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Win McNamee/Getty Images areas to get a picture of where there was affordable housing in Northern ,” according to the Mason Virginia Goes Blue: Gazette. This information probably Liberation Road’s goal proved very useful when Liss estab- is to destroy President lished NVM two years later. Trump and the Republican According to an Aug. 25, 2011, post Pro-China Communists Claim Credit on McClure’s blog: Party to pave the way for a “I have been recently working socialist America. with New Virginia Majority to make Did a China-based American communist help flip Virginia? a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia State house Win McNamee/Getty Images districts. ... The core data are lists of Trevor Loudon individual households by pan-ethnic census categories. ... The results are News Analysis subjective but do suggest ... the ways It’s official. The once that actual communities conform or deep-red Common- diverge from the discrete territorial wealth of Virginia is units which define an electoral terrain now a blue state. As in a democracy.” a result of the Nov. All this wasn’t theoretical. It was 5 election, Democrats designed to help NVM flip districts now hold all three of the statewide across the state by micro-targeting constitutional offices, both U.S. Sen- potential Democratic voters in low- ate seats, the majority of its Congress income and minority communities. members, and both chambers of the In another post, he wrote: State House. “In the general elections of 2008, Laura Ingraham of Fox News says Virginia voted Democratic for the first argue that to destroy the Republican A sample ballot at tling for the South.” it’s because of “changing demograph- time since 1964 with Obama carrying Party in the South, black communi- a polling station in Liberation Road has a large presence ics.” That’s only partially true. Virginia the state. Demographic shifts and in- ties must be targeted and mobilized Arlington, Va., on in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina Nov. 5, 2019. went blue because a handful of well- creased voter participation rather than to vote: (Durham for All), and Florida (the New organized pro-Chinese communists a shift in political allegiances account “(1) A critical mass of Southern states Florida Majority). Now that Virginia is made it happen. for this outcome. ... can and must be won if we are to block safely in the Democrat column, look The group in question, New Virginia “Focusing on Prince William Coun- or defeat the right in presidential elec- to see an upsurge of Maoist electoral Majority (NVM), has exploited Virgin- ty, Virginia, I applied spatial interpola- tions. Three of the five or so critical activity in North Carolina and Florida ia’s changing population and “liberal tion techniques in a GIS to translate battleground states are in the South: to turn those states blue in 2020; Ten- bleed out” from the Washington area the 2008 election returns from the Florida, Virginia and North Carolina. nessee and Georgia will be next. Then, to flip not just Northern Virginia but geography of precincts to year 2000 Southern blue and battleground states Texas. also districts across the state. Based zoning classification areas for further plus Washington D.C. hold 38 percent in Alexandria and Richmond, NVM quantitative analysis. The goal was to of the electoral votes needed to win. Chinese ‘Collusion’? has sent hundreds of paid workers produce actionable intelligence for “(2) Winning an anti-rightwing con- Trump has been tougher on Beijing and volunteers out across the com- working class organizations building gressional majority depends on win- than has any other president in liv- monwealth to register and send to the popular power at the base. ... ning in the South, as the South has a ing memory. It’s no secret that China polls hundreds of thousands of new “The results are presented as maps bigger congressional delegation than doesn’t like Trump and would love to voters—all under the nose of the Vir- and diagrams which might illumi- any other region and Southern con- see him defeated in 2020. ginia Republican Party. nate challenges and opportunities for gresspersons also hold key leadership Rather than risk war, or suffer The Democrats have flipped two organizations engaging with electoral posts within the Republican Party’s huge economic setbacks, wouldn’t state Senate seats, and now hold a 10- efforts.” congressional hierarchies. it be much cheaper and easier to use vote advantage in the Assembly. NVM McClure is still actively engaged in “(3) There are tremendous oppor- China’s American assets, such as Lib- endorsed and supported 23 Virginia giving advice to his U.S. comrades on tunities to build progressive political eration Road, to ensure Trump’s defeat candidates this cycle and won with winning elections for the Democrats. power and governance at the local by “democratic” means? 15 of them, including two state Sen- An article co-written by McClure level in the South as 105 counties have It’s inconceivable that the Chinese ate races and nine Assembly victories. and Bob Wing, “The Importance of a Black majority. ... government didn’t know what Mc- The 15 who were endorsed by NVM the Fight for the South—and Why It “While some might dismiss the Clure was up to. After all, they pre- and won are: Can and Must Be Won,” appeared on South, focusing strategically on the sumably pay his salary or living costs the Liberation Road-linked website Northeast and Pacific Coast as cen- while he is in China. • Ghazala Hashmi, Virginia Senate Organizing Upgrade on Sept. 4, 2017. tral to a progressive program and the It’s clear that Liberation Road is tied District 10 It states: Midwest as the main political battle- to China. It’s also clear that their front- • John Bell, Virginia Senate District 13 “The far right, racism, militarism, ground, the South’s dynamic growth, group NVM is heavily involved in U.S. • , House District 10 inequality, and poverty are all cen- historical legacy of Black struggle and electoral politics and played a decisive • Kelly Convirs-Fowler, House Dis- mass voter registration drives, you can includes and reflects the diversity of Virginia voters the voting rights of more than 173,000 Maoist Groups tered in the South. The majority of powerful political weight make it a role in turning Virginia blue. It’s also trict 21 flip almost any state. our state. We don’t talk to voters only head to the polls in Virginians during his term, more than NVM is led by longtime FRSO/Libera- African Americans, the main pro- critical battlefield. obvious that Liberation Road’s goal is • Elizabeth Guzman, House District 31 when campaign season rolls around. Arlington, Va., on any other governor in Virginia’s his- tion Road cadre Jon Liss of Alexandria. tagonist of progressive politics in “The nuance is that the South can- to destroy President Trump and the Nov. 5, 2019. • Dan Helmer, House District 40 We try to reach voters of all colors, tory. In 2016, of the nearly 20,000 men Several FRSO cadres have served in this country, live in the South. And not be won as a bloc, but only state by Republican Party to pave the way for • , House District 42 women, low-income workers and and women who registered to vote for NVM over the years, as have many ac- the South has more electoral votes, state and county by county. In fact, a socialist America. • , House District 51 By going after the young people where they are, which the first time as a result of the resto- tivists from two NVM satellite groups, battleground state votes, popula- winning the South in large part means Is there Chinese “collusion” here? Do • Schuyler VanValkenburg, House minority vote with has made it possible for us to develop a ration of their rights, a whopping 79 LeftRoots and the Virginia Student tion, and congresspersons than any understanding that it is not a mono- we need investigations and executive District 72 robust base of support along Virginia’s percent voted. They were a key vot- Power Network. other region. lithic entity and winning it piece by action against these subversive groups • , House District 73 mass voter registration so-called Urban Crescent, from North- ing bloc in Virginia, the only Southern FRSO/Liberation Road comes out of “The South is changing rapidly, piece: i.e. politically deconstructing before they’re able to fully realize their • , House District 94 drives, you can flip ern Virginia to Hampton Roads. Long state that Hillary Clinton won.” the militantly pro-China American giving rise to more progressive de- the South.” goals? With less than a year until the • Steve Descano, Fairfax County almost any state. before Election Day, we registered NVM worked closely with McAuliffe Maoist student movement of the 1970s. mographic groups—especially Black President ’s victory 2020 election, there’s not much time Commonwealth’s Attorney more than 300,000 voters, knocked on to win ex-felon voting rights. The or- While it’s more discreet about its Chi- and Latino migrations, LGBTQs and in 2016 shocked the left and, accord- left to do so. • Parisi Deghani-Tafti, Arlington more than 2.5 million doors, and or- ganization actually gave the governor nese loyalties these days, several of its urbanites—and a growing Democratic ing to McClure and Wing, has made County and Fall’s Church Com- According to Nguyen: ganized within communities of color an award at its annual dinner for his leading supporters maintain close ties vote. These trends can only be maxi- their goal of flipping the South even Trevor Loudon is an author, film- monwealth’s Attorney “The national Democratic Party to help win significant policy changes sterling work. to the People’s Republic. mized if the importance of the South more urgent: maker, and public speaker from • Buta Biberaj, Loudoun County Com- spent millions in Virginia this year, like Medicaid expansion, which cov- And the path to success lies in orga- Fred Engst is a longtime FRSO sup- is understood as a strategic necessity “This essay was prepared in March New Zealand. For more than 30 monwealth’s Attorney but the state wasn’t always such a pri- ered nearly 400,000 people.” nizing and energizing minority voters porter. Born to U.S. communist par- and the chance to win state by state, is 2015, prior to the 2016 election sea- years, he has researched radical left, • Phyllis Randall, Chair Loudoun ority. From its position in the South Nguyen (who was part of Democratic who already lean left, but normally ents and raised in China, Engst was acknowledged and acted upon. son that eventually resulted in Don- Marxist, and terrorist movements County Board of Supervisors to its prominent role in America’s Gov. ’s transition team) vote at very low rates: educated in the , where “Hard as the fight is and will be, ald Trump’s victory. However, the far and their covert influence on main- legacy of oppression, Virginia was also went on to explain the impor- “Changes in the shape of the elec- he became immersed in Maoist poli- downplaying the Southern struggle rightwing’s capture of the presidency Virginia Gov. stream politics. None of this electoral success was long considered reliably conserva- tance of the ex-convict vote. torate