed – antidote to the gaslighting. Check it out at ElectionFun.com.  

This is Frank Gaffney. 

As evidence mounts that the gene therapies being called “vaccines” are of declining effectiveness against virus mutations and with increasing adverse side effects, officials are insisting that all of us need to get “fully vaccinated.” That now means being jabbed not just twice, but with the first of what will, evidently, be a number of booster shots.

The suspicion is growing that this has more to do with controlling people than it does with actually safeguarding public health. In an interview yesterday, Australian Pastor Steve Cioccolanti warned about what’s happening in his country – and may be in the offing here.

As elsewhere, politicians down under are seeking, and exercising, unprecedented emergency powers. In Australia, though, they are not simply imposing mask-requirements, lockdowns and vaccination mandates. They are actually imprisoning the unvaccinated.

Will this be allowed to happen here on our watch?         

This is Frank Gaffney. 

A particularly egregious example of Joe Biden’s wrecking operation is his administration’s disregard for religious liberty. Oh, he and his minions like Secretary of State Tony Blinken pay lip service to this foundational freedom. But their actions betray an indifference to its abuse and those being denied it.

For example, Secretary Blinken recently enthused about religious liberty’s importance while in Nigeria, an Islamist-dominated nation in which jihadists are genocidally murdering Christians. Immediately before, however, the State Department delisted Nigeria as a “country of concern,” effectively ignoring and legitimating the sectarian bloodletting. 

Even where Team Biden has recognized religiously motivated genocide is taking place – against Muslim minorities in Communist China – it is rewarding the practice by refusing to boycott the Olympic Games there in February.

We must actually stand up for religious freedom, not enable its abuse abroad – and, inevitably, eventually in America.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Communist China and Russia just announced an ominous ramping up of their strategic military cooperation. The truth is that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been intensifying such collaboration for years, including in simulated joint nuclear attacks against this country.

Even more ominous is the extent to which both of these adversaries have been assiduously modernizing their respective thermonuclear arsenals, while our deterrent has been inexorably obsolescing. The cumulative effect of these inverse trends has been to raise serious questions about whether Moscow and Beijing now feel they have checkmated the United States and can therefore act with impunity on their respective plans for aggression in Ukraine and/or the Baltics, and Taiwan and/or India.

For too long, we’ve contended that nuclear war in unwinnable and unthinkable. Unfortunately, our enemies believe neither is true. It behooves us to restore our deterrent ASAP.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Thanksgiving is a time when people of every faith and no faith celebrate their blessings. It’s also an appropriate moment to reflect on the many millions worldwide denied religious freedom.

That’s especially so as the Senate will soon consider the nomination of Rashad Hussain to be America’s top diplomat responsible for promoting that fundamental human right.

Mr. Hussain is not only the first Muslim to be tapped for the job. His former boss, President Obama, says he has memorized every word of Islam’s Koran.  

Such devotion is especially revered by those who consider the Koran to be divinely dictated, the immutable foundation of Islam’s Sharia law and, therefore, obligatory direction for all Muslims. The Koran also repeatedly condemns so-called “unbelievers.”

We must know now: How will an adherent to Sharia safeguard, let alone promote, the right to freely practice every religion?

This is Frank Gaffney. 

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was established by Congress to provide a second-opinion on official estimates of the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Its work has never been more needed, because that threat has never been greater.

For example, the U.S.-China Commission just called fresh attention to an aspect of the bilateral relationship about which one of its past chairmen, financial warfare expert Roger Robinson, has long warned – namely, the fact that we are underwriting the Chinese Communists’ “unrestricted warfare” against us.

According to Mr. Robinson, the CCP has over five-thousand companies garnering investment dollars from American pension systems, index funds and other U.S. capital market sources. By some estimates, the total amount transferred to our mortal enemy has been $7 trillion.

We literally cannot afford to continue such strategic insanity.

Every American should invest patriotically, instead.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Four decades ago, I worked for a great U.S. Senator named Henry “Scoop” Jackson. He tirelessly fought his time’s existential threats to freedom – especially, Soviet Communism.

Notably, Scoop publicized courageous dissidents harshly persecuted by the Kremlin for challenging its repression. By so doing, he and millions of others around the world helped protect those freedom-fighters, and undermine the legitimacy of the USSR that punished them and endangered us. The rest is history.

We must do the same for those resisting today’s greatest threat to freedom: the Chinese Communist Party. One such dissident is Zhang Zhan, a Christian journalist imprisoned for her “troublesome” reporting on the CCP’s murderous Covid-19 virus. She’s responded with a hunger-strike that now has her near death.

President Biden – and the rest of us – must demand that his “old friend,” China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, free Zhang Zhan immediately.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

In recent days, there has been a strategic realignment with potentially earth-shaking implications. Xi Jinping, the murderous dictator who leads the Chinese Communist Party, has effectively become the emperor of China. And Joe Biden has effectively become his most important vassal.

These new roles were evident in even the highly selective renderings of the discussion during the two men’s over three-hour-long virtual summit earlier this week. Xi was domineering and bullying; Biden was the supplicant and accommodating.

Now, Emperor Xi has summoned the U.S. president to come to Beijing for next February’s Olympics. If he attends what are properly described as the Genocide Games, it will rival Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympiad for legitimating and emboldening freedom’s foes.

We have a treaty obligation to punish, not reward, genocide. America and its president must stand up to Xi Jinping, not kow-tow before him.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

The so-called January 6th “insurrection” seems increasingly to have been, instead, what’s known as a false-flag operation in which Donald Trump’s political foes shamelessly exploited an incident they provoked to thwart congressional action on his charges of electoral fraud.

You’d never know it from the House commission investigating that event, or mainstream media slavishly promoting its deceptive narrative. But three men in particular have doggedly sought the truth.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson will discuss his findings in a SecureFreedom.org webinar today with my colleague, Dr. Michael Waller, an expert on the political warfare at the core of the January 6th affair. 

And “War Room” host Steve Bannon is poised to jujitsu his prosecution for exhibiting contempt of Congress to expose in court official complicity in provoking and manipulating American patriots on the sixth of January – then lying to us about it.

This is Frank Gaffney. 

In the wake of Joe Biden’s disastrous surrender of Afghanistan to the jihadist Taliban, it’s hard to believe that anyone still thinks we can unilaterally end an “endless” war. Yet, some in Congress are pressing for a “peace agreement” to be concluded with North Korea – as if that would actually terminate the Korean War, rather than invite its violent resumption.

This delusion is at the core of H.R. 3446, the so-called “Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act.” Its sponsors evidently believe North Korea can be trusted to honor such an accord, respect human rights and reunify with South Korea like East Germany did in effectively surrendering to its western counterpart.

Such an agreement will, instead, likely trigger the removal of U.S. forces that have deterred a devastating Korean War 2.0 – and the South’s forced submission.

Thanks, but no thanks.

This is Frank Gaffney.