Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
There's a lot of talk about Russian interference in our system of government, and we better take it seriously.
This New York Times headline complains that Russia attacks America's election system, Trump shrugs.
The Economist, which is usually pretty sober, says this: If September 11 was an attack on America, then, and I quote, the assault Russian agents launched on American democracy in 2016 represented a full-blown war.
Politico ran an article called, Putin's attack on the U.S. is our Pearl Harbor.
We should treat this as an act of war and respond accordingly.
Gosh, what did those Ruskies do?
It may have been Russians who hacked the Democrats' email and found out that the party was trying to shaft Bernie Sanders and promote Hillary.
Or it may have been a leak.
But aren't we supposed to be against backroom deals?
If our fabled democracy is supposed to thrive on transparency, you could say the Russians, if they did it, did us a favor.
Well, the real crime, apparently, is that various Russians reportedly spent $100,000 on Facebook ads.
Well, do you know how much Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton together spent on Facebook ads?
$81 million.
That's 810 times more than those wicked Russians.
And total ad spending by the two campaigns was $1.8 billion.
That is 1,800 times more than what the Russians are supposed to have spent.
Let's look at some of the ads that will live in infamy and are worse than 9 /11.
Here is a"Make America Great Again" ad.
Pretty bland.
Here's one that must have pushed Mr. Trump right over the top.
Satan says,"If I win, Clinton wins." Jesus says,"Not if I can help it." Well, here's an alleged Russian ad that opposed Donald Trump.
"Not my president," it says.
And here's a message from something calling itself LGBT, promoting, and I quote, Does this stuff really threaten our system?
There are much worse offenders.
Take the Chinese.
I bet you didn't even remember that in 2015, the Washington Post reported the Chinese government hacked Office of Personnel and Management databases and compromised 22.1 million people.
They were federal employees and contractors.
The Pentagon says China is constantly spying on our military exercises.
But China's main source of intelligence is ordinary Chinese living here, many of them U.S. citizens.
Professional Chinese spies have approached thousands of Chinese Americans, students, businessmen, defense contractors, to become amateur spies based on ties of blood.
According to the U.S. government's Intelligence Threat Handbook, cited in this report to Congress, and I quote, ethnic targeting to arouse feelings of obligation is the single most distinctive feature of PRC intelligence operations.
David Zaddy, former chief of FBI counterintelligence, says Chinese spies consider every Chinese American to be a potential informant.
But, as he explains, if the FBI takes a look at Chinese Americans, that's racial profiling.
My book, White Identity, is full of examples of ordinary Chinese, many of them American citizens, who stole military or industrial secrets for China.
Just this year...
FBI Director Christopher Wray, in testimony before the Senate, said that China is, and I quote, not just a whole of government threat, but a whole of society threat.
And he added, I think it's going to take a whole of society response by us.
He focused on the more than 300,000 Chinese students and academics in the U.S., many of whom snoop in our labs and send our science back to China.
Does this sound like more of a threat?
Then that silly Satan vs.
Jesus ad?
Well, if so, please look the other way.
After FBI Director Ray's testimony, he got a letter from all these Asian organizations.
They kindly reminded him of the relocation of Japanese during the Second World War and pronounced themselves, and I quote, shocked with feelings of both anger and sadness.
The Washington Post Chimed in on Mr. Ray's testimony with a big article called Spying Charges Against Chinese-American Scientists Sparked Fears of a Witch Hunt.
Well, we certainly can't have a witch hunt.
Not of that kind, anyway.
So don't even think about Chinese spies, because that leads straight to relocation centers.
But you can get hysterical about Russians all you like.
And then there's Mexico.
Mexican politicians come to the United States to promote Mexican interests.
A month before the 2016 presidential election, Silvano Orioles, governor of the Mexican state of Michoacán, attended a conference in California and said that candidate Donald Trump was a demente, a crazy man.
Everyone on the panel agreed.
Do you see this headline?
It means everyone against Trump at COFEM conference.
Can you imagine Russian politicians running around the country telling us how to vote?
Or American politicians telling Mexico how to vote in their elections?
Oh, and what's this COFEM thing?
Its mission statement says that it is, and I quote, to empower immigrant communities to be full participants in the social, political, economic and cultural life in the United States and their home country.
Full political participation here and full political participation back in Mexico.
In 2010, the government of Mexico sued the state of Arizona to block the immigration controls in SB 1070.
Just imagine the Russians trying something like that.
And then, of course, there are foreigners who vote illegally in our elections.
The Heritage Foundation has a database of over 1,000 cases of proven voter fraud in 47 different states.
There are bound to be a lot more.
If we wanted to stop voter fraud, we could, well, we could do just like the Mexicans.
They have...
Tamper-proof voter ID cards with a thumbprint and a hologram.
They take fraud seriously.
And Mexico has 50 consulates in the United States.
Way more than any other country has anywhere.
Here's one in Anchorage, Alaska, for heaven's sake.
And what do these consulates do?
Here's a headline for you:"Stop Trump Movement Gets Boost from Mexico's Efforts in the U.S." Well, before the election, Mexican consulates hosted parties all around the country to persuade Mexicans to take U.S. citizenship so they could vote for Hillary.
I'd say that beats a few Facebook ads.
The Mexican government also has something called the Institute for Mexicans Abroad.
One of its goals is to make sure that Mexicans everywhere never forget that they are first and always Mexican.
As Juan Hernandez of the Institute once explained on ABC's Nightline, and I quote, I want the third generation, the seventh generation.
I want them all to think Mexico first.
Well, now it's easy not just to think Mexico first, but to vote Mexico first.
It used to be that Mexico didn't recognize dual citizenship, so practically no Mexicans became U.S. citizens.
They couldn't bear to stop being Mexican citizens.
But in 1998, Mexico changed the law to allow dual citizenship, and there was a rush to naturalize.
And at that time, a Mexican named Maria Jacinto explained what she really felt about being a U.S. citizen.
When my skin turns white and my hair turns blonde, then I'll be an American, said Maria Jacinto.
Some Mexicans who become Americans, who became Americans just last July, in fact, explained what it meant for them.
Yesenia Gonzalez said, and I quote, whoever has the opportunity to do it, I hope they all become citizens and represent the Hispanic community.
Sylvia Ramos said that having the vote meant that she could, quote, help make changes in the future for my fellow immigrants.
This reminds me of what the Mexican pop singer Thalia said after her naturalization ceremony.
And I quote: I feel that this step will give me the opportunity to contribute to and support even more the Latin community in the United States.
I am of Mexican nationality and I will always be a proud Mexican in heart and soul.
But this sort of thing is obviously not a threat to our democracy.
Remember, it's the Russians who launched the equivalent of the 9 /11 attacks.