Killed to Order: Jan Jekielek on the CCP's Crime Against Humanity

Okay, let's talk-

Yeah

... let's talk on that note.

Here you are presenting something that, in the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan made statements that people in the intelligentsia pooh-pooh'd.

The evil empire, he talked about.

He was focusing on communist Russia, or the Soviet Union, or the former Soviet Union.

Thank God that happened in the course of the eight years that he was in office.

It fell.

However, the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, is, in today's world, in my humble opinion, the embodiment of evil, and it's specifically based on this point that you just made.

No social consciousness.

And I wanna make mention of something, I'd like you to comment on it, because I think it is exactly the opposite of what the American experience is, and the American founding experience.

We are based on an idea, and that idea is a social contract between human beings for the betterment of everybody, that it's not the Chinese Communist Party social contract.

Is that correct?

Uh, 100%.

I mean, we have in our Declaration of Independence, right? We believe that our rights are inalienable [laughs] inalienable, to pronounce it correctly, and that they come from God.

They're not given by government.

They're not a privilege.

There's something beyond that.

There's something that comes from above, and this is the founda- part of the foundational idea of America, and the Chinese Communist Party famously, right, Mao said this, and the CCP deeply believes this.

Even they use different, let's say, weapons for this purpose now.

But they said, uh, you know, "Power comes from the barrel of a gun," right? That's where your, your rights come from, us granting them to you, you know, because of our [laughs] great benevolence as the leadership of the Communist Party.

In a, in, in a true communist society, like Communist China, it's totalitarian.

We could talk about how that's different than mere authoritarian.

It's actually a very interesting distinction that, that, that relates to the American founding and, and American experience, uh, quite a bit.

But they, they, they basically believe in a w- that they are the ultimate arbiters of right and wrong, good and evil, and whatever the Communist Party deems right, good, and correct at any given time must be accepted, actually or performatively, by the populace, o- or else.