Secure Freedom Minute

The United States finally responded yesterday to weeks of attacks on international and our shipping by terrorist proxies of Iran in Yemen. That’s the predictable result of the three Obama-Biden administrations’ failed policies that have appeased the mullahs of Tehran and rewarded, rather than punished, their intensifying aggression.

Notably, one of Joe Biden’s first acts as president was the unjustified delisting as a terrorist organization of the so-called “Houthi rebels” against whom the U.S. and U.K. just retaliated. In doing so, he boasted, “Diplomacy is back.” 

What actually came back was the Obama-Biden team’s submission to Iran and its enabler, the Chinese Communist Party. Xi Jinping’s strategic arson in the Mideast is now further distracting and entangling us there as the CCP dictator prepares for his own aggression towards Taiwan and pyromania here at home.

Learn more about what’s coming at PresentDangerChina.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

South Africa will open a new front today in the war on the Jews by charging their only state, Israel, with genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice. 

And on Saturday, a large demonstration in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Muslim Brotherhood and its Marxist allies will amplify this groundless and slanderous charge. 

Unfortunately, these events are but the latest examples of the mainstreaming of genocidal anti-Semitism. They are made more outrageous by the fact that their principal beneficiary – the terrorist group Hamas – openly declares its intent to destroy the Jewish State. And its supporters here profess the same with their calls to eliminate Israel “from the river to the sea.”

Make no mistake: Those determined to exterminate Jews wish the same for Judeo-Christian civilization, as well. So, Israel is fighting for us, and we must stand with her.

 This is Frank Gaffney.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s bizarre, no-notice absence- without-leave turns out to have been a result of his treatment for cancer. Revelations that he was off the job for the better part of a week and no one noticed, though, are but the latest evidence of Team Biden’s dangerously metastasizing dysfunctionality 

Enemies like Iran, Russia and especially Communist China are increasingly emboldened by the Biden administration’s unwillingness to challenge, let alone meaningfully punish, their aggression. Friends like Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan are increasingly on their own, if not actually being undermined by feckless U.S. diplomacy and declining military power.

In the absence, literally and figuratively, of effective Pentagon leadership, we’re left with a weak National Security Council and even more hapless State Department mismanaging our national security policy. We need tested, robust and competent warriors in charge, now.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

On Saturday, voters in Taiwan will likely choose freedom over enslavement by the Chinese Communist Party. But China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, has other plans and is now poised to impose them on the Taiwanese, and the rest of the world.

His ambitions are an incalculable danger for us especially because Xi is determined to prevent America from thwarting their realization. And he’s now ready to ravage, if not destroy, this country thanks – among other things – to his  successful infiltration of large numbers of apparent Chinese military personnel across the southern border President Biden has effectively dismantled.

Consider this a Red Alert: We must seal that border, adopt a war-footing and task the FBI to stop hectoring January 6th patriots and focus, instead, on locating, rounding-up and neutralizing Chinese – and, for that matter, jihadist – operatives positioned to wage war upon us from within.

This is Frank Gaffney.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. 

When I worked for Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and President Reagan a lifetime ago, it would have been unimaginable for “Cap” to be AWOL in an ICU – or for any other reason – for even an hour, let alone as Lloyd Austin recently did for three days. His deputy was on vacation and unaware she was effectively acting Secretary.

Not least, such misconduct constitutes a potentially perilous severing of the nuclear chain of command.

That’s arguably never been more true than now, when we must deter China’s Xi Jinping from igniting his next act of “strategic arson” here. 

Even before this dereliction of duty, Lloyd Austin has been a disastrous Secretary of Defense, with his contribution to the abject surrender of Afghanistan, his purges of patriotic warriors, forced jabs and Marxist transformation of the U.S. military. 

It’s time for him to go.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Three years ago, America was fundamentally transformed, not by an “insurrection,” but by those who engineered a riot at the Capitol – and what they’ve done to weaponize and exploit that event ever since. 

The few who engaged in actual crimes that day posed no credible threat of overthrowing the government of the United States. 

And many hundreds of patriotic American citizens peacefully demonstrating on the Hill have been prosecuted, jailed, bankrupted and otherwise unconstitutionally subjected to “cruel and unusual punishment,” thanks in part to the suppression of exculpatory evidence of official decisions that facilitated their entry into the Capitol and provoked the crowd.

At Valley Forge today, President Biden will continue his practice of vilifying not just them, but half the country who were also disenfranchised and have been portrayed ever since as “enemies of democracy” and potential “violent extremists.” 

Really?   

This is Frank Gaffney.

A House committee will hold a hearing next week aimed at beginning the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He should be charged with treason for facilitating 10 million aliens’ illegal entry. 

Exhibit A should be an April 2023 memorandum ordering key Customs and Border Patrol officers to streamline the admission of Chinese nationals, including tens of thousands of unaccompanied, military-age men believed to be People’s Liberation Army special forces personnel. Instead of undergoing hours of vetting, these ticking-time bombs are being speedily let in and distributed all over America.

Thanks to Alejandro Mayorkas and the rest of Team Biden, we are now facing a Countdown to Chaos. Several divisions-worth of China’s troops, and countless jihadis, are poised to wreak havoc here. We urgently need new leadership committed to protecting America, not betraying and imperiling all of us.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Rarely is a major problem with profound implications correctible with a single action, especially in the near-term. 

One such problem, however, is at hand in the form of a radical environmental proposal being stealthily advanced that would have the effect of permanently removing public lands, water and even air from productive use – and endanger private property rights, as well. 

Rabid globalists – including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Chinese Communist Party and, of course, the Biden Administration – want to create and weaponize so-called “Natural Asset Companies” to restrict U.S. food production, and the exploitation of minerals, energy resources and timber, all ostensibly to mitigate “climate change.”

Fortunately, we can stop this devastating, unconstitutional initiative by opposing before January 18th a proposed “rule” the politicized Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to approve. Join us in doing so at SovereigntyCoalition.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

A devastating earthquake in Japan yesterday may symbolize a New Year marred by geostrategic tectonic shifts. Some are predictable – and their effects can, therefore, be attenuated if we act in time.

Consider the creation of so-called “global governance” mechanisms that would subordinate us to the dictates of unaccountable international entities like the World Health Organization. 

Largely secret negotiations are expected by May to produce agreements that will give the WHO the authority to declare what constitutes a public health emergency here – and what must be done about it. Three Biden administration officials appear to have perjured themselves in testifying last month that would not diminish our sovereignty. 

The House of Representatives has voted to cut off funding for the WHO and require Senate approval of any such accords. To prevent irreparable harm to our public health – and America, Congress must concur.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The wish for a “Happy New Year” is on everyone’s lips. The start of 2024 is a time to reflect on what that would entail.

It would involve the decisive defeat of Iran’s mullahs and the liberation of their long-suffering population, ending the threat to Israel and us from not only Tehran, but its myriad terrorist proxies and allies. 

It would see the Chinese Communist Party not only deterred from attacking Taiwan, but toppled by the Chinese people with our help. 

It would ensure that American voters have a free and fair election, unmarred by theft, fraud or other manipulations, and affording an opportunity for a peaceful and much-needed course-correction.

Are any of these things in prospect this year – let alone all of them? Let us pray they are and that it will indeed be, against all odds, a Happy New Year.

This is Frank Gaffney.