This is war

OPINION:

This past weekend in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, an unholy union of capricious communists and lackadaisical libertarians organized anti-war rallies. Though I defend free speech and do so even more vigorously for those in opposition to my own views, these events show that we are losing the information battle against our authoritarian adversaries.

While our own population publicly paraded on behalf of weakness in the face of our jingoistic enemies, I found propaganda literature of the Chinese Communist Party — the newspaper China Daily — being distributed in my apartment building at the heart of our democratic republic. China Daily is a vile publication that advocates for the genocide of Uyghur Muslims, the illegal invasion of Taiwan, espionage in American cities and intellectual property theft online. It encourages us to return the balloon that traversed our entire nation, flagrantly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act owing to ownership by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

These anti-war rallies could not have come at a worse time. These clueless protesters are incorrect; this is not a proxy conflict, but a true war. We must rally the troops, understand that the Ukrainian people are heroically preventing a third world war by serving as a bulwark against Putin’s plutocratic plunder of Europe and prohibit true foreign misinformation from being spread in our midst rather than target innocent Americans for expressing their constitutionally protected liberties.

Not only must we defy our fascist foes by increasing our military budget, but we must also win the war for hearts and minds.

HENRY J. WILSON

Washington