The Price of Treason in National Defense

Startling piece in The American Thinker of July 21, 2010 anno domini. Entitled "America's Fast Track to the Third World," by Dan Gorski, it is a sobering account of how China has taken over the strategic industries that are vital to maintaining our freedom and standard of living. This branch of the treason industry did not start with Obama, but goes back at least as far as (I bet you think I'm going to say Bill Clinton) Richard Nixon's great grain robbery, ball bearings for Russian MIRVs. And yes continuing with Bill Clinton's dealings with loral, allowing them to sell technology to China to build intercontinental ballistic missiles.

But these deals, rotten as they were, were nothing compared to what is happening now. At least, we were still left with a means of self-defense. Read the article below, then get your friends together and start calling your congressperson en-masse and demand a bill of impeachment be brought against Unpresident Barack Obama.

From The American Spectator

July 21, 2010

America's Fast Track to the Third World

By Dan Gorski

The Department of Defense has sounded an alarm about our access to a strategically vital group of metals called the rare earth elements. A report on the problem prepared by the GAO is not pretty. It concludes that the Chinese now control the production, processing, and manufacture of final products of these vital metals and now own the patents for many of these processes.

The worries of the DoD are well-justified; missile guidance systems, smart bombs, night vision gear, unmanned aircraft, and much more are dependent on the rare earth elements in some way. Without these metals, our weapons technology would be approximately that of the Korean War. Battery-powered tools, hybrid vehicles, the environmentalists' precious windmills, and almost everything else electric cannot get by without them.

Rare earth elements have been described as the vitamins of modern technology. It took Beijing approximately twenty years to strip this technology from its birthplace in the United States and move it to China.

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