We Mourn the Passing of Heroic War Veteran Lt. Col. John W. Peterkin
We Mourn the Passing of Heroic War Veteran
Lt. Col. John W. Peterkin
It is with the deepest sadness we announce Lt. Colonel John W. Peterkin passed away on Saturday morning, June 6, 2020. LTC Peterkin was our beloved friend, freedom-loving patriot and decorated heroic war veteran, long standing member of the Queens Village Republican Club, “Veteran of the Year” honoree at the 139th Anniversary Lincoln Day Dinner, U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, U.S. Army Korean War Veteran, U.S. Army Vietnam War Veteran, U.S. Army, Infantry, Retired, and New York City Police Officer, Retired.
He was one of the greatest, kindest and most beautiful souls we have ever known, always caring, always high spirited, always giving, loving his family and friends, active and involved in Veterans causes and Republican campaigns until his last moments. We love him and will miss him dearly. R.I.P. our dear friend and great American hero.
WE REMEMBER LT. COL. JOHN W. PETERKIN
Photos and Complete Bio on the Occasion of the Honoring of LTC John Peterkin as “Veteran of the Year” at the 139th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner, February 9, 2014
For a lifetime of service to his city, state and nation in his U.S. military and civilian careers in the City of New York, Lt. Col. John W. Peterkin is highly deserving of the “Veteran of the Year” award and the praise and gratitude of all Americans.
Veteran of the Year Honoree, Lt. Col. John W. Peterkin
Lieutenant Colonel John W. Peterkin (Ret.) U.S. Army, a decorated war hero who served in WW II, the Korean War and Vietnam, leads a humble life in the charming Village of Bellerose Manor, Queens. A descendant of Jamaican, Native American and African heritage, John lives with his Vietnamese wife, Ngoc Thi, and his two sons, Captain Sylburn Van Peterkin, who serves in the U.S. Army Reserves and as a Police Officer for the City of New York, and Captain James Van Peterkin Thach (Ret.) U.S. Army, who was seriously wounded while serving in Iraq, and now supports the Wounded Veteran Initiative helping his fellow veterans.
Only the limited circle of John’s closest friends and family have known of his lifetime of service to our city, state and nation up until now. He now has the opportunity to tell his story given the occasion of being honored at the gala Lincoln Day Dinner on Feb. 9, hosted by the Queens Village Republican Club, of which he is a longtime member. With a stellar line-up of speakers in the elegant setting of the famous Antun’s of Queens Village, the Lincoln Day Dinner is a commemoration of our greatest American president and the father of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln.
A modest man, John realizes the value of passing on the baton to the next generation so they too will understand that freedom isn’t free. While many of his peers have long been deceased, he is still going strong at a ripe age of 86 and will speak out to share the heritage of our great warriors who have sacrificed life and limb so that freedom and democracy will live.
Grand Marshals of the 2014 Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade
He served in WW II in June 1945 as a U.S. Navy Steward’s Mate, First Class, in the Pacific area of operations and was released from active duty in August 1946. John then served two combat tours in the Korean War from May 1950 when he was commissioned from the City College of New York ROTC program. He was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, the U.S. Army Infantry School, where he received Basic Infantry Officers Training (BIOC) and went on to serve in Korea as a First Lieutenant. He was released from active duty in 1954.
John was recalled to active duty in Vietnam where he served two combat tours between 1968 and 1973 as a U.S. Army Major. His first tour of active combat in Vietnam was from 1969 to 1970, where he was a District Senior Advisor, responsible for directing a team of 3000 field personal to provide civilian and military assistance to 80,000 Vietnamese. He was then called to Puerto Rico, to serve as an advisor to the Puerto Rican Army Reserves. His second combat tour in Vietnam was from 1972 to 1973, after which he was reassigned to Fort Dix, U.S. Army training center in N.J., with the 9th Infantry Training Division. He was released from active duty October 1973 and reassigned to Fort Meade, Maryland as an Operations and Training Officer for Reserve Affairs on the General Staff. For his service in Vietnam, John received two Bronze Stars and two Air Medal awards. He received numerous service awards for every war and every area of operation in which he served.
For the next five years after his active military service, he traded his U.S. Army fatigues for a civil service uniform in the NYPD. He served the citizens of the City of New York as a Police Officer, Teacher in the Police Academy, and Criminal Investigator. As a Police Officer, he served in various Precincts throughout the city and affected over 5000 arrests resulting in a 70% conviction rate.
Since then up until the present time, John has been active in security operations, education and training on a management and executive level as Director of Security at New York City Technical College (CUNY), Senior Operations Manager at New York University, Security Operations Supervisor at Time Warner Inc., and Chief Operations Officer at First Central Security in Fresh Meadows, Queens.
September 11th Memorial Community Gathering On September 11, 2016 at Tribute Triangle Park in Glen Oaks Village
In the civil service sector John has been actively involved in public safety and security for several decades. His lifetime memberships in Veterans organizations include: the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, American Legion, Catholic War Veterans, Korean War Veterans, Knights of Columbus, Military Officers Association of America, National Association for Uniformed Services, 24th Infantry Division Association, Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees, and others. He sits on the boards of the 77th Reserve Officers Association at Fort Totten, the Hospice Care Network of Long Island and Queens, and the 307th Infantry Regiment Association at Fort Totten.