and rising enthusiasm among tics. He returned to China in 2007 and is a losing political strategy and forfeits makes this essay’s main arguments Ralph Northam down to luck or changing demograph- tive—unbreakable. As recently as six “Virginia’s state constitution bars voters can only go so far, without is now teaching at the University of the moral high ground on the biggest even more important. ... speaks at a press Views expressed in this article are conference at the ics alone. years ago, Republicans controlled the anyone with a felony conviction from campaign architecture that channels International Business and Economics issues facing the country.” “The South is the key center of the governor’s mansion the opinions of the author and do NVM Co-Chair Tram Nguyen has al- office of the governor and the General voting until their rights have been those changes into tangible political in Beijing. McClure and Wing (another “for- far right and the Republican Party; in Richmond, on Feb. not necessarily reflect the views of ready published an op-ed in The New Assembly. restored by the governor. For more outcomes. ... Alex Tom, a leader of LeftRoots and mer” Maoist associated with FRSO) neither can be defeated without bat- 2, 2019. The Epoch Times. York Times saying, “Democrats could “Local organizations like mine than nine years, we organized for- “Engaging meaningfully with the pro-Beijing San Francisco-based learn a lot from what happened in Vir- understood the political potential of merly incarcerated women and men voters of color means talking to Chinese Progressive Association, in Alex Edelman/Getty Images ginia.” The message? “Democrats, do Virginia when we got started 12 years to help them demand that their full tens of thousands of voters to make 2012 formed the China Education and what we did in Virginia—everywhere.” ago. We are winning because we rec- civil rights be restored. The former sure they have the information Exposure Program to “build a deeper By going after the minority vote with ognize the power of an electorate that governor, Terry McAuliffe, restored they need to cast their ballots even analysis of China for US progressives after receiving racist Republican and leftists and to build relationships slowking4/GFDL 1.2 campaign communications. ... with the grassroots movement in Chi- We didn’t need to persuade voters na,” according to his 2013 LeftForum to embrace our worldview—they speaker’s bio. were already there on the issues. John Marienthal, a San Jose-based They just needed to be convinced FRSO member, has been a leader of that their vote mattered. To give the pro-Beijing U.S.–China Peoples one example of how this works in Friendship Association for more than practical terms, in precincts in the 40 years and has taught in several Chi- Virginia suburbs of Washington, nese educational establishments since turnout this year increased by 24 the 1980s. percent over 2017. ... Steve McClure is a former Washing- “States don’t become battlegrounds ton resident who, in the 1970s, was ac- overnight. Democrats and national tive in the pro-Mao Revolutionary Stu- progressive organizations have the dent Brigade. He has close ties to FRSO resources to take their case to the and NVM. Since 2010, he has worked people and win, but they have to start with the Geography Department of early and organize relentlessly. When Wuhan University in China, and he they lose, they have to stay in place is a research associate with the State and keep fighting for every political Key Laboratory of Engineering Infor- inch they can get. No place is unwin- mation in Surveying, Mapping, and nable forever.” Remote Sensing at the university. All this would be serious enough McClure has used his skills in Geo- if NVM members were merely well- graphic Information Systems (GIS) to meaning “liberal Democrats,” which supply highly targeted voter identifi- Freedom unfortunately isn’t the case. cation information to NVM. Road Socialist NVM is a front for Liberation Road, As far back as 2005, McClure was us- Organization known until April this year as Free- ing GIS technology to identify low-in- supporters during an anti-Trump march in dom Road Socialist Organization come voters for Liss’s Tenant Workers Washington on Jan. (FRSO), the United States’ most in- Support Committee. McClure “plotted 20, 2017. fluential Maoist organization. lower-income, high-rental housing 4 | OUR NATION Week 46, 2019 Week 46, 2019 OUR NATION | 5 Preparations Made to Appeal Judge’s Ruling Approving Trump Honors Veterans at Harvard’s Discriminatory Admissions Policies Iconic New York Parade

Scott Eisen/Getty Images Matthew Vadum that flow from a diverse college Pedestrians walk past The first sitting US president to attend the parade pledges to ‘always honor our veterans’ a Harvard University population.” building in Cambridge, conservative civil rights “It is somewhat axiomatic at this Mass., on Aug. 30, Spencer Platt/Getty Images group plans to lend its point that diversity of all sorts, in- 2018. Bowen Xiao expertise to the legal cluding racial diversity, is an im- fight to overturn a portant aspect of education,” Bur- EW YORK—President Donald Trump Today, we come federal judge’s ruling roughs wrote. and First Lady Melania Trump attend- together as Athat Harvard University’s policy “The evidence at trial was clear ed this year’s Veterans Day Parade in of discriminating against Asian that a heterogeneous student body New York on Nov. 11, making Trump one nation Americans in favor of whites in the promotes a more robust academic N the first president to accept an invita- to salute the undergraduate admissions process environment with a greater depth tion to the largest commemoration of veterans of the is legally sound. and breadth of learning, encourag- service in the nation. Trump said in The ruling in question came es learning outside the classroom, his opening remarks that it was “truly United States Sept. 30 from Boston-based U.S. and creates a richer sense of com- an honor” to be there. armed forces, District Judge Allison D. Bur- munity. The benefits of a diverse The parade, which was celebrat- the greatest President roughs, who was appointed by student body are also likely to be ing its 100th year running, featured Donald Trump warriors to ever speaks at former President Barack Obama, reflected by the accomplishments 300 marching elements and includ- the opening in a case cited as Students for Fair of graduates and improved faculty ed veterans from different eras and walk the face of ceremony of the Admissions Inc. v. President and scholarship following exposure to wars. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 the earth. Veterans Day Fellows of Harvard College. varying perspectives.” ernment talks about diversity, it is process. people attended the event, according Parade in New The Trump administration has Asian American high school usually talking about a very nar- “You see the admissions guide- to the United War Veterans Council. President Donald York on Nov. 11, 2019. weighed in on the side of the Asian students accounted for about 22 row conception of diversity: racial books, such as Princeton Review Scattered among them were floats, Trump

American students in the lawsuit. percent of total applicants to the diversity. and Kaplan, guide students in military and vintage vehicles, and B o “No American should be denied college in recent years, even though “At Pacific Legal Foundation, we the admissions process and a lot other special elements. we history of the agency. He also honored “They volunteered to sacrifice so n Xi

admission to school because of their Asian Americans make up less than think everyone should be treated of these books say if you’re Asian, Trump recognized the veterans of ao/ Jack Foy, a WWII veteran who fought much for this country,” said Mon- race,” then-Attorney General Jeff 6 percent of the U.S. population, based on individual merit, and not don’t say you’re interested in sci- World War II in the audience and said T at the Battle of the Bulge. Trump said zon, who hails from New Jersey. “All h e E

Sessions said in a statement in 2018. she wrote. based on race.” ence or math or that you want to this year’s parade specifically honors p the country would be “forever proud” it takes is just a little bit of recognition, “As a recipient of taxpayer dollars, But in an interview with The Ep- PLF is preparing a friend-of-the- be a doctor because then you’re the U.S. Marine Corps, which recently Ti och of what Foy did. a day to recognize them and all that m

Harvard has a responsibility to con- och Times, attorney Wen Fa of the court brief backing the legal chal- too much like the standard Asian,” celebrated its 244th anniversary. es “We pledge to always honor our vet- they’ve done.” duct its admissions policy without Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a lengers in the litigation, Students he said. “Today we come together as one erans,” Trump said. “You are Amer- Monson said parade attendees ap- racial discrimination by using public interest law firm headquar- for Fair Admissions, in that group’s You shouldn’t have to hide who nation to salute the veterans of the ica’s greatest living heroes and we proached him on several occasions, meaningful admissions criteria tered in Sacramento, California, re- ongoing appeal that is currently you are or pretend to be someone United States armed forces, the will cherish you now, always, and thanking him for his service to the that meet lawful requirements. ... jected the judge’s reasoning. pending before the 1st Circuit Court else to get into a college, he added, greatest warriors to ever walk forever.” country. He called Trump’s decision The admissions policies at our col- “We think that discrimination of Appeals. The appeals court could noting that the PLF’s brief will the face of the earth,” Trump Under the current admin- to attend and speak at the parade a leges and universities are important is wrong and shouldn’t be taken Then–Attorney General rule in the case next year or pos- be based on the Equal Protection said. “Our veterans risked istration, the VA has done “very good gesture.” and must be conducted lawfully.” lightly just because government Jeff Sessions at the sibly the year after, Fa said. Clause of the 14th Amendment. everything for us, now it is more in nearly three years “I didn’t expect it. It’s a good thing Justice Department in The Asian Americans adversely takes some vague interest in di- Washington on Oct. 25, Edward Blum, president of Ar- Critics of affirmative action in col- our duty to serve and pro- to reform itself and im- that he did that,” he said. affected by the policy are collateral versity,” he said. “When the gov- 2018. lington, Virginia-based Students lege admissions say it’s time for the tect them every single day prove the care and benefits Under the Trump Administration, damage on the road to social justice, for Fair Admissions, said when Bur- practice to end. of our lives.” of veterans than it has in veteran unemployment has reached the judge argued. roughs issued her opinion that he They quote the words of former Last week, Doug Mc- decades, Christina Man- the lowest level ever recorded. And in Burroughs found that “diversity”— was “disappointed that the court Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day Gowan, chairman of the dreucci, press secretary for August, Trump signed a presidential a relatively new concept not men- has upheld Harvard’s discrimina- O’Connor, who felt the practice was United Veterans War Coun- the Department of Veterans memorandum making the process tioned in American founding tory admissions policies” and that a necessary evil. In Grutter v. Bol- cil, said Trump’s support for Affairs (VA) told The Epoch for eliminating federal student loan documents such as the Declara- his group vows to appeal the de- linger (2003), she wrote, “We expect the parade goes back decades. He Times in an email. debt easier for permanently disabled tion of Independence or the Con- cision all the way to the Supreme that 25 years from now the use of said during the 1990s Trump per- Mandreucci referenced a recent veterans. stitution—trumps all other factors Court, if necessary. racial preferences will no longer be sonally offered financial support to Veterans of Foreign Wars survey that The directive benefits tens of thou- in the college admissions process SFFA describes itself as “a non- necessary to further the interest ap- save the event from insolvency. For the found nearly three-quarters of respon- sands of struggling veterans, as only and justifies race-conscious social profit membership group of more proved today.” last 25 years, veterans have invited the Carlos Monzon dents had reported improvements at half of the roughly 50,000 qualified engineering by Harvard officials. than 20,000 students, parents, Making race-conscious admis- sitting president to attend the event. attends the Veter- their local VA and more than 90 per- to have their federal loans discharged Shrugging off the harm done to and others who believe that racial sions decisions is “dangerous,” Trump was the first to accept. ans Day Parade in cent said they would recommend VA had received the benefit. Asian American students, the judge classifications and preferences in O’Connor wrote, calling it a “de- Trump reflected on the events of 9/11 New York on Nov. care to other veterans. Reggie Regrut, who served in the wrote that “race-conscious admis- college admissions are unfair, un- viation from the norm of equal in his remarks, saying the country 11, 2019. Last year, Trump signed the larg- Army Reserve from 1969 to 1971, sions will always penalize to some necessary, and unconstitutional.” treatment.” Such programs must would “never forget.” He also made est funding bill for the VA in history, told The Epoch Times he believes the extent the groups that are not being College preparation services al- “be limited in time,” she stated, mention of last month’s raid against securing $86.5 billion for the depart- day’s commemoration helps “unite advantaged by the process, but this ready advise Asian Americans how adding that “all governmental the ISIS terrorist group which resulted ment. The VA Accountability and the country.” is justified by the compelling inter- to cope with the discrimination use of race must have a logical in the suicide of its leader, Abu Bakr Whistleblower Protection Act, which Regrut marched in the parade as a est in diversity and all the benefits they face in the college admissions end point.” al-Baghdadi. makes it easier to identify problems member of the nonprofit organiza- Mark Wilson/Getty Images “Thanks to American warriors, al- within the agency and improve the tion Veterans for Peace. He said ev- Baghdadi is dead, his second in com- quality of service for veterans, was ery American should take some time mand is dead. ... His reign of terror is also put into law by Trump. to recognize the sacrifice military over, and his people are running very, In 2018, the department ranked veterans have made for this country. very scared,” Trump said. sixth out of 17 federal government Vietnam War veteran Francisco “It is truly an honor to come back to agencies in the Partnership for Public Navarro told The Epoch Times he New York City right here at Madison Service’s most recent “Best Places to was “very, very proud” to see so US Tech Chief Calls China ‘Advanced Authoritari- Square Park to be the first president Work” survey, up from 17th place out many people show up with their ever to attend America’s parade.” He of 18 agencies listed in 2017. support. later participated in a wreath-laying Navarro, who served in Vietnam in an State,’ Warns Against Surveillance, Censorship ceremony. Recognizing Sacrifice 1968 when he was 19 years old, said Vice President Mike Pence observed Carlos Monzon, who served in the the mood at this year’s parade was PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP /AFP via Getty Images the day with a speech at Arlington Na- army reserves between 2009 to 2017 “better than last year.” He said that Bowen Xiao U.S. Army and the National Security Agency, tional Cemetery in Virginia, where and did his tour of duty in Afghanistan he marches at the parade every year recently told The Epoch Times. he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the in 2012, told The Epoch Times that it’s that he can, adding that it’s a “very U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael In response to Kratsios’s speech, Huawei Unknown Soldier. critical for Americans to honor mili- significant” event. Kratsios said the Beijing regime has built an released a Nov. 7 statement rejecting his as- Trump said veteran satisfaction has tary veterans. He said this year was “We should all honor those who “advanced authoritarian state” and warned sertions, saying it’s a “100% private company hit “90 percent” under his administra- his first time watching the parade in served and those who never came against countries “opening their arms” to exclusively owned by its employees.” Hua- tion—the highest rate recorded in the person. back,” he said. Chinese companies for key infrastructure wei claimed it had no control or access to such as 5G network technology and artificial the data in the African Union headquarters, Spencer Platt/Getty Images intelligence. saying it was managed and operated by the Kratsios, in his first major international organization’s IT staff. remarks on Nov. 7 after being confirmed by The United States has been “forced to take the Senate in August, spoke about the Trump steps” to block the infiltration of technol- administration’s efforts to lead in emerg- ogy infrastructure, the stealing of Ameri- ing technologies, urging that if they didn’t can research and innovation, and the use of act now, the Chinese communist regime’s the resulting technology to violate human influence and control of technology would rights, Kratsios said. China is the most active “not only undermine the freedoms of their perpetrator of economic espionage in the own citizens but all citizens of the world.” United States, according to a White House Much of his speech at a major global tech- U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael to them, the country would liberalize politi- Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy nology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, was Kratsios delivers a speech on the last day cally and economically. report. of the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, dedicated to urging America and Europe to on Nov. 7, 2019. “Instead, China stole our intellectual prop- “We have the will to make the right choices work together in embracing technology in- erty. They forced companies to hand over now, and the courage to ratify our words novation to “defend our free system against valuable technology ... to access their mar- with actions. The American government our adversaries, that seek to undermine our ket, and now, they require access to all data, is taking a stand and we cannot do this shared values.” He also singled out Chinese information, and secrets contained on any without Europe and our allies around the technology giant Huawei at the 2019 Web server in China,” he continued. world,” Kratsios said. Summit as an example of the Chinese Com- Under Chinese law, Huawei and all other In May, President Donald Trump signed munist Party (CCP) “extending its authori- Chinese companies must cooperate with the an executive order that would allow the tarianism abroad.” regime’s Intelligence and Security Services, government to block the purchase of for- “We are fighting to defend the free market regardless of where the company actually eign-made telecommunications equipment system that fuels our innovation,” Kratsios operates, Kratsios said. He also referenced deemed a national security risk to the United said. “We’re fighting so technological ad- reports about Huawei installing equipment States. The Trump administration has also vances driving our economies, strengthen- We’re fighting so technological at the headquarters of the African Union, previously lobbied other countries against ing our security, powering our citizens, and with the union’s computer system then be- using Huawei’s 5G equipment. defining our future will be built by us with advances driving our economies, ing hacked and the data being transferred to Kratsios’s speech came just days after Ajit our values. strengthening our security servers in Shanghai. He said that occurred Pai, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communi- “If we allow Beijing such a profound degree and powering our citizens and “every single night for five years.” cations Commission, gave remarks similar of access and influence in our technology The CCP has representatives in almost ev- in scope and tone at the Council on Foreign system, we run the risk of repeating the defining our future will be built ery large company in China, meaning that Relations, a nonprofit think tank. Pai called same mistakes our nation’s [leaders] made they all have the same objective in carrying Huawei’s dominance in 5G a “major con- by us with our values. U.S. Marines march nearly 20 years ago. In 2001, our leaders [led] out the goals of the state, Charity Wright, cern” for the United States that could open in the Veterans Day China into the World Trade Organization, Michael Kratsios, a cyberthreat intelligence adviser at In- the door to surveillance, espionage, and Parade in New York expecting that as we opened our economies U.S. chief technology officer tSights with 15 years’ experience with the other dangers. on Nov. 11, 2019. 6 | OUR NATION Week 46, 2019 Week 46, 2019 OUR NATION | 7

