The Queen Welcomes President Trump as We Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

PRESIDENT TRUMP AND FIRST LADY MELANIA ARRIVE ‌LONDON ON THE EVE OF THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF TIANANMEN SQUARE. It will be a 3-day state visit, despite all the Progressive-Globalist protests. The Queen has decided and that is that. And, when she met President Trump at the entry to Buckingham Palace, she warmly welcomed him and Melania, looking very much as if she really counts President Trump a friend with her motion to "come on in" as we Americans might say. • • • OF COURSE, THE BRITISH MEDIA DON'T LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP. But, Trump being Trump, he returned the favor, calling ringleader London Mayor Sadiq Khan "DeBlasio but shorter." • BizPac Review gave short shrift to the Guardian article on the visit. The Guardian titles was "Trump ‘is not welcome’ in UK," but BizPAc Review said the evidence didn't support that view, as President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were welcomed by Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. The more centrist Sky News actually went out to interview "people on the street" who were outside Buckingham Palace waiting for a glimpse of the President and First Lady. One American couple were allowed to say on TV that they like President Trump and what he has "done for America." • BUT, said BizPac Review : "The editorial board at the left-wing UK newspaper the Guardian thinks someone died and made them king. In an incoherent and poorly written op-ed, the Guardian says US President Trump 'is not welcome' in the UK. Why? Because they claim Trump is a 'threat to peace, democracy, and the climate of our planet.' President Trump is visiting the UK from June 3-5. His first stop is Buckingham Palace, where he and First Lady Melania Trump were warmly greeted by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles, the future king of England." • What is the Guardian afraid of?? The same thing every left-leaning media outlet and leader in Europe is afraid of -- that President Trump’s visit will boost the populist movement. Here's what the Guardian’s editorial board Fake News piece had to say : "Mr. Trump is a demagogue who represents a threat to peace, democracy and the climate of our planet. As elected leader of the UK’s closest ally, he can’t be ignored. But making him, his wife and four adult children the honoured guests of the Queen risks legitimising his destructive policies, his cronyism and his leanings towards autocracy. The greatest danger of the visit, which will see the president meet royals at Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace and Clarence House as well as at the D-day 75th anniversary commemorations in Portsmouth, is not that it will boost his ego.The more serious threat to the host nation is that Mr Trump’s presence and public statements will boost anti-democratic and right-wing populist elements here.” • Got that?? President Trump may actually give encouragement to the European -- including British -- citizens who are desperately trying to take back their countries from the socialist-globalist European Union. • President Trump and Prince Charles inspected an honor guard during the welcome ceremony at Buckingham Palace and the President talked to one of the Bear-Hat Palace Guards and chuckled with him. • Clearly, Great Britain is rolling out the red carpet for President Donald Trump. Besides lunch with the Queen, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Cathedral followed by a tour of the Cathedral with the Dean, and a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on Monday, President Trump is scheduled to hold business meetings with Prime Minister Theresa May and the Duke of York, who represents Britain worldwide for business opportunities, ant then travel to Portsmouth to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. • But, all the Guardian could do was pathetically whine that Prime Minister May should "censure President Trump’s recent actions in the United States. It is incumbent upon Mrs May and others to challenge him directly -- or risk appearing to give the assault on women’s rights, and bullying of neighbouring states, a seal of approval. The harm caused by the choice to indulge Mr. Trump will ripple beyond our shores too.” • We really have to wonder just what peyote these socialist anti-Trumpers are smoking. All President Trump has done is strengthen US military determination in the Middle East, put a barrier up in front of Iran's nuclear weaponry ambitions, make Israel more secure, and brought NATO into the 21st century. But, none of that counts for these insane socialists who see the truth that will defeat them in all of President Trump's actions -- he is preventing them from making Europe and America socialist regimes with elites -- including their propagandist media -- in charge of everything and citizens robbed of all governing power. The populist movement in the UK and across Europe was growing before Donald Trump took office because Europeans are sick and tired of leftist globalist policies that undermine national sovereignty and pride. They also object to Europe becoming a dumping ground for unskilled third-world refugees -- some of whom are dangerous, violent criminals and some of whom are engaged in stripping Europe of its Christian democratic culture and religion and making it an Islamic outpost. • Why not protest others, Europe?? There is one country that actually does what you accuse President trump of doing. CHINA, for example. Britain rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the