Secure Freedom Minute

Among the most dangerous of Joe Biden’s many assaults on our freedoms is a so-called Central Bank Digital Currency initiative. The banking crisis spawned by his administration’s disastrous spending and inflation is accelerating its plan to replace cash with government-controlled digital dollars that will enable the feds to control us, too. 

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warned yesterday that a CBDC enables the Chinese Communist Party’s totalitarian “Social Credit System,” which uses access to money, among other things, to reward and punish individuals’ behavior. He is proposing legislation to keep his state CBDC-free – and, hopefully, provide a model for others across the nation. 

Meanwhile, the Texas legislature is considering an actual alternative to Biden’s “Controlled Banking Denies Cash” – a state-issued, gold-backed “Texas Transactional Gold” digital currency with privacy guarantees and useable via a debit-card like old-fashioned dollars.  

Learn more at EconomicWarRoom.com.   

This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, Chinese emperor Xi Jinping visits Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Xi promises a “new chapter” in ties between the two countries. That’s ominous since the “chapter” they opened thirteen months ago in Beijing apparently greenlighted Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.  

In the intervening period, the Russians have – with China’s underwriting and arms – invaded and relentlessly destroyed Ukrainian territory, population centers and infrastructure. Aiding their victims has hugely distracted the West from addressing the growing Chinese threat and depleted our resources for countering it.  

This summit will likely greenlight new aggression by the Chinese Communist Party against Taiwan and us, perhaps with additional fronts opened by Xi’s puppets in Iran and North Korea.  

Memo to Vladimir: Better watch your back. It’s no accident, comrade, that the CCP just issued new maps giving Chinese names to eight eastern Russian cities.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan described the totalitarian communist enemy that threatened to destroy our country as “the Evil Empire.” That famous presidential depiction of the Soviet Union was key to the strategy he successfully pursued to “leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history.”

Tragically, we face today another Marxist-Leninist regime busily establishing an empire that is, if anything, even more evil and certainly far more of what Reagan called “an existential threat to freedom” than the USSR was in its heyday.

That threat emanates from the Chinese Communist Party waging “unrestricted warfare” against us to achieve “global governance” expressly embraced by its megalomaniacal emperor, Xi Jinping.

We must do as Ronald Reagan did: recognize the spiritual nature of the war we are in; delegitimize our evil enemy; and adopt and execute a strategy for its decisive defeat.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Biden administration has finally declared the Chinese company that owns the application known as TikTok must be sold to a U.S. one or stop operating in this country.  

Of course, the real owner of TikTok – and every other business in China – is the Chinese Communist Party. Accordingly, Byte dance does what it is told by the CCP, notably with the immense amounts personal information it collects from users. In practice, that means surrendering such data to the Party, which weaponizes it against them, and the rest of us. 

TikTok does so by making its platform as addictive as possible. The resulting, detailed personal profiles translate into “digital twins,” exploitable for espionage, cyberwarfare and, ultimately, controlling the real one. The CCP also toxically utilizes TikTok to indoctrinate users to admire China and hate America. 

No more games. TikTok must be shut down.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, two Russian fighter aircraft intercepted and destroyed an expensive unmanned American aircraft in international air space over the Black Sea. This was not, as the Pentagon would have us believe, an incident caused Kremlin pilots’ recklessness or unprofessionalism.   

Rather, it was a deliberate act, designed to discourage the U.S. military from conducting legal and valuable intelligence collection against hostile powers with unarmed assets. It was also an ominous leading indicator of the erosion of our deterrence to acts of aggression. 

Russia isn’t the first to thus demonstrate that America no longer operates from a position of assuring peace through strength. After all, the senior member of Vladimir Putin’s “no limits partnership,” the Chinese Communist Party, has been endangering even manned U.S. aircraft in the Pacific. Team Biden’s feckless responses to date invite further testing of our perceived weakness – and worse. 

 This is Frank Gaffney.

Where could the collapse of two prominent regional banks – and the response to their failures – leave us? The Biden administration has effectively insured depositors’ entire accounts, not just the $250,000 supposedly guaranteed.

That’s obviously unsustainable if the banking industry continues to be rocked by instability. So, there is increasing speculation that the federal government will seize upon this pretext to accelerate the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency, and what amounts to its compulsory adoption by the American people.

When combined with Team Biden’s simultaneous efforts to empower the World Health Organization to dictate our public health policies and practices – including by globally mandating  “smart” medical cards, we could shortly be condemned to what amounts to the sort of “digital gulag” the Chinese Communists call the “Social Credit System.”

We must not go there.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0. 

Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability, but potentially calamitous strategic repercussions, between Saudi Arabia and its mortal enemies, the mullahs of Iran. The effect will be probably to ensure that the Iranian regime finally gets the Bomb – and, if so, likely uses it. 

With the Saudis’ apparent removal from the region’s anti-Iran camp, the Biden administration has also furthered its aggressive undermining of our one real ally in the region – and the most likely immediate target of an Iranian nuclear attack: Israel.  

Goodbye Pax Americana. Brace yourself for “Pox” CCP. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Team Biden’s systematic dismantling of U.S. prestige, influence and security arrangements epitomized by its surrender of Afghanistan lurched forward last week as the Chinese Communist Party supplanted America in the heart of the Middle East. Think of it as Afghanistan 2.0. 

Beijing changed the Mideast’s balance of power by brokering a deal of uncertain durability, but potentially calamitous strategic repercussions, between Saudi Arabia and its mortal enemies, the mullahs of Iran. The effect will probably be to ensure that the Iranian regime finally gets the Bomb – and, if so, likely uses it. 

With the Saudis’ apparent removal from the region’s anti-Iran camp, the Biden administration has also furthered its aggressive undermining of our one real ally in the region – and the most likely immediate target of an Iranian nuclear attack: Israel.  

Goodbye Pax Americana. Brace yourself for not so “Pax” CCP. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Evidence is accumulating that the Chinese Communist Party is poised to add a shooting war to the pre-kinetic “unrestricted warfare” against America in which it has long engaged. Increasingly shrill rhetoric about the United States – including Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s recent comment that conflict is “inevitable” if we do not change course – is being accompanied by, among other things, the stand-up of defense mobilization offices across China.

Center for Security Policy expert Dr. Bradley Thayer says dictator Xi Jinping is preparing his people for the sacrifices associated with a long conventional, or even a nuclear, war with the United States. He believes that will entail violent action against the American homeland, not just our friends, interests and assets in the Western Pacific.

U.S. leaders’ failure to warn our people of this danger, and act now to deter it, is criminally malfeasant.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The Marx Brothers had a famous routine in which, when they were engaged in an obvious flim-flam, an incredulous observer was asked: “Who you gonna believe – me or your own eyes?”  

That question occurs in the wake of a congressional hearing on Tuesday examining whether the so-called COVID-19 virus came from nature or was genetically engineered in a laboratory in Wuhan, China tied to the CCP’s illegal biological warfare program. Every witness agreed that the lab origin hypothesis is not some off-the-wall “conspiracy theory.” 

Indeed, yesterday’s testimony establishes what your own eyes can clearly see: Dr. Tony Fauci was spending taxpayer money at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to pay for the sort of genetic modifications to corona viruses found in the original COVID one. He lied to cover that up and must be held accountable for doing so.  

This is Frank Gaffney.