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By PAUL PETRICK

When it comes to ostentatious displays of grandeur, there aint no party like the communist party.

The festivities in Tiananmen Square commemorating the Chinese communist partys 100th birthday on July 1 were a sight to behold. Donning a Mao suit and standing behind a podium adorned with a hammer and sickle, Xi Jinping general-secretary of the Chinese communist party spoke of a national rejuvenation through the continuing implementation of socialism with Chinese characteristics, threatened the partys enemies, and pledged to thwart any attempts to avoid Chinas desired anschluss with Taiwan.

Xi did everything to invoke the ghosts of communist dictators past short of taking his shoe off and banging it on the podium. But under the communist pageantry lies a less obvious similarity between the Chinese dragon of today and the Russian bear of yesteryear. That is the way in which Chinese communism like its Soviet cousin is tinged by historical aspirations.

Communism is not an Asiatic or Russian growth, as some maintain, so observed Whittaker Chambers, who died 60 years ago in July an anniversary that, aside from this Point of View, will go as unnoticed as Chambers 120th birthday last April.

In its Soviet form, it has been shaped and colored by Russian peculiarities.

At the time of his death, Chambers was at work on the long-awaited follow-up to his smash 1952 autobiography, Witness a book that had as much to say about communism and the non-communist West as it did about his life leading a Soviet espionage ring of perfidious public servants in Washington, and his subsequent repudiation of that life.

The sequel was set to be called The Third Rome, and the unfinished work comprises the longest section of Cold Friday a posthumously published collection of Chambers writings that was released in 1964. In it, Chambers explains how communism like every successful faith that takes hold among a foreign populace appropriates existing cultural myths and objectives.

The Third Rome was an expansion on a Time magazine essay Chambers wrote analyzing the 1945 Yalta Conference, The Ghosts on the Roof, in which he imagined spectral figures of the slain Romanov family looking down with counterintuitive approval as Stalin secured Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in the post-war order drawn by the Allied powers.

Chambers could see how Soviet foreign policy during the Cold War embodied the Russo-centric belief in Moscow as the seat of a third Roman Empire the successor to Rome and Constantinople. Traditionally, this belief encompasses the notion that Russias manifest destiny is to lead a Pan-Slavic empire with the ultimate objective of reconquering in the name of Christianity, Constantinople and the holy land from Islam.

This belief also encompasses the notion of Russian moral superiority vis--vis a supposedly decadent West, giving rise to an idea present in Russian culture for centuries that the Russian people are destined to redeem the world. This messianic impulse, Chambers observed, was adapted and exploited by Lenin in his rise to power, and allowed him to persuade enough of his countrymen that worldwide communist revolution was the vehicle by which Russia would bring about mankinds redemption.

If Chambers lived today, he might pen an essay suggesting the ghosts of the ancient Chinese emperors were gazing approvingly at Xi. For Chinese communism has successfully embodied a traditional Sino-centric belief analogous to the Third Rome that China is the middle kingdom.

This is the notion that Chinese dynasties had once occupied the center of the world culture prior to a period spanning between 1842 and 1945 whereby China suffered foreign domination and control. Conscious of that humiliation, the Chinese communist party now claims to be the agent by which China will resume its traditional role as the middle kingdom, displacing the United States as the pre-eminent world power a goal the ChiComs intend to achieve by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese communist revolution.

To this end, China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, whereby China seeks to occupy the center of international trade networks by turning weaker nations into economic clients. Using its vast wealth built from decades of predatory trade practices China makes infrastructure investments around the globe designed to trap sovereign borrowers in debt.

Like a loan shark, China then uses its leverage to extract concessions from its victims.

Upon Chambers death, novelist Arthur Koestler stated The Witness is gone, the testimony will stand.

President Bidens cancellation of the planned National Garden of American Heroes which was to include a statue of Chambers leaves Chambers testimony as all that remains standing in tribute to his profound insights.

Chambers did not live to see the Third Rome collapse, only to be replaced by a Fourth Rome in Beijing. But he would have understood it.

And by understanding Chambers, so can we.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The coronavirus is killing America but not in the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden and all the other COVID-19 vaccine pushers put out. Not in the physical, not so much.

In the spiritual.

In the spirit.

The spirit of America is being blotted and bludgeoned by an angry pro-vaccine crowd that wants to strip away an entire chunk of freedom in one coronavirus-crying fell swoop: that of informed consent.

