Secure Freedom Minute

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

This weekend, President Trump welcomed home Pastor Andrew Brunson, a courageous American missionary who worked for decades to minister to Christians in an increasingly Sharia-supremacist Turkey.

The pastor had been incarcerated in harsh and dangerous Turkish prisons for two years by the Islamist regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Until, that is, Mr. Trump decided to do two things that should be used to help many millions of other Christians still being heavily persecuted in Turkey and elsewhere around the world:

First, hold the persecutors accountable for what they are doing. And second, impose costs for their crimes against humanity.

In addition, the United States must serve notice on persecutors like Erdogan: Our commitment to religious freedom does not apply to those who claim that the practice of their religion entitles them to deny this fundamental human right to people of other faiths.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

An extraordinary movie opens this weekend in 650 theaters across the country.  It compellingly depicts the criminal investigation into and prosecution of America’s worst serial killer.  It may become one of the most socially impactful films of all time.

“Gosnell” is named for the doctor whose abortion clinic in Philadelphia became an appallingly unsanitary factory for murdering not only unborn children, but some born alive and at least one of the mothers. It searingly portrays the perpetrator’s unspeakable indifference to the lives he was terminating, the suffering of the survivors and the costs to society.

“Gosnell” is showing after pro-abortion forces and their allies vociferously opposed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination and in the run-up to a momentous mid-term election. Everyone troubled by the former and voting in the latter should see the film this critical, opening weekend.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Is George Soros the anti-Christ?  While former New York mayor Rudi Giuliani has put the question in play, theologians may be better equipped to debate it than politicians. 

The decades-long record of this billionaire financier and philanthropist, however, is one of such malevolence and destruction that he must at a minimum be considered the anti-Christ’s right-hand man.    

After all, Soros has destroyed national currencies and economies, with ruinous effects on millions of innocent people.  He has cynically professed his commitment to “open societies,” while using his immense wealth to undermine democratically elected governments.  In France, he is a convicted felon.

And Soros has invested in countless initiatives that have helped fracture this country, while helping its enemies, foreign and domestic.

A documentary film exposing George Soros’ truly demonic predations can be viewed for free at www.AmericanEvangelicals.com. Please watch it and pass it on.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Nikki Haley has been a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the mold of Jeane Kirkpatrick, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and John Bolton – a forceful champion for our country and a no-holds-barred critic of a UN that is wasteful, corrupt and relentlessly hostile to America and her interests and allies.  She personified Make America Great Again on the world stage and will be much missed.

That’s especially true if she were to be replaced by Dina Habib Powell.  Ms. Powell was deputy to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, the insubordinate subordinate who frequently subverted Mr. Trump and his agenda. She’s a Goldman Sachs globalist, a strong supporter of the Clintons and a close friend of their Muslim Brotherhood-tied staffer, Huma Abedin.

President Trump and our nation need another forceful, reliable advocate for America First policies at the United Nations, not Dina Powell.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Brett Kavanaugh is now Justice Kavanaugh, thank heaven. He was formally sworn in last night at the White House and used the occasion to make the sort of dignified, gracious statement that has characterized his many years of distinguished public service – and that suggests he’ll be one of the best ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Trump used the occasion to apologize to the new Justice and his family for “the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure.” It speaks volumes about the perpetrators of this damage that the Kavanaughs – including their small children – seem likely to continue to be subjected to more pain and suffering for the foreseeable future.

So might Senators who supported Brett Kavanaugh, like Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who courageously cast the deciding vote.

They deserve our thanks, and need our prayers.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

You may not have noticed, but another jihad attack has taken place in America. When Hyatt Hotels recently bowed to demands from Sharia-supremacist groups to bar the use of their facilities to Act for America, it was a win for the Muslim Brotherhood and its stealthy, subversive “civilization jihadists” in our country.

Hyatt justified its action on the grounds that it would not “allow hate groups...to host meetings or events at our hotels.” Presumably, the company is smearing Brigitte Gabriel’s patriotic grassroots organization that way on the say-so of the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center – a radical leftist political warfare machine allied with the jihadist Brotherhood and its ilk.

As it happens, President Trump unveiled a new counterterrorism strategy yesterday that promises to fight the “radical Islamic terrorists” and the “ideology” they call Sharia. Help, it appears, is on the way.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

A preliminary Senate vote on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court has been scheduled for tomorrow.  A national day of prayer for this good man to become our next Associate Justice has been scheduled for today.

Judge Kavanaugh is an exemplary all-American who has for decades honorably and faithfully served his community, country and God. Those who have tried to destroy his reputation and nomination have been exposed as unfair, dishonest and obsessed with power at any cost. Some have gone so far as to put at risk Senators who disagree with them and their conduct.

So, today let us: pray for Judge Kavanaugh to become one of our best Supreme Court jurists ever; pray – as his daughter has done – for those who have accused him; and pray for the healing and unity of our nation.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Three letters received in Washington yesterday give new meaning to the term “hate mail.” President Trump, Defense Secretary Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Richardson were the intended recipients. 

The envelopes’ contents are being examined with the ones sent to the Pentagon at least believed to have contained a deadly biological agent known as ricin. Fortunately, all three were intercepted at screening facilities put in place for the purpose.

The bad news is that there is no way to know if there are other such “poison pen” letters in the mail to addressees without such protection.

That possibility happens to coincide with an uptick in threatening behavior towards many in public office at the moment

The ultimate victim of such a breakdown of civility and even law and order will be our representative form of government and the freedoms it guarantees. We mustn’t go there.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is off to Israel this week.  She must think her hosts haven’t noticed that her government is moving heaven and earth to do business with, and otherwise prop up, an Iranian regime whose mantra is “Death to Israel.”

In fact, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working at least as hard to discourage Germany and other nominal friends from buying Iran’s oil and investing in its economy – much of which is controlled by the jihadist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.  So is President Trump, who is mindful that the mullahs have also vowed “Death to America” for nearly forty years.

Fortunately, a growing number of European companies are quite sensibly deciding to keep doing business with the United States, rather than foreclose that option by flouting American sanctions on Iran. Let’s hope Ms. Merkel will do the same.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Last Friday, hard left activists opposed to Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court bullied Arizona Senator Jeff Flake into joining similarly minded Senate Democrats.  The upshot was agreement to delay a vote on the judge’s nomination for a week to allow the Federal Bureau of Investigations to examine allegations he engaged in sexual misconduct in high school and college.

The question is:  Which FBI will perform this hyper-charged assessment?  Will it be the one famous for its professionalism and objectivity that has six times before examined Mr. Kavanaugh’s personal history and conduct, resulting in him being given top security clearances and a seat on the nation’s second highest court?

Or, will it be the notoriously politicized one malfeasantly led in recent years by the likes of James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok?

The American people have a need to know.

This is Frank Gaffney.