Posted on 10/09/2020 5:34:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Why does religious liberty matter? Because in socialist dictatorships, ‘cancel culture’ means much more than having your social media presence go dark. Just ask Chinese Pastor Bob Fu.
Democrats have been strangely silent when angry mobs threatening violence target the private homes of those whose political slant they hate. Tucker Carlson and Mitch McConnel come to mind.
One of the Republican senators mentioned the window in his home being broken since the Amy Coney Barrett nomination.
We have seen similar BLM and Antifa mobs harassing elected officials in their homes over political disagreements. Normalizing this behavior and personalizing political disagreements sets a dangerous precedent. It takes us one step closer to the kind of world that Soviet Russia and Communist China know all too well — the kind of threat that Hong Kong students were fighting so desperately to stop from swallowing their part of the world.
Ted Cruz threw his support behind Fu.
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Ted Cruz @tedcruz Shameful: CCP is targeting an American citizen @BobFu4China, in America, for harassment at his home.
Bob is a fearless voice for human rights in China & Xi and the other despots fear him.
The Chinese Communist Party is the new Evil Empire & we must stand united against them. Midland Reporter-Telegram @mwtnews ‘Surreal’: Midland pastor says he never expected to be target of Chinese billionaire https://bit.ly/3jIcsCm 9:58 AM · Oct 8, 2020 1.8K 1.5K people are Tweeting about this
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What is China Aid? A screencap of their website might give you a clue…
Not exactly something China’s Communist Party would approve of, eh?
Fu and his family were evacuated from their home Monday morning and moved to a safe location after a group of about 50 protesters arrived on a bus outside their residence. Midland Mayor Patrick Payton said during a press conference that afternoon that local and federal agencies were investigating alleged threats on Fu’s life. —MRT
In case you were wondering whether the President’s attitude toward China in this next term matters for things like
Guo has posted several videos to GTV’s social media pages “exposing” Fu and others he claims are working with the CCP. English subtitles of some of the videos provided by ChinaAid, a nonprofit founded by Fu, show Guo telling his followers about a “global kill cheaters campaign,” which includes Fu.
“We will fully support our comrades who take actions to kill those cheaters,” Guo says in one video, according to the subtitles.
The accuracy of the subtitles was verified for the Reporter-Telegram by a third-party Mandarin speaker.
In another video, Guo refers to those he has launched campaigns against and allegedly says, “How can we kill CCP if we cannot kill them first?”
Fu said he’s never met Guo and believes he might be a target because of his work with ChinaAid, which provides legal assistance to Christians who have been arrested in China. There are estimated to be over 1 million people from religious or ethnic minorities currently in Chinese internment camps.
The alleged threats against Fu are being investigated by the FBI and CIA, Payton said Monday.
“I think that this is a wake-up call for us,” Fu said. “Knowing that we need to be vigilant and not take our freedom for granted.”
…Fu thanked Midlanders for supporting him and said he and his family are safe. For those who have asked how to help, he urged community members to learn more about the CCP and persecution by the Chinese government.
The ChinaAid office has been closed as a precaution but staff are continuing to work remotely, Fu said.–MRT
Meanwhile, for years conservatives, some prominent, including Trump supporters have been threatened by mobs and the DoJ and the FBI do nothing. I guess because those are American-funded and organized mobs, the Feds approve of them.
Aided and abetted by the CIA, FBI, et al........................
West Texas? Say it ain’t so!
This confirms it for me.
BLM, AntiFa and DEMOCRATS are all treasonous pawns of the CCP
We need to re-isolate China........................
Doesn’t Texas have a castle doctrine?
How I’ve matured to distrust those agencies — very sad.
Is it Fu season already?
Sorry, couldn’t resist.:)
The treasonous asshats from these agencies are probably the ones that helped the chinee terrorize the Pastor.
WOuld not surprise me at all..................
Most of the West Texas counties are blue or dark purple.
But, Joe says different.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed in a 2011 speech that the ascent of China was beneficial, not only to the world, but to the United States as well
“Most of the West Texas counties are blue or dark purple.”
Don’t know which map you’ve been referencing but that is incorrect.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-beto-orourke-shifted-the-map-in-texas/
“How I’ve matured to distrust those agencies — very sad.“
It sure is! You’re not alone!
Guo Wengui (born 10 May 1970 (self claim) or 5 October 1968), also known under the names Guo Wen Gui, Guo Haoyun, Miles Guo, and Miles Kwok, is a Chinese billionaire businessman who became a political activist and controls Beijing Zenith Holdings (via proxy people Li Lin and Jiang Yuehua), and other assets. At the peak of his career, he was 73rd among the richest in China. Guo was accused of corruption and other misdeeds by Chinese authorities and fled to the United States in late 2014, after learning he was going to be arrested under allegations including bribing, kidnapping, money laundering, fraud and rape. Guo is a colleague of Steve Bannon and a member of U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Despite Guo's claims of being a whistle-blower, his statements were unable to be verified by newspapers such as The New York Times.
I just fact-checked myself.
This incident took place in Midland, a politcally red area of the state. I consider "West" Texas anything West of Alpine - far wester Texas. This is what I meant by blue West Texas.
Here is the map I had in mind
West Texas is composed of a few huge huge counties. Pecos and Brewster (maybe Reeves) counties are dependably red, Hudspeth and Culberson are blue; the others flip back & forth.
It ain't so. Yes, it happened in West Texas, but it's a safe bet that the perpetrators were not West Texans:
"A group of about 50 protesters arrived on a bus outside their residence. "
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