Time: Wed Mar 26 21:53:21 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA19017; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:38:34 -0700 (MST) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA12888; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 07:35:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 21:46:27 -0800 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: L&J: An incredible article: Corrupt to the Core (fwd) <snip> >>>FYI >>> >>>Corrupt to the Core: The pandemic of official criminality >>> >>>Relevance January 1997 Vol. III, No. VII >>> >>>Excerpt: Clinton meets with Chinese arms smuggler >>> >>>Have the Chinese Communists established a Long Beach "Beachhead" in the U.S? >>> >>>In late December it was revealed that one of Clinton's coffee sitdowns was >>>attended by Mr. Wang Jun, the head of a Chinese firm caught trying to >>>smuggle 2,000 fully automatic AK-47 rifles into the United States, for sale >>>to steet gangs. Wang, who is the head of the massive Chinese government >>>conglomerate, the Poly Group, met with Clinton on February 6th, 1996 at yet >>>another of the infamous and intimate coffee gatherings. Only nine days >>>later, on Feb. 15th, Poly group representatives began smuggling the weapons >>>into San Francisco. Wang's invite was arranged by Charles Yah Lin Trie, >>>another from Clinton's stable of foreign-connected Little Rock businessmen. >>>Trie made headlines recently for his attempt to donate $640,000 to Clinton's >>>legal defense fund. The contribution was offered mere weeks after Wang's >>>rendezvous with the president, and was disallowed because of the funds' >>>questionable sources. Mr. Trie has extensive business dealings in China and >>>maintains an address in Beijing. After the attempted "donation", Trie was >>>placed on a White House trade policy board dealing with Asian trade. >>> >>>While this meeting was taking place, undercover agents of the U.S. Customs >>>and ATF were consumating a sting called Operation Dragon Fire, which was >>>launched after California street gang members were found to be sporting >>>fully automatic weapons. After a one-and -a-half year investigation, a major >>>bust occurred on May 22nd, 1996 and the deal's primary broker, Hammond Ku, >>>was arrested along with seven others on charges of illegal weapons smuggling >>>and the 2,000 full auto AK-47's were seized, along with tens of thousands of >>>rounds of ammunition. But somehow the Chinese higher ups in the smuggling >>>operation were tipped off by official leaks about the operation to the press >>>and they managed to escape the country. According to the U.S. Customs >>>International Crime Alert, the fugitives include Bao Ping (Robert) Ma, who >>>was an executive of the Dynasty Holding Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Dynasty >>>is a subsidiary of Polytechnologies, the weapons-making division of Wang >>>Jun's Poly Group. Along with Poly, the other company involved was the China >>>Northern Industrial Company (Norinco). Both firms and the Chinese government >>>denied any involvement. Norinco even had the audacity to state that it makes >>>only harmless products like "toys and lamps", despite the fact that Norinco >>>has become a household word among patrons of U.S. gun shows, where their >>>semi-automatic weapons are sold. The suspects repeatedly emphasized to U.S. >>>agents that both the weapons firms and the illegal deal were entirely under >>>the control of the Chinese government [See The Washington Times February >>>2nd, 1997]. Seven of the fourteen suspects are still at large and some, >>>including Robert Ma, are believed to be back in China. The Customs Alert >>>further revealed: Kok Ky, a Chinese official, is alleged to have met with >>>defendants Hammond Ku and Richard Chen in Cambodia to negotiate the >>>smuggling of additional heavy weapons into the U.S. Thus, we learn that a >>>Chinese government official was implicated in the smuggling ring, and that >>>the 2,000 AK-47's were only the first installment plan\par \pard ned for >>>U.S. export. As to the "heavy weapons", Customs officials reported that Ku >>>and his associates had made an offer to undercover agents to sell 300,000 >>>machine guns equipped with silencers, mortars, American-made, shoulder-fired >>>Stinger missiles and, as we wrote last month, surface-to-air missiles, which >>>were, as Ku told the Custom's agents after he was arrested, "so powerful >>>that they could bring down a jumbo jet." [Source: Customs International >>>Alert and office of U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox]. Ku, who is cooperating with >>>the