John’s broad educational background includes a BA from City College of New York, an MA from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is also a graduate of the US Army’s Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas and a graduate of the U.S. Dept. of State Senior Advisor Course.
For a lifetime of service to his city, state and nation in his U.S. military and civilian careers in the City of New York, Lt. Col. John W. Peterkin is highly deserving of the “Veteran of the Year” award and the praise and gratitude of all Americans. All local Veterans organizations and their membership are invited to participate in the honoring ceremony of Lt. Col. Peterkin at the commemorative Lincoln Day Dinner on Feb 9th.
Grand Marshal of Little Neck-Doglaston Memorial Day Parade
Democrats like the Mensheviks will go into the Dustbin of History
Statement of the Queens Village Republican Club
June 2, 2020
Democrats like the Mensheviks will go into the Dustbin of History
By Phil Orenstein
All it took was a spark, the tragic police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, to trigger the explosion of anger and frustration that the radical left exploited to orchestrate the violent insurrection across America they had been planning for months.
Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Vladimir Lenin
The radicals strike when then see weakness, and that is what they saw in the largely Democrat run cities where the major riots broke out. These professional agitators have a well-planned strategy for the violent takeover of America which they can never accomplish peacefully through elections. Hours after the video of Floyd began circulating the internet, militant Antifa, Black Lives Matters cells and other radical socialist groups began deploying to Minnesota to riot, according to Andy Ngo, an American conservative journalist who studies the revolutionary tactics of the radical left. The anarchist-communist group, Antifa has perfected the art of rioting and chaos, first breaking store windows, calling in the looters, and then burning the place down. It is encouraging news that Antifa, whose stated goals are to abolish capitalism and law enforcement in America, will be designated as a terrorist organization as President Trump announced on Sunday May 31st.
Antifa and an amalgam of radical leftist movements in America including Black Lives Matter (BLM), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and the Bernie Bros, have taken a page from Lenin’s playbook of the Bolshevik Revolution. They follow in the footsteps of murderous dictators such as Lenin, Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, and Maduro, who exploited the poverty, chaos and turmoil of their societies to take over through violent insurrections, since they could never achieve power through a peaceful election process.
History is repeating itself now as we are witnessing the battle of the moderates versus the radical left within the Democrat Party. Lenin’s totalitarian Bolsheviks split from the more moderate democratic Mensheviks, who were the popular establishment party, violently seized power, overthrew the Tsarist regime, and ultimately established the Soviet Union. Lenin hated the Mensheviks more than the Tsar, whom he had executed along with his entire family. Along with capitalism and democracy, Lenin annihilated the Mensheviks and sent them, as Trotsky chided “… into the dustbin of history!”
These radical socialist movements, all enthusiastic supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders during the Presidential Primaries, will not be supporting Joe Biden, as DSA and others stated. Similar to Lenin and the Mensheviks, the radical socialists hate the establishment Democrats more than the president. The political war the establishment Democrat-media complex waged against the Sanders presidential campaign and the system rigged against him to defeat him the second time, pushed them over the boiling point to set off “the powder keg that is growing all over this country,” in the words of Nina Turner, former top aide for Sander’s presidential campaign, inciting the flames of riot and revolt across the nation.
It’s ironic that the rioters attacked CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, since CNN promoted the righteousness of the riots. But CNN, the media arm of the Democrat establishment, played a major role in the defeat of Sanders. After his Nevada victory, Sanders was poised to sweep the nation and win the Democratic nomination. Biden was dead in the water. This frightened the Democrat-media establishment, and CNN conspired with them to undermine the Sanders campaign, blasting his age, his health after a heart attack, his way too expensive Medicare and tuition reforms, his far leftist leanings, and alleging “sexism” at the CNN debate. It was a full court press to defeat Sanders as Super Tuesday was approaching. So former rivals united around Biden who all exited the race giving their endorsement, as the fear and trembling of a Sanders victory took hold. The leftists vowed that if the nomination was stolen, wait for the riots to start.
Most of the rioting is happening now in Democratic strongholds, as payback for their offences against the left. Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Minneapolis, St Louis, Washington DC, Cleveland, some of the most dangerous cites in America, now hotbeds of rioting and unrest have been totally controlled by the Democrat Party for 50 years or more. The radical socialists doing the looting, burning, and causing chaos, do not care about the poverty, unemployment, the failing schools, the crumbling infrastructure, over-regulated businesses, or the black, the poor or minority populations living there. Their aim is to create chaos and take over when the people are sufficiently cowed and afraid. Democrat mayors and governors are giving them carte blanche to create havoc and destroy property and human life, as did leftwing Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey who surrendered the Third Police Precinct to the rioters. On top of that, the son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and City Council member, officially declared his support for Antifa. Voters throughout America need to rise up and kick out these soft-on-crime political has-beens.
Democratic governors and mayors have been weak and spineless as the riots have consumed their cities and the people were left terrified and hopeless. The riot at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was a well-organized attack orchestrated by radical socialist groups throwing bottles, bricks, Molotov cocktails and other debris at police. Police were injured, some almost killed, but that didn’t prevent Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio as well as other elected officials from taking the side of the rioters and calling for an investigation into police responses, and Senator Gounares (D-Brooklyn) blaming the police when they were trying to defend themselves. Senator Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) and many other New York City Democrat elected officials, said they will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and declared, “we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior.” Setting the stage for lawlessness and mayhem, New York City with its bail reform laws releasing criminals to the streets and emptying city jails, welcomes the professional agitators expediting their plunder.
