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A Little-Talked About Secret of the War
It has become more clear to me the past three years and as we are now at the beginning of a new year, that we are truly and undeniably on a war footing. Not war as some perceive the current conflict: as in fighting cowardly tribes in night shirts in middle-eastern skirmishes. I mean war, as in two fierce powers fighting to the last to see who survives. Or didn’t you realize what all of this was about? I mean, stuff the likes of the Battle of Normandy, Battle of Midway, bombardment of London, Attack at Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. I mean war the likes of World War II, but potentially far bloodier. I am talking about a war from which it takes generations to heal for the victor and maybe only just as long if the vanquished is our enemy --due only to our good nature. A war that changes the very path in which the river of our culture flows right down to our families and our most fundamental perceptions of the world around us when we go to bed at night. Our grandparents know what this is. We too, to an extent after September 11, 2001. But there is more to come before it all is over. I am here to tell you there is no way of avoiding it. I am not trying to sound like a pessimist, so please don’t shoot the messenger. But, it is inevitable because our enemies have set their minds to our slaughter. Naturally, we don’t ever go quietly and we will turn the tables on this one, too, as we have in times past, rest assured. We triumph over evil because we are America, just as we were in 1939.
A madman and murderer has revived the economy of dormant and economically anemic nation and built as well as modernized its economy and… its armies. He has bribed nations, threatened others, infiltrated and corrupted yet even more. He is highly favored, even among enemies as he lines the pockets of his prey. There is a powerful country to his east he intends to make a pact with and then betray, waging war against it. His power will be destroyed because justice demands it. He has oppressed the poor, and murdered the innocent, caused turmoil across the world where there was none. He is proud because he has curried the favor of the world at present. But soon he will go down, taking also many greedy with him. But now he is ready to move on his enemy by first invading a smaller neighbor just across his eastern border. But this isn’t Poland and the country being double-crossed by the invasion isn’t the Soviet Union; the tyrant isn’t Adolf Hitler and his regime isn’t NAZI Germany. It is Jiang Zemin’s Communist China. The target is Taiwan and the country being double-crossed is the United States.
In 1999 the Chinese defense minister declared they would be ready for war with the US by 2008. In 2000 he declared war with the US was inevitable. In this, they essentially announced their eight-year plan. 2001 came. 2002, 2003 and it is now 2004. So far it has gone at least somewhat according to plan. As we saw right out of the box in 2001 the US taking big hits in the world propaganda war when it was kicked off the UN Human Rights Commission (and replaced by Libya !!!). The Chinese had been throwing around the word “Hegemony” as suggested most favored synonym for us and it stuck. Around the same time the Chinese gained control of the Panama Canal, a strategic water way linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans for the US Navy, now linking China to Cuba (or nobody at all, if it is sabotaged). In September 2001 America’s financial center fell under attack and the WTC was obliterated. In response, America’s armies were mobilized to several fronts in central and east Asia, stretching the military that was cut in half during the Clinton years to an almost precarious degree. At the same time, China has strengthened ties with North Korea, Russia, Iran, Syria, France, Germany, the Sudan, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico and other corrupt banana republics. Presently the Chinese, who are still relatively weak, are throwing nations at us, but along with their much successful five-point economic plan is a military modernization plan which appears to be right on schedule. When this is complete it will be an army of around 200 million (ours numbers just a few million) that is technologically on par with ours, created for the stated purpose of decimating ours.
And China is doing some very good intelligence gathering, too. From the most recently reported story of hundreds of keys missing from Nuclear facilities across the US, which CBS broke two days ago to the Los Alamos scandals of the 90’s, the attack on and capture of our recon plane in early 2001 off the coast of China to their front-row view of US action and strategic procedures and technology right across their border in Afghanistan, the Chinese are doing a fairly good job of maximizing the beni’s of American security blunders. Then also there is the widely under-reported incidents of Chinese nationals captured or killed in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Of course, that information provides a not too different picture from the combat demographics of the Korean War.
Prophetically speaking Wes DeMont, “a former FBI agent who investigated espionage activities for the Bureau” said in a WorldNet Daily article back in 1999 that “’China has become more aggressive in recent years in attempting to acquire sensitive military technology from the United States ‘and anywhere else they can get it.’”
Wes goes on to say in the article, "Right now, as we bomb Yugoslavia and Iraq simultaneously, we're just about stretched to our military limits," DeMont said. "Imagine, if you can, what would happen if the US suddenly had to fight a three- or even a four-front war, a real war. There is just no way we can do that with our current resources.” The Bush administration agrees, and to our good fortune is presently rebuilding our military to its former strength of the 1980’s, albeit perhaps a bit too slowly.
