From the American Spectator:When the Wall Street Journal broke the Yuan Yuen "Norman" Hsu story, some likened Norman to "Johnny" Chung and "Charlie" Trie, and wondered if the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) was passing money again to the Clintons. Now, with the Los Angeles Times' story about Clinton's fundraising in New York City's Chinatown, there's another question to consider: Is the Clinton campaign a target of Asian criminal groups looking for political influence?
Great questions. I mean, there is some links of more than a small coincidence going on here. To wit:
On August 28, 1990, Hsu claimed he was kidnapped by Raymond "Shrimpboy" Chow. Who is Chow? In December 1992, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, released a 59-page report entitled "The New International Criminal And Asian Organized Crime." (This document is not posted online, but is available through some libraries and from the Senate committee, 199 Russell Building, Washington, D.C., 202-224-3721.) On page 26, the document displays an organizational chart of the San Francisco branch of the international Chinese triad, Wo Hop To. Chow's name and mug shot identified him as the triad's enforcer.
At the time of the alleged kidnapping, the Foster City, California police reported that Chow and Hsu were arguing over money amounts ranging from $300K to $1 million. Did the triad bankroll the scam that led to Hsu's conviction about a year later, or was Hsu crazy enough to try to scam a triad? By now, the relationship between Hsu and Wo Hop To is probably clear to the FBI. The rest of us will have to wait until the federal suits line up behind a bank of microphones to announce their findings on the Hsu case.
Meanwhile, Chow was convicted of racketeering, underage prostitution and international heroin trade. He was released early in 2003 in exchange for testifying against his crime boss, Peter Chong, the triad's Grand Dragon.
And the strange tale of Triad money and influence continues here in local California politics as well:
Today, Chow works to project a public image of a reformed criminal. When she was a San Francisco Supervisor, recently elected California Assemblywoman and now Majority Whip, Fiona Ma, sponsored Chow for a "Certificate of Honor" award from the city. (A photo of Chow holding his certificate can be seen here.) Among those who contributed to Ms. Ma's recent election were Norman Hsu, Winkle Paw, Danny Lee and Yu-Fen Huang -- the last two were among a group of three from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, who contributed $270,000 to Democrats.It should be noted that Winkie Paw is part of the Paw family also in question in the Norman Hsu matter, and that Winkie has recently gone missing....
On October 19, 2007, the L.A. Times broke the NYC Chinatown donations story. The reporters noted that Clinton's success in raising money from "dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers" is due, in part, to a strategy of forming "mutually beneficial alliances with powerful groups." Really, what sort of groups?
The L.A. Times stated that "Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants." What sort of influence, and to what end?
The unnamed organization has to be the Fukien American Association. On page 22 of the Senate report, a display labeled "Leadership Structure of Primary Tongs and Affiliated Gangs in New York City" draws a line between the Fukien American Association and the street gang Fuk Ching. A map of street gang territories in a book entitled Chinatown Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise, and Ethnicity, by Ko-lin Chin (Oxford University Press, 1996) locates Fuk Ching's territory on East Broadway, near the Manhattan Bridge -- right where the L.A. Times found bogus addresses for some missing Clinton donors.
How far-fetched is the notion that Chinese criminal organizations would front for the PRC? Back on June 24, 1997, a select team of investigators from Canada's Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Canadian Security & Intelligence Service drafted a report entitled "Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada." The secret report, code-named "Sidewinder," concluded that three groups of recent immigrants from China were working together to "gain influence on Canadian politics by maximizing their presence over some of the country's economic levers." The three groups represented the (1) Chinese Intelligence Services (ChIS), (2) former Hong Kong tycoons with known connections to ChIS and PRC officials, and (3) "Chinese organized crime elements." (The Sidewinder document is available here and here. This writer also telephonically interviewed two persons with intimate, first-hand knowledge of Sidewinder.)
These are allegations I have been making for some time now. Nice to know other outlets are starting to see some reason to try to connect dots. Triads, Tongs, and Chinese Communists, and the Clintons. It is a scary propostion, but one that must continue to be examined and exposed. This woman's loyalties should be in question.
But wait, there is more questioning going on:
Bill Clinton was the best president the People's Republic of China ever had. His wife may be even better. Beijing, hungry for more technology transfers, is betting on it.
It's no coincidence that Sen. Hillary Clinton's autobiography, "Living History," is the most popular foreign political memoir in Chinese history. The state-owned publisher of the Chinese translation of her book has printed hundreds of thousands of copies (after censoring passing references to dissident Harry Wu) and stocked them in bookstore windows from Beijing to Shanghai.
It's also no coincidence that Chinese bagmen are lining up immigrants in Chinatowns from New York to San Francisco to donate cash to Hillary's campaign. Many have never voted. Some aren't citizens and couldn't vote if they wanted to. Most are dishwashers, waiters and garment workers who don't even have the means to give the thousands they're giving. And an alarming number say they've been pressured by shady Chinese "businessmen" to help fill Hillary's campaign war chest.
Command fundraisers are breaking out all over the Chinese community. It's plain that Sen. Clinton is China's candidate. It's time to ask why that is. What is the attraction? What does Beijing want? What has she promised?
Is Hillary, as some suspect, a Manchurian candidate loyal to foreign and unseen donors rather than American voters? Can she be trusted with U.S. security?
The American people need to be asking the Senator about these relationships, and not be silenced by the "racist" or "xenophobe" canard that Hillary and her socialist mouthpieces are spewing. Why is this relationship important? Let's look at the previous Clinton/China Connection:
Bill Clinton called it a "strategic partnership." He argued that cozying up to — or as he called it, "engaging" — the communist Chinese was in America's best interest. But while Clinton was engaging them, an engagement that included inviting them into our defense labs and dismantling export controls, Beijing:
• Managed to steal secrets to every nuclear warhead deployed in the U.S. arsenal.
• Deployed for the first time an entire force of CSS-4 ICBMs that target the continental U.S., from L.A. to New York and everything in between.
• Declared the U.S. enemy No. 1 in its military writings.
• Bought Russian destroyers armed with missiles designed to kill U.S. carriers.
• Built up its missile batteries across the Taiwan Strait.
• Infiltrated the CIA and FBI with spies.
The Chinese espionage that occurred on Clinton's watch was unprecedented, and analysts still don't know how deep Chinese moles penetrated our security complex.
The FBI warned President Clinton that the People's Republic of China was running a massive intelligence operation against the U.S. government, which included a plan to influence the 1996 election.
Clinton looked the other way. In fact, there's evidence he facilitated it by throttling the prosecution of Chinese spy cases and covering up probes into Chinese funny money that poured into his campaign.
As soon as Clinton took office, he implemented a policy of "denuclearization." That included ending nuclear testing, kicking open the defense labs to Chinese and other foreign scientists, and declassifying hundreds of documents related to our nuclear program.
Clinton also deregulated export of sensitive dual-use technology such as supercomputers and rocket guidance systems. And Beijing gleefully took advantage of the dovish changes, sharpening the reliability of the missiles it has aimed at the U.S. and Taiwan.
These type of things could happen again under Hillary. We don't want to be under the thumb of the ChiComms. We shouldn't be under their thumb. They can thank Bill Clinton for the bank and techonology of their military. Do we want another term of appeasing and being beholden to Chinese criminals and human rights abusers? I, for one, say hell no!