In contrast, the mayors and governors of Republican cities and Trump strongholds, who refuse to placate the rioters, who are not afraid to stand up to the criminals and thugs looting and rioting in the streets of their cities, have set curfews and declared state of emergency orders early on and rioting has been curtailed. While Democrats have failed to protect American lives or property, Republicans have protected this country from foreign adversaries and domestic foes since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president emancipated the slaves and won the Civil War. In 1864 he defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George McClellan who wanted to make peace with the South and discard the victory that Lincoln and the Union was about to achieve. Teddy Roosevelt saved this country with “big stick” diplomacy, built up our military, and made America a superpower. Eisenhower defeated the Nazis and stood up to the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan defeated communism and the Soviet Union and won the Cold War.
The Republican Party is historically the Party of law and order and strong defense. They have always championed the protection of the people and always will. In 1968, the chaos and storming of the Democrat National Convention and the riots that shook the nation, paved the way for the victory of Richard Nixon who ran for president on a law and order platform. History is now repeating itself. On Monday June 1st, President Trump called himself “the president of law and order” and promised to restore security and safety and mobilize the United States military to American cities to stop the rioting and looting and protect the rights of Americans. When chaos happens, people seek law and order, and will vote for Republicans. Rudy Giuliani recently said: “Don’t elect progressive Democrats if you want to be safe.” Just like the Mensheviks, the Democrat Party is headed for the dustbin of history.
Phil Orenstein is the president of the Queens Village Republican Club. Established in 1875, it is America’s oldest Republican Club. www.QVGOP.org. Historian, Jerry Matacotta was the advisor for this article.
The Streets of New York
The Streets of New York
By Joseph Concannon
Today those who live in NY have ceded all authority to the elected officials. This is wrong. Government officials are supposed to represent us and not rule over us.
Where else but in the City of New York could you find a group of artists, second amendment advocates, free speech firebrands all have their right to assembly swept away in a heartbeat and absolutely no one is talking about it. The Constitution of the United States of America is suspended in the City of New York, in broad daylight while oligarchs like de Blasio and Cuomo, his brother, and other big and small elected officials laugh behind closed doors.
What good is an alarm if no one is ringing the bell? Right here in Eastern Queens, not a word about how elected government officials have abused their power. Why aren’t these city and state officials standing up and shouting that a Governor or a Mayor cannot suspend the U.S. Constitution? It is our right to make those decisions and not have them made for us. In good times and in bad, we as a nation have weathered many storms and this virus is not the first and not the last. Let the government advise and let the citizens decide. Not one newspaper, not one reporter, not one group of freedom loving people brave enough to stand up and say this is still the USA and we have a right to be heard. It is my right to demonstrate whenever and wherever I choose. The government does not give us this right, nor does any politician. The U.S. Constitution resolves those powers. Never forget it. It is our right unless we cower to the very people who would have us locked up in chains in our very homes. This is nuts!
What kind of America is this? Today those who live in NY have ceded all authority to the elected officials. This is wrong. Government officials are supposed to represent us and not rule over us. New Yorkers have gotten it all wrong and it is way beyond time to fight back. New York, the land of handouts, and weak leaders, needs to move on and get this state and city back to fighting strength. The men and women must stand up in the face of this fading pandemic and take the safeguards but get on with life. Stop this craziness.
We live in a state where the most vulnerable living in nursing homes were fed to the lions as Governor Cuomo ordered COVID patients into those buildings. No greater loss of life was felt in any other sector than in those very institutions. The helpless, the frail, the weak, many left alone suffered the fate of the infection so ordered by the Governor of New York. What do we hear about it – crickets, just crickets!
People are scared to death to wander outside their homes. What wisdom is there in creating a culture and atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, and doubt? Yet this is exactly what New York officials have done with the help of friends in the media. The young and old are literally afraid to leave their homes. Locked out of our public parks, storefronts closed, supermarkets barren, and small businesses folding up quicker than you can say ouch. People are scared to death and no one owns that message more than the elected zealots in City Hall and the NYS Legislature. Not one of them standing up for the normal average everyday New Yorker. It is a disgrace, we have lost all reason, logic, and common sense in our “Sanctuary City”.
Voting matters and elections have consequences. I have said in many forums and during many political discussions that voting matters and elections have consequences and it has never been truer, than today. Each of us owns a stake in New York – call it an investment. Our shares should be a tremendous value, unless we squander every opportunity, we must change the course of history. Our founders have warned us, they have prepared the road for us and it is upon every individual to take that step forward with flag in hand and exercise our charge. Lest we’re ready to set the stage for a second revolution, voting is the sole solution to what ails the Empire State.
Say NO to Governor Cuomo’s plan to reimagine our school system!
Say NO to Governor Cuomo’s plan to reimagine our school system!