During the same time of Chinese military expansion more recently, the US has seen the emergence of an ever growing trade deficit with China, now reaching $130US billion, which is expected to grow further as the Dollar continues its slide. Americans are dependant on China for everything from apparel (such as NIKE, which has been under fire before for using Chinese child labor to raise its profit margins) to restricted technologies and until recently even uniform components, supplies and ammunition for US armed forces. While taking advantage of lifted trade restrictions under the Clinton administration, China was sold rocket guidance technology that enabled the creation of a state of the art intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile program that now puts their missile technology on a par with our own. It also threatens to make China the one-stop-shop for all of your terrorist needs.
In point of fact, before this transfer of technology their ICBM threat was strategically non-existent. While China has had nuclear bombs in its arsenal for some time, it has always lacked an adequate automated delivery method. Until the 1990’s. But the same goes for the fiber-optic communications technology which the US Commerce Department allowed AT&T to sell them during that same decade that allowed the Chinese to develop a sophisticated anti-aircraft communications system patterned not surprisingly after one of our own and sold to the Iraqi’s who used it against our fighters and bombers last Spring. As Blogbat pointed out in the August 2003 article North Korea Sticks to Script But Bad Actor , China has also worked hard to develop close alliances with North Korea, while keeping the appearance of opposition to its nuclear program which it supplied and encouraged. But china has also been behind arming Iran, Syria and other rogue nations. The same rogue nations which have funded and supplied Osama Bin Laden, Yassir Arafat and Saddam Hussein.
Communist China is proven to be a tyranny of bloodshed internally as well. Mao Zedong’s brutal regime is cited as the responsible party (no pun intended) for over 65 million murders* though many estimate it could be well-close to 200,000,000 killed for crimes such as taking their children to Sunday school, speaking their mind in the square—or anywhere-- or daring to have a second child at all, which often lead to the death of the mother in primitive forced-abortion clinics or simply by execution for crimes against the State. According to the Christian human rights organization, Voice of the Martyrs, China has arrested or detained more of its citizens for strictly ideological purposes than any other restricted nation. To put a human face on it, here are a few of the names of those (fortunate enough to be) wrongfully imprisoned by Communist Chinese authorities:
PHILLIP GUOXING XU
ZHENG YUNSU
Leader of popular “Jesus Family” religious community in Duoyigou, Shandong province, Christian Zheng was arrested in June 1992 with thirty-six other community members, including his four sons. Their arrests are thought to be the result of the community's May 1992 efforts to prevent security forces from tearing down their church. The elder Zheng was charged with holding “illegal” religious meetings, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. Sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, he is thought to be held at the Shengjian Motorcycle Factory labor camp near Jinan city. Public Security Bureau officials raided the church compound in June 1992, leveled the church and confiscated personal property.
ZHENG JIKUO
Zheng Jikuo, a son of Zheng Yunsu, was arrested in June 1992 after the raid on the “Jesus Family” community and after protesting the lengthy sentence of his father. He was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at an unknown location.
ZHENG JIPING
Zheng Jiping, the eldest son of Zheng Yunsu, was arrested in June 1992 after the raid on the “Jesus Family” community and after protesting the lengthy sentence of his father. He was sentenced to nine years imprisonment at an unknown location.
PEI ZHONGXUN (Korean Name: Chun Chul)
The 79-year-old ethnic Korean Protestant leader from Shanghai, Pei was arrested in August 1983 for counter-revolutionary activities. Accused of spying for Taiwan (because of ties to Taiwanese Christians) and of distributing Bibles and other Christian literature to others in the house church movement, he was charged with “counter-revolutionary crimes,” and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment. He is reportedly imprisoned in Shanghai Prison No. 2. It is not known if Pei was released at the end of his sentence.
CAO WEN HAI
ZHANG CHUN XIA
QING JING
She was sentenced to one year of education through labor. Believed to have been released.
QIN MUSHENG
He has been sentenced to two and a half years of education through labor.
SISTER FENG XIAN
She has been sentenced to two and one half years of education through labor.
ZHAO SONG YIN
ZHAO WU NA
Zhao Wu Na, an evangelical Christian woman from Shanghai, was arrested on December 28, 1997 and is now detained in a labor camp. A graduate of the government-sponsored East China Theological Seminary, she resigned from the Patriotic Three-Self movement and began to evangelise independently. Her husband has disappeared and she believes that he has been kidnapped by government agents in a covert operation.
