{"id":45063,"date":"2021-01-02T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45063"},"modified":"2021-01-02T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T13:22:47","slug":"china-is-taking-us-out-from-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=45063","title":{"rendered":"China Is Taking Us Out From Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Patrick Byrne: China Is Taking Us Out From Within<!--more-->by Li Hai<\/h1>\n<p>The Epoch Times<br \/>\nPatrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock, said that China is \u201ctaking us out from within\u201d during an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corsination.com\/patrick-byrne-on-communist-chinese-interference-in-us-2020-electionmp-2\/\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with Dr. Jerome Corsi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/app.videosquirrel.app\/watch\/1845\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThe greatest way to fight a war, in the Chinese way of thinking, is not to have to fight at all. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve done here,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Byrne said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_tablet__3QEBr Advert_mobile__1rlLc Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>Byrne studied Chinese history at Beijing Normal University from 1983 to 1984. He\u00a0has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese studies from Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThough we spend a trillion dollars a year between our military and our intelligence, national security circles \u2026 that trillion dollars we have and we\u2019ve built, you know, things that can stop all their planes and their missiles and all kinds of things. But we missed the one they use, which is not a fight at all, not firing a bullet or missile at all, but taking us out from within. And that\u2019s what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byrne pointed out that the Chinese regime is\u00a0<strong>engaged in \u201ca slow coup.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a revolution. The stages of such a revolution are very well mapped out. We understand this.\u00a0<u><em><strong>It\u2019s demoralization, disorientation, crisis, then normalization: those four steps<\/strong><\/em><\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe demoralization is what happened this year with COVID,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Byrne continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Patrick-Byrne-700x420.jpeg?itok=-ANMHMAg\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Patrick-Byrne-700x420.jpeg?itok=-ANMHMAg\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Patrick-Byrne-700x420.jpeg?itok=-ANMHMAg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e26ee0aa-b74b-4145-a32b-60c6fd1d9ff2\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"Advert_desktop__1J5vD Advert_align__N0_fw Advert_placement__1I4yb\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe disorientation is this kookiness we\u2019ve been seeing for about six months,\u201d Byrne said, referring to Antifa, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other things, such as buildings and police stations being lit on fire, and people being harassed for their political views while out dining.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s all to disorient you. It\u2019s to tell you, \u2018You are not living in the America you thought you were living in,\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThe crisis is, clearly an imposter president has been stood up,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Byrne added in reference to the contested election results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He asserted that Beijing only needed to secure six counties to steal the election.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>Political scientists can tell you, to steal the United States you don\u2019t need to cheat in elections everywhere. You need six counties where you cheat the heck out of those counties.\u00a0<\/strong>And you can flip the six states that they are in and thereby flip the Electoral College and steal the country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1228611992-1200x800.jpg?itok=0FoFRepx\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1228611992-1200x800.jpg?itok=0FoFRepx\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/GettyImages-1228611992-1200x800.jpg?itok=0FoFRepx\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"16eea853-3a41-4ce8-8bac-5c1c6e15b41f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Paramilitary police officers wearing masks march next to the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Sept. 20, 2020. (Nicolas Asfouri\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Byrne mentioned an election irregularity in Atlanta, Georgia, where a water main break was reported, and poll observers and media were told to leave. However, four people stayed and kept counting the ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The water leak \u201cwas actually a urinal that had overflowed,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/reported-burst-pipe-in-atlanta-ballot-counting-area-was-overflowing-urinal-investigator_3607741.html\">according to the chief investigator<\/a>\u00a0of the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The last phase is normalization, Byrne said, in which the \u201cmedia is just beating it into your head.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey\u2019re violating every precept of journalistic integrity,\u201d Byrne said, criticizing the media for ignoring the evidence that has been presented claiming election fraud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byrne pointed out that thousands of people risked their lives to testify in affidavits, telling of the fraud and irregularities they witnessed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cSo those are the four stages we\u2019re going through, and it\u2019s my assertion that the hand of China is behind this.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byrne made it clear that he loves Chinese people and Chinese history, but the Chinese regime \u201chas proven to be as treacherous and ungrateful as anyone could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhat the Chinese did is they studied us, and they saw that corruption is our weakest point. And they infiltrated us, and they corrupted exactly institutions that they needed to corrupt in order to allow what\u2019s going on now to happen.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 10 years, there\u2019ll be prison camps with organs being harvested just as there are in western China,\u201d Byrne went on to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo we cannot bend a knee to this under any circumstance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chinese regime has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-lawmakers-prepare-bill-aiming-to-stop-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china_3590602.html\">killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs<\/a>\u00a0for more than 20 years, according to a panel of experts who attended a virtual conference hosted by the advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) on Nov. 19, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chinatribunal.com\/\">independent investigations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the upcoming Jan. 6 rally in Washington, Byrne said that \u201cthis is your last chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cIf you bend the knee to this rigged election, they have corrupted the most elementary concept of our tradition, consent of the governed, and you never will get another chance.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Byrne studied the Constitution\u2019s principles when he was young. He has\u00a0a master\u2019s degree from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar\u00a0and received his doctorate in political philosophy from Stanford University. He indicated that the \u201ccore atomic concept\u201d in the United States\u2019 liberal tradition is the consent of the governed, which is determined by free, fair, and transparent elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cWe do not bend the knee. This is what makes us different. And all over the world, there are people looking to us, hoping we show that we are the exceptional country. This is our chance.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/patrick-byrne-china-taking-us-out-within\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/patrick-byrne-china-taking-us-out-within<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Byrne: China Is Taking Us Out From Within<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}