“Emperor Cuomo sits on his throne ever more drunk on his own power”
By Phil Orenstein
Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg – big gov’t and big tech overloards to reimagine life in NYS
Photo Credit: © Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann/Lucy Nicholson/Pool/KJN
There’s great news amidst the pandemic showing that support for President Trump and Republicans is growing throughout America. The President’s job approval rose to 51% according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll. Republicans are sweeping special elections races across the country including two more House seats in California and Wisconsin last week, revealing a great sign on the road ahead for victory in November!
However, here in New York, Emperor Cuomo sits on his throne ever more drunk on his own power. Using the pandemic as an opportunity to issue sweeping executive decrees, Cuomo is partnering with billionaire globalists, first with former Mayor Bloomberg to launch a contact tracing army, which will further erode our liberties, already decimated under two months of lockdown. Cuomo’s latest decree, in partnership with Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, will “reimagine” New York’s public school system, to overhaul the education system as we know it, replacing the teacher and physical classroom setting with digital technology peddled by these tech giants. “We don’t want to go through all of this and replace what was there before,” the emperor proclaimed.
Nicholas Giordano, Professor of Political Science, who spoke at past club meetings said, “Merging big government and big tech will completely destroy our education system.” In his latest enlightening PAS Report Podcast, Professor Giordano, blasted the emperor saying:
“If we allow Emperor Cuomo to fulfill his vision of reimagining education, the education system will be lost forever. Education will no longer be about knowledge, discussion, ideas, the ability to think critically, and building social relationships. Instead, education will be about obedience and compliance with the powers that be, with a little slice of social justice mixed in. Education will become nothing more than another app on our phones. It will become completely meaningless. If Governor Cuomo’s vision comes to fruition, we will be creating an entire generation of mindless bots.”
Jerry Matacotta, historian and 30-year veteran of NYC’s public schools, challenged this reckless high-tech plan as a total breakdown of the traditional student-teacher relationship, where children are lifted out of their everyday environments to enrich their lives with higher aspirations and dreams. They would lose irreplaceable socialization skills and disciplines which can never be learned on a digital platform. Shop classes, orchestra, debates, clubs, sports teams, gymnastics, vocational training, and any extra-curricular activities would be no more. Education basically has not changed since the days of Socrates, Athens’ street-corner philosopher, where a live teacher uses the famous Socratic method to stimulate critical thinking and to bring out ideas in his students.
Something much more sinister is going on. Bloomberg, Gates, Schmidt and other globalist billionaires who have no background in teaching, nor do they care about educating our kids, bow before the gods of big money and global power. It’s a money grab from the vast property tax income stream that finances today’s public education system. With the state facing a $13 billion deficit, and potential deep cuts to New York’s schools, Cuomo is making a Faustian bargain with these tech giants trading control of New York’s school system to bail us out of the looming financial crisis.
For this devilish tradeoff, he wants to let these tech industry elitists do a complete takeover of New York’s schools and determine our education policy. Whoever controls the knowledge industry has more power, control over people lives, and control of the future, and will be well funded by our tax dollars. It’s feeding the beast until it is big enough to devour us.
Big tech is not capitalism. It’s akin to corporatism or statism, which is China’s system without competition, where corporations and the Communist Party are one and the same. Google and former CEO Eric Schmidt have been working with the Chinese Communist Party to develop a secret censored search engine, code named Google Dragonfly, that would remove such terms as “human rights,” “freedom,” “democracy” and other content blacklisted by the CCP. Google and the US tech giants helped China build the “Great Firewall” to block their citizens’ access to the outside world.
Even more chilling is the social credit system China is instituting to control the behavior of its 1.4 billion people. More than 200 million surveillance cameras are watching its citizens every move, rewarding the trustworthy and penalizing people who are ranked poorly in their “social credit score,” by denying them mortgages, high-speed train and plane tickets, access to good schools, etc. Dissent and criticism of the government are criminalized, and offenders “pay a heavy price.” This Orwellian mass surveillance system to foster obedience and submission is made in America by Google, Facebook and our big tech companies. Do you trust Google, Eric Schmidt and big tech to be in charge of our education system?
We must say NO to Governor Cuomo and his plan to reimagine our school system! We must say NO to the partnership of big government and big tech in education. Google and our tech giants are way too big – stifling competition, censoring conservative opinions, and emulating their Chinese Communist masters. The good news for freedom and democracy is that Google is presently under investigation for anti-trust violations, for undermining free market competition. President Trump recently said: “The Radical Left is in total command & control of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google. The Administration is working to remedy this illegal situation.”
America is the land of the brave and free and will always be. There are no emperors in America. The government and politicians are elected to serve the people! We the People must rise up and demand freedom, protect our schools, save our city and state, by voting out Cuomo and tyrannical politicians. We will build a great new Republican Party to elect leaders of integrity who will humbly serve the people. Join us as we come out of lockdown to build a great new future of freedom and American values here in Queens!
Reboot the U.S. Economy! Support Local Businesses!
The following merchants in our local communities are open for business, some in open defiance of the shutdown. These businesses are struggling to survive amid the draconian lockdown mandates, and are going to find it very difficult to get back on their feet without our help. Their food, service and products are all made in the USA and are the best in the world, and they care about their customers! Let’s do our civic duty for our country and help them survive!
Reboot the U.S. Economy!
Support Local Businesses!
