The Manchurian Candidate
The Conservative Monitor
Nov 1998 WJ Rayment
In the late fifties or early sixties there was a movie called the Manchurian Candidate. It was a political thriller starring Laurence Harvey and ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra (RIP). The plain skinny on the movie, after all the plot twists, is that the Communist Chinese Government is attempting to influence American politics by finagling their mole into the presidency. The movie is far fetched in that it relies on hypnotism and mind control to account for the abhorrent actions of the bad guys.
Interesting that when a real Manchurian Candidate - a president in the hip pocket of the Chinese Government - comes to light, fancy explanations are unnecessary. The facts are pretty straight forward. The Clinton/Gore campaign took money from the red Chinese Army through Liu Chaioying. They also took big donations from the chairman of Loral Corporation - a company trying to sell high technology to the Chinese Military. President Clinton, over the objections of advisors, allowed the transfer of military technology to the Chinese. The Chinese put this technology to use to target warheads against the United States, a capability that the Chinese military did not have before our erstwhile president became involved in the matter.
The motivation of the president? - a few hundred thousand for his campaign. It seems the president sold out his country for less than the price of a house in Beverly Hills. If allegations are true, he was bought pretty cheap.
The motivations of the Chinese are obvious - military power.
The increase in capability by the Chinese, besides its ominous consequences for the US, bodes ill for the rest of the world. China's new American bought technology has sparked a nuclear arms race in Asia. India has been compelled by the hostile Chinese to dedicate themselves to their own nuclear program, culminating in nuclear tests within the last few weeks. This, in turn, has pushed the Pakistanis to work on their nuke program and to look to China for help. Meanwhile North Korea is looking to renew its contribution to the proliferation of nuclear arms in the area.
In the movie, "The Manchurian Candidate", the outcome, if the Chinese candidate became president, was portrayed as vague and menacing. Well, now we know what happens, the worst possible outcome, a nuclear proliferation in an out of control spiral whose consequences could be devastating to all mankind and a definite diminution of US security. WJRayment
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