Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

A lot of Americans whose lives, families, financial prospects and futures have been severely impacted by the Chinese Communist Party virus want to punish the perpetrators. There’s talk about ways in which to make China’s dictator and his government pay for the damage they have done.

So, it is simply unbelievable that an unaccountable federal board is beavering away at what would amount to a huge reward for Xi Jinping’s Communist regime. The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board is poised to invest  billions of dollars of U.S. government employees’ pension funds in CCP companies.

Eleven influential veterans have urged the Joint Chiefs of Staff to recommend that President Trump stop this travesty – made all the more outrageous as it would compel military personnel to invest in Chinese corporations that make weapons designed to kill them.

Add your voice to theirs at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Phyllis Schlafly was a national treasure. For decades, she epitomized and spoke for American women – and for that matter, American men – who love this country, who truly support equal opportunities for all and who refuse to submit to the anti-American political agenda and nostrums of the Left.

Needless to say, Mrs. Schlafly’s courage, skill and tenacity in standing up for – and often securing the triumph of – our country’s traditional values and vital interests made her anathema to feminists, Communists and their many admirers in the media. Now, four years after her death, they are seeking revenge.

Actress Cate Blanchett has reportedly done a hatchet job mini-series aimed at sullying Phyllis’ reputation and overcoming her best-known achievement – the defeat of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment. Fortunately, it won’t work. The ERA is dead. And my friend, the great Phyllis Schlafly, lives on.

This is Frank Gaffney.

is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

A recent report by British intelligence reminds us that – while we may not be interested in jihadist terrorism in a time of COVID-19 and a growing awareness of the larger threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party that brought us this pandemic – Sharia-supremacists are still interested in us, in the worst sort of way.

According to the Times of London, Britain’s internal security service, MI5, has just nearly doubled to 43,000 the number of potential terrorist operatives it has to worry about. That’s concerning for the Brits, of course. But it should be a warning to us, too.

As thousands of American convicts are being freed lest they get sick while imprisoned, we need to know: How many of them became jihadists in jail? Due to aggressive Muslim Brotherhood recruitment in our prisons, the answer surely is not none – and that’s a problem. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Foreign Service Officers often exhibit symptoms of “clientitis” – pathologically promoting the interests of some foreign government, rather than their own.

Susan Thornton is a case in point. As a diplomat, she tirelessly flacked for the Chinese Communist Party. When that behavior finally got her fired from a senior State Department job in 2018, Thornton continued in that role outside of government, most recently penning an op.ed. entitled, “Fears of a Global Chinese Takeover are Greatly Exaggerated.”  

In fact, China’s dictator-for-life, Xi Jinping, has made no secret of his ambitions to dominate the world. His party’s behavior regarding the Chinese pandemic attests to its determination to weaken the United States and other nations. And his military build-up and colonial empire-building are creating the capability to exploit such weakness.

Shame on those, like Susan Thornton, who would have us believe otherwise – and know better. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

The departure of Sen. Bernie Sanders from the 2020 presidential race is a good opportunity to reflect on his principal contribution to contemporary American politics.  In short, he drove the Democratic Party into the far-reaches of the radical left – the nether world of socialism and Communism.

A powerful reminder of what becomes of societies that fall for the seductiveness of “free stuff” and “revolution” can be found in the 2017 film, “The Death of Stalin.” It portrays in darkly comedic terms the horrors of totalitarianism and the odious people who inevitably ruthlessly run such repressive systems.

The next American Commander-in-Chief will have to confront the successor to Stalin’s Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China. While we can thank heavens he won’t be Bernie Sanders, we must make sure now that the eventual winner actually recognizes the Chinese Communist threat.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Donald Trump has long warned American companies to stop manufacturing in China. Unfortunately, his commonsense alarms about depending upon unreliable supply chains largely fell on deaf ears. 

The Chinese Communist Party virus, however, has made what was necessary now imperative. The fact that we are dependent on the perpetrators of this pandemic for medicine and personal protective equipment has impacted – and outraged – all of us. Now, President Trump and his team are finally getting help from lots of ingenious and patriotic entrepreneurs committed to made-in-America. 

A case in point is USA Rare Earth, Inc. which is developing Round Top Mountain in Texas to help meet our national need for advanced electronics, batteries and weaponry. With Round Top’s help, America will enable the world to defeat Communist China’s efforts to monopolize and manipulate such precious metals – to our detriment and possibly mortal peril.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

It’s hard to overstate the damage Henry Kissinger has done over his decades spent in and out of government, defining and promoting policies that have weakened our country and emboldened its enemies. Ever since his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Kissinger has relentlessly championed appeasement of America’s Communist foes, from the Soviet Union to North Vietnam to the People’s Republic of China. 

Finally, someone has called him out.

On Monday, President Trump’s former Chief Strategist Steve Bannon denounced the ex-Secretary of State, charging, “The world is going to stand in judgment of you. Because you are just as bad as the devils. In fact, you are worse because you didn’t even believe in the ideology. You believed in the money.”

Kissinger’s Communist chickens are finally coming home to roost. Unfortunately for him, they’re infected with COVID-19.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Over the next few days, the Jewish people will remember their predecessors’ murderous persecution at the hands of ancient Egypt’s pharaoh. Interestingly, on the eve of this Passover, they received an official apology for a contemporary foreign leader’s rabid anti-Semitism.

Sir Keir Sturmer was just elected to replace the man whose loathing of Jews and their homeland contributed to the British Labor Party’s crushing defeat late last year at the hands of the now-critically-ill Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sir Keir immediately repudiated the policies of his notorious predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, saying, “anti-Semitism has been a stain on our party” and promising to “tear out this poison by its roots.”  

We’ll see if Labor’s partisans will actually implement this long-overdue course-correction. Meantime, we can only hope that their counterparts in America’s own anti-Semitic Democratic Party will do the same. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Amidst the endless warnings about Russian interference in our elections, another state actor’s influence operations have been largely ignored. But a recent spate of anti-Trump advertisements that have been placed on Facebook and other social media platforms by Chinese Communist Party propaganda instruments without disclosing their sponsors demand attention, and corrective action.

The ads have run in English, Chinese and Arabic and are aimed at promoting the Communist Party-line with audiences around the world. Their memes praise the PRC’s effective action against the coronavirus. And they depict Donald Trump as a racist for pointing out China’s responsibility for the present pandemic. 

Beijing’s open hostility towards President Trump, to say nothing of the overt effort to help defeat him that it animates, is unacceptable. Those who relentlessly warn about foreign election interference should be leaders in condemning and punishing what China is perpetrating.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Communist China became a party to the Biological Weapons Convention in 1984. That accord prohibits the development, production and stockpiling of biological agents or toxins that have no peaceful purpose.

In the years since, the PRC has systematically violated its obligations under the Convention, constructing and operating covertly a number of facilities pursuing prohibited activities. Recent press reports disclose that longtime Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Deng Xiaoping personally established this program to liquidate the U.S. population, leaving our country ripe for colonization by China.

These facts have been put in sharp relief by the pandemic caused by the Wuhan virus. Some experts contend COVID-19 was actually engineered in that city to be both highly contagious and frighteningly lethal. 

If that’s true, the virus’ release – whether by accident or design – would constitute one of the greatest crimes against humanity of all time. 

This is Frank Gaffney.