Why Is The United States Spying On China? By Jacob G. Hornberger
(2018-01-17 at 14:58:39 )

Why Is the United States Spying on China? by Jacob G. Hornberger

The federal governments arrest of former Central Intelligence Agency agent Jerry Chun Shing Lee for allegedly spying for China confirms, once again, that for the United States national-security branch of the federal government, the Cold War never ended. Yesterday, the New York Times "reported" that Lee is suspected of having revealed the existence to Chinese authorities of Chinese citizens who were serving as spies for the United States national-security establishment. Those Chinese citizens, not surprisingly, were subsequently executed by Chinese officials for serving as spies for the United States government.

Wait a minute! Forgive me for asking a question that it does not even occur to the mainstream media to ask: What in the world is the United States government doing spying on China?

I thought the Cold War was over. I thought that it ended in 1989. I thought China was supposed to be a friend of the United States. Why is the United States government hiring Chinese citizens to spy on their own government? (Perhaps it is worth asking, as an aside, why United States national-security state officials also spy on supposed friends like Germany.)

In fact, look at the dark irony involved here: United States officials are essentially alleging that Lee is a bad person because he allegedly spied for China by disclosing to China the identities of Chinese officials who were serving as spies for the United States. I suppose the argument is that a spy is a bad person when he spies for another country and is a good person when he spies for the United States. Obviously, the communist regime in China takes the same position in reverse, which is why they executed those Chinese citizens who were serving as spies for the United States government.

The big question is: Should the United States government be spying on anyone? The bigger question is: Should the United States government be hiring foreign citizens to spy on their own government, thereby putting their lives at risk? The biggest question is: Should the United States government even be a national-security state, which is the same type of governmental system that exists in China, North Korea, Vietnam, and other communist states?

Keep in mind: the United States is not at war with China. Oh sure, United States officials and the mainstream press say that China is a potential "rival" - that it is being increasingly "assertive" - that it is a rising "regional hegemon." But none of that means that a state of actual war exists between the United States and China. It is really just "empire-speak" - the use of terms historically used by empires to describe other nations that remain independent of the empires control.

The United States spying on China confirms, once again, that for the United States national-security establishment, the Cold War never ended. That should not surprise anyone. For some 45 years, the Cold War kept the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency in high cotton. Having convinced Americans that the Reds were coming to get them, the Cold War guaranteed ever-increasing budgets for the national-security establishment.

Many Americans today think that the structure of the federal government is the same as it has been since this countrys inception. That is because they have been born and raised in a national-security state and been taught that this is compatible with a free society. This is especially true of millennials, whose entire lives have been lived under the post-9-11-01 "war on terrorism" and who have been taught (i.e., indoctrinated) into profusely thanking the troops for protecting our "rights and freedoms," notwithstanding the quite obvious fact that no one overseas is trying to take away our rights and freedoms.

But the fact is that the United States was founded as a limited-government republic, not a national-security state. What that means is that for more than 150 years, there was no giant, permanent military establishment, military-industrial complex, Central Intelligence Agency, or National Security Agency. That is because Americans did not want that type of governmental structure. They feared that type of governmental structure as the real threat to their rights and freedoms.

Everything changed at the end of World War II. The federal governmental structure was changed, radically. The federal government was converted into a national-security state, the same type of governmental structure that characterized the Soviet Union, Red China, and North Korea. That meant a giant military establishment, an empire of foreign military bases, a secretive intelligence agency that wielded omnipotent powers, and the National Security Agency, which had all the surveillance powers similar to those in the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. That is when it became a forever game of "Spy vs Spy" between national-security states.

This radical change in United States governmental structure was accomplished without even the semblance of a constitutional amendment.

The justification?

We need to become like the communists in order to defeat the communists, United States officials said. We need to become a national-security state, just like them. Otherwise, America will lose the Cold War and end up becoming Red.

So, you can imagine the grave concern in 1989 among United States national-security officials when Russia suddenly announced that the Cold War was over as far as it was concerned. Suddenly, the Reds were not coming to get us anymore.

Suddenly, people might ask important questions, ones that would pierce much more deeply than simply asking for a "peace dividend": Since the Cold War was over, can we have our limited-government republic back? Can we now dismantle the communist-like structure known as a "national-security state"?

Can we dismantle the enormous permanent military establishment, the military industrial complex (which President Eisenhower had described as the real threat to our rights and freedoms, the Central Intelligence Agency (which former President Truman had described as a sinister force after the John F. Kennedy presidential assassination), and the National Security Agency, which had all the characteristics of Russias KGB?

But the national-security establishment was not exactly willing to go quietly into the night. First, they went into the Middle East and began provoking hornets nests, knowing full well that this would produce terrorist "blowback," which would then be used to justify their continued existence and the resumption of ever-increasing budgets.

Equally important, they were not about to let go of the Cold War justification for their existence without a fight. That is why they broke their promise to dismantle NATO and instead used it as vehicle to absorb former members of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, where they instigated one of their infamous pro-United States coups, with the aim of installing United States bases and missiles on Russias borders, which, needless to say, would ensure a continuation of Cold War hostilities with Russia and ever-increasing budgets for the United States national-security establishment.

But let us not forget that the biggest official enemy in the Cold War was not the Soviet Union. It was communism, which encompassed Red China, and, to a lesser extent, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Chile. Remember: the Reds were coming to get us from everywhere. That is why it was necessary to spy on them, just as the commies were spying on us. That is why it is still necessary to have a brutal economic embargo on Cuba. That is why it is still necessary to spy on China.

The biggest mistake in United States history was in converting the United States government into a national-security state. The way to fight communism was not by becoming like them and adopting their type of governmental structure, policies, and practices but instead by continuing adhere to the principles of freedom and limited government.

The United States government never had any business behaving like communist regimes, including drug experiments on unsuspecting Americans (MKULTRA), assassination, kidnapping, torture, coups, partnerships with dictators, indefinite detention, and engaging in the business of spying and secret surveillance.

It is high time to end Americas political experiment with totalitarianism. The restoration of a constitutional, limited government republic to our land is far past due.

It is time to dismantle, not reign or reform, the national-security establishment. It is time for America to be America once again.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!