Yes, the coronavirus has proved fatal for some. In America, its proven fatal for 611,791, according to the latest CDC figures. But in America, thats out of a total 35.7 million cases. Reported cases. Cases reported to and by the CDC. And those fatalities also include deaths with coronavirus, not just deaths due entirely to coronavirus. And those figures neglect any contextual observances that show, for instance, its mostly the elderly and otherwise sickly whove died from the coronavirus or that specify, for example, that since people do indeed die every day, even in America, that the more important figure to focus on is excess deaths a number that helps highlight fatalities that wouldnt normally have occurred, except for this coronavirus.

It goes to the truth factor, dontcha see. It helps separate the deceptions from the, dare say, science? And speaking of science: It seems by the CDCs own numbers that if 1.74 percent of those who catch the coronavirus die from the coronavirus, then 98.26 percent dont.

With odds like that, no wonder theres a reluctance to take the vaccine. No wonder some hesitate because of questions.

Yet the take the damn vaccine! tyrants continue their tirades; the political beasts keep up their attacks.

But if an individual doesnt have the right to decide whether or not to accept or refuse a medical treatment without punishment, then that individual is not free. Simple as that. So look around. Smell the stink of oppression. What we have here in America is a White House, a batch of political leaders, a complicit group of private businesses and a loud-mouthed faction of know-it-all medical bureaucrats who think nothing of pushing the coronavirus as a condition of free travel, as a condition of freely attending school, as a condition of free and unfettered access to certain venues, as a condition of walking about without a stupid face mask, maybe even two who think nothing of doing all that while at the same time insisting theyre not infringing upon the individuals right to choose.

Thats fascism at its worst at its double-speaking, propaganda pressing worst.

If Americas not careful, well soon vaccine mandate ourselves into communism. Its only the dictatorial nations, after all, with leaders who demand collectivism while attacking all things individualist, that can get by with forcing citizens to take a vaccine that, by the same dictatorial nations own definition, is entirely experimental. Thats what emergency use authorization is, in essence a phrase to describe the preliminary nature of a medical treatment that hasnt been studied for long-term effects and hasnt even been completely vetted for short-term effects and efficacy. Experimental. Thats the coronavirus vaccine, all of them, in a nutshell.

Of course, for those who want to take it have at it. Thats how a free country works. But for those who dont, for whatever reason? Increasingly, the zealots and adherents of Big Government, Big Pharma, Big Business and in general, Big Busybody-ville, are condemning to the point of stripping freedoms, or trying to strip freedoms, from those whose primary crime is to exercise a right called informed consent.

Thankfully, some medical professionals are fighting this insanity.

I am a PhD experiment psychologist with 20 years of research experience, analyzing data with medical researchers and doctoral students, many in epidemiology and public health. Researchers must protect participants from harm. Informed consent is critical. I am appalled, Statistics Diva tweeted, about the surge of vaccine mandates.

Another: They are firing healthcare providers standing up for their patients and themselves. The ones who believe in informed consent, bodily autonomy, and a right to choose. The same ones defending a career they love and an oath they took to do no harm. The order-followers remain, tweeted NurseErin, a registered nurse whose Twitter profile also identifies her as an Army combat veteran.

Another: We have AUTONOMY to consent to an experimental drug that has unclear scientific efficacy, safety profile, and dare I say, purpose. We arent Truman patients w/ seconds to live. We are healthy citizens that have the right to think [and] choose for ourselves and our families, tweeted PatrioticTraumaSurgeon, MD, in one of 15 posts about the horrors of losing informed consent.

Another from the same thread, from the same Twitter poster: So to fire people from their job, restrict them from education, segregate based on v@x status all based on unclear science (and perhaps even harmful science) is purely unjust and dare I say evil.

It is evil.

It is an evil thing for the powers-who-be and the powers who are trying to be in this country to shatter a time-honored facet of freedom that allows the individual the control of his or her personal health-related choices. Its evil because its morally reprehensible; its evil because its the height of arrogance and pride; its evil because it flies in the face of common decency and courteous regard for human life, for individual boundaries, for personal privacies.

But mostly, in this country, in America, its evil because its an attack on the nations spirit.

If the spirit of this nation is floated around the idea that individuals are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that governments decidedly subservient role is to ensure those God-given liberties arent infringed then the coronavirus is doing far more damage to the long-term sustainability of American Exceptionalism than anything else.

If this coronavirus is ultimately empowered to sub out the God-given for the government granted, the end result will be communism and collectivism. Its not just a vaccine mandate, folks. Its not even simply a matter of informed consent. Its the fate of the nation and the ability of the people to derive rights from God, not government, thats at stake. And in America, that is everything. See the battle for what it is and fight accordingly.

Cheryl Chumley can be reached atcchumley@washingtontimes.comor on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast Bold and Blunt byclicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter byclicking HERE. Her latest book, Socialists Dont Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall, is available byclickingHERE.