British media barely objecting to his 2015 state visit. Yet, Xi -- China’s president for life -- routinely jails journalists, has imprisoned and tried to 'brainwash' into docile compliance a million Moslems hidden away in internment camps, and has the worst pollution record in the world. For the record, says BizPAc Review, "China emits more carbon dioxide than the United States and the EU combined. Where’s the left-wing outrage?" There is NO OUTRAGE because China, like European socialists, tries every day to suppress popular control of government. Only President Trump stands in their way. And, while we are commenting on socialist Europe -- let-s not forget that London Mayor Sadiq Khan is ruining London -- a once-majestic city that is, as BizPAc Review notes, "being besieged by knife attacks, acid attacks, theft, and terrorist activity. In the three years since Khan became mayor in 2016, violent crime has skyrocketed. He excuses terrorist activity and violent attacks, calling them 'part and parcel of living in a big city.' " • What is seriously troubling about all these European -- and American -- socialist elites-in-training is that so many people believe their garbage. • • • THE TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE. June 3-4, 1989. In the middle of a peaceful student rally to honor a dead freedom fighter 30 years ago, a rally now called the Tiananmen Square Revolution, not only were students shot and rolled over with tanks, but the heroic efforts of President Nixon to open up China and build a USA-China relationship were crushed. • The Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor writes about it in Monday's edition in an article titled "Tiananmen Square’s haunted silence, 30 years later." Tharoor wrotes : "China’s democratic dream was snuffed out as night fell on June 3, 1989. In mid-April, thousands of idealistic university students had gathered in the heart of Beijing to mourn the passing of an admired Communist Party official who had championed liberalizing reforms. In the weeks that followed, their vigil turned into a much larger protest for greater political freedoms. Students erected a statue of foam and papier-mâché dubbed the 'Goddess of Democracy' not far from the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong that hangs in the square. At their peak, the sit-ins and protests drew perhaps over a million people. But they also drew the ire and terror of a Communist Party cabal in power that feared its grip slipping. Tanks rolled in. Dissenters were gunned down. By the end of June 4, the protests had been violently dispersed, the square was cleared, the statue destroyed. No one knows how many were killed by Chinese security forces, but estimates range from the hundreds to the thousands. 'There was blood and brain matter all over the ground,' Dong Shengkun, a Beijing factory worker who spent 17 years in prison for participating in the protests, told my colleague Anna Fifield. 'There were dead people lying in the streets. Those who survived got up and helped the injured back indoors or into the alleys....It was a massacre. No one could have imagined our army would do such a thing to their own people.' " • Ishaan Tharoor says : "Since the events at Tiananmen Square, the world has witnessed worse acts of state-sponsored violence, more brazen scenes of bloody regime-backed repression. But what happened 30 years ago in Beijing remains one of those seminal pivots in global history, the moment when the political fate of the world’s most populous nation turned in a sharp and brutal direction. Part of what makes the memory of Tiananmen so important is the fragility of that memory itself. After a crackdown on a generation of reform-minded students and pro-democracy protesters, China’s political leadership tried to expunge the legacy of this dissent from public consciousness. They have been largely successful, ensuring references to the protests and massacres do not appear in local media, school textbooks or even Internet searches. Hundreds of millions of people in the country, to this day, have no knowledge of what happened. To their people, the Communist Party leaders insisted that ambitious economic growth would be impossible were it not for the supreme authority of the one-party state. By the mid-1990s, the United States and its democratic allies had also accepted that Faustian bargain. 'The West’s engagement policy -- based on the hope that trade and investment would bring about democratic changes in China -- prevailed,' wrote Wang Dan, a Tiananmen-era student leader who now lives in exile in the United States. 'But instead of instigating liberalization, Western capital fattened the pockets of the Communist Party leaders, giving them the power to prolong their rule by silencing dissent at home and expanding the country’s global clout.' " • Tharoor states : "China’s current leader, President Xi Jinping, has dispelled any illusions that the ruling party would usher in any sort of democratic change. He ruthlessly purged rival party elites and extended his rule to that potentially of a lifetime presidency. The already narrow space for Chinese civil society has been squeezed; activists and nosy journalists get detained, disappeared or otherwise silenced. China’s new digital prowess means state repression is as sophisticated and robust as it has ever been, with artificial intelligence, facial recognition technologies and drones all harnessed in a 21st-century Orwellian surveillance state. And old methods are still in vogue, too : As many as 3 million people in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, home to the Uighurs, a predominantly Moslem Turkic minority, were reportedly imprisoned in 'reeducation camps' and jails in the past couple of years. 