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with overturn, a G e Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ing removed from the United States his group hopes the court produces on Nov. 13 to expose major gaps in the W Ima tty program, which for seven years has a deal will be and allowed applicants to go to the “a clear statement ... that no president narrative crafted by Democrats and shielded from deportation about front of the proverbial immigration has unlimited authority to ignore their media allies over the course of made with ges 700,000 individuals brought to the Dems for them line, breeding resentment from law- Federal immigration limitations and weeks of secret depositions. United States as minors, has become and-order enthusiasts and those who admit unlimited numbers of aliens As alleged by the Democratic a flashpoint in American politics. to stay! immigrated to the country by properly based on personal policy preference. Chairman of the House Intelligence The highly controversial program President Donald following the rules. DACA program This was Obama’s ultimate position, Committee Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), came to the fore this week as the Su- Trump participants received temporary, re- and one that is very dangerous.” Trump leveraged military aid and the preme Court heard oral arguments Nov. newable employment authorization as Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, prospect of a White House meeting to 12 in the Trump administration’s chal- well as access to government benefits an Illinois Democrat who boasts he force Ukrainian leader Volodymyr lenge to DACA. A large rally of chanting such as Social Security. was one of the first lawmakers to call Zelensky to investigate Trump’s po- pro-DACA activists stood outside the It is not merely the objective of the for the DACA program to be created, tential 2020 election opponent, for- courthouse for hours that day as legal program, a quasi-amnesty for young said after oral arguments that the Su- mer Vice President Joe Biden and his submissions proceeded inside. people, largely Latinos, that has been preme Court was “considering an is- son Hunter. Following through on his campaign controversial since then-President sue of fundamental human rights—the The first two witnesses of the -in promises, President Donald Trump Barack Obama created it in 2012, but fate of Dreamers, hundreds of thou- quiry, acting U.S. Ambassador to tried to end DACA in 2017, only to be the method by which it was brought sands of young immigrants who came Ukraine William Taylor and State hit with an array of restraining orders into being. to the United States as children. They Department Deputy Assistant Sec- from federal judges who maintained “I am not king,” Obama said in Octo- are American in every way, except for retary George Kent, largely backed that the program could not be shut- ber 2010, responding to pressure from their immigration status.” up Schiff’s narrative, although their tered. The U.S. Citizenship and Im- activists and lawmakers to grant am- Trump has expressed sympathy for assertions crumbled under cross-ex- migration Services agency has been nesty. “I can’t do these things just by DACA recipients, despite objecting to amination by Republican lawmakers ordered by the courts to keep taking myself.” In March 2011, he said with the way his predecessor created the and staff. applications from DACA recipients. “respect to the notion that I can just program. Taylor testified that he had devel- Liberals tend to say the various suspend deportations through execu- “President Obama said he had no legal oped a “clear understanding” that judges acted out of principle and tive order, that’s just not the case.” right to sign order, but would anyway. the aid for Ukraine and the poten- compassion in a spirit of welcoming In May 2011, Obama acknowledged If Supreme Court remedies with over- tial White House meeting between generosity; conservatives tend to say such a program would be unconstitu- turn, a deal will be made with Dems for Trump and Zelensky were con- the judges are part of the anti-Trump tional, saying he was unable to “just them to stay!” he tweeted hours before ditioned on Ukraine committing Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor (R) and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs testify during the first public hearings held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, on resistance movement and acting like bypass Congress and change the law the Supreme Court hearing. to pursue the investigations into Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2019. politicians, imposing their policy pref- myself. ... That’s not how a democracy This tweet was too much for immi- Ukrainian energy giant Burisma, the erences instead of being impartial ar- works.” gration hardliner and conservative Bidens, and Ukraine’s interference a presumption that Sondland made spiracy theory. Previous testimony Hillary Clinton prior to the 2016 elec- the president said in his press con- biters of the law. But the next year, Obama created author Ann Coulter, an early endorser in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. about a potential link between the from other witnesses suggests that tion. Nunes cited several pieces of evi- ference,” Taylor said. To conservatives, DACA is the es- DACA unilaterally with the stroke of a of Trump’s presidential run who has But under questioning by Rep. Jim military aid and the investigations, Trump’s reference to DNC and dence to support the claim, including Ratcliffe concluded by noting that sence of political corruption, a law- pen, launching a largely media-driven become increasingly impatient with Jordan (R-Ohio), Taylor conceded according to a sworn statement that Crowdstrike is tied to his broader an August 2016 op-ed by Ukrainian the Democrats would have to call less program backed by the left-wing, mythology about the program’s young what she considers his slow progress that during his three meetings with Sondland submitted as an addendum concern about Ukraine’s interference Ambassador to the U.S. Valeriy Chaly, Zelensky a liar if they were to im- corporate-backed, open-borders recipients. on immigration issues. Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader never to his closed-door testimony. in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. in which Chaly criticized Trump and peach Trump based on the current movement, and the litigation before DACA, he said at the time, was “not “Okay, that does it. I give up. They linked the military aid to the opening In subsequent questioning, Rep. Republicans put Schiff’s narrative a July 2016 Facebook post in which allegations. the Supreme Court is a means of re- amnesty, this is not immunity. This can stay. You must go,” the author of of any investigations. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) got Taylor on trial during the open hearing by Ukraine’s current Minister of Internal The impeachment inquiry’s most storing constitutional norms. To liber- is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awe- to agree that the people who were demonstrating that Trump had good Affairs, Arsen Avakov, calls Trump a egregious allegation is that Trump als, DACA is simple human decency. permanent fix. This is a temporary some!” (2016) and “Resistance Is Fu- the subject of the hearsay evidence reason to ask for some investigation, “dangerous misfit.” tried to pressure Ukraine to investi- Conservatives see DACA recipients stopgap measure that lets us focus our tile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost he presented could be wrong. beyond the rationale alleged by Schiff. “The Democrats downplay, ignore, gate Biden in order to benefit his 2020 as a wedge calculated to clear the way resources wisely while giving a degree Its Collective Mind” (2018) replied in “People make mistakes,” Taylor Both Taylor and Kent admitted that or outright deny the many indications reelection campaign. The allegation is for mass amnesty and even higher im- of relief and hope to talented, driven, a tweet. If there actually were said. issues with corruption in Ukraine are the Ukrainians actually did meddle one of several listed in the complaint migration rates in the future. Liberals patriotic young people.” Some grassroots conservatives share The Democrats are working to de- pervasive. Kent told lawmakers that in the election, a shocking about-face filed by an anonymous whistleblower see them as innocent victims who are Journalists, activists, and others Coulter’s frustration over Trump’s indications of Ukraine termine whether Trump leveraged Burisma, the Ukrainian gas firm for people who, for three years, ar- that triggered the impeachment in- part of America’s future. picked up on Obama’s not-so-subtle approach to DACA, even though the election meddling and if his official position for personal politi- that paid Hunter Biden to serve on gued that foreign election meddling quiry. The complaint was forwarded Against that backdrop, at the Su- cue and began to portray DACA recipi- president’s approval ratings among foreign election meddling is cal gain when he requested, during its board at the time his father was was an intolerable crime that threat- to the Justice Department to deter- preme Court, Solicitor General Noel In terms of legal ents as patriotic, even heroic pioneer- Republicans remain sky-high. a July 25 phone call with Zelensky, vice president, was the first company ened the heart of our Democracy,” mine if Trump’s request constituted Francisco said a key problem with authority for like figures who exemplified the very FAIR’s Stein lays the blame for the a dire threat, then President that the Ukraine president “look into” to be the subject of a joint investiga- Nunes said. a campaign finance violation; the DACA was “that there’s no limiting DACA, ‘there is best that America had to offer—even situation on Democrats, who “have re- Trump would have a perfectly the Ukrainian business dealings of tion by U.S. and Ukrainian law en- “While the brazen suddenness of Justice Department determined no principle” involved in it. though they weren’t Americans. peatedly shown that they would pre- good reason to want to find Hunter Biden, son of former Vice forcement. Under questioning for this U-turn is jarring, this denial further action was necessary. “The theory on which DACA rests simply nothing DACA recipients are a subset of about fer to use minor children and DACA President Joe Biden, and a server tied Republicans, Kent confirmed that is the necessary part of their argu- In his request to Zelensky, Trump effectively allows the government to there.’ 4 million so-called Dreamers, many beneficiaries as a political bludgeon out what happened. to CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity he had concerns about Biden join- ment,” Nunes added. “After all, if referenced the firing of Viktor create a shadow INA [Immigration of whom failed to apply for relief un- rather than as a compromise position Rep. Devin Nunes firm that analyzed an alleged hack ing the Burisma board because of the there actually were indications of Shokin, a top Ukrainian prosecu- and Nationality Act] for any category Noel Francisco, der DACA, but who could conceivably in order to achieve otherwise durable of the Democratic National Commit- appearance of a conflict of interest. Ukraine election meddling and if tor, who was ousted after then-Vice of aliens that it chooses to make low- solicitor general qualify under the kind of amnesty that solutions to future problems.” tee (DNC). Kent flagged the concern with the foreign election meddling is a dire President Biden threatened to with- During the open hearing, Schiff al- vice president’s office. threat, then President Trump would hold $1 billion in U.S. loan guaran- SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images “With all due respect, ambassador, leged, without evidence, that Trump The House committee’s ranking have a perfectly good reason to want tees from Ukraine. At the time Biden your ‘clear understanding’ was obvi- acted to benefit his 2020 reelection Republican, Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), to find out what happened.” lobbied for Shokin’s removal, his son ously wrong. Because it didn’t hap- campaign by specifically targeting through a series of questions, out- An overarching theme running served on the board of Burisma, the pen. President Zelensky didn’t an- the Bidens. The California Democrat lined a wide-ranging campaign by through Taylor’s narrative is that two company under investigation by nounce he was going to investigate also dismissed the request about Ukrainian officials and a DNC opera- channels existed on Ukraine policy, Shokin’s office. Burisma or the Bidens. He didn’t do a CrowdStrike as an unfounded con- tive to undermine Trump and boost a regular one run by him and an Some officials, including Kent, say