authorities, claimed that the Chinese had no concerns about the fact >>>that the undercover agents claimed they were planning to sell the missiles >>>to terrorists. So we have Kok Ky, who is an official in the Chinese >>>government, on a Customs "Wanted" list for smuggling fully automatic weapons >>>into the U.S. with promises of surface-to-air missiles and other goodies for >>>terrorists. But what if these are merely renegade criminals with no real >>>connection with the Chinese leadership? An Associated Press article of June >>>22nd, 1996 described Norinco and Poly Technologies as "companies whose >>>executive ranks are filled with former generals and relatives of senior >>>Communist Party leaders, prosecutors said". >>> >>>In case anyone has a hard time believing that the Chinese government would >>>be involved in such reprehensible activities, consider that, one week before >>>President Clinton met with Wang Jun, U.S. authorities had confirmed that the >>>Chinese had just shipped M-11 cruise missiles to the terrorist-supporting, >>>virulently anti-American nation of Iran. The day before the meeting, the >>>U.S. learned that our Chinese trading partners had illegally delivered ring >>>magnets to Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. As The Washington Post is >>>reporting a major Justice Department espionage probe involving former >>>Commerce Department official and "friend of Bill" John Huang, and the >>>Democratic National Committee. The smuggling of silencer-equipped automatic >>>weapons and missiles to street gangs is a subversive, terroristic act -- >>>tantamount to an act of war by the Chinese. What was the U.S. response? >>>State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns stated: "I don't see why this >>>needs to complicate U.S.-China relations at all." >>> >>>Remember that the Clinton administration is waging a war on U.S. gunowners >>>wishing to possess semi-automatic rifles which are falsely branded as >>>"assault rifles". Yet, when a foreign communist power is caught trying to >>>supply vicious street gangs with automatic machine guns -- true assault >>>weapons -- a blind eye is turned. This attitude of appeasement to the >>>Chinese was rubbed deeper into the faces of the American people in December >>>when the "Butcher of Tiananmen Square", General Chi Hoatian -- who held the >>>equivalent rank of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the >>>massacre, was treated to full military honors with a 21-gun salute, brought >>>on a tour of the Pentagon, several bases and a nuclear weapons lab, and >>>taken on tours of the hallowed Gettysburg battle site. This was the man who >>>was "in operational control and responsible for the detailed planning of the >>>assault" on the peaceful demonstrators. When asked if the Pentagon "had any >>>reservations about hosting an individual who had unleashed tanks and troops >>>to cut down unarmed civilians", its Press Spokesman Ken Bacon responded: >>>"The answer to the question is 'No.'" [See the Center for Security Policy's >>>"Perspective", December 4th, 1996 No. 96-C 124][Ed. Note: Then again, we >>>have our own Butcher of Waco, so we can't be too "judgemental" about the >>>Chinese. In addition, it is important not to lose sight of one uncomfortable >>>reality in all this. Namely, we cannot truly blame Bill Clinton for >>>supporting the Chinese when the American people are buying their goods by >>>the billions -- from tennis shoes to tee-shirts, we are purchasing products >>>made, in part, by slave labor and are bankrolling one of the most barbaric >>>regimes in history.] >>> >>>Relevance has been warning since our August 1994 issue that the many >>>military base closings and realignments were part of a larger, long-range >>>plan identified in 1961 in the State Department document Freedom from War >>>(State Department Document No. 7277). In addition to downsizing the military >>>out of existence, the bases would be used for other, "peaceful purposes". In >>>1994 we exposed the setting up of the globalist Gorbachev Foundation at the >>>closed Army base at Presidio in San Francisco. Well, thanks to public >>>support, in June of this year, the Chinese Communist government will have a >>>145-acre beachhead in the United States for waging its Orwellian brand of >>>peace against this country. The Port of Long Beach, California is handing >>>over the Long Beach Naval Station to our "allies" in Beijing. That's right. >>>Starting this spring, the Chinese government's wholly-owned transportation >>>conglomerate, China Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO) will begin leasing the