'How did we end up here? Does the world care that China is perfecting the police state?' lamented Wu’er Kaixi, another exiled Tiananmen activist who also happens to be an ethnic Uighur, in reminiscences compiled by the Washington Post. 'Three decades ago, we enjoyed support from around the globe, and we expected such support to last, particularly from democratic countries. It didn’t.' Xi’s dragnet is so vast that even Marxist student leaders are being disappeared by the Communist regime, which is now pushing a post-Communist nationalism anchored in a storybook history of China’s ancient civilization. Many young people in China admit to being politically apathetic, a position largely born out of pragmatic necessity." • But, says Tharoor, "...though it buys acquiescence abroad through its economic clout and enforces relative silence at home, China’s leadership is hardly comfortable. That, too, is a legacy of Tiananmen Square. 'For authoritarian regimes like China’s, history is power, because their political systems are legitimized through myths,' argued Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Beijing. 'The problem for the government is that historical truth is hard to suppress. The authoritarian state can prevent it from becoming an immediate threat and can eliminate it from the lives of most citizens, but the truth stubbornly endures.' " • Tharoor says that "...slowly, some in China are waking up to it. 'Though censorship has left many Chinese of my generation in the dark about Tiananmen Square and other political issues, rapid economic growth has at the same time brought previously unimaginable opportunities -- many of us have grown up in material comfort and have traveled and studied abroad,' wrote Yaqiu Wang, a researcher on China for Human Rights Watch. 'Through education, the Internet and our engagement with the outside world, we know that we are entitled to certain rights and freedoms.' " • “The more China pursues power and prosperity through technological modernization and engagement with the global economy, the more unwilling are students, intellectuals, and the rising middle class to adhere to a 1950s-style ideological conformity," according to Andrew Nathan, a historian at Columbia University, who spoke to Tharoor. Despite government clampdowns and the threat of detention, says Tharoor : "...some Chinese writers have compiled oral histories of what took place at Tiananmen Square. Leaked party documents, recently printed by dogged publishers in Hong Kong, revealed the internal disagreements within the Communist Party over how to handle the student demonstrations, as well as the ruthless methods used to sideline officials disturbed by the bloody crackdown. And Chinese academics abroad -- and a few intrepid souls at home -- continue to challenge the state’s narrative of what befell an ill-fated pro- democracy movement. 'To the departed, I write to you across oceans and oceans of time,' wrote Yangyang Cheng, a Chinese scientist at Cornell University in the United States, in a moving ode to those lost 30 years ago. 'May my memory reach you where laws of physics fail.' ” • • • REAL CLEAR HISTORY WRITES ABOUT TIANANMEN SQUARE. Real Clear History posted an article on Monday that is a reprint from theberlinzoo.blogspot.com of June 4, 2009. Titled "Deng Xiaoping's Bloody Power Play," the 2009 blog says : "On the fateful days leading up to June 4, 1989, Zhao Ziyang frantically tried to halt a looming bloody crackdown. He sought an audience with one man, in whose hands the future of China’s liberalization teetered. But Deng Xiaoping wasn’t listening. He might’ve been nearly deaf, but at the age of 84, Deng understood how to keep the reins of power perfectly. Zhao, in his just-published posthumous memoir -- Prisoner of the State -- made it clear that the events on June 4 and beyond were conducted according to the exact wishes of the most powerful man in China. In order to understand the bloody crackdown and all its consequences, it is first necessary to understand Deng Xiaoping the man. Deng had a decision to make, and it was nearly his alone. In this critical hour, Deng proved that he was unable to overcome his own personal history and obsession with power. The student protests began on April 15, 1989, initially as a gathering to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang, and to voice their displeasure at the government’s corruption. Hu was Zhao’s predecessor as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the leading reformer of his time. He had been purged by Deng and the reactionary faction in the CCP because, as a true reformer, Hu wanted China’s liberalization to go beyond just economic transformation. China had opened its doors to the outside world for a decade at this point, but politically, it was nearly as repressive as it had been under Mao. Rampant corruption plagued the CCP at all levels, and public discontent was growing fiercer. The students extended their protest for over a month, both during and after the visit in May by Mikhail Gorbachev -- a reformer himself and the architect of Glasnost. The protest now featured a hunger strike and a demand for direct dialogue with party officials. Over 100,000 students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square, despite repeated orders to disperse. The scenes of students in a state of near anarchy haunted Deng. In 1968, at the height of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, it was Deng himself who had been