press conference saying he was going REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst irregular one run by then-Special that Biden acted in line with U.S. to investigate the Bidens, we’re going Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, En- policy, which viewed Shokin as a to investigate Burisma,” Jordan said. ergy Secretary Rick Perry, Sond- corrupt prosecutor. In a sworn state- “So three face-to-face meetings, it land, and Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s ment, Shokin said he was fired due to doesn’t come up, no linkage whatso- personal attorney. pressure because he refused to drop ever. President Zelensky doesn’t an- Under questioning by the counsel the Burisma investigation. nounce it before the aid is released on for the Republicans, Taylor agreed A representative for Burisma used Sept. 11, yet you said you had a clear that it was “perfectly acceptable” for Hunter Biden’s name while lobby- understanding that those two things Perry, a Senate-confirmed official ing the State Department to stop the were going to happen, the money was with deep experience in interna- corruption allegations against the going to get released, but until there tional energy markets, to be work- company. Burisma’s overture came was an investigation and that in fact ing with Ukraine and that Volker just weeks after Shokin’s investiga- didn’t happen,” Jordan said. “So what was working in the best interest of tors seized the property of Burisma’s I’m wondering is, where did you get the United States and had “unques- owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. Hunter this ‘clear understanding’?” tioned integrity.” Taylor noted that it Biden stepped down from Burisma’s In response, Taylor referred to a con- was “a little unusual” for Sondland, board in April of this year. versation he had with Special Assis- the EU ambassador, to be working Early last year, the elder Biden tant to the President Tim Morrison, on Ukraine policy. bragged about forcing Shokin’s firing during which Morrison told him Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) ques- during a 2018 panel by the Council on about a conversation Morrison had Ambassador Bill Taylor, charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, tioned Taylor about Zelensky’s repeat- Foreign Relations. with U.S. Ambassador to the Europe- testifies on Nov. 13, 2019. ed public statements that there were During a round of questioning by an Union Gordon Sondland, during OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images no conditions, nor was there pressure, Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah), Taylor which Sondland told Morrison about corruption, blackmail, or quid pro and Kent conceded, through their a conversation Sondland had with quo on the call with Trump. Ratcliffe silence, that Biden’s move was un- Andriy Yermak, the top aide to the cited official Ukrainian press releases, precedented. Ukrainian president. The question- Reuters, and other media that have After Taylor agreed that corruption ing by Jordan exposed three levels reported that Zelensky never linked exists in every country in the world, of hearsay on which Taylor based his military aid to Trump’s request. Stewart asked, “So in these corrupt “clear understanding.” “Unlike the first 45 minutes that nations, in which there are probably “We’ve got six people having four we heard from the Democrats today, hundreds of corrupt individuals, conversations in one sentence, and that’s not secondhand information, hundreds of corrupt government of- you just told me this is where you got that’s not hearsay, that’s not what ficials, can you give me an example your ‘clear understanding,’” Jordan someone overheard Ambassador any time where the vice president of said. “This all happens, by the way, in Sondland say. That was his direct the United States shows up and de- Warsaw, where Vice President Pence testimony,” Ratcliffe said. mands that a specific prosecutor be meets with President Zelensky and “Ambassador Taylor, do you have fired and gives them a six-hour time guess what—they didn’t talk about any evidence to assert that President limit to do that? Are you aware of that any linkage either.” Zelensky was lying to the world press happening in any other place?” In addition to the three levels of when he said those things?” Ratcliffe Kent and Taylor remained silent. hearsay, the concern Sondland asked. “I guess the answer is no,” Stewart raised with Yermak was based on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2019. “I have no reason to doubt what said. Immigration rights activists hold a rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 12, 2019. 8 | OUR NATION Week 46, 2019 Week 46, 2019 OUR NATION | 9

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Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo William Gairdner and who knows how many ethnic enclaves there are now? Census- Commentary identified foreign cultures now A good friend number more than 200 in Canada, amusingly de- and since 1980, far fewer immi- scribed President grants have become naturalized Donald Trump Canadian citizens—a freefall from as “the mouth that almost 93 percent naturalization roared,” attempting to prior to 1981, to barely over 68 per- define him as ineffectual. But he’s cent by 2010. the farthest thing from that. What ought to be worrisome is In an age of slick television and that so strongly do many immi- internet imagery that has pre- grants now identify with their own empted the centrality of the spo- cultures of origin that no one can ken word, he’s a startling throw- be certain for whom they would back. choose to fight if Canada went to With words alone—in spontane- war with any of their countries of ous off-the-cuff remarks, in -un origin. They seem to prefer their scripted speeches, and on Twitter— own deep culture. he’s a fount of surprise. Sometimes So what is a deep culture? It is to he seems to surprise even himself, a people as a magnet is to iron fil- and could as well reply to a ques- ings. It attracts them. It pulls them tion: “How do I know what I think, toward itself and organizes their until I see what I say?” That dis- reality. If you scatter a few million turbs some listeners, but delights iron filings on a table, they just lie others. where they fall in a messy jumble, But regardless, fans and foes pointing aimlessly like little ar- alike the world over hang on his rows in all directions, at nothing every word, and every word he in particular. However, the mo- President Trump hugs the thinks he said, or didn’t say, as be reconciled. Tragically, during American flag as he arrives to even “no-go” zones where police ment that you place a big magnet the world’s media rise and fall in the last century, each of them em- speak at Conservative Political dare not enter. under the center of the table, all reaction to his moods, wonder- braced socialism—either national Action Conference (CPAC For as the prescient French critic those aimless filings will imme- ing what he will say or do next to ethnic socialism (Germany and 2019), in National Harbor, Md., Pascal Bruckner has said, multi- diately snap into line and point to shock their political sensibilities. Italy), or international world so- on March 2, 2019. culturalism condemns ethnicities the center, to the common pull of It all began with the stunned cialism (all the communist coun- to house-arrest in their own skins. the big magnet. Big culture. Big surprise of the career officers and tries)—as a means to further their So, let’s see now ... we fight nation- magnet. A common attraction. E experts complacently steering clashing visions. alism between nations, only to cre- pluribus unum. Steamship America to a more so- Although there are still rem- ate it a hundredfold within them? But take away the big magnet, cialist destiny, when Trump sin- nants of each in our universities Alas, these strategies for ending and put 100 smaller magnets un- glehandedly crashed the control and on our streets, they were killed domination by a single national der the table instead, and what will room, grabbed the wheel, and be- off as major forces in costly wars culture—the main target being the you see? All the iron filings will The Supreme Court in Washington, in this file photo. gan turning the ship back from the against the free world, against mostly Caucasian, Greco-Roman, reorganize, each aligning with the brink toward which it had been each other, and even against their Judeo-Christian culture of Europe closest magnet. The nation-state is heading—like every other West- own citizens—millions of whom and North America, or what stu- then de-centered. Little magnets. ern democracy—for more than a were wantonly slaughtered as “in- dents used to call “Western Civ”— Little cultures. No common attrac- century. ternal enemies.” have been at work in all the de- tion. Ex uno plures. Why McCulloch v. Maryland—Now 200 Years Taking the fractured social-en- Then came the United Nations. mocracies, fueled, as mentioned, Cultures can be deep. Very deep. gineers’ shipwreck called America At first, it was dedicated to peace- by the justifying, though unproven They can also be skin-deep, mov- back to its original sovereign, free, keeping, but since then, to the assumption of the equality of cul- ing around on the surface of na- Old—Is Not a ‘Big Government’ Manifesto nation-state foundation, is the imposition of global moral, social, tures. So in the United States, the tional life without penetrating underlying theme. Cut sprawling health, and economic standards famous national melting pot—e deeply into the national psyche. legislation, stop killing millions on the world’s nations by way of pluribus unum (from many, one)— I don’t want to dismiss the fun of of unborn children, cut taxation, treaties aimed at regulating many has been breaking down at warp skin-deep culture out of hand. Rob Natelson powers. As a young lawyer, Marshall explicit powers. concluded the bank was constitution- jack the economy, lower unem- of their internal affairs and sover- speed into a salad bowl—ex uno Almost everyone living today has had been a leading spokesman for Marshall, like other lawyers of his al. This process of consulting “contem- ployment, get the poor off food eign rights. plures (from one, many). direct or indirect access to what Commentary In 1791, leading the Constitution, particularly in Vir- time, was familiar with documents poraneous exposition” was (and is) a stamps, kill the enemy then get Upon the heels of this came the In 1988, in its own confused has become an international skin- This year marks the Founders had ginia. In McCulloch, Marshall said—as by which one person or group granted traditional way of interpreting stat- out of foreign wars, fight for fair European Union, weakening the and self-contradictory campaign, deep culture: French perfumes, 200th anniversary James Madison had before him—that authority to another—documents such utes and documents. Marshall didn’t trade, control the nation’s borders, national borders of European na- Canada declared itself to be “the bistros, and clothing; American of the Supreme debated the the Constitution’s legal force comes as powers of attorney, wills, trust in- resort to novel interpretive theories or become energy independent, dis- tions, unifying passports, curren- world’s first multicultural nation.” movies; Japanese sushi restau- Court’s ruling in Mc- constitutionality from approval by popularly elected struments, and statutes. The phrase evolving social standards. able outside agencies dictating do- cies, and trade regulations under Almost a decade prior to that, rants; a passerby wearing a tur- Culloch v. Maryland. of a national state ratifying conventions that met “necessary and proper” was common In the 20th century, the Supreme mestic policy to America, and put a single trans-national European Canadian Prime Minister Pierre ban; lots of foreign cars buzzing In that case, Chief Jus- from 1787 through 1790. in such documents. Court cited the McCulloch ruling judges in place who will defend standard. Diminishing the influ- Trudeau had seen this policy as a around; and a congenial smatter- tice John Marshall upheld Congress’s bank both It follows that the first rule of con- As used in the Constitution, the “nec- to uphold unprecedented federal the Constitution as written. Back ence of any single national sov- novel means to dissolve the threat ing of people with different colored power to charter a national bank—a in and out of stitutional interpretation is the un- essary and proper” phrase meant that spending and regulatory programs. to the Founding! “America will ereignty or ethnicity over others to Canadian unity posed by Quebec skins and exotic features. Such distant forerunner of the modern Fed- Congress—and derstanding of the ratifiers. It isn’t, in addition to the functions explicitly Law school constitutional law cours- never be a socialist country!” A was, and remains, its overarching separatism, and to water down the things make high-consumption, eral Reserve System. as some conservatives say, the “intent listed, the person or group receiving es sometimes treat McCulloch the busy man. agenda. No more power against dominant British cultural influ- chic societies more enjoyable. But Nearly all constitutional writers most of them of the framers” or “the original public authority could exercise incidental same way. No public figure in recent mem- power. The castration of national ence he disliked at the same time. they have no lasting pull. They are consider McCulloch one of the Su- concluded meaning.” Nor should we, some liber- powers. These were lesser powers in- But with all respect, this approach is ory has so brazenly and directly powers equally is the theme. So he responded with charac- little magnets. preme Court’s most important cases. the bank was als contend, construe the Constitution tended to accompany the listed ones. the product of historical ignorance. railed against the equality-mad, Such organized impositions on teristic flippancy to citizen com- A deep culture is profoundly dif- They are correct to do so. through “evolving social standards” or Lesser powers usually were incidental Those who depict McCulloch as a “big globalizing, anti-nationalist pro- the sovereignty of nations are in plaints about this frontal attack ferent. It’s the big magnet of a com- But many also depict the McCulloch constitutional. novel interpretive theories. if they were customary or necessary government” decision generally are gram that has been growing ev- effect a direct attack on the West- on Canada’s deep culture with a mon language, literature, religion, ruling as justifying vast federal pow- Moreover, the McCulloch rul- to carrying out the listed functions. unaware of how the founders un- erywhere in the West like an inva- phalian international order, and patently false statement: “It doesn’t legal system, and economic and ers under a broad interpretation of the ing clarified that, under the Consti- For example, it is customary for a derstood the necessary and proper sive weed in the social and moral Trump is the first leader in the free matter where the immigrants political system that penetrates Constitution. They portray Marshall as tution, state and federal governments manager hiring employees to investi- clause and how the bank debates of compost left by World War II. world to say loud and clear that he come from.” deep into the soul of the people in a “big government” judge. That por- operate fairly independently of each gate candidates before hiring them. So 1791 focused on the details of inci- Make no mistake. If the Cold War wants none of it. The rest of you But he knew that it matters a a thousand conscious and uncon- trayal is wrong. other. Neither level of government a manager with power to hire employ- dental powers law. They usually are was World War III, we are cur- can buckle to a global socialist- great deal. That’s why he was do- scious ways. Like that powerful big There are at least two well-grounded should try to dictate to the other ees usually has incidental authority unaware of critical changes in the rently in the thick of World War IV. style bureaucracy if you want, ing it. That’s why he was keen to magnet, it draws citizens toward reasons why Marshall’s opinion in the nor obstruct the other’s core func- to investigate candidates. Similarly, a English language—such as the fact It’s a war against ourselves. Since but America? Never. We are go- globalize Canada internally, so to each other by way of shared cul- McCulloch ruling is important. The tions. Because Congress designed the real estate broker with authority to sell that when Marshall used the words 1648, when the Treaty of Westpha- ing back to our unique national speak, via mixed, nontraditional tural values, traditions, and prin- first is that it clarified some basic facts national bank to assist Congress in a vacant building may have incidental “convenient” and “appropriate,” they lia halted the horrific wars of reli- roots. MAGA: “Make America immigration. ciples, and most importantly, with about the constitutional system. carrying out its core functions, Mc- authority to clean it for showing. embodied narrower and tougher gion by institutionalizing specified Great Again!” The truth, however, is that Can- the shared shalls and shall-nots of The McCulloch ruling explained that Culloch voided a state attempt to tax In like manner, the Constitution’s standards than they do today. With- rights of national sovereignty for But along with those efforts to ada, just like the United States their common moral life. This is a the people, not the states, created the the bank. grant of power to Congress to impose out that kind of historical perspec- the many different peoples of the dissolve tensions between nations The rest of you can and most other nations descended natural product of the Westpha- federal government and granted its The second reason the McCull- taxes carries with it incidental author- tive, McCulloch is a difficult case to world, there have been two incom- has come a further effort to dis- buckle to a global from mother England, has always lian principle, and it’s currently och ruling is so important is Mar- ity to obtain office space for revenue understand. patible conceptions afoot as to how solve cultural hegemony within socialist-style been “multi-ethnic,” but never be- under attack. shall’s use of established law and officers. And if you read McCulloch in isola- we ought to live. them, and the chief weapon as fore “multicultural.” What is the The problem is that citizens will legal methods—rather than tailor- Marshall’s McCulloch opinion shows tion, you might think Marshall’s rejec- an effective solvent is the self- bureaucracy if you want, difference? It’s quite simple. willingly die defending their own made theories—for interpreting the that he understood the necessary and tion of narrow interpretation meant Globalism Versus Nationalism contradictory notion of “multi- but America? Never. Multiple ethnicities will assimi- deep culture, and throughout his- Constitution. This is noteworthy in proper clause as embodying the law of he favored broad interpretation. But as Should each people, with a defined culturalism.” late under a single, deep culture tory have done so, in droves. But his discussion of whether the national incidental powers. He said the Consti- Marshall’s other writings make clear, territory, ethnicity, language, they recognize as better than the unless engaged in an alliance, they bank was valid under the Constitu- tution didn’t mention incorporation his standard was fair construction: culture, and political-economic Multiculturalism one they left behind (that’s why will seldom die for someone else’s tion’s necessary and proper clause. because incorporation was merely a He believed we should interpret the system, evolve its own nation- This term doesn’t, as we may at most of them came here), and will deep culture. Nor will they ever The Constitution lists the powers of subsidiary power rather than a “great Constitution as its ratifiers understood state way of life, settling differ- first imagine, describe the adop- preserve their cultures of origin die for sushi, French perfume, or Congress. These include such func- power” such as national defense and it—neither more narrowly nor more ences with other nations by way of tion by a nation of many cultures. privately, if at all. But multiple their sleek German car. tions as national defense, borrowing finance. Constitutions, unlike ordi- broadly. agreements, treaties, and trade (as Rather, it’s an attack on the very cultures, if officially informed If you don’t have citizens willing money, taxing, the postal system, nary laws, generally left subsidiary Westphalia wisely determined)? idea that any one culture is bet- upon arrival that their culture of to die to defend your deep culture, the monetary system, and regulat- powers to implication. This was the Robert G. Natelson was a law Or should we be trying to unite ter—or has ever been better—than origin has equal value to the one you don’t have a culture or a na- ing foreign and interstate commerce. context for Marshall’s famous phrase, professor for 25 years and is senior all humanity under a single inter- any other. If we declare all cultures for which they emigrated, will di- tional home. You have a motel. In addition to these explicit items, the “We must never forget that it is a con- fellow in constitutional jurispru- national system that defines the to be equal in value, then none will vide the population into as many Constitution adds that “the Congress stitution we are expounding.” dence at the Independence Institute most rational political, economic, have a right to dominance within cultures of origin as exist within William Gairdner is an author shall have Power ... To make all Laws, Marshall further explained that in Denver. His groundbreaking legal, and moral terms of living, any nation-state, is the theme. the state. The former is a recipe for who lives near Toronto. His latest which shall be necessary and proper national banks were customary and research into the necessary and thereby subordinating national That’s how multicultural policy national unity; the latter for na- book is “The Great Divide: Why for carrying into Execution” its listed necessary for government financial proper clause is set forth in his ethno-cultural differences, in the has become a weapon of cultural tional disunity. Liberals and Conservatives Will powers. and defense functions. co-authored book, “The Origins of hope of ending all wars? erasure—as was intended. Critics Canada has 20.6 percent foreign- Never, Ever Agree” (2015). His The Constitution’s list of explicit Marshall used other ordinary legal the Necessary and Proper Clause” These two ideologies—one na- haven’t been surprised to see that born citizens, the highest percent- website is WilliamGairdner.ca powers doesn’t include chartering methods to support his conclusion. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). tionalist, the other globalist—have this has resulted in a lot of mini- age among the G8 nations. And a national bank. In McCulloch, the For example, he said that, in 1791, lead- been locking horns over mutually nationalist enclaves within every while the federal government con- Views expressed in this article court had to determine whether ing founders had debated the consti- Views expressed in this article are exclusive ends since Westphalia, Western democracy, complete firmed that Canada had “only six are the opinions of the author chartering the bank was “necessary tutionality of a national bank both in the opinions of the author and do like stubborn mastodons in a duel with growing ethnic animosities, visible minority neighborhoods” and do not necessarily reflect the and proper” to carry out Congress’s and out of Congress—and most of them not necessarily reflect the views of to the death, and they can never violence, and in some countries, in 1981, by 2001, there were 254, views of The Epoch Times. 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Paul Adams (or sometimes exasperatedly) try to sense of urgency about the problems We have to teach them. But they are their choices they identify and the need to act now, JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images Commentary to make. to sweep all obstacles aside. Clifford Humphrey U.S. flags on humans are concerned with self- All parents need to cultivate a We love them and wish them the The virtue of prudence or practical display outside the preservation above all else. Thus, they learn a degree of dispassionate best, but their happiness in life de- judgment, on the other hand, is only Commentary New York Stock think the American government was equanimity, a kind pends in the end on their choices, not acquired with maturity and experi- “The economy, stu- Exchange on Sept. designed to encourage citizens to el- 12, 2019. of peace with the response to our wishes for them. ence. Equanimity as a habit and way pid.” James Car- evate base economic rights and cares way things are and the world that As our children become more in- of being also comes with age and ex- ville, a campaign above noble duties and virtues. what we can and can- allows us to be dependent, they learn, we hope, the perience. It recognizes the limits on strategist for former In fact, the founders understood that not do about it. habits and virtues of practical judg- our knowledge and capacity to con- President Bill Clin- economic and material concerns are We love our children but have lim- at peace with ment and prudence. They learn self- trol our world and society. It doesn’t ton, made that phrase necessary in order to have a stable po- ited and decreasing control over them. reality as it is. mastery, so they’re not ruled by their seek to bully others into accepting our famous in the presidential election of litical community, but they believed We want them to be happy, but re- appetites or addictions. And so on. But point of view or to impose an ortho- 1992. Then it was just a slogan; now, to that such stability is important be- alize that in the end their happiness we as parents have at the same time doxy enforced by the enlightened few many people, it has become a truism: cause it allows citizens to pursue their depends more on their choices than to learn and accept that our control is on the benighted masses—whether by The economy is all that really matters higher desires for excellence and no- ours. The same is true of others we try limited, and should be. state power or “woke” corporations. in elections. bility—in a word, happiness. to help, and in the political realm as Like all humans, our children are That’s the attitude of the utopian Last year, talk show host Bill Maher Like Aristotle, the founders believed well as the personal. not robots with no will of their own. revolutionary, the authoritarianism told his audience: “One way you get rid that the purpose of government in- We have, and should have, less con- Learning the attitude of letting go, or “God complex” that is an intrinsic of Trump is a crashing economy. So, cludes providing the conditions that trol than we may think or want. surrendering the control that was only part of progressivism or socialism in please, bring on the recession.” make possible “the pursuit of hap- ever temporary and contingent, re- all its forms. On the one hand, of course, that plan piness,” not merely the struggle for Control quires practice and humility. We have On the other hand, equanimity or makes sense: If people are suffering, “most people go into that voting booth has ever been. survival. Some “helping professionals,” even to cultivate a dispassionate response dispassion is not an absence of com- they will look for any kind of change, and vote their pocketbook.” Further, China demonstrates an important George Washington put this beau- if they work in child protection or to the world that will allow us to be at passion. It doesn’t turn away from re- and if they are in economic straits, many experts told voters stocks would lesson: Every kind of regime is an tifully in his first inaugural address, PI

neighborhood safety, like to deny or XABAY peace with reality as it is. It’s the op- ality in the opposite direction, in an they’ll vote for candidates they think crash if Trump won in 2016. instantiation in law of some idea of “There is no truth more thoroughly minimize the element of control that posite of the restless agitation we feel attitude of indifference to the com- will improve their financial condition. Yet Americans elected Trump any- justice. The Chinese Communist Party established, than that there exists in care involves. when we crave things to be different mon good. Such a “so what?” stance is On the other hand, though, human way. In fact, Trump’s victory showed imposes on the Chinese people a cer- the economy and course of nature, Close to 20 years ago, I gave a pa- from the way they are. But it’s not sometimes associated with, and even beings are not preeminently con- that voters were more concerned tain view of justice that legitimizes an indissoluble union between vir- per at an international confer- the same as indifference, which expressed by, adherents of libertarian- cerned with economic or material is- about the injustice of illegal immi- its own rule, and the Party is much tue and happiness, between duty and ence in Istanbul, and my wife may look similar, but which is ism in economic life or sexual behav- sues; their highest concerns involve gration than they were about trying more concerned with maintaining advantage, between the genuine max- and young son came along. a turning away from reality, ior. Such indifference turns away from questions of justice. Those who elevate to raise the federal minimum wage or its hold on power than with making ims of an honest and magnanimous My son at that time was able an attitude of not caring. reality, no less than woke utopianism— the slogan “Americans vote pocket- lower the cost of health care. average Chinese people wealthier for policy, and the solid rewards of public to crawl fast but not yet In cultivating our own it rejects public action to help those book” to the status of a self-evident Accordingly, don’t be surprised in their own sake. prosperity and felicity.” walk, which made for some equanimity, we also mod- trapped in dying industries or regions, truth fundamentally misunderstand 2020 when millions of Americans Don’t make a principle out of expect- interesting adventures. el and teach it for those for example, or to deal with such pub- human nature. vote for a Democratic presidential The Preeminence of Justice ing people to vote purely for pocket- My paper linked social around us. We hope to cul- lic evils as the opioid epidemic, easy This misunderstanding is bipartisan. candidate simply because that person In perhaps the first book ever written book issues. Often they won’t. care and control, and I was tivate gratitude as a way of access of minors to pornography, or Many Republicans think President is #AnyoneButTrump, even if they explicitly on politics, Aristotle distin- Republicans should criticize social- told by one (European) par- being in the world—for ex- the sexualization of children. Donald Trump’s reelection is cer- know that candidate will raise tax- guishes human beings from animals ists’ policies not simply because those ticipant that social work and ample, by counting our bless- Equanimity, by contrast, doesn’t shy tain so long as the economy remains es and damage the economy. People by pointing out that only humans can policies might be impractically ex- other professional helping was ings and teaching our children away from parental control or gov- strong. Likewise, many Democrats want to vote for someone who repre- speak. Animals, he says, indeed have pensive, but because they are inher- about education, not control. I the habits of gratitude rather than ernment action when it is needed and think their candidate will be elected if sents their understanding of justice, voice, and they use it to indicate pain ently unjust. argued that caring and love were entitlement. In the same way, we doesn’t unjustly violate another’s au- they can persuade enough Americans and no one offends the Progressive and pleasure. Only humans, though, In other words, as James Madison inseparable from control—knowing learn and teach the limits of our own tonomy and freedom. It seeks to help that socialist policies such as “Medi- ideal of justice quite like Donald J. have the faculty of speech, by which wrote, we should elect those “whose