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Vaccine-mandating our way merrily toward communism - Washington Times

Date:August 4, 2021 Host:Jim Schneider Guest: Alex Newman MP3|Order

There is much we are dealing with as a nation. We are swiftly becoming a totalitarian state with lockdowns, restrictions and imminent shot mandates. Corporate America and educational establishments, backed by the Biden Administration, are succumbing to these mandates.

It is currently being suggested that parents wear masks in their own homes around their children. Using the authority of Pope Francis, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York has now instructed its priests to refuse signing religious exemption requests submitted by Catholics who object to taking the COVID-19 jabs.

While that issue continues to unfold, so do issues at our border. During July, the Department of Homeland Security recorded 210,000 encounters with illegal aliens at our southern border. This represents the highest monthly figure in two decades. Of those, more than 19,000 were unaccompanied minors, which is also a record number.

Meanwhile the LGBT agenda is being pushed down the throats of Americans on so many fronts. Even Muppet Babies, geared towards very young children, features Gonzo as a crossdresser. The attacks on Biblical morality and Biblical marriage are of gigantic proportion.

There is quite an avalanche of issues, but while all of this is happening on our homefront, there is another ever-present threat which is not getting coverage that you need to know about. That is the threat of Communist China.

A frequent guest on Crosstalk, Alex Newman began by defining communism and the connection between communism and socialism. He then answered several questions on the topic of China in regards to military, ports, chips, cyber attacks, the monetary system, education and health.

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After the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020, some Americans argued the country would be better off without police. A police-free zone was established in Seattle. The zone was shut down several months later after four shootings, two deaths, and several sexual assaults.

Violent crime is an undeniable problem in the United States: homicides rose 25 percent from 2019 to 2020 and still continue to rise in some cities. In New York City, voters responded to the recent crime surge by nominating former NYPD Captain Eric Adams for mayor. Even in progressive cities, it seems, people still believe policing is the best solution to violent crime. A Pew Research Center poll shows that few Americans support abolishing or defunding the police.

So how can we fix our current policing problems? What would a more humane version of policing look like and what is stopping us from getting it?

Here are three police reform ideas from scholars who have studied American policing:

In an Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) video on community policing, economists Jayme Lemke and Liya Palagashvili trace the history of today's citywide police forces back to Prohibition. Politicians believed consolidating small neighborhood police departments into citywide forces with unified standards would make cities better equipped to enforce federal prohibition laws.

But consolidation came with a price, Lemke and Palagashvili say. Previously, under smaller neighborhood departments, police officers were seen as long-term partners with the community with the mutual goal of making the neighborhood safer. This is known as community policing, and it incentivizes officers to act in the best interest of the people in their community, which does not always mean arresting offenders.

"You have a kid out after curfew," Lemke, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, says. "Does he get hauled home to mom, or does he get hauled to jail?"

But consolidated forces have a one-size-fits-all approach to neighborhood safety: enforce laws through citations and arrests. Police success quickly became measured by numbers: the number of people stopped and arrested. "The culture is, you're not working unless you are writing summonses or arresting people," NYPD Officer Adyl Polanco told NPR.

In the 1970s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Elinor Ostrom pushed back on the consolidation of police forces and other public departments. Her theory of polycentric governance suggested that communities would be better off with multiple decision-making bodies interacting rather than decision-making power being centralized in larger consolidated bodies. She studied police departments even riding in the back of police cars and found that communities with smaller neighborhood police departments had a better relationship with police because that is when coproduction a shared responsibility for achieving safety takes place.

"Many of the officers in very big departments do not see themselves as responsible to citizens," Ostrom said. "They are on duty for specific hours and with an entirely different mentality." Ostrom argued that community police forces are more likely to employ officers who are willing to try outside-the-box solutions to solve a neighborhood's unique problems problems that are rarely fixed through tickets and arrests.

Jake Monaghan, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Orleans, spoke about bad policing incentives at a recent IHS symposium, "Unnecessary Evils: Laws, Judging, and Policing in an Overcriminalized World." He is currently working on a book about what good policing looks like.

"I argue first that one important way to overcome failures in the criminal justice system is to engage in discretionary non-enforcement of certain laws," Monaghan writes in his book abstract.

Recognizing that discretion is an inevitable element of policing means abandoning any misconception that police should behave like the military. "Soldiers are typically allowed very little discretion in the course of their work," Monaghan writes. "Policing, especially in the patrol division, is characterized by significant amounts of discretion." We should view police officers not as soldiers but "as genuine professionals who should be exercising discretion by drawing on a body of specialized knowledge."