LI QINGRUI
Li Qingrui, a house church leader from Henan province, was shot and critically injured on October 26, 1998, while trying to flee a police crackdown on a national meeting of church leaders in the city of Wugang in Henan. He was sent to the hospital for emergency medical care, and managed to escape with the help of friends. A nationwide warrant for his arrest has since been issued by public security officers.
CHENG MEIYING
Cheng Meiying, a missionary from Henan province, was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, at a national meeting for house church leaders in the city of Wugang of Henan province. Ms. Cheng was detained at Wugang’s Fangcheng Prison, where police beat her with batons and a water-soaked whip made of hemp rope. After she regained consciousness, she was released on November 21. Presently, Ms. Cheng suffers complete memory loss and exhibits symptoms of insanity. As a prominent church leader who had been involved in the establishment of several thousand house churches and the conversion of several hundred thousand people, she had been detained and imprisoned by police on numerous occasions.
HAN RONGQIN
Han Rongqin was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, at a national meeting for house church leaders in the city of Wugang in Henan province. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
SONG JIANXUAN
Song Jianxuan was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
WANG KAIJU
Wang Kaiju was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
QUAN AILING
Quan Ailing was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. She remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
ZHANG QINGQUN
Zhang Qingqun was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
LIU XIANG
Liu Xiang was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. She remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
LI PING
Li Ping was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. She remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
LIU YUANPO
Liu Yuanpo was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
MA YUNHAI
Ma Yunhai was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
LI XIAONA
Li Xiaona was arrested and detained on October 26, 1998, in the city of Wugang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. She remains in detention at Fangcheng Prison in Wugang and has undergone torture.
LU LIANQUAN
Lu Lianquan was arrested and detained on November 5, 1998, in the city of Nanyang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at an undisclosed location in Nanyang and has undergone torture.
ZHANG FUSHAN
Zhang Fushan was arrested and detained on November 5, 1998, in the city of Nanyang in Henan province while attending a national meeting for church leaders. He remains in detention at an undisclosed location in Nanyang and has undergone torture.
XIAO BIGUANG
Xiao Biguang, a former university professor, was sentenced June 1996 to a 3-year term. It is not known if he has been released.
GAO FENG
PETER XU YONGZE**
This is a trait more of an ideology than a people. Every government which takes this ideology to heart has poured blood into its streets and the innocent have been the scepters. Worldwide this death toll surges to an estimated 250 to 300 million innocent lives lost to the cruel machine of fanatic bureaucratic repression.
Yet all this has gone quite unnoticed by most populations. War however is already declared by our enemies and we are already fighting it. However, relatively speaking, it is just barely visible as a manifestation and the only high-profile clashes with China are indirect, but consequential nonetheless. (Though it is already raining, the real storm is still brewing.) Most clashes are beneath the surface. But when the war is mature, it will become an engagement of mind-bending proportions. I regret to say that I don’t think any of us will question it, and there will be no confusion about who is involved or what it means to us, when that time comes. But now is the time of birdsong and dark clouds. Where the air is dry and the rumble is distant. Let us live this time for the memories we will tell our grandchildren of. As the charming days of horses and carriages, of forgotten springtimes and flowers that have not yet faded. Surely we will see many more summers. But they will somehow be inexplicably different.
For us, it has always begun the same way: with an island. The bloodiest times in our history began in such a way: by an assault from an enemy on an island under our protection. But we always prevail and our enemy always regrets his hasty attack. As was told Joshua, “Be strong and courageous, for the LORD your God is with you”. It is time we remember our roots.
-Blogbat
*The Black Book of Communism, Harvard University Press. Courtois, Werht, Panné, Paczkowski, Bartosek, Margolin
**Voice of the Martyrs (http://www.persecution.com)
As an aside, I wanted to mention to the reader an interesting item of note I have discovered upon writing the various articles and headlines you see here on my Xanga page. The interesting item is the curious fact that for some reason Xanga will ignore all formatting for words such as China, the US, United States, Soviet Union, Clinton, the word "island", Iraq, Syria, Lybia as well as many other names of interesting nations, places or persons. Blogbat has found a workaround (that involves painstakingly reformating each word one at a time) but nonetheless Blogbat finds this well, interesting. 
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Today saw its share of accidents during the drive to and fro. At left, an overturned SUV lays on its side by a pile of broken glass at this intersection this evening. One can only hope the occupants were bodily unharmed. The vehicle looked to be in fairly good shape so it is easy to imagine those who were wearing seatbelts are in good shape tonight, as well. 
What on earth else? 
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