when it is needed and when the parent control of other people and events. We as it can but also to let go, to respect care for all” are economically feasible. Trump. they communicate opinions about wisdom may best discern the true or other carer has to let go. A parent controls practice an attitude of realistic, but the choices of others. It’s true that economic concerns Americans aren’t unique in this re- what is advantageous and disadvan- interest of their country, and whose In our toddler’s case, control was an infant out of love not indifferent or uncaring, letting go. The challenge for parents, psycho- are unceasing, even in the wealthiest spect. For all people, concerns for fi- tageous, just and unjust. patriotism and love of justice, will be critical—which my critic recognized when the child is Such a way of being in the world is therapists, and rulers is to learn the nation in history. Nevertheless, Re- nancial security are more immediate, Because humans have this capac- least likely to sacrifice it to temporary when he saw my son racing off toward unaware of a dan- necessary not only to our children’s difference, to discern when their job publicans and Democrats alike should but concerns for justice—however they ity in their nature, Aristotle describes or partial considerations.” the hotel pool we were relaxing by. I gerous environ- flourishing as individuals, in rela- is to control and when to let go. Re- know that people are moved funda- Republicans and understand justice—are preeminent. man as “a political animal.” In other ment. picked the boy up, brought him back tions with others, and in society, but specting the full humanity of the one mentally by higher claims of justice. Democrats alike For example, generations of China words, man was made to live in a com- Clifford Humphrey is originally from to where we were lying out in the to their capacity to let go of their own we seek to help or guide means being should know experts believed wholeheartedly that munity with others with whom he can Warm Springs, Ga. Currently, he is sun, and off he crawled again. And impatient urges to control their elders dispassionate and not manipulative. It People Don’t Always Vote if GDP and the standard of living rose converse and discuss issues of greater a doctoral candidate in politics at again. My colleague acknowledged, and transform the world to their own means accepting the reality that oth- Their Pocketbook that people significantly in China, then the coun- nobility and importance than mere Hillsdale College in Michigan watching the scene, that exercising liking. ers will make choices that would not John Anzalone, who worked for for- are moved try would democratize and become a survival and material interests. Only control was a part of caring, not least be ours, but that are in any case not mer President Barack Obama’s cam- fundamentally more open, liberal society, interested animals are utterly concerned with Views expressed in this article are for a parent. The Politics of Equanimity ours to make. paigns in 2008 and 2012, told Demo- only in increasing its wealth. The op- their physical well-being. the opinions of the author and do Such dispassionate control was Many statesmen, prime ministers, and crats that to win middle-class voters by higher claims posite has happened. China is wealth- Some conservative scholars claim not necessarily reflect the views of aimed not at manipulating or run- presidents, among them Clemenceau, Paul Adams is a professor emeritus in 2016, they should remember that of justice. ier but more totalitarian now than it that America’s founders believed that The Epoch Times. ning someone’s life but, in this case, Bismarck, Disraeli, Woodrow Wilson, of social work at the University of at keeping safe a child who does not and Churchill, have been quoted as Hawai‘i and was a professor and Mario Tama/Getty Images have the experience or judgment to saying, in various versions, that a associate dean of academic affairs see the danger. young man who is not a socialist (or at Case Western Reserve University. communist or liberal) before a certain He is the co-author of “Social Justice Equanimity age has no heart, but a man who is still Isn’t What You Think It Is,” and But as every parent knows, children one after a certain age has no head. has written extensively on social grow up. They go their own way The ages vary and we can’t take liter- welfare policy and professional and whether we like it or not. They learn ally the contrast of head and heart, as virtue ethics. from their own experience and the if growth in one meant decay of the guidance of parents, teachers, and other. But the young are more drawn Views expressed in this article are others, that some things that attract to the left of the political spectrum, the opinions of the author and do them are dangerous. Some choices both because of the compassion asso- not necessarily reflect the views of are self-destructive, as we lovingly ciated with it and because of their own The Epoch Times.

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Federal Judge Denies Rights of Conscience to Health Care Providers

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A woman displays a sign in support of abortion legislation during a pro-life rally outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis on June 4, 2019.

Matthew Vadum “This rule ensures that health care “The Rule also puts in jeopardy bil- entities and professionals won’t be bul- lions of dollars in federal health care n Obama-appointed federal judge in In this country, lied out of the health care field because funds,” the judge wrote matter-of- Manhattan struck down as unconsti- government doesn’t they decline to participate in actions factly, without noting that providing tutional a Trump administration rule get to tell you that that violate their conscience, including financial incentives for compliance was preventing federally funded health care the taking of human life.” the purpose of the rule. A providers from being forced to partici- your faith is fine on But in his ruling, Engelmayer didn’t Planned Parenthood could be ad- pate in abortions and other activities Sunday at church need to reach religious freedom issues versely affected, he wrote parentheti- that violate their conscience. but not Monday at covered by the First Amendment or the cally, because “nearly” every one of U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmay- abortion issue because he found other its affiliates “participates in Medicaid, er of the Southern District of New York, work. grounds to invalidate the HHS rule. which garners hundreds of millions of who joined the court in 2011 after being Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) The rule, the court found, “imposes dollars in reimbursement.” nominated by then-President Barack ambiguous and retroactive conditions The HHS regulation came two years Obama, issued a 147-page opinion and on the States,” which would be required after President Donald Trump signed order Nov. 6 invalidating the regulation to enforce its provisions because they Executive Order 13798 to protect Amer- published by the U.S. Department of accept health care funding from the icans’ fundamental rights of conscience Health and Human Services (HHS). federal government. and religious liberty. The rule, which the judge wrote “pur- “Once a State has accepted funds pur- EO 13798 states it “shall be the policy ports to interpret and provide for the suant to a federal spending program, of the executive branch to vigorously implementation of more than 30 statu- the Federal Government cannot alter enforce Federal law’s robust protec- tory provisions that recognize the right the conditions attached to those funds tions for religious freedom” because of an individual or entity to abstain so significantly as to ‘accomplish[ ] a our “Founders envisioned a Nation in from participation in medical proce- shift in kind, not merely degree,’” the which religious voices and views were dures, programs, services, or research judge wrote, quoting from the Supreme integral to a vibrant public square, and activities on account of a religious or Court’s 2012 ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius. in which religious people and institu- moral objection,” was to become ef- The judge indicated he was striking tions were free to practice their faith fective July 22. During the course of down the entire rule instead of just without fear of discrimination or re- the litigation, HHS agreed to delay the parts of it, because it “was sufficiently taliation by the Federal Government.” effective date to Nov. 22. shot through with glaring legal defects Trump later signed Executive Order The ruling came in three lawsuits as to not justify a search for survivors.” 13831 which created a Faith and Op- brought by Planned Parenthood, New In his opinion, Engelmayer also noted portunity Initiative in the White House. York State, and other state and local that protecting health care providers’ The order will “ensure that the faith- governments that were consolidated freedom of conscience would be expen- based and community organizations that by the court. sive for the states. form the bedrock of our society have strong Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) described the “HHS itself classifies the Rule as advocates in the White House and through- court ruling as “absurd mush.” ‘economically significant,’ meaning it out the Federal Government,” a White “The point of the First Amendment– will have an annual economic effect House press release stated at the time. especially the free exercise of religion– of more than $100 million ... [and] will The Epoch Times asked the Depart- is to protect the conscience rights of cost around $1 billion to implement ... ment of Justice if the administration Americans,” he said in a statement. “In over its first five years, not including planned to appeal the ruling but didn’t this country, government doesn’t get to public health costs.” immediately receive a reply.

tell you that your faith is fine on Sunday Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images at church but not Monday at work.” Lawyer Alexa Kolbi-Molinas of the American Civil Liberties Union praised the judicial order, characterizing it as protecting patients. “Everyone is en- titled to their religious beliefs, but re- ligious beliefs do not include a license to discriminate, to deny essential care, or to cause harm to others,” she said in a statement. The rule, unveiled in May by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at HHS, was cre- ated to protect “individuals and health care entities from discrimination on the basis of their exercise of conscience in HHS-funded programs,” and imple- ments “full and robust enforcement of approximately 25 provisions passed by Congress protecting longstanding A woman displays a conscience rights in health care.” sign during “Finally, laws prohibiting govern- a pro-life ment-funded discrimination against rally outside conscience and religious freedom will a Planned be enforced like every other civil rights Parenthood clinic in St. law,” OCR Director Roger Severino said Louis on June at the time. 4, 2019.