Secure Freedom Minute

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.