Secure Freedom Minute

Futile exercises are often likened to “closing the barn door after the horse is gone.” Joe Biden’s belated efforts to mitigate his destruction of our southern border are akin to shutting it after a herd of Trojan horses have gotten in. 

Suddenly, as Democratic politicians repudiate previous commitments to make their constituencies sanctuaries for countless people euphemistically called “undocumented migrants” in favor of curbing services for “illegal aliens” and preventing further arrivals, Team Biden is channeling Donald Trump by building border walls and deporting Venezuelans. 

Such disastrously belated policy reversals will likely prove too little, too late to prevent massive electoral repudiation of open border candidates. Thank heavens, the owners of America’s “barn” are insisting on new management.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Pope Francis and China’s “emperor,” Xi Jinping, seem to share the goals of  “fundamentally transforming” the Roman Catholic Church and propping up the increasingly imperiled Chinese Communist Party. 

This week, the Pope has convened a “synod” in Rome where clerical leaders and, for the first time, women and other “stakeholders” can approve radical doctrinal changes. While the Pope must accept such recommendations, doing so would be consistent with his roots in Marxist liberation theology.

Via a secret Vatican deal with China, Francis has also, at least implicitly, greenlighted Xi’s efforts to morph – if not destroy outright – the Church in China, where Christians are believed to outnumber CCP members and, thus, endanger the regime. 

Those who follow Jesus or otherwise love freedom must join forces to oppose the damage being done by Xi and Francis – both individually and via their unholy alliance. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Kevin McCarthy is no longer Speaker because, at the end of the day, a majority of the House of Representatives no longer trusted him. If integrity becomes a job requirement going forward, it will serve the Congress – and the nation – well.

The same must apply to the leadership of the U.S. military. In a powerful essay at LifesiteNews.com and a devastating new book entitled, Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines, serving Navy Commander Robert Green courageously observes that, “There is no more important value to building an effective fighting force than trust.” 

Particularly devastating to such trust has been: uniformed leaders’ misconduct in successive wars; the disastrous surrender of Afghanistan; and illegally requiring service personnel to be jabbed with untested so-called “vaccines.” 

The Senate must reject, not reward, senior officers nominated for promotion but who have, like Speaker McCarthy proven untrustworthy.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is commendably trying to hold a rogue House Speaker accountable. So, the House of Representatives will soon vote on a motion to fire Kevin McCarthy for successive betrayals of the formal commitments that made him, after fifteen different votes in January, the chamber’s leader, third in line to the presidency.

It comes down to a matter of trust. Will Republicans trust a man who has made deals with the Biden administration and congressional Democrats that have effectively neutered GOP control of the House? While many Republican members likely will, probably not enough of them to save McCarthy’s speakership – unless Democrats bail him out.

House Democrats may do so, provided he promises further concessions going forward. But would you rely on a man who needs your support precisely because he cannot be trusted to keep his word?

This is Frank Gaffney.

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s colleagues are eulogizing her decades of path-breaking public service and admirable personal qualities. Unsurprisingly, no mention has been made of one serious defect.  

The Chinese Communists call it “elite capture.” She was instrumental in getting China into the World Trade Organization. Her husband got rich doing deals with the PRC. And for a decade her state office manager was a Chinese spy.

In his tribute on the Senate floor Friday, another senior legislator enriched by the Chinese Communist Party, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, reminisced about regular dinners with the Feinsteins and his wife, former Cabinet member Elaine Chao. One wonders: Did they discuss China?

Our book, The Indictment, warns that – especially at a moment when the CCP is preparing for a shooting war – we must stop being led by elites it has captured. One has departed, many to go.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, Joe Biden renewed his attacks on millions of us seeking to make America great again. Reprising themes from last year’s ominous Independence Hall speech, the President declared the “MAGA” movement “does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy [and] would fundamentally alter the institutions of American democracy as we know it.”

Such vilification was accompanied by a hardy perennial of Leftist demagogues, namely accusing others of what they themselves are doing. Notably, Team Biden’s “fundamental transformation” of the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, the FBI, the intelligence community and the military threaten our constitutional Republic far more than those who seek to restore limited, accountable government firmly rooted in the Bill of Rights. 

Joe Biden’s venomous rhetoric portends further weaponization of the government’s power to crush his political opponents, all in the name of “defending democracy.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

If addicts are blessed, or simply lucky, people who love them will organize a life-saving intervention. Our informal Save America’s Military Coalition intervened yesterday to expose, and help counter the effects of, toxic Marxist “Kool-Aid” many in our armed forces have gotten hooked on by the three Obama-Biden administrations.

Twenty prominent veterans and other patriots conducted a telethon originally intended to encourage the U.S. Senate to understand – and address the damage being done to – the military’s readiness, morale and deterrence capabilities by so-called “woke” officers like General C.Q. Brown, the recently confirmed incoming Joint Chiefs Chairman.

It turns out the Senate itself needs an intervention. All other things being equal, senators seem likely to agree to the promotions of other champions of cultural Marxist divide-and-conquer strategies like Critical Race Theory and Diversity- Equity-Inclusion. 

Join us in intervening at SaveAmericasMilitary.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

History’s greatest crime against humanity is happening now. In fact, the vicious persecution of more than 350 million Christians gets worse by the day and little is being done even to decry, to say nothing of ending, it. 

Just last week, Sharia-supremacists in Azerbaijan – no longer content with deliberately starving 120,000 Armenian Christians in a region known as Norgono-Karabach – violently invaded their ancient homeland. Terrified that a resumption of an Ottoman Empire-style genocide will befall them next, virtually every man, woman and child is now desperately trying to flee.

Washington did nothing to discourage, let alone prevent, such intensified persecution. Influenced by the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, virtually silent Biden officials – including U.S. AID Director Samantha Power who actually wrote a book expressing regret about her previous failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda – have effectively encouraged it. 

“Never again”? Not.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Whatever one makes of the evidence prosecutors have presented in their indictment of New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, simply bringing the case has been a trifecta windfall for Team Biden. 

First, the administration has already neutralized the most powerful opponent of its appeasement of Iran. 

Second, the Senator’s prosecution on charges he received large amounts of money from a foreign government makes it appear that a Justice Department and FBI that have worked overtime to ignore and conceal the same crimes apparently long perpetrated by the Bidens are actually doing their jobs.

Third, implicating the Egyptian government in Menendez’s alleged corruption further strains relations with a longtime regional ally – a key goal of the Muslim Brotherhood that has penetrated and deeply influences Biden’s regime. 

We’ll see if justice is done in this case. But a political warfare triple-play has been accomplished.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Legend has it that, in ancient Rome, a mad emperor named Caligula marked the decline of its once-powerful Senate by making his horse a legislator. Today, the free-fall of the U.S. Senate is evident in the now-permitted slovenly attire of a mentally challenged senator. 

Far worse is mounting evidence that the Senate is no longer doing its job. For example, Senator Ron Johnson recently sought to require Senate approval as a treaty of any forthcoming World Health Organization accord that would destroy U.S. sovereignty. His amendment was voted down. 

And Senators just allowed a general involved in the disastrous surrender of Afghanistan, who has hollowed out the Air Force and believes America is a systemically racist nation to become Joint Chiefs Chairman. 

We need a Senate that is a real check on Joe Biden’s wrecking operation. Can we get it back?

This is Frank Gaffney.