site >>>of the naval base, which was shut down in 1994 by the Base Reallignment and >>>Closure Commission. So how is this U.S. Navy base being "realigned"? The Red >>>Chinese want us to turn it into their own "dedicated" shipping terminal >>>(currently they have to share limited dock space with other companies). >>>Groundbreaking will later begin on building the proposed terminal, which is >>>to be fully equipped with "six post-Panamax gantry cranes, capable of >>>reaching across at least 18 rows of containers." According to the Port of >>>Long Beach, the facility is being designed "to accommodate COSCO's new fleet >>>of 5,250-TEU containerships." Yvonne Avila, the director of Communications >>>at the Port of Long Beach told Relevance that each of the six ships carry >>>5,250 containers measuring 20'x8'x8'. But every good beachhead needs a means >>>to move large quantities of troops and materiel inland, right? The Chinese >>>will be provided with "a two-unit dockside railyard to handle COSCO's >>>intermodal shipments to the U.S. Midwest, Gulf Coast and Eastern Seaboard." >>>[Editor's Note: Maybe we're being too old-fashioned, but isn't it unwise, if >>>not treasonous, to allow a totalitarian government, which has recent ly made >>>veiled threats to strike Los Angeles with nuclear missiles [as reported by >>>the U.S. Ambassador to China, Winston Lord], to have its very own 150-acre >>>shipping terminal just outside that city. The progressive thinkers in the >>>Clinton Administration would probably accuse us of being reactionary for >>>thinking that it is wrong to permit a dedicated U.S. shipping terminal and >>>railhead to a government which starves its orphan children, forces its >>>people to have abortions, executes its political prisoners in order to sell >>>their organs, runs over its unarmed political protesters with tanks, and >>>sells missiles and chemical weapons to terrorist nations, and whose >>>state-owned arms conglomerate has just been busted for trying to sell >>>fully-automatic AK-47 machine guns and rocket launchers to street gangs and >>>other assorted criminals in American neighborhoods. Where is the famous >>>Clinton concern "for the children"?] >>> >>>Of course, with China's historic prowess at opium production and export, one >>>has to at least consider the tempting possibilities offered by such a >>>dedicated terminal for organized heroin smuggling into the U.S. [Note: >>>judging from the recent rapid surge in that drug's usage, and the relaxation >>>of customs inspections at the U.S.-Mexico border under the pretext of >>>"removing restraints on free trade", it is likely already underway]. >>>Relevance asked the Long Beach Customs information office whether, in the >>>wake of the AK-47 bust and the dedication of the massive COSCO terminal, the >>>Long Beach Customs Office could still reassure the public that it would be >>>safe from further smuggling. We were told by one information officer: >>>"There's no way we can reassure you -- there's no way we can check all the >>>containers that come in here...we've had government cutbacks, so we don't >>>have as many inspectors as we used to". The spokesperson added, "We get 60 >>>ships per day here" and the larger ships carry over five thousand >>>containers. >>> >>>Thus, the gargantuan task faced by honest Customs agents is astonishingly >>>difficult. In addition, when such massive money is involved, the possibility >>>of a bribe appealing to a dishonest agent is always present. When we asked >>>whether there were any Customs agents in that port who had been convicted of >>>being "on the take" we were told that this was a "very sensitive question" >>>and we were referred to Mike Fleming of the Long Beach Customs Public >>>Affairs Office. Fleming refused all comment and, incredibly, refused to >>>speak with Relevance on any Customs issue whatsoever. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Nick Ivanovich, National Coordinator >>> >>> NATIONAL STATE SOVEREIGNTY COALITION >>> "Information/Action, Of, By and For the People" >>> PO Box 29106 - St. Louis, MO 63126 >>> V 314-843-3457, Fx 314-843-3771, Email nssc@inlink.com >>> >>> Visit the NSSC website at: >>> http://ai2a.net/~ldelclef/nssc/index.htm >>> Now Featuring Individual State Coalition Sites >>> >>> $$$$$$$$$$$$ "BUY AMERICAN" $$$$$$$$$$$$ >>> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >>>* * * * >>> >>> >> >> >> > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with >"unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) >Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. 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