Secure Freedom Minute

Don’t Be Distracted; This Fight is about America

The indictment of former President Donald Trump in New York yesterday coincided with a number of other recent, politically charged developments, including successive assaults on red state legislatures by so-called “transurrectionist” individuals, that fit a troubling pattern. They all seem calculated to change the subject. 
What we should be focused upon is the fundamental transformation of our country now underway at the hands of the most radical and anti-constitutional administration in our nation’s history. Team Biden’s wrecking operation at home – including, as a practical matter, the curtailing of our freedoms – combined with its disastrous policies abroad that benefit our nation’s enemies demand not only our urgent attention, but corrective actions.
By distracting, dividing and radicalizing us, however, enemies within and outside our country are being enabled and encouraged to redouble their efforts to take down America. We must stand fast against them.

Obama’s ”Third Term” is Fundamentally Transforming Changing the World

If elected president, Senator Barack Obama promised a “fundamental transformation of the United States of America.” In the course of what’s been called his third term, a nominal Biden administration dominated by Obama’s staff is in the process of fundamentally transforming the world.
Reflect, for example, on the Middle East at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. Our most important regional ally, Israel, had arguably never been stronger. Its strategic alliance with the U.S. was robust, encouraging stability through peace accords with former adversaries and isolating and deterring their common enemy, Iran. 
As an extremely timely Center for Security Policy webinar yesterday made clear, Israel is now isolated, undermined by Biden’s Obama retreads, dangerously divided at home and facing an array of emboldened foes, including a nuclear-capable Iran backed by Communist China. That’s a formula literally for disaster.   
 
This is Frank Gaffney. 

Get Us Out of the WHO before It Kills Again

The Biden administration has a plan for the next pandemic or other “public health emergency of international concern”: Make it worse. In fact, one might, like Lenin, say “The worse the better.”
That would be the effect of surrendering our sovereignty over declaring and responding to such events to an unaccountable proto-world government doing business as the UN’s World Health Organization. Never mind the WHO recommended disastrous policies during the COVID-19 pandemic that helped kill over a million Americans.
Yesterday, Senator Ron Johnson tried to ensure the U.S. Senate would be able to vote down the disastrous agreement with the WHO that Team Biden is secretly negotiating. His Democratic colleagues blocked him. 
As a result, we now have no choice but to withdraw from the World Health Organization before it finishes off more of us, and our constitutional Republic.
This is Frank Gaffney. 

Official ”Othering” of Christians Invites Persecution Here

Have you noticed the peculiar reporting about the mass murder at a Nashville elementary school yesterday? It’s striking as much for what is not being said as what is.
Consider, for example, how this shooting would have been covered if a practicing Christian had attacked a school or other venue populated by so-called “transgender” individuals, instead of the other way around. You can bet the narrative would have been all about the threat posed to a victimized community by militant Christianity, and the perpetrator’s character and associates would have been exhaustively critiqued. 
In this case, we need to examine and determine if government officials’ “othering” of Christians as potential “domestic terrorists” and “violent extremists” is contributing to increasing persecution of believers here. Moreover, whether such behavior was a decisive factor in this attack or not, it must be condemned and stopped now. 

The Chiden Administration, AWOL on the CCP in Michigan

In February 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the nation’s governors they’re being targeted by Chinese Communist Party influence operators. Now, even Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence is piling on:
“Beijing [is] redoubling its efforts to build influence at the state and local level to shift U.S. policy in China’s favor because of Beijing’s belief that local officials are more pliable than their federal counterparts.”
Such pliability is evident in Michigan where Governor Gretchen Whitmer is giving the Chinese Communist Party $700 million to build not only “influence” there, but a Gotion Inc. electric vehicle battery factory. The company will also “set up a Party organization and carry out Party activities in accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China.”
Fortunately, Michiganders are rejecting this obvious national security threat. Why isn’t the Chiden administration? 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Shut Down the CCP’s TikTox

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify today before the House Energy Committee. According to a prepared statement, he’ll tell lawmakers that his company, “ByteDance, is not an agent of China or any other country.” And it stores “American data…on American soil, by an American company, overseen by American personnel.”
In fact, like all Chinese and other companies doing business in China, ByteDance must work for the Chinese Communist Party. It does what it’s told, including harvesting immense quantities of personal data from its users that the CCP weaponizes.
But even if that were not so, there’s no disputing the even more insidious feature of TikTok’s toxically addictive platform: It is used by our mortal enemy to propagandize mostly young and impressionable American users to hate our country and admire Communist China.
Shut TikTox down. 
This is Frank Gaffney.