Oasis Cafe, 196-30 Northern Blvd. Bayside NY 11358, for delectable desserts, pastries, cheescakes, ba ba rum, dark chocolate mousse, you name it! The owner Mike Amvros, was our Lincoln Dinner Businessman of the Year, and staunch Trump supporter who used to serve the Trump family when they lived nearby in Queens! Because of the honors we gave him, he is determined to ride out the shutdown and succeed. He will open his outdoor cafe in defiance in June if NYC is not open then!
Turnpike Comfort Footware, one of our loyal Lincoln Dinner ad sponsors, will be opening on May 26th. Hours are Tues – Sat. 10am to 4pm and Sunday 12pm to 4pm. Address is 184-20 Union Turnpike, Flushing, NY 11366. 718-454-5870 Their specialty is comfortable footwear that is fashionable, too! Say hello to Steve Rueda, the owner who cares and shares our values!
Mythos is a family-owned authentic Greek Restaurant, who are loyal Republicans and supporters of our club. They are open for take-out and deliveries. Address is 19629 Northern Blvd., Flushing, NY 11358. After dining at Mythos, hop across Northern Blvd. and enjoy a scrumptious dessert and coffee at Oasis!
New Hyde Park Diner is open for take-out! 160 Hillside Avenue, New Hyde Park, NY 11040. Great place for lunch across from Stop & Shop. Thank Ken for his loyalty and annual support for our Lincoln Dinner!
Robert Mancz Service Station, 22233 Braddock Ave, Queens Village, NY 11428, is open full time. Say hello to Paul and Chris. They are honest and caring auto mechanics. Yes, honest and caring! Tell them QVGOP club sent you!!
Supreme Pizza is back and their gates are up! They are at 236-09 Braddock Ave, Bellerose, NY. They are open full time for take-out orders with a full Italian menu, either for pick up or delivery. 718-343-7100. Jim Trent and many of our QVGOP Board members agree that their Penne alla Vodka is the best in town! Say hello to Louie, the owner. He’s a great guy!
We are thrilled that Cara Mia, one of our favorite Italian Restaurants is open for take-out business! Their address is: 220-20 Hillside Avenue, Queens Village, NY 11427. Ph: 718.740.9118. For menu and hours, visit their website. Say hello to April and Carlo, who support us every year with Lincoln Dinner Journal ads!
Rollin Greens is at 247-77 Jericho Turnpike, Queens, NY 11426. (718) 343-3313. Their menu and daily specials are on their Facebook page. Rollin is a great place for takeout dinners and great comfort foods! Rolland and Christine are ever grateful for our support! See you there and spread the word that Rollin Greens is open for takeout business!
Southern Spice is now open for take out business! Sri is a good friend and past Lincoln Dinner honoree. He is master chef who has achived the American Dream! His restaurant was rated one of the topp Asian restaurants on Long Island. If you like Indian cuisine, you’ll fall in love with Southern Spice!! The address is 1635 Hillside Ave, New Hyde Park, NY 11040 and phone is (516) 216-5448. Click on Website for menu.
And we highly recommend Nancy’s, open for take-out! 255-41 Jericho Tpk, Floral Park,NY. See Nancy’s to-go menu. We thank them for their annual Lincoln Dinner journal ads we will see them in Dec. for our annual Christmas-Chanukah Party!
Let’s help our local businesses survive! We will continue to provide notices of businesses open in our community. Let us know your favorites that are open for business and defying the lockdown!
Remember Our Heroes on Memorial Day
LET’S PRAY ON MEMORIAL DAY
Dear Brothers, friends and relatives and clergy;
As published in the Queens Chronicle.
This Memorial Day because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there will be no Memorial Day parades which I find sad. I do however truly understand the reason and that is to keep us safe. I have served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam era and am a member of the American Legion Post # 103, Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus in Douglaston and a member of the Queens Village Republican Club and believe there is something we can still do. This Memorial Day since there will not be parades or patriotic activities but we still can say a prayer for all those serving our country today and that is our brave men and women in the military. We also should offer prayers for all those serving and protecting us in our communities like our Doctors, Nurses, EMS, firefighters, and those in our police departments. We can also offer a moment of silence for all those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives to keep us free. Remember this also: Let’s not forget the true meaning of Memorial Day and fly the American Flag if you can on that day.
Sincerely Yours,
Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911
Remember Them All on Memorial Day
By Emily Toma
Remember those who served before.
Remember those who are no more.
Remember those who serve today.
Remember them all on Memorial Day.
Memorial Day is a Time to Remember
By Stacey Vila
Memorial Day is a time to remember that the American way of life is not cheap.
It is of the brave.
It’s been purchased by the lives of so many who have sacrificed for all to live free and happy.
The sacrifices made by men and women who have fought and died for freedom and liberty that we hold dear.
It is more important today than ever because if we don’t practice freedom and liberty it shall indeed be taken from us.
For freedom is not free.
And we remind ourselves on this day of the cost of standing up and living in freedom and liberty.
We remember those who came before and those of today.
We remember the lessons of standing up for freedom.
We respect and honor those who when everyone is running away- they run toward and answer the call for liberty.
What? Me Tweet? Why not!
What? Me Tweet? Why not!
By Sgt. Eric Spinner
We have all heard the constant vitriol against President Donald Trump for his presence on Twitter. Opinions run the gamut from positive to negative, but we can easily understand why he uses it- and to great advantage. We need to adopt it as a tool for our purposes, as well, or be overwhelmed by the opposition.