purged and banished to work in a factory in Jiangxi Province. His children were rounded up by Peking University students and forced to denounce their father and 'expose his crimes.' As detailed in Mao - The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Deng’s 24-year-old son Pufang tried to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window, only to survive and was paralyzed from the waist down. Deng and his wife were not even told of his condition until a year later and not allowed to see Pufang until 1971. It was the single-most traumatic event in Deng’s turbulent personal and political life. Now, seeing the same Peking University students nearing yet another riot, Deng was not going to heed Zhao’s pleas to go soft and slow. In his mind, he had come too far to allow his grip on power to be loosened by the same kind of radicals. Deng had regained his political footing in the waning days of Mao’s life. With a country nearly shattered by the Cultural Revolution, Mao needed someone competent to restore order, so he freed Deng from his house arrest and political exile of nearly a decade. After Mao’s death, Deng outmaneuvered Mao’s widow and her 'Gang of Four' to become the party chairman and the ruler of China. Though Deng -- an economist by trade -- favored economic liberalization, he was hesitant to bring about rapid political reforms. He had allowed reformers such as Hu and Zhao to become party chiefs, but in the face of hardline opposition, he always backed down rather swiftly. Deng purged Hu following a massive student demonstration in late 1986. The same fate befell Zhao, who was ousted days before the crackdown, and lived under house arrest until his death in 2005. On June 4, 1989, the nascent movement toward political accountability was ruthlessly crushed by guns and tanks. But the bloodshed didn’t stop in Tiananmen Square and its immediate vicinity, as executions, prison sentences and purges were carried out throughout China. There has not been any political mass protest in China since. After Tiananmen, Deng consolidated his power and remained the 'paramount leader' of China for the remainder of his life. No doubt he gained certain satisfaction at the outcome of the crackdown. Merely five months later, the Berlin Wall fell and the communist stranglehold on Eastern Europe collapsed. Yet 20 years later, the Chinese Communists’ grip on China in all facets of life is as firm as ever. Most of China’s young today know little to nothing about the Tiananmen Massacre. June 4 will come and go as any other day on the calendar. But just to be sure that absolutely no one will be talking about the incident, the Chinese government has taken care to shut down Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites for the moment.Today’s Chinese leaders are thus true disciples of the CCP. Just like Mao and Deng before them, these kindred spirits can agree on one thing: Power grows from the barrel of the gun." • On Monday, a BBC reporter with a laptop showing the iconic photo of the student standing in front to the tank in Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, walked along a street in Beijing and showed it to people. They either didn't recognize the photo, were afraid to say they recognized it, or as one man said, "How dare you show that photo." President Trump is working hard to bring China into some semblance of lawful behavior, but Europe does not care to recognize his efforts. • • • THE TRUTH SHOULD MAKE POPE FRANCIS SHUDDER. But, it doesn't. The Argentinian Pope who favors liberation theology and socialism over democracy, thinks his China decision was the right one. • The Catholic News Agency's Courtney Grogan wrote this on May 29 : "Pope Francis said in a Spanish interview published May 28....'My dream is China. I love the Chinese very much,' Pope Francis said. 'Relations with China are good, very good. The other day two Chinese bishops came to me, one who came from the underground church and the other from the patriotic church, already recognized as brothers. They came here to visit us. This is an important step. They know that they must be good patriots and that they must take care of the Catholic flock,' he continued. When asked if some Catholics 'felt sidelined' by the Sino-Vatican agreement signed in September 2018, the Pope responded, 'Catholics in general no. Catholics are happy to be united now. In fact Easter was celebrated all together, all together and in all the churches. There were no problems this year,' he said." • Grogan pointed out that : "Chinese government officials detained Father Peter Zhang Guangjun, an underground priest of the diocese of Xuanhua, after Palm Sunday Mass on April 14. Guanjun was one of three priests held in detention by authorities in China in April 2019." • A socialist Pope who thinks China will abide by the agreement he concocted and allow Catholics and other Christians to freely practice their religion. What sacrilege we are witnessing. • • • DEAR READERS, and what is the result of these brainless offspring of Western Civilization who now believe it was all wrong and that totalitarian socialism is the future's best path??? We have had Venezuela and Cuba and the Soviet Union laid out before us as examples of socialism's failures. BUT, what about an example that cuts much closer to home. We read today about Mayor Sadiq Khan's London collapsing under his socialist-Labourite government. Closer still ??? what about this from the Gateway Pundit that posted an article with this title on May 30 -- "LIBERAL UTOPIA: LAPD Officers Diagnosed With Typhus Stemming From Mountains of Rotting Rat-Infested Trash in