Secure Freedom Minute

Michigan Representative John Moolenaar is a national treasure. 
As chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, he’s led opposition to Wall Street’s ongoing practice of “funding our demise.”
In a recent interview on “Securing America,” Chairman Moolenaar declared: “We see these situations where American investor dollars unknowingly are either advancing…Chinese slave labor or cooperation with the Chinese military industrial complex. And that's just wrong. But we need to make it illegal, and we need to [enact] legislation, as well as cooperation with the executive branch, to shut that down.”
A PresentDangerChina.org webinar today featuring Mr. Moolenaar’s leadership, will showcase an immediate corrective: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins can swiftly, and unilaterally, terminate a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding that allows CCP companies uniquely to ignore our securities laws and regulations. 
Stop financing our demise!
This is Frank Gaffney.

Texas Congressman Keith Self just delivered a poweful indictment of the toxic operating code of authoritative Islam known as sharia. In just a few minutes on the House floor, he powerfully documented how “fundamentally at odds” that “dangerous culture of violence and domination” is with our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees.
An Army Ranger veteran who actually fought sharia-supremacists, Rep. Self concluded by warning that, “This is a time for choosing. Either we defeat the sharia advances in America or government of the people, by the people and for the people may indeed perish from the earth.” 
As it happens, on Tuesday, another leading Texan – Governor Greg Abbott – made such a choice by designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. 
Memo to the jihadis: Don’t mess with Texas – or America. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. He explicitly subjected those groups and “any persons promoting or aiding their criminal activities” to prosecution pursuant to state law.
These initiatives are long overdue, urgently needed and templates for what must be done across America. 
After all, Texas is just ground-zero for efforts by the Brothers, CAIR and other sharia-supremacists to subvert our constitutional republic and impose instead their totalitarian rule. 
Fortunately, a Republican primary ballot measure next spring will afford voters a chance to endorse a Texas prohibition of such efforts to supplant our Constitution as “the supreme law of the land.” 
But the jihadists of the Muslim Brotherhood and front groups like CAIR explicitly aspire to take down our entire country. They must be stopped, now. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump meets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House today. Their public focus will be assorted commercial and military deals. In private, however, they better address the need for a course-correction in U.S. foreign policy.
The Saudis are rightly concerned about the influence being exercised by two purported U.S. “allies,” Qatar and Turkey. Prince “MBS,” understands those countries are actually working to undermine America and its interests in the Mideast. 
That’s a problem for the UN’s just-approved plan for post-Hamas Gaza and a broader regional peace. The Qataris and Turks intend to exploit it to ensure that the terrorists they sponsor in Gaza will not actually disarm, let alone surrender power. 
Turkey and Qatar must be prevented from redoubling their worldwide campaigns to arm, fund and otherwise enable jihadists and perpetuate their war on the West. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

The National Counter-Terrorism Center is warning that al-Qaeda is threatening to assassinate our leaders, attack corporations and cause mass casualty events in the United States. 
If you haven’t heard such alarms, you’re not alone. When the country’s political elite and media is focused elsewhere – notably obsessing about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and files documenting them, disseminating information that may help save Americans’ lives just doesn’t get the focused national effort it urgently requires.   
Unfortunately, evidence that jihadists are emboldened to think they can strike us with impunity also conflicts with preferred official narratives. These include: Iran is no longer at war; Hamas is out of business; a Syrian terrorist deserves our support; and Qatar and Turkey are reliable U.S. allies, not prime enablers of toxic sharia-supremacism. 
To defend against jihad, Americans must be equipped to help, starting with knowing the truth.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump is the author and preeminent practitioner of The Art of the Deal. The first year of his second presidency has been marked by many of them. 
The question is: What happens when the other party to “the deal” lies, cheats or otherwise defeats its “object and purpose”?
For example, the Iranian regime is clearly not complying with the basis for ending what the President dubbed “the 12-day war.” China, Russia and North Korea are helping the mullahs’ regime rebuild its military capabilities, evidently including their nuclear weapons program.
Hamas is neither disarming nor relinquishing power in Gaza, let alone disbanding. And the Chinese Communist Party is asserting that it will continue to deny rare earth minerals to American companies deemed to be “dual-use.”  
There must be consequences for such deal-breaking, or there will be a lot more of it.   
This is Frank Gaffney.