Donald Trump fully understands the social media and how it provides a platform that will allow one to speak their mind without having censoring of their words or any chance of fake news altering the words. Because everything is in black and white, the evidence is always available to prove exactly what was said.
Another great advantage to using Twitter is that it forces one to think in simple, concrete terms. With a limit of just 200 characters in a Tweet, messages are quite brief and quickly read. Twitter users are not willing to spend the time to sit and read lengthy messages and will not dwell on something that looks lengthy or complex. One does, however, have the ability to add links to online information, messages, or even other web-based locations. All one needs it the link to the material.
There are ways to direct messages to specific people, and a search function to find them. There are hashtag (#) items that can be inserted in messages to relate the tweet to a specific topic. You can follow other Tweeters at will so that their postings will be announced when you login to your account.
Another great feature of Twitter is that your ID, or handle, does not have to be your real name. When you sign up for an account, you give your name and email, but you can choose a handle that is more aligned with your mission and your message.
Those who have used or at least visited Twitter before should recognize what a tweet looks like. One of my recent tweets is pictured below. My logo and my handle appear in the upper-left corner, and my twitter address, @spinmaven, appears below it. Following that is my comment regarding Mayor DiBlasio’s release of Rikers Island inmates during the Covid crisis into the community. We all knew, of course, what the result of this foolhardy act would be, but of course also expected the results of this action. Having already had to deal with Governor Cuomo’s bail reform and DiBlasio’s sanctuary city policies, we knew that this could only result in more problems, and the linked item in the tweet certainly explains that at another location on the web.
Now we come to the specific purpose of this message. We are in the fight of our lives to preserve the Constitution of The United States of America, the supreme law of the land, against the constant assaults by the progressive left. If we are to get our words out there to be heard, we need to employ the social media. We cannot sit back and be silent- my mind wanders back to the Vietnam era with talk of the silent majority. We can be silent no more!
Cap that with the fact that there are so many issues we must deal with if we are to succeed. The left has used social media to their advantage. It’s time for us to wake up and use it to our advantage. Sure, we all love facebook, but all we are doing is sharing with our limited group of friends, and unless we go out on a limb, we don’t get very much pushback. Linked-In is for business use, and is not effective for influencing people. But Twitter is the way to go, and asking a simple, thoughtful question, under the right conditions, can start a thought or idea on a journey across the nation. Join us on Twitter! We must do this!
HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF CHINA
HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF CHINA
In order to understand the historical background of China and how they have become America’s number one threat, we present this brief historical timeline. It is very important to review and study this timeline in preparation for the Queens Village Republican Club’s May 7th Zoom meeting on the threat of China with Gordon Chang. Historian, Jerry Matacotta was the main source and advisor for this timeline of Chinese history in the modern era. Relevant quotes were also selected from Bully of Asia by Steven Mosher.
For more than 2000 years, the Chinese considered themselves the geographical and geopolitical center of the world… They believed their emperor to be the only legitimate political authority and regarded themselves as the highest expression of civilized humanity. -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 10
In all the world there is only one threat to the United States that must be classified as a disease of the heart. This is a country that long ago invented totalitarianism – the total subjugation of the individual to the state – and that still practices a modified form of this all-embracing political tyranny today. -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 6
1839-1860 – Opium Wars. Two armed conflicts in China between the forces of Western countries and the Qing dynasty, which ruled China. Western powers were victorious and British won control of the opium trade in China and acquired Hong Kong. China became the weakest country in the world and resented any foreign influence. The major reason for China’s resentment of foreigners can be traced back to the Opium Wars, which became their rallying cry for nationalism.
The Opium Wars “… shook the empire to its core. The so-called “unequal treaties” that followed reduced China to a semi-colony of the Western powers. Western troops garrisoned China’s “treaty ports” – essentially, European colonies – and Western gunboats roamed its rivers.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 16
1900 – Boxer Rebellion – Uprising of Chinese nationals against foreign influence in China. After several months of growing violence and murder against foreign and Christian presence in June 1900, Boxer fighters (Chinese martial artists), convinced they were invulnerable to foreign weapons, converged on Beijing with the slogan “Support the Qing government and exterminate the foreigners.” They were defeated by Japan, Germany, United States and other Western powers which sent troops to crush the rebellion.
“Non-Chinese have difficulty appreciating the depth of China’s grievances against the West and Japan resulting from these experiences. It was not merely that Western gunboats had twice defeated China in the Opium Wars; China had been defeated before, although never perhaps by organized drug runners. Nor was the bitterness caused simply by the dethronement of Confucian high culture by the West…. The underlying problem was this: China had dominated (in every sense – culturally, economically, militarily) its known world almost since the beginning of its recorded history. More than what is today called a superpower, it had been the hegemon for century after century, dynasty after dynasty, for over 2000 years. Then within the span of a few decades, it was cast down from this pinnacle of greatness by the Western powers and Japan and brought low, divided into spheres of influence, and partially carved up into colonies.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 18
1912-1928 – After over two thousand years of imperial rule, the Republic of China was established in 1912 to replace the monarchy, in an attempt to bring some form of democracy to China. Sun Yat-sen served as the first president of the Republic of China and the first leader of the Nationalist Party of China. But China was chaotic, the Nationalist government was weak, and warlords controlled China.