the Streets." Are we talking about Kolkata (Calcutta) or Lagos or Caracas?? NO. We are talking about LOS ANGELES. Here is the Gateway Pundit's article : "Mountains of rotting rat-infested trash has piled sky-high in the liberal utopia of Los Angeles despite millions of dollars allocated for clean up and prevention. In October, LA Mayor Garcetti promised to clean up the heaps of rat-infested trash piling up around Los Angeles to help combat the Typhus epidemic. Even though the Mayor allocated millions of dollars to help clean up the streets in LA, especially Skid Row, known as 'the Typhus Zone,' there are still mountains of trash everywhere and the infectious disease is worsening. Several months ago the large piles of trash were cleared out, but the problem is back and much worse than before. Last fall, typhus began spreading across the homeless population through fleas that live on the rats that rummage through the trash and Liz Greenwood, the Deputy City Attorney who works at City Hall contracted the disease. Symptoms of typhus include fever, headache and a rash. Untreated cases are fatal. Now law enforcement officers in Los Angeles have been diagnosed with Typhus. NBC Los Angeles reported : "An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Central Station has contracted Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, and another is suspected of contracting typhus, a disease carried by rats and fleas, the LAPD told the I-Team Wednesday. A spokesman for the LAPD confirmed to the I-Team that an officer stationed at Central Division has typhus-like symptoms but has not yet been diagnosed with the disease. Typhus can be spread by infected fleas that live on rats that have been linked to growing homeless encampments." • Heaps of trash, rats, typhus, exploding homeless population and tent cities. That is socialism and it has arrived in America in at least three major cities -- Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City. And the media thinks President Trump is the leader with "destructive policies. " • The media demonizing of President Trump may not be sacrilege, but it is awfully close to it. And, on Sunday, June 2, hundreds of Christian leaders and congregations across the US joined Franklin Graham in a special day of prayer for President Donald Trump. Fox News reported the announcement about the event last week : "Reverend Franklin Graham is calling for a 'special day of prayer' for President Trump in light of 'demonic attacks' against him. Graham, the CEO of Samaritan's Purse, is joined by more than 250 faith leaders across the nation to set aside Sunday, June 2, to pray that 'God would protect, strengthen, embolden, and direct him.' 'I don't think any President in modern history has come under attack day after day after day by almost all the media,' Graham told Tony Perkins on 'Washington Watch,' a national radio show put on by the Family Research Council. 'That's just never happened. And it distracts the President. It weakens our country.' Graham, who called Trump 'the most Christian-friendly President in my lifetime,' said this isn't an endorsement of Trump but rather simply a day set aside for prayer. 'I think of Pastor Brunson and Turkey; he'd still be in that prison if it hadn't been for Donald Trump. And he has a desire to help the church, to help Christians....Is he a perfect person? Absolutely not. Is he the best example of the Christian faith? No way,' Graham said. 'But there's something in his heart where God has placed him there to defend the Christian faith and religious liberty. And so I appreciate that about him, and we need to try to lift him up in prayer and support him where we can.' " • Faith leaders who signed on to the day of prayer include John Hagee, pastor of Cornerstone Church and national chairman of Christians United for Israel, the largest pro-Israel organization in America; former Republican Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee; Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas; Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, Dr. Alveda King; "Duck Dynasty" stars Phil and Al Robertson; Reverend Sam Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Darrell Scott, CEO of the National Diversity Coalition for Trump; Jerry Falwell Jr.; and Dr. James and Shirley Dobson, who lead "Family Talk." • The Reverend Graham cited the call to pray for leaders from 1 Timothy 2 : "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (v. 1–4)" • Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC) said : "1 Timothy 2:1–2 calls us to pray for all people including those who are in authority. I have had the honor of praying with and for elected leaders from all political parties including President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush. Scripture affirms it is good and appropriate that we pray for our elected leaders, independent of political party. I pray that political leaders allow for God's guidance. Our prayers should include the requests that elected leaders govern with justice, mercy, truth, integrity, and humility. Our prayers should include President Trump, Vice President Pence, the Cabinet, the majority and minority leaders in the House and Senate, and all the members of the Supreme Court, that they would legislate and execute laws that lead to justice, peace, and flourishing, ever-mindful that our gospel allegiance should transcend partisanship and that like us, every President, administration, and Congress are in need of prayers." • Let us pray for President Trump's safety and success as he takes America's message of responsible freedom and personal liberties to Europe.