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January
02
2021

Patrick Byrne: China Is Taking Us Out From Within
Li Hai

Patrick Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock, said that China is “taking us out from within” during an interview with Dr. Jerome Corsi on Monday.

“The greatest way to fight a war, in the Chinese way of thinking, is not to have to fight at all. That’s what they’ve done here,” Byrne said.

Byrne studied Chinese history at Beijing Normal University from 1983 to 1984. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese studies from Dartmouth College.

“Though we spend a trillion dollars a year between our military and our intelligence, national security circles … that trillion dollars we have and we’ve 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’s what’s going on.”

Byrne pointed out that the Chinese regime is engaged in “a slow coup.”

“It’s a revolution. The stages of such a revolution are very well mapped out. We understand this. It’s demoralization, disorientation, crisis, then normalization: those four steps.”

“The demoralization is what happened this year with COVID,” Byrne continued.

“The disorientation is this kookiness we’ve been seeing for about six months,” 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.

“That’s all to disorient you. It’s to tell you, ‘You are not living in the America you thought you were living in,’” he said.

“The crisis is, clearly an imposter president has been stood up,” Byrne added in reference to the contested election results.

He asserted that Beijing only needed to secure six counties to steal the election.

“Political scientists can tell you, to steal the United States you don’t need to cheat in elections everywhere. You need six counties where you cheat the heck out of those counties. And you can flip the six states that they are in and thereby flip the Electoral College and steal the country.”

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)

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.

The water leak “was actually a urinal that had overflowed,” according to the chief investigator of the issue.

The last phase is normalization, Byrne said, in which the “media is just beating it into your head.”

“They’re violating every precept of journalistic integrity,” Byrne said, criticizing the media for ignoring the evidence that has been presented claiming election fraud.

Byrne pointed out that thousands of people risked their lives to testify in affidavits, telling of the fraud and irregularities they witnessed.

“So those are the four stages we’re going through, and it’s my assertion that the hand of China is behind this.”

Byrne made it clear that he loves Chinese people and Chinese history, but the Chinese regime “has proven to be as treacherous and ungrateful as anyone could have imagined.”

“What 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’s going on now to happen.”

“In 10 years, there’ll be prison camps with organs being harvested just as there are in western China,” Byrne went on to say.

“So we cannot bend a knee to this under any circumstance.”

The Chinese regime has been killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs for 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 independent investigations.

Talking about the upcoming Jan. 6 rally in Washington, Byrne said that “this is your last chance.”

“If 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.”

Byrne studied the Constitution’s principles when he was young. He has a master’s degree from Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar and received his doctorate in political philosophy from Stanford University. He indicated that the “core atomic concept” in the United States’ liberal tradition is the consent of the governed, which is determined by free, fair, and transparent elections.

“We 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.”

 

 

In the spring of 1989, Li Hai was a graduate student of philosophy at Peking University. He was 35 years old, enjoying the best time of his life. He’d spent his adolescence in the 1970s as a laborer in a brickyard. During the 1980s, after graduating from Nanjing University, he taught Marxism at a college in Beijing where his older and conservative colleagues deemed him unfit for teaching. At Peking University, he burrowed deep in his studies, and was memorizing an English dictionary with plans to study in the United States. 

On April 15, 1989, the reformer and deposed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang died. That day, Li Hai walked past a portrait of Hu Yaobang on campus, and unexpectedly burst into tears. He felt echoes of himself in Hu’s fate. 

He was among the first students taking to the streets to remember Hu Yaobang. Later, he became the outreach liaison for the newly-formed student organizing body on campus. His job was to receive visitors, visit other campuses, and field questions from journalists. 

At midnight on June 3, he found himself in Xi Dan, west of Tiananmen Square. The avenue leading to the square had been cleared by advancing soldiers, with intermittent gunshots in the air and fires burning here and there. He ran to a nearby hospital, then to another, and another; he counted 20 dead bodies and many wounded. At around six in the morning, he returned to school. 

He wasn’t arrested after the Massacre, and resumed classes in the fall. The following April, he traveled to 22 cities across China over 30 days, connecting with friends, with a plan to commemorate the first anniversary of the Massacre. He was arrested upon returning Beijing. At Haidian Detention Center, he suffered violence, hunger, and severe scabies. At the end of 1990, the US National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft visited China. As a concession from China, 45 students were released and Li Hai was one of them. 

 

 

 

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