1921-1927 – The Communist Party of China (CPC or CCP) was founded in 1921. The CCP grew quickly, and by 1949 it had driven the Nationalist government from mainland China, leading to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. In 1920 until 1927 the CCP worked together with the Nationalist government to get rid of the warlords and build a powerful central government.
1926-1928 – Chiang Kai-shek, follower of Sun Yat-sen, became leader of the Republic of China in 1928. He led the Northern Expedition campaign of the Chinese Nationalist army allied with the Communists, defeating a coalition of warlords, ending their control of China, and reunifying China under a new Nationalist government of the Republic of China.
1927 – Midway through the Northern Expedition, the alliance broke down and Chiang Kai-shek purged the Communists inside the party. Although the Communists welcomed Chiang, he turned on them, killing 1,000’s. In response, the CCP founded the “Red Army”, to battle Chiang’s Nationalist Party army beginning the Chinese Civil War. Mao Zedong was appointed commander-in-chief of the Red Army.
1931 – The Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria, took over and established a puppet state, while China was involved in civil war. Chiang Kai-shek avoided a war with Japan in order to focus on defeating the Communists first.
“The political leader with the most experience fighting the CCP – first successfully and later much less so – was Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, Chiang was under enormous pressure to declare war on the Empire of the Rising Sun. He refused, arguing that before the Japanese could be driven out of China, the Communist rebellion must first be put down. ‘First internal pacification, then external resistance,” he insisted…. Chiang stated: “The Japanese are like a disease of the skin, but the Communists are like a disease of the heart.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 1
1934-1935 – Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party army defeated the Communists who begin a big retreat. Mao took the Red Army on the “Long March” into the mountains of Northern and Western China and consolidated his leadership as the head of the CCP. The Long March, the central event in Chinese revolutionary mythology, became the precursor of everything the CCP is today, and established Marxist–Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought (Maoism) as the Party’s guiding ideologies.
“The Long March is a manifesto. It has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes, while the imperialists and their running dogs, Chiang Kai-shek and his like, are impotent. It has proclaimed their utter failure to encircle, pursue, obstruct and intercept us. The Long March is also a propaganda force. It has announced to some 200 million people in eleven provinces that the road of the Red Army is their only road to liberation.” – Mao Zedong, On Tactics against Japanese Imperialism (December 27, 1935)
1937 – Full-scale Japanese invasion of China. The Japanese scored major victories, capturing Beijing, Shanghai and the Chinese capital of Nanking in 1937, which resulted in the Rape of Nanking, which was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking. That is why China despises the Japanese and any allies of Japan.
1939-1945 – Chiang Kai-shek and Mao made a temporary peace to form a united front of the Nationalists and Communists to fight against Japan.
1945 – Yalta Conference was the meeting of the heads of government of the three World War II allies, United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union. The Soviet Union pledged to fight Japan and attacked the Japanese in Manchuria. Soviet Union, Nationalists and Communists were all fighting the Japanese in Manchuria.
1945-1949 – After surrender of Japan, ending WW II, Mao turned on Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Civil War resumed. The power of the Communist Party grew considerably with skillful organization and propaganda envisioning the Red Army conducting guerrilla warfare in defense of the people. The Soviet Union supported the Red Army from Manchuria with their own weapons and tanks, and military supplies captured from the Japanese. The Nationalist forces were weak, and the war concluded with Communist victory in mainland China. Chiang Kai-shek and two million Nationalist soldiers retreated to the island of Taiwan, and Chiang set up the Republic of China. America protected Chiang Kai-shek, and the containment policy against potential Communist advance began.
1949 – Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and did not recognize Taiwan, treated them as a rebellious group. Mao took over every aspect of Chinese life. All economic and cultural activity, schools, military, re-education of all the people to the communist system were all controlled by the PRC. Land reform campaigns forcibly seized land from landlords and redistributed it among peasants, who were encouraged to overthrow and kill landlords. The campaign to consolidate the power of the CCP continued, suppressing counterrevolutionaries, with mass trials and murder of millions of Nationalist supporters, businessmen and intellectuals.
1950-1953 – The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. PRC supporting the North, fought the USA supporting the South. The war ended in a stand-off creating the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to separate North and South Korea.
1958-1962 – Great Leap Forward was the PRC’s economic and social campaign. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into an industrial society through the formation of people’s communes. But the cost was nearly 100 million deaths from man-made famine and mass executions, since private farming was prohibited, and people were moved from farming to industrial production; thus people starved.
1966-1976 – The Cultural Revolution, was a decade-long period of political and social chaos, launched by Mao Zedong, turning against his own Party, to purge the Communist Party of “bad thought,” i.e. capitalism and traditional Chinese culture, and re-impose Maoism as the dominant ideology in the CCP and China. Kids tuned on parents, students turned on teachers and friends on friends for not following the Little Red Book of Mao’s sacred thoughts. Mao’s way was the only thought. The Red Guards, a mass student-led paramilitary social movement, heeded Mao’s call to burn and destroy cultural artifacts, Chinese literature, paintings, religious symbols and temples.
