Secure Freedom Minute

Out of the blue, President Biden yesterday called up elements of America’ military reserves. What’s up with that?  

Ostensibly, it’s to shore up our forces in Europe. But are they meant for a shooting war in Ukraine, without congressional approval or public support?

Alternatively, are the reserves intended to paper over the military’s acute recruiting crisis and its principal cause: Team Biden’s deeply alienating, Marxist makeover of our armed forces?

Or is this a cynical gambit to induce the U.S. Senate to confirm General “C.Q.” Brown as the next Joint Chiefs Chairman and rubber-stamp the promotion of other officers willing to sacrifice readiness and deterrence to so-called “woke” policies that undermine both? 

These possible motivations have one thing in common: They are likely to embolden our main enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, to believe it can wage war against us with impunity. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Suddenly, the nation must confront critical decisions: In upcoming votes on the House of Representatives’ annual defense authorization act, Republicans will try to counter the radical left’s “fundamental transformation” of the U.S. military. 

Most Democrats, however, are expected to contend that government funding for racist quotas and indoctrination, transgender accommodations in the uniformed services, abortion-related travel and the like are appropriate Pentagon priorities. 

Meanwhile, the Senate is being asked to confirm General “C.Q.” Brown as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – even though he apparently is all-in on such readiness-sapping social engineering of our only military. 

Votes on these topics offer what may be Congress’ last chance to stop this Marxist make-over of our armed forces. A Chinese Communist Party preparing for a shooting war against us earnestly hopes our representatives will fail to seize it.      

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, the Senate Armed Services Committee politely thanked and gingerly questioned President Biden’s nominee to be the nation’s next top officer. It wasn’t until two Senators broke what appears to be a taboo that the elephant in the room – namely, the radicalism of General Charles “C.Q.” Brown and his Commander-in-Chief’s agenda for “transforming” the U.S. military – became evident.

I was among thirty-one signers of an Open Letter urging that the prospective Joint Chiefs Chairman be questioned about the Marxist “woke” policies of racial preferences, political commissars and transgender accommodations that are crippling recruiting and harming readiness. Thankfully, Senators Mike Rounds and Eric Schmitt did so. 

Gen. Brown’s responses showed that America and her armed forces urgently require another hearing, this time fully devoted to exploring the damage being done to our only military on the eve of a possible war with China.             

This is Frank Gaffney.

Last Friday, the U.S. Army finished destroying the last of America’s stockpile of chemical weapons. The Biden administration and other arms control enthusiasts boasted about the success of an international ban called the Chemical Weapons Convention, and disarmament agreements more generally.

What it actually demonstrates is the delusion of believing that – especially wholly unverifiable accords like the chemical weapons treaty – when negotiated with unalterably dishonest regimes, result in anything but the unilateral disarmament of the United States and other law-abiding nations. 

In fact, every one of our enemies still has some amount of chemical weapons stockpiled. And the Chinese Communist Party has actually been murderously attacking us with one called fentanyl every day for years now, killing over 100,000 Americans last year, alone.

We must hold the Chinese Communists accountable. Ditto those who contend that so-called “arms control” enhances our security. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Four decades ago, I helped staff the Senate Armed Services

Committee in supporting Ronald Reagan’s reversal of Jimmy Carter’s budget cuts that had “hollowed out” the U.S. military. Tomorrow, that panel has an opportunity to begin an even more urgently needed salvation of our armed forces.

 

The occasion will be a hearing on the nomination of Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Will he help end not only Joe Biden’s failure to adequately fund the Pentagon as a shooting war looms with the Chinese Communist Party?

 

The Committee must also establish whether Gen. Brown will strongly support in the future, as he has to date, the Marxist “transformation” that’s making Carter’s hollow military look robust.

 

We require uniformed leaders who oppose policies that weaken, demoralize and invite the defeat of our troops – and country.

 

This is Frank Gaffney.

One of my longtime friends and valued colleagues is an international energy expert named Gal Luft. These days Dr. Luft might be better known as “David” for he now faces alone the Goliath of a U.S. government determined to crush him to protect President Joe Biden.

My money is on David in this fight. Dr. Luft has thus far foiled efforts by the FBI and Department of Justice to conceal information he gave them in 2019. 

Moreover, Gal Luft released yesterday a video that has gone viral. It describes his first-hand knowledge of payments made by CEFC, a Chinese energy company he advised, to former Vice President Biden and his family. He also recounts the extensive official cover-up of such evidence.

The Bidens have picked a fight with the wrong man. Let us pray for this David’s safety and his ultimate triumph.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

We recently published a response to the “unrestricted warfare” Chinese Communists have long waged with help from “captured elites” in this country. It’s called, The Indictment: Prosecuting the Chinese Communist Party & Friends for Crimes against America, China and the World.

Yesterday, that prosecution got underway in earnest.

The latest webinar sponsored by our Committee on the Present Danger: China featured two top experts and a former prosecutor who brought criminal “charges” in the court of public opinion against the world’s most successful venture capitalist, Neil Shen, and his firm, Sequoia Capital.

The evidence presented reveals they have betrayed our country by enabling the CCP to secure decisive leads in dozens of technologies that can dominate us commercially and defeat us militarily.

Neil Shen and Company have thus far successfully deployed bipartisan contributions to get away with such treachery. That must end now.

This is Frank Gaffney.

There’s a meme making the rounds, showing a tricolored map of France in blue, white and red, only it has a jagged black line running through the middle from north to south. 

Accompanying this image is the following message, referring to Sharia-supremacist rioting across the country in recent days: “This attack only underscores the need for France to immediately engage in negotiations with French Muslims that will result in the creation of two states for two peoples, living side by side in peace and security, with Paris as a shared capital.” 

The question occurs: How long will it be before enemies of France demand such an outcome? Improbable as it may seem, the answer likely is “Not long.” That’s especially so since President Emanuel Macron and his predecessors have been the most insistent in demanding that Israel follow precisely this suicidal advice.

               

This is Frank Gaffney.

In 1944, Adolf Hitler ordered his army to torch Paris rather than let the city be liberated intact. As it became clear he was being disobeyed, the Nazi dictator frantically demanded to know, “Is Paris burning?” 

Thankfully, it wasn’t then. But the capital of France is burning today, at the hands of adherents to another totalitarian ideology – best described as Sharia-supremacism – who now occupy hundreds of “no-go” zones across the country. 

And it is not just Paris that is in flames. In recent days, jihadists have taken to the streets in city after city, ostensibly to protest the killing of a Muslim youth by police during a traffic stop. 

The uprisings may prove, however, to be the start of a civil war that unassimilable Islamist immigrants’ have long aspired to launch in France  and far beyond. Think “Summer of Love” on steroids.

This is Frank Gaffney.

After initially dissembling about the Chinese Communist Party’s weaponization of Cuba, the Biden administration now acknowledges we will soon face not only an expanded PRC signals intelligence operation off our coast. The CCP is also establishing a so-called “military training facility” there. 

Our Committee on the Present Danger: China identified in a very troubling webinar this week the following are possible uses of such a forward-deployed base: cyber and biological warfare and fielding assorted missile systems, perhaps concealed in shipping containers. Team Biden has done nothing meaningful even to discourage such threatening behavior. 

The Committee has unveiled twenty measures designed to compel the Chinese Communists to abandon this dangerous provocation or, at least, mitigate the risks associated with it. Visit PresentDangerChina.org and help us induce President Biden to stand up to, and not further appease, our mortal enemy: the CCP.

This is Frank Gaffney.