We can encourage the exercise of legitimate, well-reasoned discretion by specializing the patrol division, Monaghan argues, so that officers responding to calls have the necessary training to decide when not enforcing a law is in the best interest of the community.

Civil asset forfeiture currently allows police departments in most jurisdictions to seize assets from criminal suspects before they are convicted or even arrested. If police claim an asset was involved in a crime, they can confiscate it then use it to help fund police activities.

"Police departments and municipal governments around the country rely on seized assets, whether cash directly or property that can be sold for cash, to help pay for operations and programs that they otherwise could not afford," Chris Surprenant, professor of ethics at University of New Orleans, and Jason Brennan, professor of ethics at Georgetown University, write in their book Injustice For All: How Financial Incentives Corrupted and Can Fix the Criminal Justice System.

While a police officer cannot lawfully take cash from a suspected drug dealer and deposit into his own bank account, he can use civil asset forfeiture to accomplish essentially the same thing: the more money a police officer seizes, the more money there will be in the police department budget to pay for raises and nicer amenities, Surprenant and Brennan explain.

Not only does this incentivize police departments to seize more assets from people, but it also incentivizes them to allow some criminal activities to take place so that they can then seize the profits.

"For example," Surprenant and Brennan explain, "when disrupting drug trade activities, any illegal drugs seized by law enforcement agents must be destroyed, but they can retain seized cash believed to be connected to drug activity and use it to fund their own operations. That cash can be kept but drugs must be destroyed has led many police departments to establish checkpoints and otherwise run operations to target individuals after sales have been made, rather than preventing those sales from being made in the first place."

States should reform asset forfeiture laws to prevent police departments from enriching themselves through policing, Surprenant and Brennan say. That will help realign police incentives with the long-term safety and well-being of the community.

As different states and municipalities experiment with police reforms like the three ideas listed above, how can we measure success? What does good policing look like?

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf points to the "Nine Principles of Policing," drafted in 1829 by the London Metropolitan Police Department, as "the foundations of a civilized law-enforcement agency." The fourth principle is: "To recognize always that the extent to which the cooperation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives."

This, ultimately, is what we want from good policing: to secure our cooperation as much as possible through peaceful partnership. Successfully doing that means respecting the dignity and diversity of communities, treating individuals humanely, and having no overarching goal other than the peace and safety of the neighborhood.

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A Pennsylvania school board president is facing calls to resign after confiscating the microphone from a woman who was speaking out against critical race theory at a West Chester School District board meeting on July 26.

Iranian immigrant and mother of three Anita Edgarian told "Fox & Friends" that, at first, she had "no intentions to talk."

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But, after a long, daunting meeting and many remarks giving praise to the retiring superintendent, Jim Scanlon, she got up and expressed to the school board her concerns about critical race theory. During her allotted time to speak, she told them she grew up during the Iranian Revolution and witnessed her "motherland" being "ravaged by communism."

She accused Scanlon of creating divisions and "leaving a mess." Furthermore, she described her home as "the International House of Pancakes," because her childrens friends are diverse.

When she proceeded to ask whether or not teachers were being taught critical race theory, the West Chester school board president Chris McCune said, "Anita, youre at time." She pushed back, "No, no," prompting him to angrily say, "Yes you are." McCune approached Edgarian at the podium, took the microphone, faced Anita, and told her to leave.

McCune told Edgarian, "This is shameful," as she was being removed from the building by police officers.

"Weve had a respectful meeting up until you. You bombarded up there, and now you want to monopolize the meeting. Not happening. Youre gone."

Edgarian told host Ainsley Earhardt, "By the time I asked that question, he was already coming toward me. And so that's a clarification because my parents have raised me better."

A GOP committee in West Chester is calling for McCune to resign or attend anger management counseling for his behavior.

"In a letter released Sunday, the Republican Committee of Chester County in Pennsylvania called West Chester school board president Chris McCunes conduct reprehensible, and accused him of trying to intimidate the immigrant mom. The encounter between McCune and a mom named Anita occurred at the end of last weeks two-hour board meeting, during which many parents and teachers expressed their opinions about the districts diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts,' the National Review reported.

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CRT curriculum has sparked a national conversation about the role of race and racism in school districts across the country.Often compared by critics to actual racism, CRT is a school of thought that generally focuses on how power structures and institutions impact racial minorities.

"I just don't think he likes the fact that I was saying, Why the division?"

Edgarian went on to say, "I have friends on both sides of this aisle. Friends and, you know, close friends sometimes. And you know, so I don't want my kids to grow up feeling that they cannot talk to this person or that person. And I just wanted to know and, you know, the best thing is to come out and frankly ask the question."

Fox News reached out to the West Chester area school district for a statement but did not hear back.

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