1972 – President Richard Nixon visited the People’s Republic of China, where he met with Chairman Mao Zedong and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. This historical visit opened China to the rest of the world for trade. We opened American markets and welcomed Chinese products into the United States. We witnessed the rise of China, as they industrialized, learned Western technologies, copied the West, and quickly became an industrial superpower, without changing their foundation in communist political ideology. Statism is the economic system of China, corporations run by the CCP, state-run industries.
1990-today – Business leaders and the Communist Party have joined together to became one entity in order to unite economic and political power for the benefit of the elite class, not for the people. Globalist elites of America are tied in with the elites of China. The Clintons, Biden, Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and there are many other examples of globalists including McKinsey & Company, whose former senior partner Peter Walker was recently exposed on Tucker Carlson fawning over China. The globalist media as well, NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, ABC News, Newsweek, and all the others; these Western globalist elites hate the West. They hate America. They foresee a one-world order run by technocrats, without freedom or democracy. They see China’s rise to dominate the West as a positive thing, so they can build up their own bottom lines. They see China as a friend and America as the enemy. They are all anti-Trump because Trump is anti-globalist and he is standing up against the threat of China’s economic and political domination.
President Clinton gave China most-favored-nation status, starting free trade with China. He brought them in as global players in the world economy, pushed Congress for their entry into the WTO, made favorable trade deals, and moved US manufacturing to China, including American aerospace, nuclear, missile, and military technology, and pushed to open up the U.S. industrial base to Chinese offshoring. Presidents Bush and Obama continued these favorable China policies, to foster our nearly total dependence on Chinese manufacturing. President Trump was the first president to stand up to the threat of China and to stop their outrageous “theft of intellectual property,” “illegal dumping,” and “devastating currency manipulation.”
“China is already at war with us in the economic sphere. It consistently flouts the rules and breaks its promises. Its goal is to outstrip the United States, and it is not averse to undermining the existing international economic and political order to do so.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 240
“Few Americans have yet grasped either the depth of China’s historic grievance against the West or its vengeful envy of the United States in particular, or the breadth of its resurgent imperial ambitions. China is not just an emerging superpower with a grudge, though that would be worrisome enough. It is the hegemon, waiting to reclaim its rightful position as the center of the world.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 32
“Only the Chinese people, by overthrowing the current Communist dynasty in favor of democratic rule, can … diminish its relentless drive for domination.” -Steven Mosher, Bully of Asia, p. 291
Call NYC Elected Officials on Question of Testing and Tracing Shadow Populations
CALL YOUR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS!!
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WE THE PEOPLE WANT ANSWERS!!
**** Read Open Letter to NYC Elected Officials below ****
CALL, WRITE, AND EMAIL YOUR REPS.
ASK: WHAT IS THE PLAN TO TEST AND TRACE THE MORE THAN ONE MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SHADOWS IN NYC?
ASK THESE QUESTIONS:
ASK YOUR STATE ELECTEDS: How is mass testing and contact tracing going to be done by May 15 according to the Governor’s blueprint, so NYC can come safely out of lockdown, when large swaths of the city’s population are unaccountable, undocumented, homeless, and living in the shadows?
ASK YOUR CITY ELECTEDS: What is the city’s plan to identify, test, trace and quarantine those who test positive, from NYC’s most virus-prone populations of over one million illegal immigrants, homeless, and inmates recently released from city jails?
Find your New York State Assembly member here.
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We the people have to rise up and hold our elected officials accountable for a solution to the question of testing, tracing and quarantining the shadow populations of NYC!!!
It was their progressive policies that welcomed them here to our city and created this colossal mess!!
Open Letter to NYC Elected Officials on Question of Testing and Tracing Shadow Populations From the Queens Village Republican Club.
www.QVGOP.org
April 27, 2020
CONTACT: Joe Concannon
PHONE: 347-946-1931
EMAIL: INFO@qvgop.org
Governor Cuomo announced that New York will be on lockdown until May 15 in order to diminish the spread of the deadly virus and to insure there will be no renewed outbreak, and then will re-evaluate whether or not we could even move to Phase One, which is a gradual lifting of restrictions. At this point no one, not the governor or any other elected official knows when New York will be safe to open for business.
The key element in the governor’s blueprint to open NY is mass testing and contact tracing. But how is this going to be done by May 15 when large swaths of the city’s population are unaccountable, undocumented, and living in the shadows? This includes the city’s most virus-prone populations of over one million undocumented immigrants, homeless, and inmates recently released from city jails.
This is not a partisan issue. This is about protecting all New Yorkers and getting NYC back to work safely. It is well known that many immigrants here illegally are scared to visit a doctor or hospital to seek treatment for fear of being arrested and deported. How much more unlikely will it be that they would divulge their name, address and personal information for testing or submit to interviews for tracing their contacts?
Now that everyone must be identified, tested, and traced, how are we supposed to identify and do the same to the undocumented populations of the city? The hardest hit pandemic hotspots in NYC are Elmhurst, the epicenter of the virus, Corona, Jackson Heights and Flushing, and other towns, home to vast proportions of the city’s undocumented immigrants. The #1 priority should be to test these zip codes first.
Will the information the city and state has already gathered be released? Will the tracing be done by public health personnel trained to do this work, rather than community groups or churches? How is the MTA going to make sure the subways are safe from the virus if these shadow populations are not tested or traced?
These are the primary questions. We want answers from our elected officials. Please refer to the complete letter here.
